'The Witch of Yazoo still haunts the town she burned'
Therese Apel - The Clarion Ledger - October 28, 2014
In Glenwood Cemetry in Yazoo City, large, oval chain links surround a grave.
There's no name associated with who's buried there. She is simply known as "The Witch of Yazoo."
"The witch is very much alive," said K.K. Hill, director of the Triangle Cultural Center in Yazoo City. "The legend is like this big bellows that keeps blowing wind onto these flames and it keeps going."
Hill's analogy is appropriate, as the broken tombstone in Glenwood Cemetery states.
"On May 25, 1904, the Witch of Yazoo City broke out of these curious chain links surrounding her grave and burned down Yazoo City," it reads.
As legend has it, the woman, whose name is not known, lived on the Yazoo River and would lure fishermen in off the river and then torture them. The sheriff found some skeletons in the witch's shed one day and wanted answers.
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'Travel Channel Continues To Deliver Scares This November'
Kelli Marchman McNeely - HorrorFuel.com - October 24, 2018
Just because the Halloween season ends on October 31st, doesn’t mean the end of pulse-pounding programming on Travel Channel! We’ve got the action-packed, haunting highlights you don’t want to miss this November.
In the season finale of “Haunted Live,” the Tennessee Wraith Chasers investigate one of America’s most haunted locations. Viewers not only get to watch the action live, but they can also participate in real time through Travel Channel’s Facebook Live!
The animal world can not only be terrifying, but deadly. Watch as wildlife expert Casey Anderson hunts down man-eating tigers and a killer crocodile that is terrorizing local villages on all-new episodes of ‘Monster Encounters’
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The City of the Dead (1960) Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee
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A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
10 Creepiest Abandoned Amusement Parks
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There's nothing scarier than an abandoned theme park, and these 10 are set to give you nightmares.
From a deserted theme park on the edge of a notorious suicide forest, to a cursed amusement park built on top of an ancient burial ground, AllTime10s brings you 10 Scariest Abandoned Amusement Parks.
Music = Descent by Barrie Gledden / Tim Reilly / Jeff Dale and Nightshade by David O'Brien
Ghost Adventures - Halloween Special: Ireland's Celtic Demons
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GAC travel to the mystical country of Ireland to investigate locations steeped with demonic activity, while also covering the origins of Halloween. To start their Irish adventure, they begin with a trip to the cave at Rathcroghan; the birthplace of Samhain. Nick and Billy investigate the Leap Castle north of Roscrea in Clareen, Ireland's most haunted castle, to look for the "elemental", Zak, Aaron, and Jay investigate the Hell-Fire Club Lodge, on Montpelier Hill.
They learn about the stories of Satan visiting the premises and the mythological creatures of Massy Woods, including a banshee. Next, they hear the legend of the Black Cat of Killakee that haunts the Stewards House which sits at the bottom of the hill. The guys regroup to for their journey south in County Wexford for their lockdown in Loftus Hall, Ireland's most haunted house, outside of Duncannon, where the devil is believed to have stayed the night.
COAST TO COAST AM - August 12 2018 - CONTACT FROM THE OTHER SIDE
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Coast to Coast AM August 12, 2018. Arielle Ford, a leading personality in the personal growth and spirituality movement, was invited by spiritual medium Jamees Van Praagh for a private reading with her sister in heaven, Debbie Ford. During the reading, Debbie kept asking Arielle if she would write a prayer book with her. Eventually, she gave in and said yes, clueless as to how this would happen. Arielle and James joined guest host Lisa Garr to discuss how they subsequently found an entire unpublished manuscript from Debbie.
Swords and Dorkery - April 24, 2014
I just picked up a copy of Heavenly Bodies: cult treasures & spectacular saints from the catacombs. It’s a book with tons of photos of bejeweled and bedazzled relics from across Europe. Some are reclining or posed like St. Pancratius above (& he’s pretty conservative, just being in fancy armor); others are just lying in jumbled ruins but heaped with gems and gold. A lot of them have rather disturbing facial features added to the skulls in wax, as well as life-like glass eyes, and others are veiled in gauze, giving them a doll-like aspect.
This St. Pancratius was, apparently, originally buried in Roman legionary armor, but when his relics were translated (moved from a tomb or crypt to a shrine or altar), he was decked out in the latest parade armor. I couldn’t easily find any more on him — there are two other early martyrs but neither is in Switzerland, as this one is. More on the book
here ; even more photos here.
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Catacomb saints
History of a witch
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Witch, Lori Bruno, tells her story in this interview. Video taped in Salem, Ma. where she still lives.
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I just put this on my iPod, so I can't vouch for this interview in particular. I'm not really a fan of Lori Bruno, but I think she has a lot of useful information. She's like Manly P. Hall for me... I'll listen, but I keep them at arms length.
October Halloween movies
Just viewing horror flicks in October is like a tradition in itself. I've watched quite a few this year; too many to review. Some newer, some old; it can be a fun inter-generational thing.
~ Remember the Ancestors Tonight~
This is that night; the real purpose of Samhain. The night where the veil between our world and the realm of our ancestors, and family members who've passed on, is at its thinnest.
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