Showing posts with label Spooky Place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spooky Place. Show all posts
Monday, October 21, 2024

Halloween Is in the Air

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Yesterday, I trucked out to Fieldale , a few miles northwest of Martinsville, to set up some new geocaches — an Adventure Lab with...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Appalachian Horror Story: The Witch of Ferrum Woods

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A little while back, I saw the image above posted on Facebook, which immediately piqued my interest. Ferrum College is my ...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Smith River, a Haunted Island, and the Spooky Place

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Almost every day, I walk somewhere between three and four miles around our neighborhood, which has done wonders for my physi...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

From the Spooky Place to the Haunted Island

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I was in Martinsville this weekend, and I needed to perform maintenance on a few of my geocaches in the area, a couple of which lu...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

“The Spooky Place” at HWA’s “Halloween Haunts” Blog

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Every October, the Horror Writers Association posts a series of Halloween-themed blogs written by members. My entry — “ The Spoo...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Spooky Place, Part II

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Halloween 1974: young Mark gets to help design the Martinsville Jaycees’ haunted castle at  The Spooky Place  and thus has the most exhilar...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

The Spooky Place, Part I

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Because I am reasonably old, I have quite a few Halloweens under my belt (although I am not that  overweight), and a long list of favor...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Haunted, Hurting, and Happy

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Oh, my achy-breaky knees. I have surely put in some hiking this past couple of weeks, and the old bones are feeling it. I suppose it'...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Joe, the Spooky Place, and Route 666

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I'm seriously bummed this weekend because my friend Joe is in the hospital. By all accounts, it's not a life-threatening thing, but ...