Patricia "Patty" "Buddy" Louise Tunis - Research

I believe that Patricia "Patty" Louise "Buddy" Hill Tunis is the woman who has been with me since we came back from Las Vegas. I wasn't going to put her name out there, but she's literally going down the line and waking people I'm connected to at 3am now if I manage to be asleep. My husband was woken up at 3am on the dot last night. She wants to be heard. I hope I'm doing the right thing. She has living family and I always really hesitate to publicly post anything that could be painful for families, and 1980 was a bad year for this one.

Patricia was born in Hilo, HI 02/25/1920 - alternate info states born in New York, 12th grade education, was a housewife in 1955 Census, member of the US Presbyterian Church in the 1970s. She was 60 when she died in the MGM fire and her burial is UNKNOWN (if any). I was unable to find any photos of her online. 

She married James Floyd Tunis (1919-2000) on 9/2/1944 in Sarasota, FL. Mr. Tunis was in the USAF. They had three children, NAME WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY (B: 6/8/48 in Van Nuys, CA, an artist in WI) NAME WITHHELD and daughter Wendy Louise Tunis who died in 1984. Women don't do well being born into the Tunis family, it seems. James Tunis remarried in 1960 after he and Patty divorced. 

Father: William Hardy "Doc" Hill -  B: 6/15/1890 (Asheville, NC), D: 6/1970 (Hilo, HI), buried in Homelani Memorial Park. Doc hill was an eye doctor as well as a Hawaiian Senator - 1928-1959 for the Territory of HI and 1959-1967 as the State of Hawaii. Very shrewd businessman.

Stepmother: Ouida Lewis Mundy Hill (7/29/1899-1/9/2000 - lived to 100!) From her obituary:

Ouida Hill, considered the grand dame of Big Island society for more than 30 years through the 1960s, died at age 100 earlier this month (January, 2000) in her Honolulu condominium. She met her husband, William Hardy "Doc" Hill, on the beach at Waikiki in the 1930s. He was a prominent Big Island businessman and longtime state senator, and preceded her in death in June 1970. Doc Hill's colorful career in the Legislature included his appearance in a kimono to protest an overtime session, saying his wife had left for Hilo in disgust over his odor. The Hills were hosts to people from all over the world, from royalty to political figures, in their Keauhou estate in Kona, recalled longtime newswoman Maxine Hughes. "The two of them made a good team both socially and politically," said retired legislator Joe Garcia. Doc Hill, famed for presenting silver dollars to his guests, owned most everything in Hilo during his career as a businessman. But his wife, whom he called his "little redhead," was considered a political and social force in her own right. Ouida Hill was born in Virginia. She was a registered nurse when she reached Hawaii in 1926 as an employee of the Mayo brothers, who founded the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. In pre-World War II days, she was famous for conducting horse races with ranchwoman Anna Lindsey Perry-Fiske, who died in Waimea at age 94 in 1996. In an interview last year when she turned 100, Hill was quoted as saying, "I feel no different at 100 than I did at 99. I try to think young." No funeral service was held. Her ashes were returned to Hilo's Homelani Cemetery, where her husband is interred.

Half sister: Shirley Leilani Hill, B: 8/4/1927 (Hawaii), D: 7/24/94 (age 66), New Jersey. Married to Harold Arnold Steiner, Jr (B: 10/20/1923, D: 7/15/2011, burial unknown). Possible daughter: Leilani Hill (age 40, Bothell, WA) - is her niece in WA the connection??

Mother: Winifred Rachel "Winnie" Erdman Patten - B: 6/14/1895, D: 10/17/1980, buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery next to her husband. Patty died a month after her mother... this poor family... :(

Stepfather: Roy J. Patten - WWI (Canadian) Soldier. 

Patty was found in the 25th Floor stairwell. She was so close to getting out! One more floor and she was home free. I can't find any record of who she was staying with (if anyone) and what she was doing in Las Vegas on November 21, 1980.

The information (other than her stats) in the MGM Fire book about Patty. 

Patty's father and stepmother, the Hills.

Podcast Rec: Aficionado Prodigiosus, Purveyor of Fine Strangeness: Some Other Sphere Podcast Appearance

Aficionado Prodigiosus, Purveyor of Fine Strangeness: Some Other Sphere Podcast Appearance: via GIPHY It's my pleasure to announce that the episode of the podcast Some Other Sphere wherein host Rick Palmer  interviewed me ...



One of my favorite weirdos was interviewed for a podcast about Discordianism! Not only is Matt a talented musician and fantastic human being, he's smart as a whip. A very interesting listen about the history of a made up joke religion that somehow got very real very quickly!



While you're at it, you should check out Matt's blog too :) https://www.apstrange.com/

Bally Hotel - Phyllis Thomas Died a Hero.

We arrived home from Las Vegas early on the morning of April 23rd. As I mentioned in my earlier entry, paranormally my life was very calm upon returning and I was sleeping like a baby. That lasted until about Friday.

Friday I started to not feel well again, and I also started to be woken up again at the 3am hour. I knew that I had someone that came back from the hotel with me. After Sunday, when things came to a head with lack-of-sleep and starting to feel really, really bad I called in my girl Jax for the assist.

What she figured out is I had not one but two women that came back from me.  We both felt that one of them was Sara Galico, that she was very much just along for the ride and curious since Dave got her attention. I since believe she has moved on from our household and isn't interested in us anymore.

The other woman I am still working with.

Initially I thought that this was Phyllis Thomas, 20, who died near the registration desk on the Casino Floor. I researched her in the MGM Fire book when I came home, and what I found out about Ms. Thomas is that she died a hero:

Ms. Thomas - you have my utmost respect for your kindness and bravery that you chose to show another human being in your young 20 years during the scariest moment imaginable.

I lit a candle for her and asked for her healing. After I worked with Phyllis specifically, I expected things to chill out in my life again, as I thought she had to be who we had captured on that EVP asking for help, as she'd told me she liked to be called Lys or Lyssa as I was reading about her.

(If you missed that EVP, here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_z2TMtWv0c )

The activity continued however after I did a ritual for Ms. Thomas. Jax continued to get to be talked to by whoever it is that's around as well. We both came up with the same female name AND nickname of a different woman, independently of each other.

I'm 90% confident I know who she is. I have not been able to come up with a photo of her, but her family was of prominence, and I was able to find lot of information and two of her living children. Which is why I'm not publicly going to state her name.

At least not until I can help her accomplish whatever it is that she's needing to do if it has to do with them. For whatever reason, I'm having a really hard time deducing how I can help her. There's something I am missing or not understanding. In an effort to try to figure this out, I've started the voice recorder as I've gone to bed at night as Dave says I very actively talk to the other side as I sleep. I figure between my yammering and encouraging her to leave EVPs we might get some traction.

The issue is that every night the battery gets drained far too quickly. This recorder has a 8-12 hour battery. And I am not sleeping 8-10 hours (try 3-4 at this point). So basically it's just me hissing various wake up times "It's 3:23 and they just woke me up again..." "3:03 am...." Or trying to do that and seeing it's dead.

I'm not giving up.

Work activity is ramping up again. Coworker caught his hand in the belts and gears of a POWERED OFF oven today. I can't keep up with the continual negativity in this building for too much longer and not be affected.