The pumpkins are carved and the house is decorated. The cemetery is glowing and the spiders are placed. It is Halloween, the best night of the year. The spells are cast and the curses set and all of our horrifying toy ghouls are out to protect us from the evil spirits that come on Samhain...
I have so much to write about today I don't even know where to begin. All the information is crowding my brain. Last night we had a wonderful Halloween party and I woke up this morning feeling like I had been run over, which is the way you should feel after a good party. I probably said several things I'll...
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I usually try to stay fairly on topic with this blog. I try to veer away from personal stories and go with the ghosts and ghouls, but tonight I'm far to tired to think clearly. I have had a long day. I am having my annual Halloween party tomorrow. I have invited more people than I invited to my wedding. ...
In the small town of Madison, Alabama there isn't much to the downtown. The old buildings are reminders of quiet days when Madison was a tiny town unto itself. These days Madison is more of a suburb than a town itself. Everyone drives off to Huntsville to work and the little downtown area is mostly forgotten. ...
I am reviving an old blog tonight because one of the people in charge of raising funds for Birmingham public library wrote to me last week and invited me to join her for a haunted tour of her library and for a Boo Ball. The Boo Ball is a fund raiser that will help raise money for the library. It also takes advantage of the library's wonderful haunted history for a good cause! I can't...
Every year a friend of mine and I get together and throw a Halloween Party together. Actually, last year was more of a practice run. This our we are expanding our work and inviting more people and turning it into an event. Part of planning this event has been turning a portion of my home into a...
Last night I drove out to Meridianville, Alabama in the dark to find another haunted attraction. This haunted attraction was made unnerving by its emptiness. I'm assuming because it was Thursday night, the parking lot was eerily empty. We were the only ones going through this attraction and...
I must have a strong influence on my son because he came back from the book fair today with a stack of books on ghosts and monsters. We looked through these books today together and had a wonderful time. My favorite section from his Horrifica book was on Japanese ghosts. It is no surprise that the Japanese...
Halloween is the season for candy, haunted houses, costumes, and of course, scary movies! I started my scary movie marathon with Case 39, an excellent horror movie staring Renee Zellweger as a social worker fighting to save children from difficult home environments. I have to say, I'm a little biased because...
Wow.Teresa Ashby at A Likely Story has kindly passed on this Sweet Friends award which I'm happy to accept. I don't think anyone has described me as 'sweet' before but there's a first time for everything. Anyway, in the true spirit of the award I'm supposed to tell you six things about my writing.1. I've always liked writing....
Last night I went a little crazy. I went to two haunted attractions. My evening began with taking my two sons to the school haunted house. The haunted house was put on by the Venture scouts and was actually pretty good. For something that was made by eighth graders on a limited budget in a school...
Looming proudly atop a selection of Spain’s hills and mountains are some of the country’s finest hotels: The spooky Paradores hotels. These were founded in 1928 by King Alfonso VIII, in his bid to make Spain more attractive to tourists, and are magnificent conversions of some of Spain's oldest and most majestic historic...
I really do wish Halloween were everyday and the costumes below are why. I would love to dress up every day. Here are my pick of my favorite costumes I've seen so far this year. I found many of them on etsy.com and a couple of them at http://wearydrearies.deviantart.com// I also...
While we were in Chicago I stayed in an old hotel right across from the John Hancock Building. The Hancock building is an ominous structure that immediately gives you the creeps. I knew it was evil the first moment I saw this building. First, I hated the ugly, black monolith. And secondly, ...
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So I bought my Halloween costume months ago, but I'm seriously tempted by this. I love Sweeney Todd. For the line,,, "The History of the world, my love, is those below serving those up above. How gratifying for once to know that those above will be serving those down below." alone. So should...
Halloween's history is most commonly traced back to the Celtic festival of Samhain. During Samhain, the Celts believed that the divider between this world and the next became thin. This thinning allowed both malevolent and benevolent spirits to cross over to our world. This naturally caused a good deal of...
Unbeknownst to most, beneath some of the most populated and heavily used land in the country, there lies the remains of a cemetery. Chicago's old City Cemetery used to occupy space that is now Lincoln Park. Begun in 1846, it used to take up space that was on the edge of the city. However,...
Yesterday was the Trowell Writers' Trust annual awards day. I had an entry in the short story section and I thought I knew exactly where it would come. I've had so many second places over the last few years that I knew it would be runner-up. I could predict this with the same certainty that within one hour of switching the telly on tonight I'll see either a meerkat, a fat tenor or both.This post was...
Anyone who reads Haunt Jaunts on a regular basis probably knows that I am not great at making haunted tours work. I wrote a blog for her on all the things not to do while traveling and planning a ghost tour. This trip to Chicago, however, I made it work. I went on Haunted Chicago's Ghost Tour. ...
I ate dinner at a wonderful French restaurant in front of Chicago's historic water tower last night. It was Steak au Pouvre with pomme fritte. Yum. I could travel the world for no other reason than to eat and look at buildings. The building behind us, the water tower, is definitely worth the trip as...
One of the most common Halloween traditions is the placing of a Jack O'Lantern on the front porch. On Halloween night, these grinning pumpkins illuminate the street with their devious grins. But where does this tradition come from?The Irish brought the story of Jack O' Lantern with them from the old country. ...
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Halloween is my favorite Holiday. It has a very long history that is often forgotten. Although Halloween's roots can be traced back to pagan practices, it's name came from Christians. Halloween was the time of year when the ancient Celts believed that the veil between this world and the "otherworld"...
I fully believe in attribution bias. I believe that we see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear and when we believe in ghosts and hauntings, evidence will present itself that supports our beliefs because we are specifically looking for evidence to support our belief. I am very aware of these biases...
I discovered something faschinating today. Apparently, there is an entire city beneath the streets of Chattanooga, TN. In march of 1867, the city of Chattanooga was completely flooded. The city streets were totally submerged and everything grinded to a halt. In order to get from one building to the next, residents and tourists had to travel...
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