Do you know what is on the side of the Moon that faces away from the Earth- the mysterious side?
Craters.
Lots and lots of craters.
Not a single one of those Spiders that hatch from rocks, no ghost ships.
Just Craters.
Lots and Lots of Craters.
Darn.
I think it’s great story telling when someone is talking about a character they have written ( or portray ) and you get the sense they know these people.
They’ve made them real.
Very cool.
The WItching Hour Is Upon Us
It’s getting closer…and closer and closer
and before you know it
it will be close enough to reach out and touch you.
Good luck with that.
Photo: A.M. Moscoso
Hi Honey…I’m Home…
and to celebrate my return to My Bridge ( and gasp…actual writing ) here’s an interview with the Rod Serling.
amm
When I was little we lived next door to a very nice lady who was fond of baking and handing out cookies. Gingerbread, star shaped,heart shaped , house shaped frosted and dusted- they were all delicious and all of them were on little plates scattered here and there on table tops throughout her old fashioned and softly lit living room.
One day I was over there for my almost daily cookie fix when she noticed me admiring one of her clocks ( this one had a blank face with hands that looked like tree branches ) that sat was sitting next to a plate of almond cookies when she told me out of the clear blue sky , that her husband had been an executioner.
I almost didn’t hear that- because when I wasn’t trying to decide which cookie to try next, I was distracted by those clocks.
Because Mrs. Fenton didn’t have just one or two clocks in her house.
Mrs. Fenton’s house was filled with clocks- big clocks. Little clocks. Hundreds of clocks. Some of the clocks looked like angels or ladies in fancy dress and they had clocks in their stomachs. I’ll be honest- I didn’t get that sort of design back then and I don’t get it now.
What I did get was that all of the clocks were stopped, roughly at few minutes after midnight and my neighbor explained that her husband used to buy a clock for each of the criminals he executed and he stopped them at the declared time of death.
I thought that was a neat idea- but I was a kid and at the time I thought shrunken heads were a neat idea too.
My favorite clock was a Grandfather clock – but this clock was stopped at 3:oo .
I assumed that clock wasn’t one of the execution clocks- but I was curious and asked.
” Oh that one. ” She said with a little laugh.
I took a cookie off the cookie table packed with small porcelain cats and waited to find out what the challenge was.
” Miss Clay was called the Greenlake Devil Woman. She killed the people she rented rooms to and after she killed them she chopped them up and fed them to her next batch of boarders.”
I was mid-bite into a cookie and I tried to picture that. I could see an old-fashioned kitchen and a lady in an old-fashioned frilly apron whistling just like a bird as she chopped and stirred and seasoned things in ceramic bowls and boiling pots.
With that happy image in mind I kept chewing.
” Well. Mr. Fenton did his job- and this one involved electricity- and they called Miss Clay’s time of death and Mr. Fenton was thinking about clocks and the County workers took her to the morgue and a few hours later she was back at her house in her kitchen working like a thing possessed. Mr Fenton and the police and a Priest or two showed up and there she was- a terrible beauty with flour dust in her hair and a smile on her blue yet very kissable lips- Mr Fenton said later. “
” Wow. So she came back from the dead and went home and cooked dinner?”
” No dear.” Mrs Fenton said looking at me curiously. ” Whatever gave you that idea? She came back from the dead and baked cookies.”
People will be putting this into their mouths and eating it for
Thanksgiving.
It’s called
” Tofurky “
Here’s what I will be truly grateful for this Thanksgiving:
I WON’T be eating this.
a.m.m.
Weird
Weirder
Oh That Is Just Wrong
Nothing says Halloween like
Cats With Chainsaws and Puppies with sharp kitchen tools clutched in their little paws
does it now?
Ask The Magic Eight Ball of Horror A Question
Halloween Mah Jong…yes there is such a thing and the music is pretty cool too
For a Non-Music Version Go HERE
Look Out Mr Johnson…no not really…it’s the name of another game among several others
And if you want to do something fun that does not involve the internet
you could always make one of these- it’s a TARDIS cake-
find out how HERE
Cake By: Barbara Jo and Barbara May From Their Do It Myself Blog
Photograph(s) copyright Shaun O'Boyle
This very, very short story has given me nightmares and inspired me to write a few of them down and turn them into stories.
