Oct. 21st, 2002

hkellick: Pittsburgh, City of Bridges (Default)
Are you in the mood for Halloween yet?

Well, in case you aren't, I have the following two challenges to help you get into the mood.

Challenge one is easy: Find out about "famous" haunted places in your neighborhood. Then post either here or in your livejournal. :)

So I'll start.

There are really only two 'well-known' hauntings in the Western New York area.
1) Our most well known haunted place is, of all places, a relatively new Holiday Inn on Grand Island (between Buffalo and Niagara Falls). The Hotel was built over an old house where Tanya, a little girl, was burned to death. When the Holiday Inn was built, Tanya came out to play. She is a playful ghost, jumping on the beds, running down the halls, swimming in the pool after all and, apparently, sometimes playing with other children's toys.

2) Fort Niagara - Like all sorts of other older buildings, Fort Niagara is a building with a past. The hauntings apparently originally in September of 1763 when British troops carrying supplies there were massacred by the Seneca Indians. Additional violent deaths have occured in the area, but this location is mostly known for it's colonial past. Two famous ghosts of this area are the headless ghost of the well, a french officer who lost his head over the love of an indian girl and an unknown ghostly-looking british soldier who seems to be in odd places of the Fort itself.

Some lesser known hauntings that I found while looking on google
3) The Dock of The Bay - A restaurant in Blasdell, NY, just south of Buffalo where, apparently, a few ghosts haunt the place. Though they seem benign, they are, apparently, fairly active.

I've never heard of the third, but I'll put it out anyways.

So, are you up to the challenge?
Think you can find some cool ghost stories near you?
Good Luck!
hkellick: Pittsburgh, City of Bridges (Default)
OK, Part II of the Halloween Challenge

As SOME of you know, every year I collect all my Halloween Songs and put them together, usually on tape, though this year, as with last, I may host them all on my ftp site.

So, Part II of the Halloween Challenge... help me to find the most complete to date set of Halloween Songs.
Listed below are the Halloween Songs I have (that I can think of)
I'll try to put them on my ftp site tonite.
Now I leave it up to you, dear readers, to add to the list.
All songs must fit in with the Halloween Genre in some way.

So.. My List (editted as other people add their suggestions)
First off, I will admit that some of these have more to do than the Halloween Spirit than others, but hey... :)

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Apollo 440 - Don't Fear the Reaper
Aqua - Halloween
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Spooky Madness
Blues Brothers - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkeepers - Monster Mash
Castlevania Theme (Heavy Metal Mix)
CCR - Bad Moon Rising
Danny Elfman - This is Halloween
DJ Venom - Halloween (Techno Remix)
Elvira - Zombie Stomp
Harajaku - Phantom of the Opera (Techno Remix)
Lewis Lee - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
LITE - Theme to "Haunted Dancefloor of Death"
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Oingo Boingo - No One Lives Forever
Ozzy Osbourne - Zombie Stomp
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Rockapella - Zombie Jamboree
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time Warp
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Steeleye Span - Alison Gross
They Might Be Giants - Turn Around
Tom Petty - Zombie Zoo
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Weird Al Yankovic - Nature Trail to Hell (in 3D)
Whodini - Haunted House of Rock

Well, that's all I can think of that I have.
Your Turn! :D

April 2024

S M T W T F S
 123456
78 910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags