Have a Happy Zombie Halloween!

I love Halloween for many reasons 

but I think the biggest reason is the awesome television programs

On the History Channel we have Zombies a Living History

On the Discovery Channel we have Planning for the Zombie Apocalypse

On the Travel channel we have Most Haunted Places

And on pretty much every other channel there is some scary movie or halloween themed show

I could watch this stuff all year round so I just eat it up during this season!

The Discovery Channel show was actually very informative.....

I learned what the best weapons to use in a Zombie attack

The machete being the best because it does not require much skill to use it and it does not run out of ammunition.

If firearms are your weapon of choice then a rifle is the best bet because it is easy to find ammunition for a common rifle as opposed to say a Glock.

I also learned how to avoid being bitten if hand to hand combat is necessary.

I walked around like a zombie during the commercial and made Christopher try to avoid being bitten.

He did pretty good but practice is definitely needed.

I also learned that I need to join some sort of survival group.....

Cause apparently the Zombie's are not the only problem.

I need to learn how to 

purify water with common household bleach

build a safe fire

I need to learn how to follow the sun or know what side moss grows on in order to know what direction I am heading.

I have no idea how I will live without my iPhone and iPad but I think to prepare I should try to go a day or two without them.

Well Have a safe and Happy Halloween and if you see any Zombies......Run!

The Nightmare Before Christmas is the greatest movie of all time!

I am a huge Tim Burton fan.

He is weird and his hair is awesome.

He is married to Helena Bonham Carter who is also weird and awesome.
Neither of them are ashamed of being weird and I love that!

His movies are amazing......

Edward Scissorhands?

Come on who doesn't love that movie?

Beetlejuice?
Just stop.....so awesome!

I could literally go on all day

But for me The Nightmare Before Christmas is the best!

I love everything about it.
The claymation.....do you know how much time that must take?
The music
The characters
The town
Have you seen this movie?

I bought the VHS tape for Amber when she was like two.
We watched that tape until it completely wore out and my Mom and Dad wanted to kill us!
In fact they may be the ones who broke it.
Then we bought another copy.
I know every word to the movie.
I know every word to every song.
When Christopher was little we made him watch it.
We made him love it.
When Amber and I drove up to visit Penn State her senior year
we brought the CD with us and sang it
the whole way there.

That is what makes this movie so awesome.
It Never gets old!

And you can debate
Is it a Christmas Movie or a Halloween Movie?
so its sort of educational???

The names of the charaters are great
Jack Skellington
Zero
Ooogie Boogie


I would love to live in a Tim Burton movie.
I love the darkness
the moodiness
the creepiness
of his films
And if I could choose any town to live in it would be
Halloween town.

Do yourself a favor and check this movie out.....you won't be sorry.

Walking Dead please stop making me cry!

*********Spoiler Alert*********

I'm sorry to have to do this.

For those of you who do not watch the Walking Dead I apologize for boring you.

But I just have to talk about it.

I love the show.

I really and truly do.

I just don't want to cry while watching it.

I want to be scared.

I want to scream.... "run".

I want to cover my face with a pillow because a zombie is getting beat over the head with a baseball bat.

I don't want to cry!

So last night we are met with Rick running across a field with his bleeding son cradled in his arms.

He is struggling and you can see the determination in his face as he races to the farm where a doctor lives.

How does he know a doctor lives there?

The dumb ass who shot his son told him.

By the way its that creepy actor you know but don't know his name.

He always plays some kind of crazy person

he is sort of fat with a wonky eye......

Anyway Rick is racing towards a farm and the doctor starts giving out orders and determines that Carl is alive but barely and he needs blood.

So the kid is laying there looking gray and sad and the tears are just rolling down my face.

Meanwhile the rest of the group is still making their way through the woods looking for Sophia.

Lori is kind of looking back. They heard the shot and she is worried.

Back at the farm one of the women rushes out to get Rick.

Carl needs blood.

When they open the door the kid is screaming as the doctor digs into his wound to pull out bullet fragments.

I can't take it! 

I am like screaming for someone to give the kid something!

But you know this is the zombie apocalypse and its not like they can take the kid to a hospital!

The doctor basically says the kids gonna die if he can't put him under so he can cut him open and get the rest of the bullet.

Wonky eye says "oh well there is the hospital 5 miles up but its crawling 

with Walkers" (what they call zombies)
So wonky eye and Shane leave to get what is needed from the hospital.
One of the women goes out to find Lori to bring her back to the farm.
So here is where the sobbing started.
Lori comes riding up on a horse.
Rick runs out to meet her.
She collapses in his arms.
Pulls away from him and runs to the house.
When she walks in and sees her son all gray and shot..... her face just crumbles
She climbs onto the bed and lays next to her son saying "Momma is here, Momma is here"
and I am sobbing so bad that I am pretty sure I made my neighbors dog bark.

