Now Playing: Spooky Space Music

Dreams of the Void, by Tineidae.

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Stone Sentinels

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In The Black Mill

It stood off to the east of town, in a zone of weeds and rust-colored earth, a vast, black box, bristling with spiky chimneys, extending over some five acres or more, dwarfing everything around it.  This was, I knew at once, the famous Plunkettsburg Mill.  Evening was coming on, and in the half-light its windows winked and flickered with inner fire, and its towering stacks vomited smoke into the autumn twilight.  I shuddered, and then cried out.  So intent had I been on the ghastly black apparition of the mill that I had nearly run my car off the road.

- Michael Chabon

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Sunday Mass

We went to a bunch of great antique shops this weekend and came home with this super neat plastic Raylite church music box.  Looks really cool with a red bulb inside.

Now Playing: Sunday Music

By Variable Star and Martin Stig Andersen.

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Where's Ellie?

This was a rare piece. German. Made in Munich, 1785. 

I must try and get a replacement.

Tridents And Pitchforks

The Devil's pitchfork appears in the second half of the early middle ages, somewhere after 800 CE.  He appears by the hands of ecclesiastical writers and artists: monks and bishops.  Did those monks and bishops draw their inspiration from Greece and Rome of a 1000 years before?  Or from looking on peasant flock who the monks were just then beginning to worry would be shepherded away by some physical, stalking Satan, prodded and poked from salvation to the gates of hell like some demonic inversion of John the Baptist's vision of salvation by Christ:

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. [Matthew 3:12, Luke 3:17]

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Lanternmania

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Trailer: The Last Voyage Of The Demeter

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Grinning

The being was behind them and was wearing a green one-piece suit that reflected the streetlights nearby. It noticed the boys looking at him, turned and began to smile—a grin that stretched from ear to ear.  Having elongated eyes, the boys could not make out whether the creature had ears, a nose, or hair.

That same night, miles away, reports of a “bright- white” UFO began filtering in to the police, and several officers reportedly saw the object themselves hovering near a local reservoir.

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November

A weft of leafless spray

Woven fine against the gray

Of the autumnal day,

And blurred along those ghostly garden tops

Clusters of berries crimson as the drops

That my heart bleeds when I remember

How often, in how many a far November,

Of childhood and my children's childhood I was glad,

With the wild rapture of the Fall,

Of all the beauty, and of all

The ruin, now so intolerably sad.

- William Dean Howells

Mystery Eye Studio

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Urban Legend: The Three Legged Woman

This is really terrific. 

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Graystone Cemetery

Imagine walking up to this porch to get candy on Halloween night...

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Now Playing: In Time You Will

By Kenneth James Gibson.

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Haunted Hidden Hollows

Oh, to have the chance to haunt an old lawsuit-hungry rickety path through the woods.  

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Killington Lane 2022

Click below for a great slideshow video from this wonderful Cemetery Haunt.

And click the Killington Lane hashtag to see previous years.  Especially last year's video.

Eastertide

We Have A Ghost

Haven't really checked any reviews of this Netflix movie, and I don't think I'm going to.  This film dusted off feelings I forgot about.  Feelings I haven't felt since the 80's while watching a Spielberg film.  

We Have A Ghost looked really interesting and fun when I first watched the trailer, and I was PRAYING it'd be something special.  Thankfully it delivered and gave me a nice dose of movie magic.  Loved the cast and the story.  The score by Bear McCreary was definitely channeling film scores from the 80's, but not in a heavy-handed way.  

I can't think of many modern films where I didn't want my money and my time back, so I'm going to savor this for a while.

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Now Playing: Some Friday Music

By sliide x.

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The Builders' Work

The Lady In White

He pointed in the direction of the little stream and what we saw turned our blood into ice, an impression so vivid it still gives me the chills.  Right on the side of the stream was a lady in a white gown with flowing black long hair suspended a few feet in the air.

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Now Playing: A Room By The Sea

A perfect song from Tor Lundvall's Ghost Years album.

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Now Playing: Insomnolence

Great new album from Underwater Sleep Orchestra was just released.

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Sweet Corn