The George Bailey Collectors

On Facebook when I get a friend request I normally check their profile to learn more about the person making the request.  Generally, I’ll pass on people with little written about themselves or their backstory.

So one day I got a friend request and checked out the page of the women requesting it.  I found little there except for three friends listed.  Checking them out I was stunned at what I found.  All three of these men shared my name, George Bailey.  What?  Did someone have a fetish for this name?  The very name of the character Jimmy Stewart played in the popular holiday movie, It’s A Wonderful Life.  

Read the full article here at my Substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/the-george-bailey-collectors

What Goes Up Comes Down

A record of airplane accidents in the Grand Canyon.

 A fellow researcher was on the hunt for records of missing people in the national park system and found a good source at The Morning Report.  A website of the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior.  It features listings in the national park system from missing hikers, deaths, or accidents.  They are divided up into Field Incident Reports, NPS Morning Reports, and Coalition Reports.  

All Federal parks in the NPS can be accessed here: https://npshistory.com/morningreport/

Read the full article here with crash listings:

https://georgebailey.substack.com/p/what-goes-up-comes-down

The Symmetry And Mystery Of Nature

 

I feel blessed to live where I do, in the rural lands of central Florida.  Some think that living in a nature rich environment can be peaceful and at times it can, but not when the cicadas start screeching like banshees on a warm, humid, summer afternoon. It can be a deafening roar.  Followed up that night with the Katydids. On the other hand, it all leads to the abundance of life from multiple sources.  The peace will always return as the summer fades and their mating calls with it.  

More at my Substack post here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/the-symmetry-and-mystery-of-nature

After The Haunting

 

Latest post at Substack.

For those not aware, my article Breakdown Of A Haunting, was my account from my journal of my mother’s passing in her sleep in 2011, and the resulting paranormal activity that appeared in our home.  I wrote of a multitude of events and left it at 2016, the year of my father’s passing.  However, randomly, the events continued for another 9 years, ending in 2025.

Please read, if you haven’t, Breakdown Of A Haunting to fully understand the aim of After The Haunting.

Link

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/after-the-haunting

Portfolio Pirates

A friend asked to see some of my stock photos.  It had been a while since I did any stock shooting since I had moved over to personal investments which supplied a better income.  I did find the link to Shutterstock, one of my long-time agencies, so she could see my photographs.  

In doing so, I was surprised to find that quite a number of my images were to be found for sale on stock sites that I had never done business with.  Over the several I saw, one was YAY Images which I did have images on in the early 2000’s and Alamy which I have never done business with.  

Imagine my surprise to see my images up for sale with me not receiving a dime, no attribution of me as the owner/creator of the images, and no notice of my copyright to my photographs.

If the images sell, who gets the money?  As I am not the only photographer this has happened to.  More at my Substack link.

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/portfolio-pirates

 

Actor Corey Feldman Rebukes Jessie Czebotar Claims

 

In a surprising move Actor Corey Feldman was informed of alleged former Illuminati member Jessie Czebotar regarding statements she made about him in one of her affidavits.  He denies all claims against him as seen in the screenshot above.

This is the first time someone well known has confronted claims made by Czebotar, in one of her affidavits, against them.

Read all about it in the extended X link below:

https://x.com/Corey_Feldman/status/2028266361135522235

How To Spot A Scammer

 

My goal in this article is to provide some ways to avoid the worst.  Some of this might seem like rookie advice, or tips that are already well known.  That’s fine.  Take from this what you need. Most of what I relate here is from my experiences on the pen pal site Interpals.  Also, my experiences are from dealing with female scammers, or those that pose as women online.  Who knows who these people really are? 

Update to Endnotes in my post, How To Spot A Scammer, 2/24/26.

Full article here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/how-to-spot-a-scammer