Hello friends! I hope you’ve been enjoying the spooky season! Today I have a little Halloween memory to share with you…

In 1983, my dad won a contest* that sent our family to Walt Disney World. The thing that sparked wonder in my impressionable, seven-year-old brain more than anything else was the Haunted Mansion. From that day on, I was forever obsessed with creepy old crypts, and abandoned houses, and all places where grim grinning ghosts may lurk in the darkness.

The obsession never faded, a...