Yes!! Our Gwenerrella has a spooky story to tell you!!
Hi! I gotsa spooky story ta tells ya!! My friends wanna hear it too.
Theys Loodlelalla an’ Sassy.
Loodlelalla gotsa black eye from beatin’ up da bully dat was teasin’ Sassy.
Sassy is one a my favouritest friends, she’s funny an’ smart, an’ she lissens ta me.
Once upon [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories on October 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The mischief stirred in his bed of leaves. He stretched slowly, and then wiggled around until his head poked out of the leaves. He sniffed the air, and then stuck his head a little farther up and sniffed again. Then he wiggled with delight. Then air was filled with the scent of Halloween, and so [...]
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Once I went into an abandoned house just to take a look around.
It was nice in there- there was a beautiful oak staircase and beautiful oriental rugs on the floors and lace curtains in all of the windows.
There were no beer cans on the floor or rock band names spray painted on the walls. There were no [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories on October 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
In the part of New Jersey where I live, there are many abandoned bits of civilization in the woods. Towns that simply disappeared off the map, either because the state bought out the land to create reservoirs or they just simply faded away as more convenient communities were developed nearby and people died off. The [...]
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I grew up in coastal South Carolina - a little town called Georgetown - where ghosts are almost as ubiquitous as the tourists who flock to the beaches. Ghost stories were passed around among us children like so much candy, and there was always the (sort of) hope that one of us would actually see one. None of my [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories on October 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
When I was in high school in the mid 1970’s my class decided to collect some of the local ghost stories. This wasn’t hard because much of our coastal South Carolina town was built in the early 1700’s and ghost stories were abundant. For the project, my partners and I decided to interview our history [...]
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I have so many wonderful Halloween Memories…
this is one of them
and it concerns:
Lizzie Borden
Today I read about a Lizzie Borden Halloween Prop that costs THOUSANDS of dollars.
Robot Lizzie swings an Ax up and down.
Sure, whatever.
When I was a kid this family had a Haunted House set up in their basement and the Dad used to dress up [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories on October 28, 2007 | 12 Comments »
My Grandpa Roy told me this story when I was a kid.
Most of his adult life, my grandpa worked for the movie studios– MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers. At various times he worked for them as a horse wrangler, grip, and greensman. Sometimes he just did whatever needed doing on the set. One day, back in [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories, Tales on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hadley Happenings Pt. II
Now, lookin’ around I can see some faces that didn’t hear about the Witch and her poor dog. I’m sure any of the others’ll be more than happy to tell you the tale later. I’m not here to be repeating myself.
The Witch told us things were gonna get worse, we should [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories, Tales on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
This tale requires a wee bit if an explanation, back in 2004, as part of a Soul Food Cafe project I was to write an article on the Red Death ( a la, E. A. Poe’s tale, “The Mask of the Red Death”. The first article is the one I wrote in 2004, the second one [...]
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