Humpday VII

Hi everyone!

It's our seventh Haunted Humpday

of the season.

What are your plans for Halloween?

We are probably going to stop by our local zoo..

It's called Howl-O-Ween night

and it's filled with

spooky lighting, decorations, and best of all,
we get to see some of the animals that are nocturnal
while waiting in line for treats:)

I found this recipe on Facebook
& we're making it tomorrow night!!

So how much stock to you put into urban legends?

I know some people that truly and honestly 

believe them.

I think they're pretty fun, most of the time.

One of my favorites is the Bloody Mary story.

Most of you know the tale,

she goes by different names at times,

she was believed to be a witch,or a psychopath, 

or the victim of a terrible car accident.

Either way the ritual is the same..

A darkened room lit only by a few candles, a mirror

a few people with the need to see what shouldn't be seen..   

Everyone says her name three, thirteen or thirty times.
And she is supposed to appear behind you in the mirror.

When I was in school

A few of my friends convinced me to ditch.

We all went over to one of the girl's houses

 where the parents were at work.

I didn't know that the main objective to this

'field trip' was to play this particular game.

We all went into the bathroom

lit a small votive candle in a red glass container.

Then we began the chant.

Bloody Mary 

Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary

I do not remember who began to scream

But the door flew open and they all ran out

leaving me in the damn bathroom alone!

They were all huddled by the sofa

when I walked out.

They all swore that MY eyes had begun to turn red!

I tried telling them that it was most likely the candle container

reflection, but to no avail.

These dummies were convinced that I was turning into 

Bloody Mary!!

" via "

There was a local legend around school

that the tunnels underneath a certain part of town

were haunted by a monster of some sort....

Allegedly these tunnels were only reached by going down a steep wash

and the opening to this tunnel was supposed to be 9 feet in diameter.

People would whisper about how they had traveled down

into these tunnels with a friend once ( a friend no one had ever met) and that friend had disappeared,

never to be found again.

Well of course my band of friends wanted to go explore.

Did I go??

ugh, yup, I did.

It was a bit exciting 

we kept retelling different versions of the tale we had heard.

One was about a kid's head that had been

cut clean off by the scythe of a creature that was in a large chamber miles into the tunnel.

Another was about how there were water falls and large chasms that a person could

drop into and drown surrounded by the skeletons of all the kids

 that had ventured forth into the darkness.

After a long walk down a super steep

dirt covered path

and almost getting eaten by a group of feral cats and maniac ponies, haha

 We got to the opening...

 it was indeed very large at least six feet high

there was a small trickle of water dribbling out...

perfect, we decided who was going to go first, which was important..

and who was going to go last, which was even more important, and scarier.

There were four of us..

First

Isabel

then

 Alex

then

me

then 

Christina.

It was fine...at first.

Then we realized that a flashlight

would have been smart

not a book of matches...

heck, even a lighter would have been better.

Then, the water began to increase.

we had been walking for about half an hour..

the tunnel had been getting smaller and smaller

we were walking single file

and at first we just had our heads down 

but by this time we were 

hunched over.

and we only had six matches left.

As we were talking about how stupid we were

and how it was now past time to turn around we heard a noise

from up ahead.

Lots of water splashing and running...

and a voice

someone calling out in pain!!

sounded like a child to us...

we hurried onward

suddenly realizing that the complete darkness wasn't so dark anymore.

We entered a large room at least 12x12.

it looked like there were grates on the ceiling because there was a very dim

light coming through...

there actually was a waterfall coming from what looked like another tunnel on the far wall..

the floor of the room was just churning and roiling water.

We turned around and began running through the pitch dark tunnel...

no one spoke a word.

All I recall is being hunched over and running through a dark, splashy nightmare of a hallway for what seemed like hours.

We could eventually see a faint  glow coming from around a bend...

the exit!!! At last!!

The outside world was blinding.

It had become overcast while we were in there but it still hurt our eyes.

I'd never been so happy to be standing upright outside!

As we began our journey back through feral cat/maniac pony country,

we started to talk about why we became so frightened.

The cries of whoever we heard in the room had begun to sound like the cries

of an infant...

that's what scared Isabel and Chris..

Alex didn't hear a baby

She thought she saw something else.

she described a very tall figure in the darkest corner of the room..

at least 8 feet tall,

with extra long arms,

 ribs that were exposed,

 it had wild looking hair on a large skeletal head.

We laughed a bit at this and convinced her that it was a trick of the light, 

we'd been in the dark for so long that our nerves were jangled and our eyes

and ears were playing tricks on us.

I was terrified...

It was the exact same thing I had seen.

What absolutely ridiculous escapades did you go on as a kid??
I was 15 when this happened...my mother never found out...
thank all that is holy!!
She would have killed me.

ok
This is it for today...
I'm not 100% better yet:(
Those of you waiting on a giveaway..
rest assured it's on it's way!!!

Have a witchy week!