Meanwhile........
The gang is back on the highway trying to decide if they should stay and wait for Sophia to maybe come back or if they should head to the farm and meet back up with Rick, Shane, Lori and the dying Carl.
Oh and the stupid whiny blonde was attacked yet again and is all pissy because Dale didn't let her die back at the CDC building.
I thinks its sad when I just wish she would cause I am tired of her whiny bullshit.

At the hospital Shane and wonky eye throw some flares to draw the attention away from the equipment trailer but oh shit when its time to leave the trailer the zombies are just waiting there for them.
They run and I am like "run wonky run" cause hes kind of chunky and I am pretty sure he is gonna get eaten.
But they make it into a building and thats where it ends......with some zombie hands reaching in through the gate trying to grab them so they can eat their brains!

In conclusion I look like hell this morning because of all the crying....Thanks Walking Dead!

The Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel

I have a list of places that I would like to visit.

One of those places is The Stanley Hotel in Colorado.

This is the hotel in which Stephen King stayed and was then inspired to write The Shining.

Which happens to be one of my favorite of his books and 

my favorite movie adapted from one of his books.

This alone made me want to stay there and then

Ghost Hunters also investigated The Stanley and I found their experiences very intriguing. 

So I put it on my list of places I would like to stay.

I work at a Hotel.

Its pretty creepy here 

especially when I have to be in at 6:30 am.

In order to get to my office I have to walk through the sleeping wing.

At that early hour most of the guests and sleeping and so the hallways are quiet and dark

and deserted

This gives the atmosphere of an awesome ghost story.

Which I love

But.......

Sometimes when my very active imagination is in high gear I end up barreling through the hallways like a madwoman in my attempt to out run whatever is chasing me.

Which nothing is chasing me but still......I'm pretty sure there might be.

I don't think it is the hotel's fault that I am creeped out.

In fact I think all hotels are pretty creepy!

For instance......

My family once stayed at The Boardwalk Hotel in Disney world.

Nice hotel

A little snobby/stuffy for our taste but really very lovely.

The hallways and lobby were brightly lit and colorfully decorated.

The staff laid on the Disney charm.

People smiled.....a lot which is creepy

The rooms were very nice

clean

well appointed

everything you could want when staying at the happiest place on earth.

Until......Dun dun dun

Amber and I went to get ice and something to drink.

We made a wrong turn and ended up wander down hallway after hallway.

While going down one particular very long hallway Amber says....

"I keep expecting those creepy girls from the Shining to appear saying in their creepy voice Come and play with us Danny"

Well that was it.....

She had said out loud what we both had been thinking and now we were scared.

We picked up our pace 

Kept turning around to see if anyone was following us.

And then we started to run.....like idiots through the very plush hallways 

Finally we made it to the lobby area and collapsed with relief onto one of the sofas.

So how about you....do you think hotels are creepy?

Findings at Fort Mifflin

Our Candlelight Tour at Fort Mifflin was a lot of fun

I'm not sure if it was necessarily worth the $20 they charged

but for a night out and the fact that it is going towards the preservation of the fort I am okay with it.

Our tour guide was a very nice gentlemen and he told us about the fort and the many experiences people have had there.

The history of the fort alone is very interesting

throw in a tale or two about the paranormal and I am all in!

The atmosphere that they set for you is perfect.

It was a very dark night with a bright full moon looking down on us.

Once inside the fort candles lit the way to the various buildings.

There is no electricity.

There is nothing like the flicker of a candle inside a dark building to get the imagination flowing.

It truly was inspiring for a dark minded person like myself.

I could almost feel things just reaching out as we entered each dimly lit room.

It was beautiful in its creepiness.

In preparation for my first ghost adventure

I downloaded a Ghost Hunting App onto my iPhone which I used to take pictures and some EVP's

Unfortunately it was too noisy to do EVP as the guide talks the whole time and the people in the group are murmuring and whispering so it sort of taints the evidence.

I took a ton of photos both with my phone and my camera.

Unfortunately I only caught three things that were weird/suspicious/awesome.

The rest of my photos I had to doctor to make them creepy.

Here are my photo shopped photos..................

Now these are the un-photo shopped raw photos

Are those orbs? I think so.....Ashley my photographer niece says they are moisture but these did not show up in any of the other photos.

Is that some sort of energy created my a ghost.

Again my know it all niece says NO its from me moving the camera during the shot.

Whatever its still cool.

