Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpses shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the THRILLER!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Top Ten Scariest Movies #10: The Shining
It's no wonder that this movie based on the hit Stephen King novel made the list of scariest movies of all time.
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Rated R
Famous Quote: "Here's Johnny!"
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Based off of a real Hotel called the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Rated R
Famous Quote: "Here's Johnny!"
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Based off of a real Hotel called the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Local Lore...
Heard about this place in Chesterfield called Zombie road. Sounds interesting. I might go check it out.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Top Ten Most Haunted Houses #8 : Hull House
Hull House was constructed by Charles J. Hull at Halsted and Polk Streets in 1856 at a time when this was one of the most fashionable sections of the city. After the Chicago Fire of 1871. In the 1880's, Hull House was surrounded by factories and tenement houses and soon after, became one of the most famous places in Chicago!
Hull House received its greatest notoriety when it was alleged to be the refuge of the Chicago "devil baby". This child was supposedly born to a devout Catholic woman and her atheist husband and was said to have pointed ears, horns, scale-covered skin and a tail. According to the story, the young woman had attempted to display a picture of the Virgin Mary in the house but her husband had torn it down. He stated that he would rather have the Devil himself in the house that the picture. When the woman had become pregnant, the Devil Baby had been their curse. After enduring numerous indignities because of the child, the father allegedly took it to Hull House.After being taken in by Jane Addams, staff members of the house reportedly took the baby to be baptized. During the ceremony, the baby supposedly escaped from the priest and began dancing and laughing. Not knowing what else to do with the child, Jane kept it locked in the attic of the house, where it later died.
Rumors spread quickly about the baby and within a few weeks, hundreds of people came to the house to get a glimpse of it. How the story had gotten started, no one knew, but it spread throughout the west side neighborhood and was reported by famous Chicago reporter Ben Hecht. He claimed that every time he tried to run down the story, he was directed to find the child at Hull House. Many people came to the door and demanded to see the child, while others quietly offered to pay an admission. They believed the wild story to be absolutely true!
Each day, Jane turned people away and tried to convince them that the story was fabricated. She even devoted 40 pages of her autobiography to dispelling the stories. Even though most of the poorly educated immigrants left the house still believing the tales of the Devil Baby, the stream of callers eventually died out and the story became a barely remembered side note in the history of Hull House.
As the years have passed, some people still maintain the story of the Devil Baby is true... or at least contains some elements of the truth. Some have speculated that perhaps the child was actually a badly deformed infant that had been brought to Hull House by a young immigrant woman that could not care for it. Perhaps the monstrous appearance of the child had started the rumors in the neighborhood and eventually led to Hull House.
Regardless, local legend insists that at some point, there was a disfigured boy that was hidden away on the upper floors of the house. The stories also go on to say that on certain nights, the image of a deformed face could be seen peering out of the attic window.... and that a ghostly version of that face is still seen by visitors today!
HULL HOUSE is located at 800 South Halsted Street in Chicago and is open to the public as a historic site. The West Side Levee District no longer exists but was once bounded by Madison Street on the south and running north to Lake, east to Halsted and west to Center Street (now Racine Avenue). The bordellos and saloons have been replaced by loft apartments, parking lots, a few ethnic restaurants and Oprah Winfrey's HARPO STUDIOS on Washington Boulevard.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Top Ten Most Haunted Houses #9: Lemp Mansion
Lemp Mansion
St. Louis, MO
All St. Louisans know about the Lemp Mansion. It is a point of pride that puts St. Louis on the map as one of the big haunted cities in America
The Lemp family is one of the more tragic stories of a large mercantile family torn down. The house was built in the early 1860s by John Adam Lemp, a German immigrant whose brewery made him one of the most successful businessmen of St. Louis.
The first of many deaths to come started in 1901, when Frederick Lemp, son of William and grandson of John Adam, died mysteriously. Three years later, William shot himself in the head in his bedroom, leaving William Junior to inherit the family brewery.
From then on the family business started to fail until Prohibition closed the brewery permanently. Distraught by this failure, William Jr's sister, Elsa, committed suicide. After selling the brewery for only $588,000 (the original value was around $7,000,000), William Jr shot himslef in the same room in which his father did 18 years earlier. In 1943, William the 3rd, William Jr's son, died of a heart attack. William Jr's brother, Charles, lived a reclusive life in the mansion until he decided to follow the family tradition and shot himself. His body was found by the last surviving brother, Edwin, who died of natural causes in 1970.
Paranormal happenings include doors opening, closing, locking, and unlocking by themselves, feelings of sadness, odors of decay, and apparitions of the deceased family members.
