Halloween is coming. My favorite time of year.

[MrScorpio]

[RandySF]

1. My favorite holiday story.

[PasadenaTrudy]

2. Mine too

I get to go to Albuquerque in Nov. where it will be nice and cool, in the 50s maybe. It is 104 here in Pasadena today. Yuck. Hurry Fall and Winter!

[kairos12]

3. +1000

Halloween is great!!!!!

[murielm99]

4. I am assembling my costume

already. This year is going to be fun!

[Initech]

5. This thread needs some Halloween Spooks.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. The Brown Mountain Lights ...

... are one of the most famous of North Carolina legends. They have been reported a dozen times in newspaper stories. They have been investigated at least twice by the U.S. Geological Survey. And they have attracted the attention of numerous scientists and historians since the German engineer, Gerard Will de Brahm, recorded the mysterious lights in the North Carolina mountains in 1771.

"The mountains emit nitrous vapors which are borne by the wind and when laden winds meet each other the niter inflames, sulphurates and deteriorates," said de Brahm. De Brahm was a scientific man and, of course, had a scientific explanation. But the early frontiersman believed that the lights were the spirits of Cherokee and Catawba warriors slain in an ancient battle on the mountainside.

One thing is certain, the lights do exist. They have been seen from earliest times. They appear at irregular intervals over the top of Brown Mountain - a long, low mountain in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. They move erratically up and down, visible at a distance, but vanishing as one climbs the mountain. From the Wiseman's View on Linville Mountain the lights can be seen well. They at first appear to be about twice the size of a star as they come over Brown Mountain. Sometimes they have a reddish or blue cast. On dark nights they pop up so thick and fast it's impossible to count them.

Among the scientific investigations which have undertaken from time to time to explain the lights have been two conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey. The first was made in 1913 when the conclusion was reached that the lights were locomotive headlights from the Catawba Valley south of Brown Mountain. However, three years later in 1916 a great flood that swept through the Catawba Valley knocked out the railroad bridges. It was weeks before the right-of-way could be repaired and the locomotives could once again enter the valley. Roads were also washed out and power lines were down.

But the lights continued to appear as usual. It became apparent that the lights could not be reflections from locomotive or automobile headlights.

more at link: http://www.ibiblio.org/ghosts/bmtn.html



Cherokee folklore, the lights are the lanterns of the wives of brave warriors killed in battle. They wander the skies above the mountain, forever searching for the souls of their loved ones.
The legend makes for a good Halloween story

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Delightfully creepy gifs.

[bigwillq]

8. Mine too!

Love Autumn. Fave time of the year!

[rug]

9. And the haunted houses.

[magical thyme]

10. Mischief night...my birthday

I have a special affinity for All Hallows Eve.

[rurallib]

11. Mine too - wish people would decorate their houses like at Christmas

[chknltl]

12. Halloween by Helloween (1987 band who, like many bands back then, used lotsa hair spray!)

[orleans]

13. very cool n/t

[blogslut]

14. When oh when is someone going to manufacture a digital frame

...that play animated gifs?

I realize I could hack one of my old laptops into some gif-playing framed behemoth but come on...

[pinboy3niner]

15. We'll do the Mash!

[Earth_First]

16. Indeed...