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Monday, October 31, 2011

My Favorite Scary Movies

In honor of Halloween, I'll do a post about some of my favorite scary movies. Now for some reason, most of the ones I like seem to be from the 70s and 80s. Older scary movies are better, not Saw. Saw I don't care what people say, is not scary. It's more gory and disgusting than anything!!

The Omen(1976)


The Exorcist


Halloween


Halloween III: The Season of the Witch

Sleepy Hollow


Prophecy


Dracula 2000

I'll be his bride ANYTIME!!!!
Psycho


Village of the Damned


Phantasm. And because of this movie, I'm scared to death of funeral homes!!!!!


Carrie


The Abominable Dr. Phibes


Waxwork


Hellraiser


An American Werewolf in London


Child's Play 2


Carrie (2002)


Creepshow 2. My favorite story on this one is Old Chief Wood'n' Head. Native American culture has always been a fascination of mine

Whoa, go American Indian chief!

Creepshow 3


28 Weeks Later


Haunted Florida

Florida

Captiva Island
-South Seas Resort: in room 51 of the employee housing, a baker died there and still haunts the room. Footsteps are heard, orbs are seen, a general presence is detected. At the north end of the resort at the King's Crown restaurant, there is a presence there too, this one being of the former manager who haunts the place. He supposedly plays the piano after hours and employees hear it and will go there to find no one.
Fort Pierce
-Battered Women's Shelter: there is a STRONG feeling of being watched, very creepy unsettling feeling when alone. Almost every night there are sounds of footsteps running up/down the stairs, phantom scratches on people, windows opening by themselves

Ocklawaha
-Ma Barker's Place: this was the home of legendary Ma Barker and her sons before their fatal shootout with the FBI and local cops. It's said that you can sometimes see Ma, and her house even with the origianl bullet holes

St. Augustine
-Old Jail: built at the turn of the century, built by a guy named Henry Flagler. The jail was across from his fine hotel and it was considered offensive. People who go on tours of this place hear shuffling feet, the horrible smell of unwashed bodies and sanitary facilities, cold spots, and shadow of a large man believed to be a sheriff named Perry, who was 6'5'' and a man in a funky plaid suit in main cell.

Haunted Colorado and other states

Colorado

Estes Park
-The Stanley Hotel: built in the early 1900s, this place is a resort for the rich and famous. This hotel inspired author Stephen King to write The Shining. Past employees have said thet hear mysterious noises, and footsteps, and see ghosts. A ghost has been seen in room 407 in the window, as well as rooms 217 and 401. In room 407, it is believed to be haunted by a person known as Lord Dunraven. He was run out of town by people because he was trying to con them out of land and money. He mostly stands in the corner of the room near the bathroom. The elevator also constantly runs, and makes noise, especially at 2am
Fort Carson
-The Old Ft. Carson Hospital/Mental Clinic: the buildings in the area were built in 1941, post-Pearl Harbor. A lot of German and Italian POWs were kept here. There is an intricate system of tunnels beneath the hospital connecting the buildings, and one night an MP investigated na open door to one of the tunnels only to find a whole bunch of kids toys, a small chair and table and other assorted children's items. Also seen were words painted on the walls with no visible way to paint them. On certain nights when the weather is cold, strange noises are heard. Movement is heard throughout the building, as if furniture ie being moved, repeated banging noises, faces being seen peering throught the windows. An older American Indian woman says the building was built directly over the Trail of Tears. There is also a low lying field nearby where nothing will stand, and attempts at construction have been unsuccessful.

Kiowa County
-Sand Creek: this is the site of the Sand Creek Massacre. On Nov. 29, 1864, over 200 Native American men, women and children were brutally slaughtered by Col. John Chivington. Him and his men hunted the Indians along the Sand Creek riverbed and in many cases, they tried to find refuge in the small caves. The Indians were used as target practice, mutilated and before death, had body parts amputated as use for trophies. On the anniversary of the massacre, campers have seen ghosts of the Native Americans going down to the Sand Creek bed where they died, appearing for a minute or 2 and then disappearing into the soil.

Lamar
-The Old Chapel: a man had come and killed the preacher here and raped a nun. When she became pregnant, she hung herself on the top floor after finding out about the pregnancy. Today, this unhappy nun can be heard crying and moaning, and has even been seen roaming the halls.

Connecticut

Burlington
-Rock Road/Old Tory Prison: people have seen British soldiers in Revolutionary War-era uniforms marching here, some in chains. People hear moans, from the prison. It's not particularly large, just a small stone and cement building. Locals don't like snoopy people and they may call the police on you for trespassing.
Fairfield
-Fairfield University/Dolan Hall: this was a former convent. There is a story here about a priest raping a nun, her getting pregnant and hanging herself. Loud, unexplainable bangs have woken up and scared students at 4am in rooms 231, 229, 227, 225