Here it is:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote this circa 1870:
“A woman is sitting alone in a house. She knows she is alone in the whole world; every other living thing is dead.
The doorbell rings.”
Awesome
Bravo Thomas, Bravo!
I don’t know who Barbara Jo is, but she has created the most awesome cake ever.
It’s Called A Zombie Cake.
I admire her work on so many levels…the first being, it’s obvious this cake takes a lot of work, my Dad was an excellent Chef and he admired what it took to bake so when it comes to sugar and patience- I am humbled.
Second of all, I truly hate Zombies, not because they scare me but as a horror fan they offend me.
If you are a character in a horror movie and you get chased down and killed by a creature who is rotting from the inside out-
or the outside in
and the monster’s brains are turning to water in their skulls and they can still figure out how to trap their victims you SO deserve to die
and in turn
I deserve to lose whatever money I paid to watch it happen.
So I guess that’s why I like the idea of turning a zombie into a cake and carving it up with a kitchen utensil….
a sharp one.
By the by:
Barbara Jo also created these:
They’re eyeballs made from maraschino cherries-
which were soaked in rum.
I think that’s hilarious.
Not only do they ( you have to read THIS to find out why Barbara is a THEY ) bake truly gruesome cakes they do movie reviews for shows like ” The Werewolf Vs The Vampire Women ” and “Wizard of Gore”
Barbara Jo just made my Halloween a little sweeter…hope they do the same for you
So let’s go visit Barbara Jo…I’ll drive and please
don’t mind my friend in the backseat…
he’s dieing to meet you
UPDATE:
FOR INFORMATION ON THE 2012GEORGETOWN MORGUE
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Today I read an article that debunks the story about The Georgetown Morgue.
I don’t do the haunted house tour thing ( you know, after you’ve worked in a Funeral Home and had to visit real morgues and years later all you can remember is the taste of McDonald’s French fries because you were consistently assigned removals in the afternoons- just before lunch)- Morgues don’t exactly scare me-
the thought of them now just makes me hungry.
For French Fries.
The super-sized serving.
Anyway.
I thought the setup for the Georgetown Morgue was a fun idea, a very neat story and the building the “morgue” is staged in is way over the top and looks the part.
Most funeral homes, let’s face it, were supposed to blend because they were either near churches or in neighborhoods and people actually lived in them.
However subtle- some of them are they are weird if you know what to look for the weirdness- take a look at the garage doors and back doors which are wider then normal to accommodate you know, things which require a lot room to move through, and though the writer of the above mentioned article does toss in the small smoke stacks at the Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home and how unscary they are but he fails to mention the actual creepy thing is the mirror mounted on the roof and tilted upwards towards the smoke stack.
The Funeral Directors use this mirror to make sure the smoke doesn’t turn dark during the cremation process…see CREEPY.
You just need to know where to look to find it.
However- there’s always an however isn’t there?
On a visit Dubque Iowa, I saw this amazing funeral home called Behr’s- which looks scary by any measure.
So what do I think about the ‘debunking’ of the Georgetown Morgue?
Well.
I’d say the writer who did this didn’t prove anything other then the only story he could come up with was the deconstructing of another writer’s work.
Creating a world and a story and legend for you to follow isn’t easy, placing it in terms that invite readers to want actually walk ( or drive ) to that door is actual work, bringing a building and people who never existed to life, takes effort, writing a vindictive little hit pieces to ruin the moment for people who wanted to visit the “Georgetown Morgue” ?
Geeze- now that’s just mean spirited.
So visit the setup site for the Georgetown Morgue, it’s actually well done- I thought the way they wove bits of Seattle’s real history into the ‘legend’ was pretty clever – the earthquakes, the hint of the Wa Mee Massacre, the death of a famous local musician wrapped in media hype- made it possible for present day for local residents to ‘relate’ to this building and to the story.
