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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay
Suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in. For a moment, they could see nothing, not a foot ahead of them. Then, they saw a light. By God, it was a fire burning on the shore, strong enough to penetrate the swirling mist. They steered a course toward the light.
But it was a campfire, like this one. The ship crashed against the rocks, the hull sheared in two, mars snapped like a twig. The wreckage sank, with all the men aboard.
At the bottom of the sea, lay the Elizabeth Dane, with her crew, their lungs filled with salt water, their eyes open, staring into the darkness.
And above, as suddenly as it had come, the fog lifted, receded back across the ocean and never came again. But it is told by the fishermen, and their fathers and grandfathers, that when the fog returns to Antonio Bay, the men at the bottom of the sea, out in the water by Spivey Point will rise up and search for the campfire that led them to their dark and icy death.
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
The Fear Of Clowns, A Study To Find The Origins
Our next step was to explore the origins of people’s fear of clowns. A follow-up questionnaire was given to the 53.5% who had reported at least some degree of clown fear. This new set of questions related to eight plausible explanations for the origins of this fear, as follows:
An eerie or unsettling feeling due to clowns’ makeup making them look not-quite-human. A similar response is sometimes seen with dolls or mannequins.
Clowns’ exaggerated facial features convey a direct sense of threat.
Clown makeup hides emotional signals and creates uncertainty.
The colour of clown makeup reminds us of death, infection or blood injury, and evokes disgust or avoidance.
Clowns’ unpredictable behaviour makes us uncomfortable.
Fear of clowns has been learned from family members.
Negative portrayals of clowns in popular culture.
A frightening experience with a clown.
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
Blobs And Photo Bombs
She was an older woman from a nearby neighborhood who told us she typically walks her dogs there. She said she was mystified when she looked from her backyard and saw a scarecrow in the far distance. The dogs had come running at us with one of them barking heavily at the Witch. The others seemed to be enjoying the open space, as their owner laughed and excitedly told us over and over again that she absolutely loved these weird creatures. She asked a ton of questions about the props and took a load of photos. She and the three dogs posed a few times for some photos with the Witch and the scarecrow... I snapped away using her phone as we all blabbed and spoke about the property and its history, and our strange hobby of photographing monsters. The dogs turned out to be the sweetest animals. And the big one eventually stopped barking at the Witch.
We said farewell and packed up the creatures and headed to the Downingtown diner for a terrific blob-themed breakfast. They're VERY proud of their blob there, and I'd highly recommend it if you're ever in the area.
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Trailer: Tron - Ares
Loved Tron: Legacy, so I'm really looking forward to this one.
Click below for the trailer (the film's score is by Nine Inch Nails)...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
First Televised Exorcism
We have been watching old Paranormal Witness episodes and one delt with a pretty chilling tale which resulted in the first televised exorcism (1971). I had never heard of this haunting before so the second the episode was over, we searched to see if we could find the footage. Thankfully it was on YouTube.
The news segment below states that the haunting ended after the exorcism. According to the couple involved, this was not the case. The paranormal events escalated, and they ultimately moved out of their home.
Click below to watch...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Trailer: Ariel Phenomenon
Really great documentary on a ufo/alien mass sighting that occurred at the Ariel school in Africa in 1994.
Click below...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Witch Hollow
The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.
A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O're Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.
No Beast, for his food,
Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
While mischiefs, by these,
On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,
The storme will arise,
And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
The ghost from the Tomb
Affrighted shall come,
Cal'd out by the clap of the Thunder.
- Robert Herrick
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Monday, March 17, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
Reaper
An old (true) story that inspired a prop...
Giving out candy on Halloween night for as long as I've been doing it has made me something of an observer. I get to study how adults and children act when approaching my Haunt. If they're the type to pause and appreciate everything, or the sort that rushes up and away without hesitation and without looking back. There are the people that kneel down and study props, tapping lightly at the mache. And the ones that get brushed with threads hanging down from the porch or trellis like thin spider webs and scream and run off before getting candy. There are parents that get frustrated with their children who clearly are too terrified to walk onto the porch for candy. And parents who love to sit back and watch their children slowly approaching the Haunt, with huge proud smiles.
Back when I gave out candy at my parents' house in the old neighborhood, I saw children grow up - going from trick-or-treater to parent. That was the most peculiar feeling. I'd see a young man carrying his own child, and I remembered when he was too scared to come up for candy. Crazy.
Then there was something else - Death. There was a cloaked figure that walked slowly around the neighborhood. A black hooded cloak, the deluxe variety, and a rubber skull mask. I'm assuming it was an adult male based on the height and build. I'm not exaggerating or embellishing in any way - I saw him every single year and had seen him for as far back as I could remember. I don't know if it was the same guy or maybe a few guys over the years. But there was always just the one lonely figure, keeping to himself and not stopping at houses for candy. He was in character too, with a strange slow walk, like a one-man funeral procession.
It's a neat concept, an adult who never gave up on Halloween. Keeps a cloak and a mask in a drawer or closet all year long. On Halloween night, he leaves work early, has dinner, puts a bowl of candy out on the porch with a "Help Yourself" sign, and then dons a rich dark cloak and an old, tattered latex mask, the kind that smells like new sneakers. I bet he was smiling under there the whole time.
Or maybe it really was Death.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Crimson
The night is darkening round me
The wild winds coldly blow
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot cannot go
- Emily Brontë
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Horseman
When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
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