A Light From Beyond? What do you think?

 

 

 

23 Days Until Halloween

 

 

Greetings readers - well I’m at it again, and have decided to dedicate the Friday’s in the month of October for my favorite type of topics.  WELCOME TO - Fact or Fiction Friday. What happens is that you the reader decides if the stories that appears on - Fact or Fiction Friday are a real story or someone trying to create a scare, but you know me just when you think you know the answer, think again - maybe it’s true? Maybe it isn't. Come back and Join us on Monday for the answer - Until Then - Happy Haunting.

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A Light From Beyond?

A young woman sits quietly drinking her morning coffee, pondering what had happened to her the day before that literally still has her shaking - never before has she experienced something  so scary.

It was a normal work day as a woman was cleaning a house that was about 10,000 sf. That was located in Laconia, New Hampshire - in a very elite, expensive neighborhood. The house had 3 floors, 4 bathrooms, 14 rooms (not including the bathrooms or 3 other rooms that were in the basement used for storage). The house was huge. Anyway, she was in the family room in the basement vacuuming and about 1 1/2 hours into a 3 hour shift when all of a sudden she was startled when she heard a HUGE LOUD BANG! And almost immediately she could actually "feel" someone watching her. It’s so hard to explain, but she could actually feel it. She was all alone in this huge house and absolutely terrified. She had shut the vacuum off and just stood there shaking and her heart racing. She was terrified and nearly frozen with fear. A few minutes went by; still she just stood there waiting to see if she could hear anything else, while the whole time was entombed by this very creepy feeling. She decided that she needed to check it out and slowly walked over to the hallway and looked up through the railings on the stairway.

The way the stairs were set up, you could see all the way up to the 3rd floor from the basement.  She just stood there breathless - listening and looking. She was 100% sure someone was in the house watching her.  Slowly she walked up stairs - super terrified of the unknown that could be waiting for her.  She stood on the landing right before she got to the main floor and looked down the long hallway. Not seeing anyone, but still feeling a presence. She continued down the hall, looking in each of the rooms one at a time - and yet saw nothing.  She then proceeded to one of the bedrooms on that floor and when she walked in, there was a bed side light on. 

"That's strange" she thought to herself, “I had just left that room about 20 or 30 minutes earlier and the light was definitely NOT on.  Maybe I hit the switch on the wall accidentally." She tried it and it was not the switch for that light. Then she thought that maybe it was a touch lamp and that she had bumped it accidentally...NOPE! When she got over to the light it was a lamp with a switch on it just below the bulb that you actually had to TURN it to turn it on.

At this point the woman was completely freaked out!! All this time, she could still feel the presence as she continued to check the rest of the house and found no one.  She went back to her house work and finished vacuuming the house, rounded up her cleaning supplies and got the hell out of there as soon as she could. That feeling of "being watched" to this very day - has never left her the entire time she was there.

When she arrived home she immediately called the owner of the home. She knew it was not their primary residence. They lived out of State, but have the home as a vacation home. Trying to conceal the fear in her voice - she left her a message to please call her. The home owner was always good about calling her back. It been only a couple of hours later as the home owner could tell that something was wrong with her by the sound of her voice in her message. Hesitant, she let her trembling voice asked the question...  "Ummm...is your house haunted?"

 

The home owner took a moment filling the phone with silence, and then replied, “well, we've been wondering the same thing."

"WHAT?!"

"Sometimes our dog would stand at the end of the hallway and just start barking down the hall, but when we would check - nobody was there that we could see. The dog would act strange a lot and sometimes she would hear noises that the rest of the family couldn't.  Sometimes both my daughter and I would awaken suddenly in the middle of night with the sensation that someone was pulling at our feet. So my daughter and I decided that we needed to know exactly what was going on and so we consulted with a medium and was told that the woman who lived there previously had died and would come back and forth to the house to - play."

