Good morn from me—and yes I have a Dragon mask and a Dragon in my front yard as well—I LOVE HALLOWEEN AND OF COURSE DRAGONS.    Honorable Mention:  THE COZY NEST Mt. Dora  http://www.aroundmountdora.com/2015/09/21/mt-dora-merchant-ellen-coates-the-cozy-nest/    Added some new Christmas Collectibles to my store—check them out (PLEASE)  https://www.etsy.com/shop/DragonLaire?ref=hdr_shop_menu  YESTERDAY was just work and more work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I actually think I may be possessed with demons, I was dropped on my head as a kid.”Dennis Rader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How much is Outlander Helping Scotland?

http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/film/how-much-money-does-film-production-bring-to-scotland-1-3903050

Another of the Fraser Looks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Believe me if I started murdering people, there’d be none of you left, because my children are coming, I told you twenty years ago.  Charles Manson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For today I thought we’d do Florida—but instead of Scary places as well as scary beings alive and dead:

 

FT. GEORGE ISLAND’S HAUNTS

KINGSLEY PLANTATION:  http://www.nps.gov/timu/learn/historyculture/kp_visiting.htm  The old plantation house (est 1789) faces the Fort George River, a remembrance of a time long gone by.  ” He settled on Fort George Island in 1814 after leasing it from McIntosh. He purchased the land and buildings for $7,000 in 1817 ($94,019 in 2009). Kingsley owned several plantations around the lower St. Johns River in what is today Jacksonville, and Drayton Island in central Florida; two of them may have been managed part-time by his wife, a former slave named Anna Madgigine Jai (1793–1870).  Kingsley married Anna in 1806 when she was 13 years old, recently arrived in Cuba from West Africa.^] He freed her in 1811 and charged her with running his Laurel Grove plantation at Doctors Lake in modern-day Orange Park.”   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Plantation

 

 

There have been many incidents recorded by the staff of moved furniture and odd feelings and the feelings of cold water being dumped over the person entering the room.  But I was told by a friend that when she visited the Kingsley House for the first time she saw a woman in period costume on the porch,  she lost sight of her and presumed that  she had gone inside.  When my friend went inside and looked about she didn’t see the woman again and finally asked one of the park rangers.  She was told that she must have been mistaken that they had no period dressed employees.  Totally confused she continued around the building until another employee stopped her and explained that the staff’s stand is that there is nothing here, but that many members of the staff had also seen this woman as well as other visitors and they presumed that she was one of the previous residents, though who or from when they do not known.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Childs Play (1988)
(Chucky): “Hi, I’m Chucky. Wanna play?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK so I know that’s not really scary (unless you’re really bugged by ghosts) but I have actually had a scary experience on the same property.  THE TABBY HOUSE (see above picture) lies to the left of the road as you enter the national park that houses the previously mentioned plantation.  The house is but a shell of it’s original building.  I have read varied accounts—one that a land owner started a house here for his daughter but it was never finished, but given that tabby was usually used for outbuildings (like barns) and slave quarters this doesn’t make sense to me. That it was the home for some of the slave drivers on the planation (another thing I read) makes much more sense.  I also read hat there have been sightings of all manner of beings here from a woman in white to a horrible, not to mention huge, wolf.

 

 

 

 

 

It was with this knowledge that I came to the plantation.  I visited the house and slave quarters and saw nothing out of the ordinary.  On the way exiting we stopped at the Tabby House for a quick look before heading on up to our next destination.  I was telling them all the spooky information as we exited the car when I first felt the presence of the place, it was not an individual person, or being but rather a pressure and feeling that I was not wanted there, a feeling that became like a vice on my head.  My friends (whom I  had not said anything to about the pressure and whom are both RN’s)  glanced at me and immediately became concerned asking me if I was sick, and needed to set down as I had become extremely pale and looked extremely unwell.  I wanted them to continue exploring but they insisted getting me back in the car.  As we drove away I began to explain my feelings on entering the site and we were all amazed that with every mile I got away from the area the more color returned to my flesh and the more pressure was released from my head, by the time we reached the town where we were going to have lunch we found my color fully returned and the pressure gone.  It was not a feeling of being sick or of overheated–it was a comfortable day—but rather felt as if something or someone was trying to make me understand their displeasure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts. As I grew up I realized people are more scary. SR Sharma    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERIAL KILLERS

These are the really scary creatures—evil hiding in the guise of human kind, they look like any man–some are abused, but some are not–they ever look and talk well, dress well and we could pass them on the street and not know that we have past (and hopefully escaped) the worst monster of human kind—himself.

 

 

Ted Bundy who took his act on the road all over the country but ended in Florida (and I do mean ENDED).  I have read some speculation that he came to Florida because he wanted to stop himself—I prefer to believe that with his inflated ego he just wanted to play for higher states…and he paid dearly for that ego, but along the way we had to bury some young girls and even a child—no regrets for his fate–creatures like him need to lose.

 

 

STARKE, Fla. — Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer, died January 24, 1989,  in the electric chair after a night of weeping and praying, just as the sun rose over the north Florida plains.   http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-24/news/mn-1075_1_ted-bundy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danny Rollins who killed  women in Gainesville before he was captured, was more villainous that Bundy in appearance and action.  Bundy was so civilized at least in appearance (which to me makes Bundy scarier).  Rollins kept his terror local, but in the end was erased from his position of terror by the justice that while barbaric still seems to be appropriate when it comes to this depravity.   “Florida’s most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, was executed by injection October 25, 2006 (Railford) for butchering five college students in a ghastly string of slayings that terrorized Gainesville in 1990.”  http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/10/25/florida-executes-serial-killer-danny-harold-rolling.html

 

 

 

 

Aileen Wuornos:  The only woman on our Killer’s  list, she is well known and had a lot of publicity prior to her final sojourn on death row ended:  “…she made a living as a sex worker on Florida’s highways, and in 1989 she killed a man who had picked her up. She went on to kill at least five other men and was eventually caught, convicted and placed on death row. Though her sanity was questioned, Wuornos was executed by lethal injection in 2002. In addition to documentaries, books and an opera, her story was depicted in the 2003 film Monster.”  http://www.biography.com/people/aileen-wuornos-11735792 

 

 

 

 Bobby Joe Long  is one I don’t remember but he was a Tampa Bay serial killer ,  who confessed to committing 10 murders and more than 50 rapes. The scary thing about him is that he’s still alive over a quarter century after his crimes:    “Long was arrested in November 1984, and is currently serving multiple life prison sentences. He received two death sentences, but his execution has been delayed by several appeals. He remains on Florida’s death row.”    The fact that he’s alive still (and he doesn’t even have psyh issues–wander why everybody else who posted dated him have been executed before him) makes him the scariest one of all.  http://www.biography.com/people/bobby-joe-long-20962313#synopsis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fly (1986) (Ronnie): “Be afraid… Be very afraid.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert ……East Martello Museum in Key West, … the doll is believed to not have given up his menacing ways. Visitors and employees claim they have seen the doll move. His smile has been known to turn into a scowl. … Some say he’ll even curse you. If you want to take a picture of him, you must ask politely. He’ll tilt his head in permission. However, if he doesn’t and you take the picture anyways, a curse will befall upon you….To this day, Robert remains there….in his  sailor suit with his stuffed lion, continuing his menacing ways.  http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_the_Doll

 

 

 

 

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
(Elizabeth): “I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.”