tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:03:26 +0000deathcemeteryDeadEtsyMassachusettsNew EnglandWitchescemeteriesghost storiesghostsgrave robbingresurrectionGhost TownJewelryMurderNew OrleansSalemSummerWelcomeartautumnday of the deadhalloweenhandmadehistoryholocausthousefliesodditiesphotographypractical magicspellsurban legendsvampireszombiesSpooky stories, creepy commentaries and interesting finds from around the online cemeteryhttp://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)Blogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-7037429241546329337Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:04:00 +00002012-10-23T19:50:13.180-07:00MassachusettsMurderNew England<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 2216 12634 105 25 15515 11.1287 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> Let me tell you about a man named Joe, although that was almost certainly not his real name. It was a common moniker to men of his station and status, much in the same way a black man in the south might http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2012/10/fall-river.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amanda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-5648432347721895295Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:40:00 +00002012-10-04T07:33:12.419-07:00Ghost TownMassachusettsNew EnglandWitches The typical rendering of a New England Witch, taken from art inspired by the events in Salem. The American witch is something that seems to belong distinctly to the northeast. While adaptable to rural communities in the Midwest, and melded into the form of the voodoo priestess in the Deep South, the most classic version of the old crone is a vision that seems directly uprooted from the http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-witches-of-commons_3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amanda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-4580857234574573785Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:15:00 +00002012-10-23T19:50:03.270-07:00EtsySummer It's Friday. I'm ready to blow up. So it's time to calm things down and frolic around Etsy, especially since today is the Etsy Global Craft Party. I'll be attending the Houston party tonight. Of course, I'm always looking to have my imagination fired by creepy things. This is my OCTOBER Country. But! It's not October yet. So I thought I'd explore some fun products that have all the requisitehttp://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2011/06/friday-freakout-eerie-on-etsy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amanda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-7187018686149020811Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:27:00 +00002012-10-04T07:54:21.573-07:00cemeteriesdeathNew Orleans So I've barely had a day off since October of last year, when I took a birthday trip to the beautifully wicked city of New Orleans, LA. While there, I obviously soaked up the creepy, and spent my days rooting out the authentic from the tourist. There is plenty of both in this old city, and much of it remains despite the high waters of 2005. That being said, I sadly did not venture out from http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2011/06/gulf-coast-graveyards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amanda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-8080602260107012236Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:28:00 +00002011-06-08T10:34:10.131-07:00DeadresurrectionYes, I'm Back! It's been a crazy busy eight months, and I'm sure I don't have to tell you that running your own business and working full time at the same time leaves little time for extracurriculars. But, I've so missed my little blog project, and I've got some material with which to jump back into the fold. I'll also be changing the scope of this blog a tad to focus on artisans, crafters and http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2011/06/back-from-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amanda)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-6773098803695154292Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:35:00 +00002010-10-20T09:49:52.501-07:00autumncemeteriesday of the deadghostshalloweenspellsThe dark month is flying by, and the world has kept me too busy to enjoy it. I admit that I feel like I'm missing my favorite time of year. So I'm back here to remind myself what I love about October, and why I try to inhabit its country all-year-round.When we look at October, and especially Halloween, those of us in the United States realize that we are celebrating a time that has been http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/10/keeping-up-with-october.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-3943451407247050065Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:00:00 +00002010-09-25T16:16:02.882-07:00Deadhousefliespractical magicresurrectionzombiesFor the Practical Magic Blog party, I thought I’d dabble on a subject raised in the film. I always really loved the part when Jillian and Sally try to raise Jimmy, Jillian’s psychotic boyfriend, from the dead after poisoning him with Deadly Nightshade (classiest of the poisoning substances). Besides being an absurdly bad decision to resurrect someone trying to murder you, the spell looked ratherhttp://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/09/raising-dead-pmbp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-2199396698872701858Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:38:00 +00002010-09-17T13:46:31.416-07:00A sudden noise in the silence may be a more realistic soundtrack to things that make us dread and jump, but we’ve had plenty of great