Way back in July of ’08 I did a little post on the fears of childhood.
And, with Talia having some restless nights again, I figured it was time for a little update.
Talia’s latest fear come as a surprise. This, her having seen me making Bobs and Dragons in the garage, taking her on dark rides hundreds, if not thousands of times over the summer, exposing her to haunted houses…ADULT haunted houses for the first time…I fully expected to go into her room on hearing her whimpering hearing how she was seeing evil clowns, undead, or other forms of monsters. Instead, I got “Tigers scary”.
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Well, yes…Talia, Tigers ARE scary. “Tigers in the corner”
“You see Tigers in the corner?”
She looks around. “No, that’s silly, night-night”
Where this is coming from, I really don’t know. She LOVES to see the tigers on the train at Lagoon. She has “fluffy” a little tiger animal that she loves. But, at least she rationalizes once she wakes up.
Alec….
Want to see Alec curl into a ball screaming, rendered completely helpless with fear?
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He first encountered the ‘chainsaw guy’ at Haunted Hollow last year. He screamed and curled into a shuttering ball when they came right at him, WAITING IN LINE for the place.
To his credit, he bounced right back up. He still gives the (rather nice) chainsaw maniacs at Lagoon a wide berth when possible.
I ran from my fair share of chainsaws back in the day.
Kyle, on the other hand….
Ever since watching I am Legend, Kyle has had this thing for Zombies.
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Even the guys he KNOWS are costumed, he does not really like to be around tooo much.
I can’t blame him much. There was nothing on Halloween night that would scare me more than whoever it was that dressed up…well, to be honest, I never got a good look at him. Just HEARD him shuffling after us.
As for me…
About the time I was 8, there was a rash of news, both television and print, of local sightings along the Weber River of Bigfoot.
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Oh, how I soaked all those in. Dreamed of seeing Bigfoot along the river banks so close to our house. Dreamed he would come walking out of the corn whilst working down on the farm in the wee hours of the morning. Or, that he would come hiking out of the brush whilst camping.
Shadows, movement, all were Bigfoot. I checked out books on the subject, watched all the tv specials I could…
We even, for a fleeting moment caught a glimpse of Bigfoot one early morning in Yellowstone. A dark shape, arms swinging back and forth as it walked away from us up that hill…Ok, so it was a buffalo, it’s winter coat not fully off, swaying as it walked, but for a moment there, I had seen Bigfoot.
I saw that Bigfoot, too, and to this day I remember my heart scuddling and my bowels turning liquid. Oh, the tricks our eyes play on us. Did you check out the article in the Standard Ex. Go today?
I can't watch movies about any of those personages without being terrified to walk around my house in the dark. Then I have nightmares. So I Just avoid that kind of stuff.
Question: Where would the best place be to get a fog machine? Oh… and I have been to several stores trying to find one boney hand to have sticking out of one of the graves I'm going to do. I can't find anything. What would you suggest?
Well, Fog machines:
You will likely want to avoid the 400W foggers around here, unless you plan to use it indoors. My first gogger was 400W and, well, it just couldn't keep up with the cold we typically get on Halloween. So, minimum of 700 Watts.
And, if you are buying a fog machine, you will likely need to purchase a TIMER to go with the fog machine, or search out a fog machine that comes WITH a timer. Unless you really want to sit and push a button every couple minutes.
I've purchased mine at Spencers in the past. 700W fog machines with timers, don't know if they are still carrying those, though. Have not had any troubles, though I'm really wanting a 1000W one…
To get the BEST fog, though, you really need to buy some quality fog juice. Froggy's Swamp Juice can't go wrong. http://www.froggysfog.com/
As for the hands, there's 3 clawing out from the back of my TV. You're welcome to one of them. Or, if you're feeling real crafty, you can look at the skeletal hands link on my sidebar there to see how I make them. (my current ones use pipe cleaners, crayola model magic clay for the bones, and a modpodge coat)
Cool, Thank you so much for the help! I'm kinda new to the hole halloween scene. So your knowledge is priceless. Now I have a shopping list! 🙂