If I had a enough money in the world to do anything I wanted to do, if I had a bank account healthy enough to go anywhere in the world ( or off world )-
I wouldn’t pay to go to the moon –
but if I could be convinced if we knew for sure that on the surface of the Moon there is a graveyard.
I would pull out my checkbook, my credit cards if you told me that once upon a time- thousands of years ago, maybe even millions of years ago a ship full of astronauts went mad because the closer they got to the Moon they changed.
They howled. They ranted and raved. Some of them escaped from the ship without putting on their space suits and when they set foot on the moons dusty, chalky, airless surface their blood boiled, they died and then they froze.
They were dead the unafflicted believed. So they buried them with their eyes open.
But of course, we know unless they put a silver bullet into their hearts, the bodies they buried on the Moon were not dead at all.
You bet I’d go to the Moon for that and I would take a shovel.
When I was a kid my best friend Ronnie was big on dinosaurs and his favorite dinosaurs were raptors.
Because Ronnie and I spent a lot of time together I learned all about raptors- first being I’m glad they’re all dead and they won’t be coming back. Those animals were the stuff of nightmares and I’m pretty sure if they turned back up for any reason they’d wipe us out before dinner time.
On the other hand, we have the smaller feathered cousins of the dinosaurs flying around and by that I mean birds.
Birds of prey feed on vertebrates that’s mammals, reptiles and smaller birds ( which makes them cannibals but I’ll touch on that in a moment )
Being that it is so close to Halloween I thought I would bring this prompt on home and point out that Witches do the same thing.
They fly around, they feed on vertebrates and some of them feast on other witches- especially the ones that smell like sage and patchouli ( bwahaahaaaa).
Happy Halloween- and a word to the wise- if you are out around the witching hour this weekend, I don’t know- gee- maybe you SHOULD NOT be out and about unless you can run as fast – and I do mean very, very fast.
Every year my son has been sending me pictures and stories about a ” Halloween House” in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
When I would pull the pictures up and zoomed in , I was blown away by what I saw.
There were little stories being told by groups of skeletons, spiders and gargoyles and the author of those visual Halloween Treats for your eyes was a man named Jeff Omen.
Jeff Omen used to pull a coffin behind his Cemetery themed motorcycle and he had a silver hearse parked in his front yard.
He wore a top hat decorated with skulls.
This year I was out in Wisconsin to celebrate some Halloween events with my granddaughter in Fox Lake and I wanted to explore some cemeteries. But top of my list was a visit to Jeff Omen’s Halloween House. After all these years I was going to get to visit it, explore it and celebrate it in person. I was hoping to meet Jeff Omen too. I had a million questions for him and I was hoping he’d answer a few.
Then my son sent me a new article. Jeff Omen had died unexpectedly.
A few days later I learned he had fallen from a ladder while he was decorating his house for Halloween.
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We went to take a look at Jeff Omen’s house and I was not prepared for what I saw- the house was huge and the exterior was decorated. The yard was massive and was occupied by skeletons, a couple of coffins, a sports car under attack by a giant spider. There was so much to see and I would have loved to have explored it more, but I took my pictures quickly and I moved about the displays carefully because I was very much aware that Jeff Omen had died here recently and at that moment I felt like I was visiting a memorial and not a Halloween House.
That didn’t take away from my enjoyment that afternoon. I just enjoyed myself quietly- the way the people walking by seemed to be doing too.
I hope you enjoy my tribute to the Halloween House in Beaver Dam- at the end of this post is a news story about Jeff Omen.
In addition- I did work on the pictures a bit because I took them quickly and I had to correct shadows and sunlight the best I could to flesh out the displays. But I think you will catch the vibe. It’s a haunting vibe, but I think that was Jeff Omen’s intention.
anita
Photo A.M. Moscoso Beaver Dam WI October 2023
Photo A.M. Moscoso Beaver Dam WI October 2023
Photo A.M. Moscoso Beaver Dam WI October 2023
Photo A.M. Moscoso Beaver Dam WI October 2023
Photo A.M. Moscoso Beaver Dam WI October 2023
Photo A.M. Moscoso October 2023 Beaver Dam WI. USA
