Now Playing: I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

A really great remix of an old classic.

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And click here for the song on youtube.

Night Monsters

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Snow Update

Yulish.  Very Yulish...

Star Wars - Airwolf Style

The giant boy in me is swooning.

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Now Playing: Some Winter Ambient

Eishalle by Paysage D'Hiver.  As some snow rolls our way (not much of it), I think back on those days when the white stuff was exciting and brought with it an early dismissal from the torments of school.  Or, even better, a snow day.  The most glorious of nature's gifts.  No school, and an entire day of building snow forts, having snowball fights, and sledding at a local golf course (owners probably hated it [and us]).  

Seems it doesn't snow much in these parts these days, and I'm a little sad to admit that I don't miss it.  As I get older (and older), I finally get why my grandparents seemed to live in fear of snow.  And the cold for that matter.  As I imagine a draft on my neck and scrunch up like Ebeneezer Scrooge.

But I AM really looking forward to this light snow.  Perfectly timed for the weekend before Christmas.  We'll have the appropriate music playing... and cookies baking.  And I will finally wrap some presents.

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Halloween Webs

Image by Chris Barrus.

Now Playing: Sanguis

By Raison D'Etre.

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The Seal Of Delcite

It was fun having children walk across a creepy Thaumaturgic Triangle on Halloween night.

  

"Fun."

  

They were unaware that their souls were being offered to the First Witch in her throne (as the mere act of passing over the Seal was all that was required for such a Dark Contract).  We braced for an angry parent accusing us of chalking a Satanic symbol on the porch, but thankfully no one seemed to mind (or maybe they didn't notice).  

We called it the Seal of Delcite as a nod to the Curse of Delcite mentioned in my personal favorite episode of the old AMAZING STORIES series.  The Curse of Delcite was supposed to be a spell to inflict hiccups on its target, but things don't go as planned and the antagonist (Christopher Lloyd) ends up losing his head (read more about it here).

I've mentioned it before a long time ago (old blog post here), but I always found that a backstory (even one that isn't shared with anyone) really aids the creative process.  And it helps make a Haunt more logical to the viewer.  

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More Drones

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Graves And Pumpkins

Images by loopingstar.

Hexeglaawe: The Kecksburg UFO Incident

Pennsylvania's Roswell

On the evening of December 9, 1965, a large, brilliant fireball was seen in at least six U.S. states and Ontario, Canada as it streaked over the Detroit, Michigan–Windsor, Ontario area. Reports of hot metal debris over Michigan and northern Ohio, grass fires, and sonic booms in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area were attributed to the fireball.  Some people in the village of Kecksburg, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, reported wisps of blue smoke, vibrations, and a "thump" and also that something from the sky had crashed in the woods. 

In 1990, Unsolved Mysteries aired an episode partially devoted to the incident. It suggested an extraterrestrial craft had crashed. It featured local residents who said they had found an object in the woods shaped like an acorn and about as large as a Volkswagen Beetle, bearing writing resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs.  They said it was subsequently removed in a secret military operation.  A prop from that show currently remains on display in Kecksburg.

We traveled there in September for a look at the area and to photograph the monument.  It seems locals still have their own theories about what really happened there on this date fifty-nine years ago today.

Click here to see the Unsolved Mysteries episode.

Oak Crest Cemetery 2024

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Mysterious Drones

Friends of ours in northern New Jersey told us about a nightly occurrence of drones above and around their home.  Some were as big as cars.  Apparently local police have turned to the FBI for answers.  Currently no one is saying who is controlling them.  

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A Little Christmas

Bury The Dead

 

Thanks, M&J!

Concert: Goblin

Last night we had the insane privilege of seeing Goblin perform live.  Claudio Simonetti is still out there touring the world with his amazing music catalog and seeing Goblin live has been on my very short bucket list for forever.  Thanks to Jenna, we did it.  And it was absolutely incredible.  It was a perfect venue for this show, and it was a full house.  Hearing all their classic hits was blissful.  Jenna even got the opportunity to briefly talk with Claudio.  Blissful.

Click here to listen to some clips over at my IG.

And Scary Ghost Stories

To Fire You Come At Last - a 46-minute ghost story currently streaming on Shudder.  We watched this tonight and it was a perfect horror film, beautifully shot and brilliantly acted.  I hung onto every minute of it, wondering how it would end.  And unlike so many horror films these days, it didn't disappoint.

Apparently, Shudder is releasing one of these each December as part of their The Haunted Season series (would have been better to release more than one, but I'll take what I can get).

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And click here for the amazing opening title sequence.

Creepy Yard Halloween 2024

This one is always fun...

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