HALLOWEEN 2023 THREAD

LEDBE
True story -

When I was a little kid I lived in an old house with a dark and slightly spooky basement. In the center of the basement was a giant cast iron furnace. It was huge and imposing, the fire-breathing centerpiece of the basement. This was probably a coal furnace originally, and it was later converted to gas. But to a little kid, this giant iron behemoth that would occasionally spring to life with flames was a monster, just waiting to attack me. I always treaded lightly around that thing, afraid that I would wake up a demon inside of it when I got near.

In one of the far corners of the basement was a room with a padlock on it. I never saw anyone go into that room during my entire childhood. I would ask about it now and then and I was told that nobody had a key and nobody knew what was inside it. This led to a considerable air of mystery surrounding this room. What was inside? Cash? A pit? Ghosts? As a kid I always wondered what was on the other side of the door and why won't anyone talk about it?

Many years later when we were getting rid of the property, I came back prepared to get into that room and solve the mystery once and for all. I was able to bypass the lock, and when I finally opened the door, not sure what the heck I was about to see, I found...

Some shelves with empty jars. That's it. No ghosts, aliens, hidden treasures or other family secrets. Just some empty mason jars.

Happy Halloween!
 
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PhotonWrangler said:
True story -

When I was a little kid I lived in an old house with a dark and slightly spooky basement. In the center of the basement was a giant cast iron furnace. It was huge and imposing, the fire-breathing centerpiece of the basement. This was probably a coal furnace originally, and it was later converted to gas. But to a little kid, this giant iron behemoth that would occasionally spring to life with flames was a monster, just waiting to attack me. I always treaded lightly around that thing, afraid that I would wake up a demon inside of it when I got near.

In one of the far corners of the basement was a room with a padlock on it. I never saw anyone go into that room during my entire childhood. I would ask about it now and then and I was told that nobody had a key and nobody knew what was inside it. This led to a considerable air of mystery surrounding this room. What was inside? Cash? A pit? Ghosts? As a kid I always wondered what was on the the side of the door and why won't anyone talk about it?

Many years later when we were getting rid of the property, I came back prepared to get into that room and solve the mystery once and for all. I was able to bypass the lock, and when I finally opened the door, not sure what the heck I was about to see, I found...

Some shelves with empty jars. That's it. No ghosts, aliens, hidden treasures or other family secrets. Just some empty mason jars.

Happy Halloween!
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So much potential flashlight storage space wasted for so many years...
 
IMA SOL MAN said:
I'm fairly certain that at some time I watched that movie. Don't remember much of it, though.
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Yeah, I saw that one too, actually in the movie theatre. The Blob!
I must have been old enough to go without my parents, but young enough for it to scare the crap out of me. I only saw it once, and don't recall enough of it to know, what made it so scary.

I imagine that as an adult, I'd get bored. I can't believe that they made a remake of that film.
 
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