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Day 24093
This is myhouse.
I won’t allow anyone to harm it.
There should have been no more intruders after the last one.
I do not want these people here. They willleave-Day 24095
They are siblings. They are loud.
Always singing and talking and stomping. As if they must be louder than anything else.Day 24106
There are bolts on the door now. Bolts and hideous, gaudy new locks.
Howdarethey-Night 24112
I was going to fill the night with terrors. But he woke up screaming before I began. She came running from the other room. They sleep right across the hall from each other, with the doors on a crack.
…they are young, are they not, to be living on their own. Was I ever so young?Day 24114
She has fixed the squeak in the door at the top of the stairs.
It never squeaked when I still lived.Day 24121
The noise of the doorbell scares them. But they get so many deliveries.
It is a good bell. It has worked all these years-
I can see one of the men coming now with his packages, trudging up to the door.
…perhaps if I knock before he is here, they will come and look before he can sound the bell.Day 24129
He is planting flowers in boxes on my windowsills.
I always wished I could have some flowers.Night 24137
She is afraid of the dark. I could see it in her eyes when she got out of bed.
…I lit the lamps for her.Day 24142
They have moved the couch to the sun spot a little to the right of the window.
That is where I used to have my armchair.
It is the only sensible place for it.Day 24163
Sometimes the noises of the world are suddenly too much for him. He winces and tries not to sway his head.
This is my house.
…I can keep it calm and quiet for a while.Day 24178
She just got a phone call and now they are both laughing.
Laughter is a good sound, isn’t it.
They said this house has been good luck…Night 24205
They are singing in our kitchen.
He found my cookbook in the gap at the back of the kitchen cabinet and now they are trying to cook.
They wanted to start with the soufflé. They don’t even know how to make béchamel!
I turned the page to the casserole instead.Day 24236
This is my house.
These are myboarders.
I won’t allow anyone to harm them.
I don’t like ghost stories but I love this
obsessed with the concept of being haunted by yourself
maybe you were someone you hate now, and that person remains a cold hand on your shoulder that says you do not deserve this. perhaps you had to destroy yourself and become someone else to escape something worse - but now they hang over you like a shroud. you abandoned me. everyone did, but you - you were all i had. and you left me to rot.maybethe life you could have had was taken from you - and isn’t that a death of sorts? - and now it shadows your every step. you keep moving further away, but it follows.there’s a ghost after you, and it wears a frighteningly familiar face.
I love noodle
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noodle is incredible. his big silly face is due in part to his breed (he is a persian, per his instagram) and that’s why his eyes are so big and wide.
the only thing that’s really of note here is that if you have a cat that likes to climb in the fridge, you should just make extra sure that it doesn’t get shut in there by mistake! being stuck in the fridge for any significant amount of time can be dangerous for cats. but that’s just a caution, not an actual problem with the video!
In the chamber
This is Father Garrpe and Father Rodrigues’s food chamber in the cloister.Here they are a lot of delicious things:bacon,sausage,fat,ham,marmalade,potato,nut,flour,many holy cocoa powder from the Vatican for holy cocoa drinks,honey,olive,pickles,compote,apple,salt,sugar,hot peppers,onion and some monastic bio slipslop for healing.
Although ghosts feed on the life energy of the living beings,but sometimes they eat…some bacon!
The priests are trying to protect their food,but neither the garlic nor the medieval cross on the wall but even the image of Saint Lawrence,the patron saint of food chambers keep the little ghostie away.
I took the idea from an old Hungarian movie the “Starts the railway house-Indul a bakterház”.In this was a “railway house”.A widow railroad worker lived in this with his mother in law.They were hired a teenager boy to work as a cowherd of their cows.The story takes between the two world wars,and this was a typical child labor situation in the Hungarian countryside.But the widow man and his mingy mother in law,alias “The Witch” they barely gave food for the boy.So the boy secretly looted the food chamber which was full of food.He ate the bacon,the sausage,the ham,the marmalades,etc. and he tossed the eggs.In retrospect he put everything on the widow man’s dead wife’s ghost.So the ghost ate the food,the boy said.And the man and the old woman believed in the boy’s tale.
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A policeman rips the American flag away from 5-year-old Anthony Quinn, Jackson, Mississippi, 1965. Photo by Matt Heron
Like a scene from my favorite movie. It’s a great night to be wild #photography #photooftheday #silhouette #silhouettes #red #canon60d #canon #stratosphere #stratospherehotel #vegasbaby #nights #nightphotography #nightsky #nightlights #chill #vibesdontlie #mood #favoritemovie #haunting #beauty #beautifulnightmare
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A Spiritual Fall
Surprisingly enough, spending two months talking about chaos magic was pretty relaxed. (Unless you count how many flame emojis Carl-bot used in response to the word “chaos.”) Now, we’re moving toward fall and, of course, spooky season, so why not spend the next two months learning about spirits? Liber Coven’s September/October book is The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Claude Lecouteux.
“Why do we hang horseshoes for good luck or place wreaths on our doors? Why does the groom carry his new bride over the threshold? These customs represent the last vestiges from a long, rich history of honoring the spirits of our homes. They show that a house is more than a building: it is a living being with a body and soul.”
We’re going to have a super time with superstitions, spiritual traditions, and the things that make our houses just a little more alive (or dead?). Join us for the spooky, the spiritual, and the sacred.
Want to read The Tradition of Household Spirits with us? Join the conversation here: https://discord.gg/3Vhz8DW
Boo!
Halloween is upon us and stories about ghosts and hauntings in Toronto are at an all-time high. Over the past five years I have posted about a number of hauntings at some of Toronto’s famous public buildings. Today we look at a haunting in a private residence on Walmer Road in the Annex.
The story of this haunting was not only featured in John Robert Colombo’s Haunted Toronto, but also on the CBC series titled Canadian Ghost Stories, which features a shot of the incorrect house - #FactCheckerFail. You can check it out at the end of the post.
A terrifying awakening
121 Walmer Rd. is a private residence haunted by an old man and his cocker spaniel. The first sighting of the pair was made by Ronald Secker who lived in a second floor apartment of the house in the ‘60s. The owner woke up one night at 3:00 a.m., which is said to be the optimal time for communication with spirits. He awoke to his kitchen light on and the sight of a dog running towards his bed. He approached the kitchen and noticed a man scavenging through his fridge. He told the man to take his dog and leave, but as they were leaving Secker allegedly saw them vanish through a wall.
There was no sighting of the duo for two weeks, until once again at 3:00 a.m. the man woke the owner up, but this time the ghost was holding a knife above his head. With the dog running around the man stabbed himself.
It was later revealed to Secker that the home was the site of a suicide where a man, who had a cocker spaniel, stabbed himself in the bedroom. The man and the dog were found days later with the dog apparently dying of sorrow.
Whether you believe in ghost stories or not two things are certain:
- Always ask your realtor if the house could be the site of a potential haunting.
- If you see a man vanish into thin air you better pack your bags and GTFO.
Canadian Ghost Stories
To end this terrifying post please enjoy this ‘80s reenactment courtesy of CBC, which features this shirtless man. Not sure what’s scary though - the television quality at the time or the story.
