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Glencairn Museum

Growing up in PA, we heard a lot of spooky stories regarding the Pitcairn family... my sister's friends would sometimes mention the Pitcairn [haunted] mansion.  They spoke of deformed descendants still living there.  They mentioned the horridly abstract notion of inbreeding to a small child (me).  

Turns out this terrifying fictional place I built up in my head as a kid has always been a beautiful sprawling estate which houses an amazing cathedral, a museum, and a mansion.  No ghosts nor deformations were spotted.  It was a wonderful tour and a great way to spend a windy Saturday afternoon. 

Glencairn is a castle-like mansion in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, that was home to the Pitcairn family for more than 40 years. Now the Glencairn Museum, it contains a collection of about 8,000 artworks, mostly religious in nature, from cultures such as ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and medieval Europe, as well as Islamic, Asian, and Native American works.  The nine-story, granite-and-ruddy-colored-stone mansion features more than 90 rooms on 10 floors.

Halloween Extravaganza

I remember the first time I stumbled upon this ghoulish event hosted inside of a New York cathedral.  It seemed impossible that something so strange and macabre would even be permitted inside such a structure.

Click below for some beautiful photos from this year's extravaganza at K.O.'s The Skeleton Key blog...

The Cathedral

Holy Moly.
Amen.

Chanting Corpse Graveyard & Cathedral

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Divine Devil

St. John the Divine Procession of Ghouls, NY

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Cat's Feet

I've made my share of Halloween drawings like this as a child. I know they're somewhere in my parents' attic. Headless armless people. Monsters. Spaceships. And lots of red crayon. I have to dig those out and scan a bunch.

Can't describe how much I LOVE the cat.

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Halloween Extravaganza (Continued)

More great pics from the earlier-mentioned Halloween Extravaganza.


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Halloween Extravaganza and Procession of Ghouls

Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine hosts the Halloween Extravaganza and Procession of Ghouls each year. Beginning with a screening of a classic silent horror film, the evening's highlight is the Grand Procession of the Ghouls - an elaborate costume parade down the center aisle of the cathedral.

Photos of the event can be viewed here.