Inscrutable Whimsy

Delaware, Ohio

Trio - Da Da Da

Big Red Taxi Sign

Delaware, Ohio

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

The Great Pumpkin

Yeah, ok, it's a little late, but what the hey.
Circleville, Ohio

Vince Guaraldi - Great Pumpkin Waltz

Queen Automotive

Delaware, Ohio

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

(One of my all time favorite songs ever ever ever)

Stars Above

Ohio Theater
Columbus, Ohio

Frank Sinatra - Swingin' On A Star

Peck Auto Electric

Logan, Ohio

The Power Station - Some Like It Hot

Carousel

Delaware County Fair,
Delaware, Ohio

The Cardigans - Carnival

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Well, this is it. The big day! It's hard to believe this Halloween month is already almost over, and yet I can't wait until I can post a picture of anything I want ... :)

If you go to my Flickr site, You'll see this photo of a very well-known family crypt in Green Lawn Cemetery; it's not only the largest private crypt in Columbus, not only the resting place of a rich and prominent Columbus family, but also ... it's supposedly haunted!

From Andy Henderson at Forgotten Ohio (that link will take you to a page devoted to this crypt) "They say that, if you knock on the mausoleum's door, the spirits will respond with a knock of their own--and, if they're particularly active, a more substantial manifestation."

Well, neither my friend Susan nor I knocked. We didn't need to; for the first time I've ever seen, the inner door beyond the gates was ajar! I don't know why, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I DO, however, most certainly look a gift mausoleum in the door. Or, uh, something.

So here it is, the interior (or part of it, anyway) of the Hayden Mausoleum:



As you can tell, I'm pretty excited about finally getting a decent peek inside.

And now for the musical portion of our program, what else for today but
the Citizens of Halloween with "This Is Halloween."

And here's the video of it, because it just doesn't get any better than this.



Finally, here is my Halloween "Mix" for 2007 - really, it's just every song I've posted this month, plus a few extra goodies thrown in.

Dane's Halloween Mix 2007

Thanks for all the fun this month, everyone - I enjoyed every post I read, every comment I read, every song I downloaded ... I appreciate both my visitors and my fellow bloggers.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The Echoing Trickle

Huntington Chapel
Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Imagine walking into a chapel/mausoleum in the middle of a sprawling old cemetery; the chapel is grandly beautiful, with windows by Tiffany. The moment you walk in, you hear a loud, echoing trickle. After a couple of turns, you find yourself in a newer area, again, grandly appointed.

Turn around and you see the fountain above, rusting, barely spitting out anything, but doing so very loudly.

Maybe it's the rust, or entropy obviously having its way with something in an otherwise immaculately maintained mausoleum, or just the water itself; sometimes, in the right context, even water can be eerie. Maybe it's the loud, insistent noise in such a ... deathly ... quiet environment. All I know, is that this is by far the most unsettling thing in the chapel.

Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell

Pearls

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
The Simpsons - Halloween Special Theme

Her Eyes Seem To Follow You

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Thanks for the heads up on this one, Susan.

Voltaire - Cannibal Buffet
Like Jonathan Coulton, whose songs I posted last week, this guy sings songs from the intersection of horror and humor. This one, about a poor guy who washed up after a shipwreck on an island full of cannibals, is ridiculously catchy; I haven't been able to get it out of my head for two weeks.

...if you're wondering what's eating me
it's cannibals on the coast of Barbary...

Ok, so a few days ago, I posted the updated blog roll for the Halloween-a-thon. Well, having swiped it whole from Todd at Neato CoolGhoulville, I therefore used a list that didn't include him.
So I'm linking & plugging his site here.

Go see Todd. For reals. Everyday he seems to uncover a forgotten and happy part of my childhood. Maybe yours too.

Pumpkin Stack

Pumpkin Festival
Circleville, Ohio

Bernard Herrmann - Twilight Zone
Danny Elfman - Tales from the Crypt
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho theme
Los Straitjackets - The Munsters Theme

More Pumpkins

Glass Art Pumpkins
Pumpkin Festival
Circleville, Ohio

Book of Love - Witchcraft

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You

Frank Sinatra - Witchcraft

Ella Fitzgerald - Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

Step Right Up

Win a Pumpkin!
Pumpkin Festival
Circleville, Ohio

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Rocky Horror Picture Show - There's a Light Over at the Frankenstein Place

Tales of the Crypt

More from Amaranth Abbey
Columbus, Ohio

Alice Cooper - Cold Ethel
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman

Finally Inside the Locked Mausoleum!

Amaranth Abbey
Columbus, Ohio

Phantom Planet - The Living Dead
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Spooky

Borg Burial Ground

Maple Grove Cemetery
Granville, Ohio

Voltaire - When You're Evil
Lou Rawls- Season of the Witch

Lifeless

Bellefontaine, Ohio

Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire
Caesars - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Consort

Oak Grove Cemetery
Delaware, Ohio

I know, I know, but they were all so gorgeous, how can I choose? "Consort of" - that seems so judgemental, and yet she died "a saint." What did this poor woman go through?

FYI, this Halloween thing won't only be pictures from this cemetery! I'll post videos here and there too, as we get closer to the big day.

Continuing the Jonathan Coulton kick, here's "Creepy Doll."
Jonathan Coulton - Creepy Doll

Locked

whether in or out is up for argument
Northwood Cemetery
Cambridge, Ohio

Jonathan Coulton - RE: Your Brains

A little song (from a very funny man) about a go-getting, self-starting kind of zombie. A sample of the lyrics:

"All we want to do is eat your brains
We're not unreasonable
I mean, no one's going to eat your eyes
All we want to do is eat your brains
We're at an impasse here
Maybe we should compromise
Open up the door
We'll all come inside and eat your brains"