"What's a Halloween without a Creepy House in the Neighborhood"

29 Day until Halloween
 

 

 I love the idea of what lingers in the dark on a cool foggy night that is kissed by the light of a full moon that is filtered by the autumn clouds moving across the sky.  Like this picture below. It was taken by a friend at the Halloween Happening in Crownsville, Maryland last year.  Do you see the skull in the sky?

 

 

Below are some pictures I found as I surfed the internet. Two things that I love at Halloween, old looking houses and creepy looking trees. (We'll save the tree pictures for another blog day). I was immediately taken back to a time in my school days when I recalled kids telling each other about homes that were either haunted or someone had died in them, just to put a freight into them. For me this always happened just before Halloween and put my trick-or-treating fun to the extreme test when I had to walk by one of these houses that was the topic of scary conversations, and there was always one of these kinds of homes in my neighborhood,  that just having the lawn too high, or the paint was peeling, would be the next target for others to being with another ghostly story. Maybe the older kids did this, to keep the young ones from getting all the good candy or maybe it was just to scare them - because they could. Personally, I think it was both, but could be the reason that today I am a Halloween Junkie and love telling ghost stories.

 

I realized that back then - many of us that let these stories get to us, merely due to perception, if something looked old or abandoned, that would somehow evolve and allow our minds to take us to those dark scary places that we'd rather not go. I do believe in Ghost's, but not in every house etc, just because a place looks old. Now the pictures below are not places where I grew up, they just brought back that nostalgic feeling of my youthful years and the fun we had at Halloween. The last picture is a photograph I took of the old abandoned Crownsville Hospital in Maryland near where I live now, while on my way to the Halloween Happening just up the street. The old hospital is also where they filmed the movie: Crazy Eights. I dare you to watch it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by: Stacey L. Bolin 10/2013

Crownsville Mental Hospital

 

 

Simple Scares that Turn Bad when the Lights go out.

 

2 Days until Halloween

Madam Widow - "Light of the Rose"

 

Blog post #1 of two - Later today my original story - "Mystery of the Harvest Moon" is set to make its debut. Lets hope Sandy keeps her distance and destruction away long enough to get this story to you.

 

 

With all the hype of "Frankenstorm Sandy" churning out in the Atlantic waiting for her moment to put her own Halloween scare on all of us in her path, and the rain that finally stopped threatening it was coming and showed up with its buddy "Mr. Wind" - we still had our last opening night for the Halloween Happening 2012. All the ghouls and all the volunteers waited in wonder -  would anyone venture out on a Sunday night with a major storm pending, or would they remain home to hunker down? In the two hours that we were open, only two dozen people ventured out for the closing night of our event.

It was a somber feeling that filled some of the volunteers; others were celebrating the joys it was over. For myself, I think I fit into the third group of people that found the ending to another year of Halloween fun, was now a feeling like a sense of loss and sad that it was over so soon. It happens, with all the hype, all the preparations that had been made to create scary scene after scary scene, both inside the Haunted Barn and for the Haunted Hay ride, all the running around to get this and fix that. You would have thought it was Christmas time. I get this same feeling of loss the day after Christmas. I guess like a major holiday, our event brings the same rush to get ready as the Holiday seasons do and just as quickly as it gets here – it’s gone.

So, now that the event is over, I wanted to take a moment to share a few pictures of what our tour looked like with the lights on.  They were simple scares that turn bad when the lights go out and the head ghouls yells - PLACES - Their coming in!

 

 

Madam Widow & Her Carriage Assistant (A.K.A. - The Hubby)

 

I do hope that everybody exercises extreme caution and stays safe as Hurrican Sandy makes her own Debut over the next several hours. You are in our thoughts and prays.

Until later today - I'll blog ya later.