She stood and shivered with her phone pressed tightly to her ear as the home owner then remarked with one last comment when she said so casually that the woman’s spirit haunting the home wouldn't hurt her and there was nothing for her to worry about - she didn't care...she was done right then!

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So what did you think? Is this a true story? Did a housekeeper experience a spiritual entity that wasn't ready to accept that fact they had died?  Let me know what you’re thinking? I would love to hear from you. Until then - have a great weekend and I'll blog ya Monday.

 

"Putting the Creep in my Creepy Feelings"

 24 Days Until Halloween

 

 

I've always been fascinated by old photography and what can appear when you least expect it, or to coin the phrase, "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words."  The other day I was looking at a website that said "See 26 shocking photos you'll never believe what your looking at," looking at these photos was when I got this idea for todays blog.

 

I surfed the web to find photos that put a stir in myself. We all have that inner something that makes us feel uneasy - you could be home alone and hear a door open or a window shut with no explanation. Cold chills when a breeze passes by you in a place with no wind. Below are 13 pictures that just did something to that inner me that put the creep in my creepy feeling and being so close to Halloween - only makes the feeling 10x scarier.

 

I will have to say - it was picture number 13, that really gave me the cold chills, from the kids to the burning car to the ghostly face in the smoke. If someone had fun altering the picture in anyway to scare - then they did a great job.

 

 

 

"The Deadly Surprise" - Ficton, an Urban Legend or True? - You Decided

 

 

25 Days Until Halloween

Here I am again, with another goodie, sent to me by Luke in Idaho. It's up to you the reader to decided if this story is  Fiction, an Urban Legend or True? Now this story is not so much spooky as a Halloween story of nightmares, but It reminded me of what I wrote the other day, about the way people say things, like the houses that were haunted because they looked scary. Perception and the way people say things can take your way of thinking in two different extremes. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see if you guessed the correct answer to:

 

 

 

"Deadly Surprise"

 

The towns people always remarked about a home that was haunted all because of a deadly surprise. They claim to this very day, that a wife, who had passed away, walks the halls of their home waiting for her husband to celebrate their Anniversary. Here is how the story went.

 

 

It was their anniversary and she had planned a glorious dinner that had been created with his most favorite foods. She also wanted to look just as good as the day they had met, and so she had pulled her blonde hair back into a sleek bun, put on a silky short sleeveless black dress and hose that together accented her beautiful slender sun kissed skin. Her shoes were a stunning blue-gray 3" heel, her make-up, not a lot and not to little, just sheer perfection followed by the right spritz of perfume. To adorn her outfit she wore the diamond tennis bracelet that he had given her for their twenty-fifty wedding anniversary.

On this night in late November, they had been married for 32 years - years that had been good to them. They were blessed with three beautiful children, that were now grown and gone to create new life memories with their families, a beautiful home to raise them in, and a great financial foundation to see them into their retirement years - that they had planned to enjoy until death did them part.

He had been secretive, like years before when their anniversary appeared over the horizon. He would conjure different way to surprise her with a gift of gold and diamonds and a romantic evening together. This time he had not told her to hold off on any plans, which had taken her by surprise, but believed his demanding work scheduled had played interference and so, she decided it would be her turn to surprise him with dinner and a romantic evening in front of the fireplace. Everything was perfect, the table, the music, the fire - her night to surprise him was already.

Her heart jumped into her chest when she heard his truck coming up the driveay as a cool blue dusky sky blanketed them. This was indeed going to be a huge surprise. She waiting by the front door that he had always entered since the day they had moved there. She stood by the door as the clock on the wall ticked the minutes away filling the otherwise silent anticipation of the room, but the door never opened. "What's taken him so long?" she said out loud to herself. Not wanting to give her surprise away, and thinking that maybe it was her daughter coming to get some things she had left in the garage, maybe it was her husband who was coming in through the garage door because his shoes may have been muddy - but it had not rained in three days.