So no- I wouldn’t visit the haunted house- I couldn’t even be bribed with French Fries…however…if someone were to tell me more stories about the Georgetown Morgue– they would have my undivided attention.
After all, this is what we do during Halloween- we spin yarns, tell tales and for one night not only do we get to face the monsters-
we get to face them down.
It’s all part of the fun.
So.
Try.
A few of you, more then others…
to have a
Happy Halloween.
The Georgetown Morgue: Gruesome true story or fabrication?
“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us.”
(Old Cornish prayer.)
It’s one of those weird things
that finds it’s way
to
Anita Owl Creek Bridge.
It’s Scary how that happens.
Sometimes.
:::sent to me by B. Conte:::
Back in the early 70’s I used to watch Cliff Hangers before I left for school in the morning.
I used to watch Flash Gordon
and a few others, but Flash was my favorite.
So.
In the spirit of those Cliff Hangers I invite you to visit Anita’s Owl Creek Bridge and
follow the adventures of
Milo and Jingle Hungerford.
There are no Spaceships or people in capes… or exotic looking women who rule the universe
but that can change.
Stay Tuned for More
a.m.
A long time ago a young man named Milo Hungerford asked a woman named Jingle to marry him at the Rainbow Beach Drive-In during intermission.
Jingle said yes just as an army of little popcorn boxes went dancing across the screen and a soft drink cup wearing a top hat stood on a box of Honey Bits and invited you to visit all of his friends at the snack bar soon.
” I want to be with you forever. ” Milo told Jingle with tears in his eyes.
Then Milo took Jingle’s hand and put a ring on her finger that he had made for her himself.
Jingle held the ring up to the light from the movie screen and then she held it to her cheek and then Jingle took Milo’s chin in her hand lifted it up and she said- as she sank her teeth into his neck-
” I am so glad to hear you say that Milo. “
The Beginning
by a.m. moscoso
UFO Roswell plans to do their best to keep us updated with current information on the2008 UFO Festival.
It will be held the Fourth of July weekend in where else butRoswell, New Mexico.
Visit the official Festival site for more information.
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I’m a Peter Davison fan- he was my favorite Doctor.
I like David Tennant alright- although he reminds me of this kid I used to tie to a tetherball pole everyday at recess back when I was in grade school because he’d follow me around all day asking me to marry him.
Anyway, this is a very cool clip called ” Time Crash “
( Special Edition )
Enjoy!
PT. 1
PT.2
The Most popular stories here at
Anita’s Owl Creek Bridge
over 2007
were:
(a story about you know who )
( a story about a haunted house )
The Scariest Sound You’ll Ever Hear
( Witch Story- Pacific Northwest Style)
( Vampire Story )
and
my personal favorites were…
and
Happy 2008 Everyone
On Halloween Night we used to love to do things like test drive Mortality.
Here’s how we did it:
Bloody Mary
You know that legend about Bloody Mary? You’re supposed to stand in front of a mirror, in the dark ( well, use some candles I mean- duh- if you can’t see what’s going on you’re out of luck ) and chant the name ” Bloody Mary ” three times- then she comes out of the mirror and kills you.
I’m not sure how she does it- though I’m guessing sharp objects are involved.
I think the idea is to get somebody you don’t like to do this- but I could be wrong.
We tried it- doesn’t work
but it was fun.
The Girl At The Side Of the Road
Every Halloween some Dead Prom Queen is supposed to be on some road waiting for somebody to give her a ride home
From what I understand this story involves a girl who dies in a car accident on her way home from the Prom and somebody will pick her up and drive her home and when they get there they turn to the back seat and she’s gone and her parents come out to tell you her sad story.
We went looking for her too- but we decided if we found her we’d make her go ” Shoulder Tapping ” with us.
Shoulder tapping is what we called it back in the 70’s when you’d hang around in front of the 7-11 and try to get people to buy beer for you- which shows you how smart we were- we always did it in our neighborhood so we were always sober by the end of the night.
And we didn’t see a ghost either.
Darn.
Thirteen Steps To Hell
We have at least two cemeteries here in Washington with stories about how in one crypt or in one grave there are Thirteen Steps Leading to Hell. The Doorway to the steps is guarded by a Witch who will give you the Second Sight if you sell your Soul to the Devil who is waiting for you at the bottom of the 13 Steps to finalize the deal.
