I think I'm in love

Image by Syfy Channel, Image taken from ghosttvblogs.com, found through Google.

I watched the show last week, I watched the show this week.

I am so hooked.

I don't care if its real or fake, this kind of beautiful storytelling is something I adore and is something I wish I could see more often.

It's so good Mr. Strublay is hooked too! Mr. Idontbelieveanyofthat was totally sitting forward on the bed watching this. It was epic to see. I'm in such an awesome mood right now because of this show. It's surreal.

I love this show. I love it. It comes out on DVD I'll own it. 

SO FREAKING GOOD.... 

The Goldfield Hotel

According to most legends of old-time Nevada, the Goldfield hotel in Goldfield Nevada is one of the most haunted spots in the state.  Opened in 1908, the Goldfield Hotel was the most spectacular hotel between San Francisco and Chicago, with 154 rooms, an elevator, crystal chandeliers, electric lighting, telephones, mahogany trim, and leather seating. Then the city of Goldfield died with the end of the short-lived Nevada gold rush and with it the last remnants of the splendor the hotel could have been. For 50 years now, the building has lain dormant, an abandoned shell of a building in the midst of the Nevada wasteland. It looms grimly over the other buildings in the town, the 4 story brick building dwarfing everything else within a good hundred miles.
The tales of the haunting are endless, and the legends surrounding the giant building never have truly added up. In 2004, a trio of UNLV film students and Ghost Hunters under the name Ghost Adventures created a documentary here that involved flying objects in the basement (including bricks), noises, and more. TAPS has visited the location, as have several other well publicized crews.
We visited the Goldfield hotel on our way up to Boise, and found that the fences that had been up 3 years ago have been taken down. The town was silent, and the hotel was in shadow. Talk about creepy.

Image by Strublay

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Good Morning.... Okay, thats just creepy

Image By Strublay

Normally I wouldn't post as soon as I got up, but I had a moment of supreme WTF this morning.

One of my witch jars re-lit itself in the night.

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O_O

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o_O

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My logical side is telling me that either it was really really weakly lit, or that the wick drew up some of the wax and the embers kicked back to life, but seriously, I lit that tea-light 7 hours ago.... tea lights usually only last 4-5 hours...

So my inner witch is SCREAMING AT ME about it, and it REALLY freaked me out after I just woke up.

My husband got a good laugh at my expense, "Well honey, there's only one logical explanation, it is a WITCH JAR!" and he busted in to laughter. 

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*-_-

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Punk.

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Then add in the Lightning and Thunder, and it was a kinda cool way to start the morning...

*SIGH* sheesh.

A Haunting In Las Vegas

Image by Strublay

My mother did her house up this year, and this was an off year! all the images in this post is of my mothers work, and the heritage passed down from mother to daughter as years go by.

Above is one of the candelabras my mother purchased years ago. Don't be fooled by the lack of a scale, they are about 6 foot tall and 5 feet wide. Yes, those are REAL candles.

Image by Strublay

My mother didn't carve a Pumpkin this year, these were her substitutes.

Image by Strublay.

This is a wreath made by my grandmother, who has passed on. We display halloween items of our passed family every year, and this year Nana's wreath went up in moms house, Papa's Phantom Hat went up in mine.

Image by Strublay

I love this picture. Just had to share it.

Image by Strublay.

The gemmy ripoff of the Flying Crank ghost. The Lighting in this picture is perfect I think. 

Image by Strublay

Here is a neighbors house, I loved the little stakes.

Of Haunted Mansions, Grim Grinning Ghosts, and a Snow Covered Jack.

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Mastery of Maps

The original Haunted Mansion in unusual hues of blue and green, a rare sight to be sure. Can you believe that its been there, up and running at 1500 guests an hour, almost everyday for 40 years? Amazing isn't it?

*Correction*The Haunted Mansion carries 2000-2400 Passengers per hour, which makes it more epic.

I had a 4 day weekend with out internet, and so I have posted today 15 images of The Haunted Mansion, Enjoy!

  

Found on Flickr; Image by Philip Michael Photo

The Florida Haunted Mansion, I've never been to Walt Disney World, but it is my intention to go in the future.

  

 Found on Flickr; Image by Cuellar

Phantom Manor in Disney Land Paris. Apparently the Euro Disney version is much more graphic than here stateside, a lot of corpses running about...

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

This is the first image I have by Joe Penningston, who takes incredible images of the Mansion and makes them available on Flickr.  This image is of the ghost horse in front of the WDW Mansion. This really is an incredible effect.

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

A butler in front of the front of the Haunted Mansion in CA, the composition of this image is epic. Seriously.

  

 Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The changing portraits, straight laced respectable Victorian paintings by day, but throw some lightning on those suckers and everything changes.

  

 Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The floating Madam Leota effect. It comes and goes in Disneyland (when I went 4 years ago it was in, but this year it was out.... ) but when its up and running what an effect it is.

  

Found on Flickr; Image by Frogmiller

The Haunted Dueling Portraits, an effect you have to be looking for while your whizzing by the ballroom in your Doom Buggy, the ballroom has so many details its hard to catch in one ride.

  

Found on Flickr; Image By Joe Penniston

'Till death do us part, taken to new heights by the ghost bride in the attic.

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The poor shaking grounds keeper, the only "living" thing in the mansion besides the crows and the poor old dog next to him.

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The talking singing busts in the grave yard

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

Hitchhiking ghosts!

Found on Flickr; Image by Mastery of Maps

The next three images are of the Haunted Mansion Holiday that takes place every year from October through the end of December. Above is the external overlay, in all its beautiful daytime Nightmare Before Christmas glory.

  

Found on Flickr; Image by Imperpay

The Pumpkin King Santa.

 

Found on Flickr; Image by SDG-Pictures

Finally my favorite prop, the Pumpkin mountian. I intend to have a fake pumpkin out this year, hopefully it will snow and I can have this at home for a bit... how nice that would be. Notice that this is the area of the singing busts above, and they have just been replaced with pumpkins... pretty neat trick.