By the time Laurie and I hatched, in 1964, on the very precipice between the baby boomers and Generation X, pop culture was mixing up the kitschy and the surreal like crazy, as if it was serious drama! Sci fi and horror are really fun. Movies that are called thrillers or suspense, not so much. In that way I am similar to my young friend ( Read more... )

Oooh you're gonna like this one. I remember hearing it about eight or nine Halloweens ago, on the back porch of my Atwood place and it was a great story then, and it's a great story now. Get out your plastic fork for protection, and read on!

( Click here to read Rachel's camper-ghost story! )

Thanks to Kev, we have this story today,


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Here's Kev, with
The House on Park Street, Part Two: The Lay of the Land
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Today's entry, behind the link below, is the beginning of a story Kev is telling. I know lots of people that hung out at this place in my hometown, when I was away at college, and I remember visiting it a few times and hearing lots about it, from several people, especially Kev and Bucky. Thanks Kevvy for sharing this story, and for telling it so ( Read more... )

A house, that I rented with Bruce and Pooh, was haunted as all get-out.
It's no Halloween on Ice with Nancy Kerrigan,
but here at the institute we are working on a bare-bones budget! (  Click here if you dare. )

Laurie will remember more of the details than I want to know, but when I was very young I know I used to have nightmares about someone called ( THE REDMAN )

With my good friend Joey's permission, I am reposting some of his hauntenings from what he sent me on the factcheck. I'll probably make individual posts out of the ones that came in as comments too, from Kev and Barb. Thanks everyone! Here's Joey:

My family has a history of living in haunted houses. The earliest known accounts date back to the ( Read more... )

How old were you when you stopped trick-or-treating ( Read more... )

Where I lived, my last year of college, the house we called Legal Holiday,
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