SCAREDY CAT discussion

As mentioned elsewhere around here, there's nothing quite so scary as real people. And there's nothing quite so creepy as true stories about real people and the horrifying things they do.

I ran across a Youtube channel called Seriously Strange presented by a young fellow named Rob Dyke. Mr. Dyke does a fabulous job of presenting stories of the strange and macabre in a 10-15 minute documentary format. You should check them out...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

He also has another Youtube channel that is about really stupid and inane things that people post on the Internet. It's not safe for work, though, and isn't in any way like the Seriously Strange shows. It's more for the younger crowd, I believe.

Anyway, check it out.

Enjoy! :)

Awesome link! Thanks for sharing.

Cool! I'll have to check it out!

Ah, yes. Wednesday just went by. That means a new episode of Seriously Strange. :)

This looks cool! :) I love youtube!! I get soooo much free stuff there!! It's awesome!! Thanks youtube!! lol

thanks Eric for introducing us to the Seriously Strange shows

Yup. Some are pretty strange. I suspect that many are BS, but I'm too lazy to research it. ;)

Anyone remember some of the classic horror movies from long ago. Here are some of my favorites:
Carnival of Souls (they remade it years later but I haven't seen it)
The Tingler
Mr. Sardonicus
House on the Haunted Hill
Black Sunday
Horrors of the Black Museum
Circus of Horrors

HAHA! These two brought back fond memories...

The Tingler
Mr. Sardonicus

-- OFF TOPIC --

In '70, the group Spirit put out a great album called The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus .

Here's a link to the single off the album called Nature's Way --> http://grooveshark.com/s/Nature+s+Way...

Oldie but goody! :)

Some other fav movies of mine from back in the old days (when actors had to act and there were no computer special effects):

House of Seven Gables ... good book, too, by N. Hawthorne.

The House of Thirteen Ghosts ... I loved this movie as a kid.

The Secret of the Blue Room ... which you can watch here --> http://tuppence-times.tumblr.com/post...

Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Sweet Baby Jane

The Pit and the Pendulum

Night of the Living Dead

... and a few others that I can't quite remember at the moment.

Robert,

We actually should have started a new thread about the classic scary movies instead of polluting my thread about Rob Dyke's Seriously Strange vids at Youtube.

Maybe Aileen can split the movie stuff off to a new thread?

This week's episode of Seriously Strange is pretty good...

http://youtu.be/iK82-nRz7hA

Eric, we can delete our posts and start a new thread somewhere else.

Sounds like too much work. ;)

It was around 15 years ago when the wife and I was looking for a small acreage to build a log cabin. We saw 5 acres for sell in one of those free papers you find in convenience stores and called the number. The guy who answered agreed to meet us at an abandoned country store in a small rural village.
When we pulled in to the store, there was an old brown van backed in with a guy in the driver's seat with a long ponytail. He rolled down his window asking "if we were the one's interested in the acreage." We said "we were" and said "to follow him" and pulled out without another word. We drove for a few miles on curvy dirt roads only passing a dilapidated mobile home back in the woods every now and then. My wife started freaking out that she didn't like the situation and thought the guy was weird. I told her she was just being paranoid and the guy was just some harmless hippie still lost in the sixties. We finally pulled into a clearing and he backed the van in. He and I got out of our vehicles, but my wife stayed in the car and locked the doors. He and I started talking and he acted nervous and kept looking around. Nosy me started asking him questions. He said he was from Colorado and left because he and the government didn't see eye to eye. Now he was the pastor of his church and he and the congregation owned the land. I noticed a gun stuck in the back of his pants under his shirt. I quickly ended the tour and said we would talk it over and would get back with him if interested. The wife and I got the hell out of there and almost never finding our way back to town.
The very next week we read he was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, income tax evasion and racketeering. To make a long story short, he was the head of a white supremacist group and he and his followers had shot a state trooper through the neck. The trooper didn't die from the wound but passed away days later from a heart attack. The guy was convicted and sentenced to prison and I would assume still there. The FBI had been tracking him for years through various states. I intentionally left out locations, names and organizations to distance myself from that day. My wife has never let me forget how naive and stupid I was, and rightfully so.

Wow Robert, that's crazy, it's like a horror movie, thank God you guys are ok. I'm totally understanding the wife, I'm right there with her in how she acted.

What's funny is I was always supposedly the street wise war veteran and world traveler, thirteen years older than she. My wife is a farm girl that had never been exposed to much, but she could see that things were not on the up and up right off. One is not always as wise as one may think, I guess the lesson is.

Women do have that sixth sense ;)

I just did a weeks worth of cardio after walking into a spiderweb

Robert wrote: "It was around 15 years ago when the wife and I was looking for a small acreage to build a log cabin. We saw 5 acres for sell in one of those free papers you find in convenience stores and called th..."

Awesome story! Truly.

You and your wife were very lucky he didn't rob and kill you!

Aileen wrote: "I just did a weeks worth of cardio after walking into a spiderweb"

You sound like my aunt. She faints at the sight of a spider.

Spiderweb? Nothing.

How 'bout a bat in your face on Thanksgiving night while kayaking, I mean feel the wings against your forehead in your face!? Ugh. It was almost the best Thanksgiving ever....

That could cause heart failure Linda!

I hate bats. Hate 'em. Since moving into the really cool apartment over the funeral parlor, I've had at least one every summer until this summer. One summer I had three in here, a double-header one weekend, which ended with that one lying exhausted or half-dead or something on my living room floor, so I had to pick it up in a towel and carry Elvis out of the building. The last one was in my bedroom at 2am.

So I managed to keep my cool when it flew by, which is amazing, because if it gets stuck in my fuzzy hair, you'd have to cut it out. But I could see it in the darkness. Mind you, there's about twenty of us, and I'm on the fringe of the group, nowhere near the center of the group, where the guide has a miner's light on his forehead (They're attracted to light for some stupid reason). So what happened just makes me think I'm cursed or something when it comes to these damned things. The tour guide, when I said "Is that what I think it was?" says, "Oh, yeah, we get them out here in the lagoon." Ugh.

Then, it was brushing my head! I still kept cool. Somebody's kid said, "Oh, it was on her head, that's so cool!" Yeah, kid, right.

The next thing you know, it's near my face, I feel the wings brushing my forehead. Lord! That's where I lost it, threw myself backward in the kayak, and pulled the life jacket up over my face so it couldn't get to my face. I have absolutely no idea why I was so "blessed" as to have this encounter, considering that there were 20 other people around.....Like a friend of mine said, inside, I was just screaming "WHY!? WHY!? WHY ME?!"