St. Louis, MO
All St. Louisans know about the Lemp Mansion. It is a point of pride that puts St. Louis on the map as one of the big haunted cities in America
The Lemp family is one of the more tragic stories of a large mercantile family torn down. The house was built in the early 1860s by John Adam Lemp, a German immigrant whose brewery made him one of the most successful businessmen of St. Louis.
The first of many deaths to come started in 1901, when Frederick Lemp, son of William and grandson of John Adam, died mysteriously. Three years later, William shot himself in the head in his bedroom, leaving William Junior to inherit the family brewery.
From then on the family business started to fail until Prohibition closed the brewery permanently. Distraught by this failure, William Jr's sister, Elsa, committed suicide. After selling the brewery for only $588,000 (the original value was around $7,000,000), William Jr shot himslef in the same room in which his father did 18 years earlier. In 1943, William the 3rd, William Jr's son, died of a heart attack. William Jr's brother, Charles, lived a reclusive life in the mansion until he decided to follow the family tradition and shot himself. His body was found by the last surviving brother, Edwin, who died of natural causes in 1970.
Paranormal happenings include doors opening, closing, locking, and unlocking by themselves, feelings of sadness, odors of decay, and apparitions of the deceased family members.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Top Ten Most Haunted Houses # 10: Myrtle Plantation
The Myrtle Plantation
West Feliciana Parish, LA
Touted as "one of America's most haunted homes" the plantation is supposedly home of at least 12 ghosts It is often reported that 10 murders occurred in the house, but historical records only indicate the murder of William Winter. In 2001 or 2002, Unsolved Mysteries filmed one of the segments for the show. According to Robert Stack, the production crew experienced technical difficulties during the production of the segment.
Possibly the most well known of the Myrtles supposed ghosts, Chloe was reportedly a slave owned by Clark and Sara Woodruff. According to one story, Clark Woodruff had pressured or forced Chloe into being his mistress. Other versions of the legend have Chloe listening in at keyholes to learn news of Clark Woodruff's business dealings or for other purposes. After being caught, either by Clark or Sara Woodruff, one of her ears was cut off, and she wore a green turban to hide it.
Chloe supposedly baked a birthday cake containing extract of boiled and reduced oleander leaves, which are extremely poisonous. The various legends diverge as to why she did this, a house maid whom was getting the favor of the mistress was a suspect with some saying she was getting revenge on the Woodruffs and some saying she was attempting to redeem her position by curing the family of the poisoning. According to the legends, her plan backfired. Only Sara and her two daughters ate the cake, and all died from the poison. Chloe was then supposedly hanged by the other slaves, and thrown into the Mississippi River, either as punishment or to escape punishment by Clark Woodruff for harboring her.
The historical record does not support this legend. There is no record of the Woodruffs owning a slave named Chloe, Cleo or any slaves. The legends usually claim that Sara and her two daughters were poisoned, but Mary Octavia survived well into adulthood. Finally, Sara, James, and Cornelia Woodruff were not killed by poisoning, but instead succumbed to yellow fever. Regardless of the factual accuracy of the Chloe story, some believe a woman wearing a green turban haunts the plantation.
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West Feliciana Parish, LA
Touted as "one of America's most haunted homes" the plantation is supposedly home of at least 12 ghosts It is often reported that 10 murders occurred in the house, but historical records only indicate the murder of William Winter. In 2001 or 2002, Unsolved Mysteries filmed one of the segments for the show. According to Robert Stack, the production crew experienced technical difficulties during the production of the segment.
Possibly the most well known of the Myrtles supposed ghosts, Chloe was reportedly a slave owned by Clark and Sara Woodruff. According to one story, Clark Woodruff had pressured or forced Chloe into being his mistress. Other versions of the legend have Chloe listening in at keyholes to learn news of Clark Woodruff's business dealings or for other purposes. After being caught, either by Clark or Sara Woodruff, one of her ears was cut off, and she wore a green turban to hide it.
Chloe supposedly baked a birthday cake containing extract of boiled and reduced oleander leaves, which are extremely poisonous. The various legends diverge as to why she did this, a house maid whom was getting the favor of the mistress was a suspect with some saying she was getting revenge on the Woodruffs and some saying she was attempting to redeem her position by curing the family of the poisoning. According to the legends, her plan backfired. Only Sara and her two daughters ate the cake, and all died from the poison. Chloe was then supposedly hanged by the other slaves, and thrown into the Mississippi River, either as punishment or to escape punishment by Clark Woodruff for harboring her.
The historical record does not support this legend. There is no record of the Woodruffs owning a slave named Chloe, Cleo or any slaves. The legends usually claim that Sara and her two daughters were poisoned, but Mary Octavia survived well into adulthood. Finally, Sara, James, and Cornelia Woodruff were not killed by poisoning, but instead succumbed to yellow fever. Regardless of the factual accuracy of the Chloe story, some believe a woman wearing a green turban haunts the plantation.
For more information click here
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