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Jen
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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 Posted - Apr 03 2007 : 04:58:39 AM
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What's the creepiest thing you've ever experienced (or that you've ever heard of) on a wilderness outing?
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
AR
USA
1384 Posts |
Posted - Oct 01 2007 : 12:31:32 PM
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Halloween's on the way, ladies, so it's a good time to share some spooky stories. I remember a few family Halloween trips when I was a kid--instead of tricks & treats, we'd rent a little cabin in one of MO's many beautiful state parks where we could crunch in the leaves, carve pumpkins, roast marshmallows, and tell scary stories. In particular, I remember my mom making up a real shivery yarn when we stayed at Bennett Springs State Park one year. There was an old grist mill nearby, and she cooked up a good one about a mill worker who'd been killed long ago & was still restlessly wandering the woods. Can't recall the gory details, but it scared the dickens out of my sis & me. Then, well, we ate too many s'mores & my sis threw up on me in the car on the way home the next day--now that was truly horrifying!
Got any fun Halloween memories? Share 'em!
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Elizaray
outspoken
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Elizaray
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Posted - Oct 03 2007 : 3:14:33 PM
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I always loved dressing up and going trick-or-treating. Halloween is still one of my favorite holidays because you get to play make-believe and there is a certain freedom in being able to be whatever you want for the day! :D
It's funny that you ask about scary stories. I am suddenly blanking on all the ghost stories I know! LOL
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
1384 Posts |
Posted - Oct 04 2007 : 07:52:49 AM
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It is so fun! I've heard that some schools want to do away with celebrating it, and I think that stinks. Seems to be alive & well here in Arkansas. But, my girls have no interest in dressing up like ghosts or monsters for trick-or-treating; this year, I think it's pirate maiden (whatever that is) and fairy  Last year, they were Pocahontas & cowgirl. When Rita was 3 or 4, she wanted to be Frida Kahlo, so I made her a black yarn wig with a big rose on it, and I drew a big dark eyebrow across her face - she was a tiny spitting image of Frida! I think just one person in Naches, WA knew who she was supposed to be!
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Elizaray
outspoken
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Elizaray
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Posted - Oct 04 2007 : 6:32:04 PM
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that would stink! I LOVED celebrating halloween at school! I loved the halloween cookies and candies and seeing what everyone dressed up as!
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
1384 Posts |
Posted - Oct 05 2007 : 07:41:21 AM
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Classic Spooky "Outdoor" Favorite:
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (first published in 1820
"Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill-side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost. The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch’s token. His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought, or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes;—and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe, at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road..."
Read the whole story at http://www.bartleby.com/310/2/2.html
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Oct 05 2007 : 7:39:52 PM
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The Hornet Spook Light
"Twelve miles southwest of Joplin, Missouri, a roughly paved road runs through a narrow canyon...The place is remote and far from civilization, so why do so many people come here? They are searching for an unexplained enigma, a puzzle that most of them actually seem to find. It has been seen along this road since 1866 and has created such a mystery that even the Army Corps of Engineers officially concluded that it was a 'mysterious light of unknown origin'. It has gone by many names...but it's most commonly known as the Hornet Spook Light."
More at http://www.prairieghosts.com/devprom.html
I heard about this while living in Joplin, MO, but I never went looking for it!
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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