To bad the Sight doesn’t kick in before you get to the Bottom of The 13 Steps.
Then You’d see clear as day that the Devil takes you to Hell and if your plan was to rule the world with your Powers- you are so going to be disappointed- toasty- but very disappointed.
Message From The Beyond
Everyone goofs off with a Ouji Board on Halloween.
Everyone knows those things are demonic.
Everyone doesn’t get together three or so friends, agree on a phone number
as the ‘message’
let their inncoent bystander ( and former ) friends call it
only to let them learn they’re dialing
the intake desk at a local Mental Hospital.
Hey, it’s funny-and like I said you shouldn’t mess with those things…
and on Halloween of all Nights.
Dingbats.
To end this let me remind you:
Life is short-
Enjoy Halloween and all the
rest of the year too
amm
Hands down ( at least six feet under ) this is the BEST Monster Mash
Video around so check it out and
GET DOWN!
get your tombstone here
Kersey Goss works for an office supply store.She takes phone orders for pens and paper, for business cards and blank forms. She even orders jars of candy for office receptionists to put out on their desks next to acrylic card caddies that hold business cards.You might not get excited when things like fruit scented pens and new colors of post-it notes hit the streets but Kersey Goss does.
Last year Kersey parted her hair on the left side of her head instead of the right and even changed her perfume from “Sweet Lilly” to something called “ Lemon Splash “and everybody noticed.
Well to be precise, everybody was stunned into silence when they saw Kersey and her new look.Times may change and fashion may change and every time it rains the earth changes too; but Kersey Goss doesn’t change.
It’s a fact of life out there in Stedman, Washington.
It was a slow day around Harmon and Sons Office Emporium and Wayne Kirkland who was a Grandson of one of the “Sons” in Harmon and Sons was reading the newspaper. He was always reading the newspaper…if he wasn’t reading the newspaper he was doing the crossword ( where he filled in the words WRONG and purpose in glitter pen ) and if he wasn’t doing the crossword he was doodling mustaches and horns on the pictures of politicians and anything else that caught his eye.
Anyway, on that slow day Wayne saw an article in the Stedman Times that nearly sent him into hysterics. He was about to start drawing and doodling when he looked up and saw Kersey at her desk.
She was smiling and humming and busy filling a phone order. She was telling somebody all about the new line of papers they would be carrying for computer printers.
Wayne bit his lips to keep from laughing and as he did reached into his desk for his scissors.
Then he spread the newspaper across his desk started to cut.
When Kersey came into work the next morning she reached for her inbox and pulled out her shipped order forms and was about to file them away when a news clipping floated down from the top tray and landed on her desk blotter.She turned it over and read the headline:
Grave Robbers Strike Rural Cemetery- Law enforcement Officials now working with Local Health Department as the investigation into recent grave desecrations in GreenviewCounty escalates….
Written across the story in red glitter pen was:
KERSEY GETS A HOBBY
Kersey carefully folded the article in half and dropped it into her wastebasket. Then she went back to her work.
A week later Kersey found another clipping in her in box and she turned it over briefly and saw something about “ Ghoulish Discovery” at Edmonds Cemetery and Funeral Home in Burr County. Written across this article in purple glitter pen was:
COOKING WITH KERSEY
She pressed her lips together and looked up at Wayne. He was trying very hard not to laugh and finally he couldn’t help himself. “Why are you doing this Wayne? It’s not funny you know.” Kersey shook her head but instead of throwing away the article about the Ghoulish Discovery she read it…she read it twice.
For the rest of the month Wayne kept dropping the Grave Robbing stories into Kersey’s mailbox and he finally stopped one day because Kersey wasn’t neatly folding the articles up and dropping them into her trash basket anymore.
Wayne noticed Kersey was smoothing the articles out and then she paper clipped them together and then she put them into her desk drawer.
