Spooktacular Day 23: Spooky Interview & Giveaway

What kind of Halloween person are you? Dress up and party every year, give out candy maybe dressed up, or hide inside your house with the porch light off?

I would LOVE to dress up and hand candy out…if we lived in that type of neighborhood. Where I live is rural—only skunks, possums, and pigs come out at night. We have to drive our spawn into town and release them upon neighbors unknown. Hehehe.

Do you decorate outside for Halloween?

I did one year. Made spiders out of black pipe insulation and milk jugs, and hung them from our non-climb livestock fence. We don’t get a lot of traffic on our one-lane road, so I quit decorating outside. I like the spawn to carve their pumpkins every year. We set the Jack-O-Laterns on the fireplace hearth and light them at night.

Are you a master pumpkin carver?

No – I wish! My knives won’t cooperate that well. But I took this picture of a super cool pumpkin we saw last year:

Find a picture of a costume you love.

I love this pic of my little darlings. These are the costumes that I loved.

Tell us the scariest thing that has ever happened to you and it doesn’t have to be Halloween related.

This happened to me about a month after my Father-in-law passed away. It was about two in the morning and I was in bed, sleeping on my back with my head turned toward my husband. I woke up for some reason…and couldn’t move my neck back to center. It didn’t hurt, but it wasn’t moving! Also, I couldn’t open my eyes. I had my eyeballs pinging around behind my lids, trying to figure out how to crack them open.

This went on for about thirty seconds and I was starting to freak out. Finally, my neck moved and I straightened to center and got one of my eyelids to open a little. I saw my husband straightening up at the side of the bed and figured his getting out of bed must have woken me up.

My eye still wouldn’t open, and it was really dark in our room. I watched my husband’s shadowy figure walk to the foot of our king-size bed, pass by, and make his way either out the bedroom door or he went into the bathroom. I couldn’t tell because I couldn’t open both eyes.

Then I heard a snuffle beside me. I turned my head, and there was my husband! Sound asleep!

Suddenly free of whatever paralyzed me, both of my eyes popped open and I jumped out of bed to figure out what in the hell I’d just seen. Our bedroom door was shut, and nobody in the bathroom. I went into the hallway, checked both kids rooms…nothing. Just silence.

When I went back to bed, I noticed how it wasn’t so dark in our room. We have a nightlight on in the bathroom, and bleeding through our shutters are outdoor floodlights for our kennels.

I’m not someone who believes in spirits and ghosts. If they do exist, other people experience sightings, never me. I truly believe what I saw was the spirit of my Father-In-Law leaning over my husband and whispering to him. Then he left our room.

I can’t explain what I saw. But I know my husband felt peace in his dad’s passing for the first time in the days following.

Do you like haunted houses or mazes?

Not so much haunted houses, but I enjoy a good corn maze! The neighbors a few miles down the road grow one every year for the kids. It’s about two acres of tall green stalks, with scarecrows seated throughout. I love it.

Do you believe in ghosts?

I think I do now.

What is your favorite Halloween tradition?

Definitely carving the pumpkin with my kids. What they end up with always cracks me up.

What is your favorite Halloween movie to watch or are you a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown sort?

Almost every year we’ll watch Young Frankenstein, with Gene Wilder.

Have you ever tricked instead of treated like toilet papering someone’s house or egging a person or house?

I admit to an involvement of TPing someone’s house when I was in high school. I don’t remember who our victim was or why. Karma slapped me back. We got hit one year.

Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees?

Freddy Krueger scares the bejeesus out of me!!

What’s your favorite Urban Legend?

At our cemetery, there’s a private mausoleum built in the shape of a pyramid. It’s not very big, maybe fifteen feet tall and ten feet wide. It’s where high school kids go to party at night.

Before you descend three steps, there’s a concrete apron approach. A thick iron door with heavy lock and latch guards the interior. Written in the approach in Roman type of lettering is this cryptic message:

Disturb not the sleep of Death.

Of course, the kids have to go there on Halloween and knock on the door. Though I never heard it, some say you can hear a moaning as you walked to the door. 

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