quote is from: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) by Seth Gecko (George Clooney)
A person may become a vampire in a variety of ways, the most common of which is to be bitten by a vampire. Other methods include sorcery, committing suicide, contagion, or having a cat jump over a person’s corpse. Some people believed that babies born with teeth or on Christmas or between Christmas and Epiphany were predisposed to becoming vampires. While vampires usually do not die of disease or other normal human afflictions, and they are indeed often said to have faster-than-normal healing capabilities, there are various methods for their destruction. The most popular of those include a wooden stake through the heart, fire, decapitation, and exposure to sunlight. Vampires are often depicted as being repelled by garlic, running water, or Christian implements such as crucifixes and holy water. In some stories vampires may enter a home only if they have been invited, and in others they may be distracted by the scattering of objects such as seeds or grains that they are compelled to count, thereby enabling potential victims to escape.
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ENGLAND’S SCARIEST SCREAMING SKULLS
I thought since you will first be getting this blog the day before Halloween we could visit some scary places out and about the planet,
If you are regular readers you know my love for ancient spooks and legends as well as my looking into things that go bump in the night—-places more modern that have things that are there and you—like me may have experienced some of these things, despite what the rest of our friends and or the world believes.
And then there are the rest of you who still have the ancestor fear buried deep below the modern disbelief in anything that sometimes crumbles when we are walking down an ancient street say in London (speaking from experience here) and you feel like at any moment you might find yourself back in the centuries and facing something in like of Jack the Ripper—or maybe a bit more other worldly—-OK there’s something to think about next time you walk those old streets!!!!!
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The Church of St Mary The VIrgin, Frensham
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Inside the 14th-century church is an immense cauldron, which in former times may well have been used to hold the vast quantities of ale required to slake the thirsts of parishioners at village feasts. John Aubrey (1626 – 1697) Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey
records a far more colourful tradition behind the cauldron’s origins. According to Aubrey, there was once a stone on Borough-Hill in the parish of Frensham upon which anyone could knock, declare aloud an item they wished to borrow then leave. When they returned a disembodied voice would inform them when to collect the desired article. However, the Frensham Cauldron, so he records ‘was borrowed’d here after the manner aforesaid, but not return’d according to the promise: and though the cauldron was afterward carried to the stone it could not be return’d and ever since that time no borrowing there.’
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This strange, but originally natural hill looms above the town of Glastonbury. This hill has had a few changes, the grooves that you seen in the above picture are said to be prehistoric and I have heard that they are for all manner of things—including that it was originally a maze with entrance into the Hill itself.
The Tor early on was believed to be the entrance to the Otherworld-–now this Celtic world was not what the Christians describe as Hell—the Celts has a reincarnation belief that might account for the fact that the people there were not thought to be dead but just in another plain—-it gets to be a bit confusing and I’m not at all sure that even the experts to this day fully understand all the details.
It would appear that early Christian priests and monks that came to this place equated the Celtic Otherworld with the Christian Hell (as the good went up to Heaven and since this was obviously a path into the earth and thus down and thus hell.
There are also legends (and these legends I am related are not just from reading but things I was told in the town when we spent a few nights there while I was doing that driving—which was much scarier to m than ghosts.) that these early Christians believed that this was the entrance to Hell (for if you had to go into the earth and down into its deep hiding place then you surely mus be going to Hell). And would account for the effort it must have taken to drag the building material to the top of the tor for the first church built in the 10th or 11th century. And it must have been very scary when an earthquake destroyed this church in 1275. They eventually built a new on in 1323 which remained until Henry VIII’s issues with the Monks and their churches. It was abandoned and much of it was used on other building projects.
And it is interesting that this tower still stands above the vale making me believe that not everybody was as modern thinking as Henry—and maybe leaving this tour to St. Michael’s Church—-who was said at one time to have guarded the gates of Hell so that the demons an evil persons and other bad things couldn’t escape make this a very spooky place for those who lived here even in the 16th century and beyond.