On that last day Kersey looked up at Wayne and caught his eye. She shook her head and she said in the clear and concise way she talked to vendors who didn’t deliver to her customers on time, “I really need to do something about you Wayne. I can’t have this kind of attention”
“Oh come on Kersey. Can’t you take a joke?” Wayne asked. Then he went on, ” no one could ever believe you were out there in the dark with a shovel robbing graves and if my Uncle is right… and he probably is considering he’s the Sheriff in Burr, you’re not doing a little midnight snacking on what you dig up after all that work.”
Kersey dropped her pen into her pen holder and then she got up walked over to Wayne’s Desk. “Grave Robbing isn’t something you do Willy-Nilly, Wayne. You have to be prepared and meticulous and quiet. You have to know exactly what you’re doing.”
When Kersey was at Wayne’s desk she dropped her cool lemon scented hand on top of Wayne’s head and said, “Organization, Wayne, is the secret to be a success at any given profession. But if you knew that you would be a full partner instead of be working for your Daddy. Isn’t that right?”
Wayne nearly picked up his glitter pen and stabbed Kersey in the eye with it because at that moment he never realized how awful it was to be that close to Kersey.
The next morning Wayne was at work an hour before anyone else got in…including Kersey who was always exactly 15 minutes early. He flipped on all of the lights and without realizing it he grabbed a box cutter from the sales counter and took it with him to Kersey’s desk.
He sat in her chair for a minute without moving a muscle and then he reached down and opened her bottom desk drawer. It was as neat and organized as the rest of her desk.
The first thing he took out were the newspaper clippings with his glittering comments.
The next thing he took out were maps and Wayne could see they weren’t street maps they were the maps you got from Funeral Homes so that you could find graves out in the cemetery.
Each of the maps had little blue boxes with red check marks inside of them written in Kersey’s neat hand.
Then one map caught his eye in particular because it was for the “ Pioneer Cemetery”
Pioneer was were all of the Harmons were laid to rest; it was also a famous place not because of who was buried there but because of the statue that was suppose to come to life on Halloween if you walked around it three times backwards and said “ Satan Loves Me.”
But Wayne wasn’t really thinking of that statue, he was looking at a little area on the Pioneer Cemtery map called “Reflection Meadow” where Kersey had written“Wayne Harmon for dinner next Friday”
Wayne dropped the map on Kersey’s desk and as the papers floated downwards a cool lemon scented hand dropped down onto the top of his head.
just a little tune to whistle the next time you take a midnight
stroll by
Anita’s Owl Creek Bridge
A Gillian Welch song sung by Michelle Foster
Lyrics:
The Devil Had A Hold Of Me
Now I was just a girl of two
Now I was just a girl of two
With a golden heart and a button shoe
The devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
I turned my head and I could see
The devil had a hold of me
There was something wrong with the butcher’s boy
Was something wrong with the butcher’s boy
He trembled in his hand and voice
The devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
The others knew to let him be
But the devil had a hold of me
Now the tailpipe spit and the engine roared
The tailpipe spit and the engine roared
I’s waving out the Plymouth door
And the devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
The old folks saw the last they’d see
The devil had a hold of me
I dreamed last night that my time was done
I dreamed last night that my time was done
And my soul flew up to the holy son
But the devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
I snapped back down when he pulled my lead
The devil had a hold of me
There’re those who’ll laugh and not believe
There’re those who’ll laugh and not believe
Until you feel that touch upon your sleeve
The devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
I turned my head and I could see
The devil had a hold of me
I turned my head and I could see
The devil had a hold of me
Max found this.
Okay Everybody say ‘thanks’ to Max for finding
the best Zombie Character ever created….
and that includes those lame ones
and
Those
dorky Zombies
in
The Return Of The Living Dead Movies.
Here are some links to Story Starters that inspired me
to write the stories you can find here at Anita’s Owl Creek Bridge
FYI
They weren’t ‘strange’ until I got my hands on them…
trust me…anybody can use them
so
!HAVE FUN!
Here’s a short film for you to watch
All I can say is I hope that when you roll your eyes up into your head they don’t get stuck there…remember- everyone needs to have a good laugh- even out here at Anita’s Bridge
Lator Gators.
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