Meriden
-Undercliff Institute: in the early 1900s, and through the 1930s and 1940s, this was a hospital for children with diseases like German measles, rubella, mumps, etc. They were sent here to die. The old brick building still stands. Local residents say they hear children's laughing, and crying. They are seen in the windows and suddenly disappear. The place is now abandoned. There are reports of hearing former patients running around corners to escape orderlies, and faint screams from patients and rooms where shock therapy was used. There is also a report about a former patient who was killed by the other patients who walks around with utensils in their hand walking around the courtyard.
Milford
-Charles Island: located off Silver Sands state beach. Once upon a time, this place was a place of fighting between English settlers and the Wepaowag Indians. The chief of the tribe put a curse on the island, saying that any structure would fall to the ground. 25 years later, the famous Capt. Kidd is said to have buried his treaure on the island. In the 1850s, 2 men found the treasure only to run away screaming saying they saw a flaming, screeching skeleton coming down from the sky. Those 2 ended up in an asylum. At the end of the 18th century, a monastery was built. There were numerous reports of deaths, suicides, bouts of insanity. Today, monastic ghostly monks can be seen, body-less voices, glowing ghosts being seen through the trees, night time Indian festivals, and ghostly Indians.
Delaware

Lewes
-Neighborhood of Bay Oaks: streaks of light and glowing orbs seen frequently. This area is believed ot be haunted by the spirits of a massacre between Indians and Dutch settlers. In this battle, Indians were slaughtered by newly arrived Dutch settlers, leaving behind items like Dutch pottery, arrowheads found by new homeowners. Paranormal activity includes cold spots, feeling of being watched or that someone is in the room with you, globes of light, disappearing/reappearing of ghost-related books

Haunted Alaska, and other states

Alaska

Anchorage
-The Little Karaoke Place: the Korean owner of this place was killed by Chinese weightlifters in 1999. The spirit of the owner can be seen peeking out through the window

Arizona

Pinal
-Dudleyville/Lepsy: in the 1800s, there was a guy named Lepsy who would hire Chinese and other minority workers. When the work was done, instead of payment, he would burn the workers to death. When you apss through the canyon in this area, you can see charred walls, hear screams, smell burning flesh and feel borrible, agonized energies

Tombstone
-OK Corral and surrounding places: it's believed and even witnessed that the ghosts of the Earps and Clanton Brothers are seen around the corral and old western buildings surrouding the corral, gearing for their big shootout.
Arkansas

Oxford
-Old Church House and Cemetery: there is an old white church house where several women were executed as witches by a vigilante group similar to the KKK, called the Bald Knobbers. Inside the church is inaccessible due to a rotting floor, from the churchyard, a rope can be seen. 2 high school students went there to take names for a research project and they heard screaming and cries for help. They went into the building and seen a rope hanging from the ceiling. One of the girl's feet broke through the floor and they were scared to death beyond the building's general decay and the vicious cloud of yellow jackets whose hive was there. Something menacing and evil wanted them away.

California

Antioch
-Black Diamond Mines: these mines are haunted by someone called the White Witch. In her life, her name was Mary. In the 1800s, she was a nanny and all of the children she took care of died of illnesses and she was accused of witchcraft and killed. She guards the mines and is seen all in white
Arroyo Grande
-Rose Victorian Inn/ The Nursery: legend has it that a young girl named Alice haunts this place. Some say she died of pneumonia, others say it was from allergies to bee stings because when they tore down one wall in one fo the bedrooms, there was a towering beehive covering the whole wall. One witness says they seen birds getting sucked into the chimney.

Bellflower
-Bellflower High School: legend has it that in the 1960s, in room B1, in the west end of school a female student named Kaitlyn killed a skinny boy in the class after he called her Chicken Head. She forced him to drink a soda laced with rat poison and when he was out, she dismembered him so she could stuff him into a cabinet. His body had rotted over the long, hot summer. And he was found a by a janitor cleaning up the rooms, preparing them for next semester. Hauntings started here, including the nauseating smell of rotting flesh and appearing/disappearing bloodstains, appearing/disappearing body parts.

Fallbrook
-Jack in the Box: in the 1960s, a bunch of hippies went nuts and brutally murdered the workers there. When the store closes, you can hear the hippie's music and music from the decade. When no one is there, you can hear/smell the sizzling of burgers on the grill. The bathroom door opens/shuts by itself, and at 4:34 am, the lights go on and you can see the people who died there
Hollywood
-The Roosevelt Hotel: Marilyn Monroe is said to haunt this hotel. There is a mirror that was originally hanging in her room where she died and that her image is seen in the mirror.
Newport Beach
-Balboa Island: in 1993, 2 kids swimming there were killed by a rip tide. At night, lights can be seen under the water and strange sounds heard
San Diego
-Nijiya Market: this place is a small Japanese-run grocery store. An elderly customer suffered a massive heart attack and died in the store. Objects will fall from shelves, one of the night managers say they hear their name being called, and hear strange noises
San Francisco
-Cameron House: it was owned by a person named Lady Cameron. Her basement was used as a refuge to all Chinese immigrants from a life of slavery and prostitution, in the obvious hell that was Chinatown at the time. The doors were sealed shut to prevent inspections by the police. The people wer thought to have come in through a secret passage and some people burned hte house down. The people died and now the house has been turned into a church and it sends shivers down people's spines. The doors are still sealed, but every door contains a red charm and gold charm to keep the spirits in.

San Jose
-San Jose State University: the old gym was used as a center for Japanese internees during WWII. Crying and voices can be heard.