The suspense and endless questions began to fill her with worry and concern, and so she opened the front door and stepped out onto the covered porch. She watched for several minutes in disbelief as her husband, three unknown men, and one woman carried boxes from the garage to a U-Haul trailer attached her husbands pick-up truck, then closed the garage door. The remaining sounds were the doors of the truck opening and then closing as if they had all gotten back in. She was startled when a figure appeared in the illumination of the porch light. Their before her stood her husband with an envelope and tears in his eyes. The cold air was aggravating his contact lenses, but he never told her this, as he was not one to complain. He then stepped towards her and held her tight and simply said - "I've got to go and I'm sorry that I waited until now to tell you, but always know -  I'll love you forever." Then turned, got back into his truck with the others and drove away.

Her mind began to fill with numerous thoughts, "I'll die without you! Please come back!" She yelled out to him as she stood on the porch filling with emotion of the thought that her man of thirty-five years had chosen this day to leave her. He had been her best friend, her confidante, her lover and she always believed it would be the vow they made on the day of their wedding - till death that did them part - that would one day take them from each other.  Her heart beat began to pound forcefully in her check, her breathing felt vacant and the light that illuminated the area around her slowly grew darker. Her legs felt weak and warm as they gave way to her body falling to the floor. 

Shortly after 8:00pm, headlights coming down the driveway appeared over the horizon and the sounds of a horn honking in a random patterns announced the arrival of a guest and/or family. When the truck stopped, two men had quickly exited, one was her husband and the other a friend of his carrying a beautiful small box wrapped in elegant paper and a huge velvet bow a top and a huge flower arrangement with two-dozen red roses. As he made his way to the front door, they found the icy cold body of his wife lying on the porch, were he had last seen her standing. Her hand gripping the still unopened envelope.

Their friend could not believe what he was witnessing - she was fine when they had come to the house earlier to pick up the boxes they had packed with the materials they needed to make this Anniversary night special, but to his wife, to see her husband packing a U-Haul, and then saying to her, "I've got to go and I'm sorry that I waiting until now, but always know -  I'll love you forever", - she believed he was leaving and being overwhelmed with great sorrow, never realized the air had become dangerously cold.

"If only she had opened my letter she would have understood." said her husband now feeling the same loss that she had as she watched the truck and trailer pull away from their home and her thoughts telling her - he was leaving her.  

"What did the letter say?" questioned the friend.

"My dear wife - you probably think I have forgotten our Anniversary, but that is so far from the truth. I have planned a surprise for our Anniversary this year - but dress warm, as we'll be spending the night in a cozy cottage just on the outskirts of town. I love you always." He replied as he dropped his head and wept.

 

 

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.

"Haunted House"

8 Days until Halloween

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haunted House

By Jack Prelutsky

 

There's a house upon the hilltop,

We will not got inside,

For this is where the witches live,

Where ghosts and goblins hide.

 

 

Tonight they have their party,

All the lights are burning bright,

But oh we will not go inside

The haunted house tonight.

 

 

The demons there are whirling,

And the spirits swirl about.

They sing their songs to Halloween,

"Come join the fun," they shout.

 

 

But we do not want to go there,

So we run with all our might,

And oh we will not got inside,

The haunted house tonight.

The Spooktacular Countdown Begins - R U READY?

 

 

 

"30 Days until Halloween"...

  

We can't start October off correctly without a little

 advertising for the event of the year! Won't you come and

 join us for an evening of fun and fright for the whole

 family. Be sure to check out the link below.

 

http://www.aacountyfair.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=18

 

 

 

Over the next 3o days, my hopes are to fill this blog with

spooky and fun stories, drawings, great costume ideas,

decorating tips, pumpkin carvings, and all the delicious

food ideas for this Halloween Season. Come back

tomorrow when we kick it off with our first spine chilling

spooky story - I dare you. Until then - I'll blog ya later.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Lw-hc_FQ4