{"id":26831,"date":"2009-07-20T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/20\/a-true-ghost-story-the-slide-s\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T04:21:45","slug":"a-true-ghost-story-the-slide-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/a-true-ghost-story-the-slide-s\/","title":{"rendered":"A true ghost story: The Slide Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><em><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9895a67306669e703d305df5f2cfbe1d-McGregor_Museum_Kimberley.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-9895a67306669e703d305df5f2cfbe1d-McGregor_Museum_Kimberley.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The McGregor Museum is a complex building with several wings surrounding an inner court yard, a multi-layered roof, balconies everywhere, and numerous trees in the court yard close in to the building. So, a cat can spend the heat of the day in the shaded crown of a tree, and the cool of the evening up on the building&#8217;s sun-warmed metal roof.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-34bc4f6921ea4d820f5ce9405ec8e0c4-Ghostly_Stairway_In_McGregor_Mueum_Kimberly.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-34bc4f6921ea4d820f5ce9405ec8e0c4-Ghostly_Stairway_In_McGregor_Mueum_Kimberly.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The interior of the McGregor museum houses numerious exhibits.  The old period rooms and hallways focus on the late 19th century, and other newer areas (not shown) have an excellent set of exhibits on archaeology, human evolution, and &#8220;San&#8221; rock art.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8b549aa0c3bdf382d426bdc6b300d85d-Defending_Kimberley_Diorama.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-8b549aa0c3bdf382d426bdc6b300d85d-Defending_Kimberley_Diorama.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Defending Kimberly.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-982553617d9562802e238d5a0179562c-Dude_in_military_suit_outside_my_door.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-982553617d9562802e238d5a0179562c-Dude_in_military_suit_outside_my_door.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dude in the kilt.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2436c7a217ee566761fb3fc8251803a3-Ghostly_Gatling_Gun_McGregor_Museum_Kimberly.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-2436c7a217ee566761fb3fc8251803a3-Ghostly_Gatling_Gun_McGregor_Museum_Kimberly.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gatling Gun. (A Gatling gun is an old fashioned machine gun.)<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8e19eee4b22c3bf344e3d1da73121c1c-Are_There_Any_Dead_People_In_There.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-8e19eee4b22c3bf344e3d1da73121c1c-Are_There_Any_Dead_People_In_There.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A visitor to the museum checking for ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9f0c5cdd4cf2b517fd48b9ca002b72a0-Doing_fieldwork_in_a_game_park.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-9f0c5cdd4cf2b517fd48b9ca002b72a0-Doing_fieldwork_in_a_game_park.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doing fieldwork in a game park.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f3eeb6faa95c0c4ba36fbf0630d02479-Possible_San_Grave_But_It_Wasnt.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-f3eeb6faa95c0c4ba36fbf0630d02479-Possible_San_Grave_But_It_Wasnt.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Possible &#8220;San&#8221; burial &#8230; which turned out to have no physical remains.<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-779e3da5fd6a7d15aba13134ea60550f-Looking_4_burial_all_we_got_was_this_scorpion.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-779e3da5fd6a7d15aba13134ea60550f-Looking_4_burial_all_we_got_was_this_scorpion.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although no artifacts of note or bones were found in the burial, there were plenty of these.  The scorpions were in a state of torpor, as it was winter.<\/p>\n<p>The End<br \/>\n<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McGregor Museum is a complex building with several wings surrounding an inner court yard, a multi-layered roof, balconies everywhere, and numerous trees in the court yard close in to the building. So, a cat can spend the heat of the day in the shaded crown of a tree, and the cool of the evening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/a-true-ghost-story-the-slide-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A true ghost story: The Slide Show<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5052,5025],"tags":[1642,4820,4821,141,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6YL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28297,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions\/28297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}