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New Orleans land of Voodoo and much more—where the Cemeteries are even scarier and yes even more than London and even in the daylight looking over ones shoulder to see what is there is a common practice—-it is a city I very much recommend visiting.
“The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds – the cemeteries – and they’re a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay – ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who’ve died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn’t pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time.
“The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of those places you go back to and that don’t have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there’s a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There’s something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can’t see it, but you know it’s here. Somebody is always sinking. Everyone seems to be from some very old Southern families. Either that or a foreigner. I like the way it is.”
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Spirits tend to be more concentrated in places that have experienced a lot of death or birth
A witch post is a local superstition where the cross of Saint Andrew (a saltire) is used as a hex sign on the fireplaces in Northern England, Yorkshire, and Lancashire, in order to prevent witches from flying down the chimney and entering the house to do mischief. Wikipdia
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Haunted Destination: RMS Queen Mary
It was years and years ago when I visited the Queen. We took a tour and had some cocktails and it was very enjoyable……but I had no idea that she was suppose to be haunted, apparently while she was in service there were reportedly 50 deaths aboard her and not all those spirits departed. She’s worth a visit even w/out the creepy crawlers
Among the ghosts reportedly still hanging around is an engineer who died in the ship’s engine room, a “lady in white,” and various children located throughout the ship including the 1st Class Pool. Why is there always a Lady in white—is it mandatory or what?
The ship which is now permanently at dock has restaurants, bars and a hotel —I know the hotel is temporarily closed due to the pandemic but you might check out if they’re still doing ghost tours. This would be an interesting place to stay on Halloween!!!!
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- This night was considered an evil night when spirits roamed the streets and villages. Lord Samhain, the lord of Darkness, would arrive in search of the spirits to take them to the underworld.
There is actually more than one ghost said to haunt Drury Lane’s halls (London) and wings, including those of several actors.
The Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood is known for two types of sightings: big Hollywood stars and free roaming spirits: The most famous of the spirits being Marilyn Monroe.
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Transport your guests to the other side, create a spooky space by making a haunted house. To get yours up to—-or down to–snuff, think abandoned–house ambience. Don’t clean a thing (ghosts love dusty spaces), but do drape sheets over furniture and handerkerchiefs over mirrors and framed pictures. Hang stretched cotton batting in your ceiling corners to mimic cobwebs and add a few spider.
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who was approximately 14-years-old at the time, was originally approached to play the role of Regan, the young girl who gets possessed by a demon in The Exorcist, but her parents, actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, forbade it
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the legendary subject of Bram Stoker’s epic 1897 novel, Dracula, the history of vampires began long before Stoker was born.
Concerns about the ritualistic torture of animals around Halloween were more widespread in the 1980s and 1990s, when fears of secret Satanic cults were at their zenith. Many shelters have since abandoned the policy of hiding black cats, and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says, “There is no reason to believe that these cats are at risk.”
Lots of universities in the world are believed to have secret tunnels below their campuses. Through the years, students have made up various stories concerning hidden pathways leading to dungeons, ritual rooms and so on. This legend is again particularly popular in the US
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This site is probably one of the most interesting places you can find in Florida. Located in Miami, the Coral Castle was said to be designed to mimic the Egyptian pyramids. But the entire design seems intriguing enough to trigger some conversations. While the place isn’t really haunted per se, rumors have floated for many years that Edward Leedskalnin, the architect of the Coral Castle, was said to some kind of magical superpower.
The abandoned town of West Castleton is like Vermont’s answer to the ghost towns of the Old West: Once a big industrial boom town, it’s now empty except for a few ghostly residents that refuse to leave, among them a boatman
Luper Pioneer Cemetery located just outside of Eugene is one of the oldest in the area. Seventeen of those buried here were pioneers on the Oregon Trail. The isolation of this cemetery adds to the scare factor: it’s hidden by trees, surrounded by open fields.
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