And finally the face.......

It is a zoomed in copy of this one of the photos from above before I photo shopped.

I saw it that night when we were driving home.

Ashley had nothing to say......I am pretty sure after looking at it she slept with her Mom and Dad.

So there you have it!

If you live in the Philadelphia area you should definitely check this place out.

Ashley and I are going to go back during the day.

It is $8 and you are on your own to explore!

Walkind Dead

Last night was the premiere of Walking Dead!

********Spoiler Alert**********

We find our friends loading up their vehicles and driving down the highway.

They run into an obstacle across the road and then suddenly the RV dies.

As they are scavenging the cars left in the road...some with dead people inside

Suddenly some walkers show up and Oh My God are they freaking creepy.

Its very dramatic as they are hiding under the cars and the kids are separated

from their parents. The little girls Mom is all kinds of crazy. 

The pain in the ass blonde who the old man "saved" last season

A save I am sure he is regretting cause she is being a nasty bitch now

gets trapped in the RV with a walker and she stabs him in the eye with a screwdriver.....So cool!

Just as you think they survived and the herd of walkers has passed

OH NO a walker hears the little girl and now he is climbing under the car to get her

She runs and the walkers chase after her

Our hero Rick goes after the walkers....but he can't use his gun cause it will alert 

the herd that has passed.

So he hides the little girl....who turns out to be a stupid little girl cause she leaves the spot he put her

and he lures the two walkers away and then kills them both by 

smashing them in the head with a big rock......

Side Note........this is why I love zombies and this show in particular. 

I love the old school zombie rules it follows.....they aren't super fast or super strong. 

They can be killed and sometimes its as simple as smashing them in the head with a rock 

or ramming a screwdriver through their eye.

Its just so cool!

Anyway so Rick goes back and the kid is gone.

The Mom is all like "How could you leave her?"

So he goes back out to search.

The annoying blonde woman aka Andrea is all like "I want my gun" and "you should have let me die"

blah blah blah stop your damn whining there is a kid missing.

So our group hears church bells and when they find the church there are some walkers sitting in the pews which was creepy awesome. 

They decide to split up with Rick and that loser Shane staying behind to continue the search.

Carl is like "I want to stay Sophia is my friend" and for some unknown  freaking reason

his parents are like "Yeah thats cool what the hell lets just put all the kids in danger" so he stays behind with his Dad and the dude his Mom was screwing when she thought her husband was dead.

The other group leaves and Lori is all like "get off my husbands back no one else would have even chased after the kid in the first place" and everyone looks down in shame.

Rick, Shane and Carl are walking along and they see a deer.....oh wait Rick talks to the statue of Jesus in the church and asks for a sign......so I am thinking he thinks this beautiful buck is a sign.....anyway Shane raises his rifle....which is weird because they won't shoot the zombies because it makes too much noise but we will shoot a deer?......and Rick motions him to stop because Carl is like mesmerized by the deer and he starts walking toward it. It is a very beautiful moment

sweet innocent deer 

sweet innocent kid

and then BANG!

the deer gets shot and the bullet goes right through the deer and into the kid.

They both go down and...........the screen goes black. 

Credits roll

and I know I will not sleep a wink!

So basically it was like kill the kids off night on the Walking Dead.

Did you watch it last night? What did you think?

I found these awesome bumper stickers which I ordered online 

so cool!

 

American Horror Story and Fort Mifflin

Are you watching this show?

If not shame on you.

It is awesome!!!!

I love everything about it.

It is creepy and weird.

Irreverent and sexy.

Shocking and horrible.

Speaking of American Horror Stories..........

Tonight I am going on a candlelight tour of Fort Mifflin.

Said to be one of the most haunted locations in America.

Here are some of the claims.....

The Officers Quarters -  Haunted by Elizabeth. A woman who killed herself after her daughter died. Supposedly you can hear her screaming which is apparently so loud the police have been called out to investigate several times.

The Casements - Haunted by soldiers. Many apparitions have been seen inside and just outside of these locations. Because some of the casements were used as a prison for confederate soldiers they has been some reports of agressive or violent manifestations.

These are just two of the "hotspots" on the vast grounds of Fort Mifflin.

There have been reports of a faceless man in Casement 5. The disembodied voices of soldiers. The sounds of children playing. The phantom smells of fires burning and bread baking. 

Fort Mifflin has been investigate by many paranormal investigators who have all had some type of experience.

Ghost Hunters did an investigation awhile back and I have been wanting to go ever since.

I will be bringing my camera and some kind of recording device.

If I catch absolutely anything I promise to share it with all of you.

Wish me luck on my ghost hunt