modern film composers tighten the tension of horror movies and ghostly films. Some of them make their career on haunting the films released around October (obvious geniuses like John Carpenter's theme to Halloween or Titular Bells from The Exorcist; others have http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/09/scoring-dead-three-film-composers-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-381913498361038328Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:06:00 +00002010-08-27T09:13:31.927-07:00ghostshistoryholocausturban legendsGhost stories and urban legends sometimes mix and become interchangeable, but they’re general makeup is decidedly different. Urban legends often dance around a fantastic but possible situation, usually encompassing a warning for society (ie don’t pick up strangers in your car, don’t be a slut with your boyfriend in the woods, don’t pee in the sink at rich person’s house, ect.). But ghost stories,http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/haunting-of-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-6978078613181729822Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:03:00 +00002010-08-18T14:27:35.965-07:00EtsyhandmadeJewelryphotographyI love weird stuff. I especially love weird handmade stuff, which is why I want to focus for a moment on the grand creepiness that can be found via, the handmade mecca of the internet Etsy. A romp through the poisoned garden there can yield some truly freaky finds. Here's some of my recent wishlist itemsHand Engraved Spooky GlassThese four lovelies are a great combo of traditional spooky images http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/eerie-on-etsy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-8628359797480116312Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:51:00 +00002010-08-26T13:18:55.613-07:00cemeterydeathgrave robbingTaphophobia, or the fear of being buried alive, is common fear today, though often classified as irrational. Outside of murder and perhaps even the Lazarus Effect, there is little risk of premature burial in the era of modern medicine. Such was not the case in earlier centuries. Cases of premature burial range back to the 13th century and were exacerbated in the 18th and 19th century, where the http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/grave-bells-and-bombs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-3611873244496398810Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:02:00 +00002010-08-12T06:57:15.655-07:00cemeterydeathvampiresThe first case of New World vampirism I was ever exposed to was that of Nellie Vaughn, who died of pneumonia in 1889 at age 19. The loose facts of this case were given in the book The New England Ghost Files by Charles Turek Robinson; the entry mostly revolved around Nellie’s ghost supposedly haunting the West Greenwich Cemetery where she is buried. The account depicts the classic ghost renderinghttp://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/food-for-dead-vampires-in-rhode-island.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-3470368915404820093Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:15:00 +00002010-08-17T07:08:13.450-07:00cemeterydeathgrave robbingodditiesA lot of us have beheld Egyptian royalty, usual on display at a traveling or permanent museum exhibition. But most have never seen the final resting place of any of the Egyptian monarchy, Unless you’ve visited the West Cemetery in Middlebury, VT. While some pharaohs and their progeny are allowed to remain in their tombs, others lie in state under thick glass, viewable for admission.But in the http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/amun-her-kepesh-ef-of-egypt-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-7129973372247417402Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:28:00 +00002010-08-06T11:09:35.677-07:00ghost storiesSalemWitches1692 is an innocuous series of numbers to most, but what happened that year in American history still calls dread to mind. There is definitely a slight widening of the eye when the gruesome event is mentioned. I’ve seen people shake their head in shame for the small puritan village, wondering how piety could become so twisted. I’ve also seen others swear up and down that the Devil truly did walk http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/joshua-ward-house-salem-ma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-4183460385374032424Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:06:00 +00002010-08-04T12:53:22.999-07:00artdeathghost storiesIf you were a kid in the late 80s early 90s, your elementary school annual book fair was a memorable experience, especially if you picked up a copy of Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Many of the tales are hardly classics, and while many of us have moved on to more competent horrors, this series of books remains a hallmark of childhood for many who straddle the Gen X /Gen Y http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/terrible-workings-of-stephen-gammell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363577471754479724.post-3388518044674997768Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:52:00 +00002010-08-04T10:59:54.521-07:00WelcomeIt's true what David Thorne said. The Internet is a playground. But a better description for me is: "The internet is a graveyard", a place where fascinations both light and dark can play together. since I first got online 16 years ago, I've learned about mysteries, stories and intrigues that have kept me awake at night and hungry for more. This blog will be a depository of all the dark things http://myoctobercountry.blogspot.com/2010/08/welcome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ephemerot)0