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Autumn Light Daily Photo When October winds tear at leafless branches, it is time to gather around the fire and tell a few old tales that tighten the scalp and raise bumps on your arms. The best tales are true or least seem true. And sometimes the best tales are new. Just North of what is now Bigfoot Burl, I
Read moreAlthough tales of hollow voices where no one walks and cold fingers trailing up the spine when no one is behind you send goose bumps racing, not all ghosts are scary. Some apparently have another purpose.In the small hamlet of Phillipsville, just up the road from the old Sawblade Tavern and down the road from the Deer Horn Lodge is
Read moreSalmon Cr. Exit at Night As a society we have a fascination with the ghostly world. The idea that something lurks outside of Real makes the hair stand up on our neck and bumps crawl across the flesh of our upper arms. Even those of us who don’t ‘really’ believe seem fascinated by the possibility. But when we experience first
Read moreAs his pale lips pressed against her rosy neck, she flinched once, shuddered and subsided beneath his sharp teeth. At last, he raised his face. Even her blood on his mouth wasn’t as red as the rich hue that now flushed his lips and cheeks. “Andi, now what are you letting the boys watch?” Even if I hadn’t heard her
Read moreThe house had a rambling thrown together look. There was something a little bestial in its squat center room and long hulking side areas. I had been afraid of it (as I had been afraid of my Uncle Randal) since the first time I had been brought there. Both house and man stared at me with hot angry eyes whenever
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