Halloween Countdown Film #27... Amityville Horror (1979)

Kathy Lutz: I just wish that... all those people hadn't died here. I mean... A guy kills his whole family. Doesn't that bother you?

 

 George Lutz: Sure, but... houses don't have memories.” 

 

 

Amityville Horror

Based on the book, by Jay Anson

 

 There's something just not right about the house at 112 Ocean avenue. Um, yeah... you think? Oh my ghosts and witches I love the Amityville Horror! As a kid I hung on any and all information about the famous haunted house, after I saw Ed and Lorraine Warren discussing it on the Mike Douglas show. I wouldn't say I am a fan of one killing one's family, but this case has always deeply fascinated me. Was it the drugs that Ronald Defeo jr. Defeo took, and it was that devil that made him do it? Was it greed? Or was it because Mr. DeFeo Sr. crossed the mafia? Of course it could have been the simplest of explanations, the house had one or two demons in it! Shrug. But the one explanation that I don't buy, is that the Lutz family lied for personal gain. None of that makes sense to me. So there's a lot to unpack about that situation, and maybe that's the point of making a horror movie, based on an actual incident. The Amityville Horror is a fun ride, unless you happened to have lived in that famous house. It's a great horror film, and if you like it, check out the Conjuring universe, which loosely follows the cases of demon hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, with a lot of familiar theatrics thrown in for effect, just like in the Amityville Horror! 

 

Watch the Amityville Horror with me tonight! 

I love being scared! 

 

Fuck Elon Musk

 "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.

 They live inside us, and sometimes they win.

~Stephen King

 

I have complained about the childish ghoul, Elon Musk, before and now I will complain yet again, because every single time I think he has hit rock bottom with his abusive nonsense, he slips deeper into the abyss of evil. Just in the last few days, since Thanksgiving anyway, he has taken a trip to Israel, to clean up his reputation for having propagated antisemitism. Because to an anti-Semite all one needs to do, after insulting all Jews everywhere, is to utter the words, "how could you come to think I am an anti-Semite, some of my best friends are Jews." And his most recent, as of Tuesday anyway, was bring back Pizzagate from the dead. A conspiracy that was buried deep into the damp cold earth almost a decade ago. 

I had set last December 31st as my exit from Twitter, now X, but laziness or complacency has kept me in place. Starting all over is a daunting thought. Sigh. There are so many folks still supporting my photography, and who have been very kind to me, so leaving is difficult. But, I have to admit, Threads is extremely similar, and Facebook is a lot nicer too, so maybe it really is time to just go this time. Oh brother. Or should I say, OH BOTHER. It had only taken Trump a little over a year to evenly divide America over Twitter, and Elon Musk a little over a year to destroy Twitter completely. Demonic entities are fast workers.

I will see my, Autumn Leaf Of The Day, project to the end. It only has a little less than a month to go, so why not complete it? I should leave the day after I post my last leaf, but December 31st seems like the right time go. Time for whoever wants to see the leaves be able to drop by for a last look, and time for me to let folks know where to find me if they want to. I will rebuild. I will jump in with the photography community. I will do what I did with Twitter... not look for the number of followers, and let each day play out the way it will. When Treat was alive, he encouraged we of like minds to stay and fight back against Musk's nonsense. Treat was worth doing that for, but now that he is gone there isn't a lot to hold onto. Xander is has moved on. Margo has moved on. Susan has moved on. Karen has moved on.

 

 It's time for me to move on as well. 

 

Why the HELL isn't there a support group for this kind of shit?

Note: The graphic isn't mine, it was the graphic Keith Olbermann added to his profile when he announced yesterday that he too would be leaving X. He suggested that we all add it to our profiles, but I am not sure it's my style. I am mulling it over.

#6 POLTERGEIST! Tale Of The Talking Cat! Warrens Were There!

 

 

 

 “Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.” 

~Ed Warren 

 

The first I saw, or heard of, Ed and Lorraine Warren, was when they were guest on, if memory serves me, the Mike Douglas show. They were there to discuss the Amityville Haunting. I was a kid, but I sat mesmerized! I was, of course, into all things ghostie, but my interest in the Warrens, and what they had to say, was more than just wanting to see a ghost fly across the strange, or a some other Hollywood nonsense. The Warrens were serious people, and Christians, and before that point I hadn't seen anyone of their sort even bother to speak of God, or their faith in general, let alone cop to the very idea that if you believe in angels, you really need to understand demons exist also.

 

Isn't that a note! Demons exist also. Hmmm. Okay, well, here's the thing, I believe that's true, but it wasn't until I reached my mid 20's that I came to understand that truth. How? Why? Well, I was through my own experiences with the strange and unexplained phenomena in front of me. I will go into it sometime, but for now trust me, and if you know me well enough then you already know I wouldn't fib about such things.The beyond is nothing to play with, and I will leave it there. Don't get me wrong, we didn't go looking for what we encountered, it presented itself to Alan and I, and it was a situation of deal with it or not, but there was no room to be lukewarm about its existence. 

I love all the movies in the Conjuring universe, but the real life the movies are based on, are far more compelling. The Smurl house, the haunting of 112 Ocean avenue, Amityville, New York. The Perron family. And of course, Annabelle. Who is not at all creepy, in fact I kinda like Raggedy Ann dolls. My husband on the other hand does NOT! No, he never met the famous Annabelle, but he did have one hell of a nightmare about a Raggedy Ann doll. Why? Shrug, who knows? He doesn't scare easily, but when it comes to those dolls, he takes a hard pass... always. LOL. It was the nightmare of no return! So, anyway, there it is. I believed in Ed and Lorraine Warren, and their life's work. I hope you will give the video a chance and perhaps consider the possibility that there is more beyond our daily awareness then we know. I can bare witness to the fact that there absolutely is an afterlife! Trust me.

 

Enjoy!

 

Betwixt And Between

"Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind. Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind. Now slip, now slide, now move unseen. Above, beneath, betwixt, between."

~Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

The trees are beginning to show their autumn color. It's like they are as done with this summer as I am. Fortunately, in a month, September 22nd, at 10:29 P.M. EDT, to be exact, it will be officially autumn, but I think I am already there!

It's kinda feeling a bit spooky too! Yesterday we had a pretty awesome lighting show around the Bay Area. No thunder... just lots of lightning. We don't get that very often, maybe once a year at the most, so it was nice to sit outside, with no worry about getting rained on, and watch the fireworks.

I snapped a few photos to see if I could capture the lightning, but no, I wasn't quite quick enough. But I did manage to capture the above photo. It's kinda spooky. I know I must have somehow caught some random light source, but for the life of me, I don't know how?

We have no lights like that, and I don't remember any lights shining as the photo was taken. So, is it a perfectly matched set of common orbs? Or is it the kind of orbs attached to spirit photography? I don't have any idea, but the speculation is a lot of fun! Halloween, after all, is my favorite holiday!

:)

Here ghostie, ghostie, ghostie!

"It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight."

 ~Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

Mood: Silly

~Me :)

NOTE: After checking my folder, I found that this photo was taken last Saturday, and not Monday of this week. There were similar weather conditions on both days. Late afternoon overcast, and random lightning.