GHOST HUNTERS

I have been very blessed to know some amazing bloggers, but one who was very dear to my heart was my good friend, John Wolfe. He ran the blog Season of Shadows and embodied all things vintage and true Halloween. He would begin early in the year designing elaborate home haunts and sharing on video how he went about designing them. He did lots of volunteer work and was always available for anyone. He sought to understand the spiritual and the other side. In fact, as he was dying, he said he would contact me through EVPs. And, he asked me to write his memorial which I did and he read it and approved of it before his passing at much too early an age in his 30s. Each Halloween, I will post his memorial here. Halloween is his season, his paradise, and I miss him something awful every October. I'd like to share him with you now - "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" (Edgar Allen Poe)  ( John Wolfe ) “Night of the Wolf” Nox Arcana ( one of his favorites ) I am ...

Royal De Luxe (my favorite of the performance arts troups) Brothers Quay (my favorite creepy stop-motion films) (Marionettes are always creepy) Ventriloquist dolls are perhaps the most disturbing.  Regular dolls are not much better.

(Today's post is by a special guest author, Jared Hill )  The director John Carpenter was behind several of the most iconic movies released during the 1970s and 80s, which was something of a golden era for horror cinema. Some notable films were Halloween , The Fog and The Thing , and these horror flicks still represent the hallmark of his work, even after a few decades without a new Carpenter film. But, the director’s work extends beyond the horror genre and has made its mark on the film industry as a whole. Starting out with Carpenter’s big hits, Halloween has to rank near the top of the list. The first film of this series pretty much set the tone for a huge onslaught of 80s horror films yet to come. Just the sheer power of the character of Michael propelled studios to come up with a number of similar characters for the horror film genre, such as Jason in the Friday the 13th series, among others. While Halloween did get inspiration from scary movies from the past, Carpenter’s ...

I was casually wondering about the calories in Halloween candy and then, since I'm strictly dieting, I wondered how is the best way to work it off. Then, I thought about how chocolate is the love medicine for women. So, how much sex would it take to burn off those fun-sized bars??? (Fun sized bars): Snickers (80 calories) 15 minutes of foreplay followed by *10 minutes of intercourse Milky Way (75 calories) 15 minutes of kissing followed by *7 minutes of intercourse Baby Ruth (85 calories) 15 minutes of kissing followed by *5 minutes of foreplay followed by *10 minutes of intercourse Tootsie Pop (60 calories) *10 minutes of intercourse Reese’s cup (44 calories) *7 minutes of intercourse OR 20 minutes of foreplay M&M fun size little bag (99 calories) *15 minutes of intercourse or 45 minutes of foreplay 1 roll Smarties (25 calories) 15 minutes of kissing * You can half your intercourse time if you use the doggy style position because it burns twice as many calories (wink). N...

This coming weekend, Julie Ferguson and I will be at Phoenix FearCon .  We will be bringing Dale along!  We have a book signing table with tons of books and lots of abandoned location atmosphere. Please come by and visit! We love to meet our horror-loving, para-geek friends! We will also be going to the Halloween Ball on Halloween Night as part of the VIPs for the event. I will go as a pirate wench and Julie is going as a 1980s rocker chick. Dale the Doll, however, is not invited to that event!

What I believe to be one of the best horror movie of all time, has a lot of intriguing facts you might not have known. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh area. Evans City Cemetery, Evans City, Pennsylvania Head northwest on on Franklin Rd for half a mile. Continue onto Pioneer Rd. for 1/5 mile. Turn left on PA-68/W. Main St for almost 3 miles. Turn left on Magill Rd. for 3/4 of a mile to cemetery. I went there a couple years ago and it is literally unchanged! Originally, Barbara survived the night. The main character was originally written as a big burly truck driver. "Night of the Anubis" was the original title. The bodies in the truck were actually ham and chocolate syrup the zombies ate. The house was slated for demolition, so the owners allowed use of it for $300 a month.  The entrails were supplied by a local butcher. Some of the limbs that were "eaten" were mannequin limbs with silly putty on them.  The man who played the father actually worked in a lot of roles ...

Perhaps the reason modern-day goths love the Victorian Era is the simple fact that it was a dark and macabre time period from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. There was a decided preoccupation with death and with deformity. Sideshow "freaks" created employment for those who were disabled with birth defects, but it did nothing for compassion and understanding of the human condition, no matter how that condition looks physically. Here is a collection of their ongoing documentation of what they considered "odd."  It helps to remember that some people are odd looking but normal inside and some people are normal looking but odd inside and the majority of us lie in between; a bit odd looking/a bit normal looking/a bit odd inside/a bit normal inside.  Torture medical devices -