Haunted Humpday VI, Welcome October!

Welcome to our first 

Haunted Humpday 

of 

October!!!

Such an exciting time of year!

It's cooling off a bit in the evenings now,

we had a low of 59 degrees last night!

You have to remember that our high's hit 112 in July, 

so it was chilly:)

 This Haunted Humpday is a bit abbreviated

due to the fact that I am now recovering from

food poisoning!!

I'm still a little weak

but the Halloween spirit is strong!

How many of you have heard of the Devil's Tree?

It's located in New Jersey.

According to the legend

A farmer killed his entire family then hanged himself

from the tree.

Many suicides and murders have occurred there.

Towns people swear it's a portal to Hell

since for some reason the tree is warm to the touch

and snow will not gather around it.

Allegedly, to touch it, is to invite bad luck into your life.

Several stories talk about how the trunk of the tree 

is scarred from axes and chainsaws..attempts to cut it down

that failed, since death awaits any that may succeed.

One of the defining features of the tree is one low hanging branch

that is parallel to the ground..

this branch, was supposedly used to hang many 

unfortunate people..

 Is there anything like that near 

where you live?

One of my favorite stories from childhood is

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow..

When the cartoon would come out

I knew Halloween was close!

This summer I went to N.J.

& I was able to visit

Sleepy Hollow!

(I had to take a photo of the school.)

It's gorgeous there.

It's so green!

very unlike here, let me tell you.

With many areas just covered in trees, night time there is

very dark and scary...it's very easy to imagine

a  headless ghost riding a giant horse through the woods.

I took loads of photos but my computer is acting up and I can't

seem to find any of them. 

I'd like to show you a few creepy postcards....

And this super cute figurine...there's a teeny pumpkin inside the box.

I guess this story is my favorite because it's one of the very first ones

I remember reading on my own.

look at how adorable and icky these cookies are!!

this first one is created simply by dragging a toothpick

through a still warm from the oven cookie.

This one uses melted chocolate piped on in spider shapes.

When my sisters were little, about six and seven

they shared the back bedroom.

They both had strange things happen to them in there.

One time for example

the younger sister started screaming in the middle of the night

when my parents questioned her she claimed a tall man without a face

Had come out of their wardrobe

and was trying to take her older sister.

 He disappeared when my parents arrived.

One time both girls heard a loud noise coming from the room

when they entered they watched as a small wooden chair moved across the floor on it's own.

As the little sister grew older (and the older sister moved into her own room) she continued to see and hear different things.

She was 13 when she saw the man inside the closet again, this time his entire head was missing.

On different occasions she would come out of that room terrified,

 The light would turn on and off

a dusty, forgotten on a top shelf music box would suddenly start chiming 

Her dog would jump up and growl and bark ferociously at an empty corner of the room

Sometimes she felt as though someone was sitting on the bed and the blankets

would pull off. 

I am now the owner of that same back bedroom

nothing has ever happened to me..(knock on wood)

Oh, I get creeped out occasionally,

 probably due to one of my constant bedfellows  

Stephen King:)

As for the man without a face/head

He resides in another closet most likely...

maybe yours.

Happy October everyone!

(everyone that has a prize coming from me, I've not forgotten you!)