2018 October Highlights – Strange & Spooky Things

Hello Friends,

Welcome!

Shivers!

October is Halloween month and it’s my fun time to blog about strange and spooky things such as;

Going Down to the Crypts

For the last couple of years I have written about the Paris Bone Crypts—the place of the long dead located beneath the city of Paris. I plan to write another article about the history of the catacombs.

Communing with the Dead

I will be sharing a link to an article about an archaeologist who applies her spiritual gifts to open windows into ancient cultures.

Ghost stories – real and not.

My curiosity has been spiked by women in the news who have relationships with ghosts in both fictional and non-fictional worlds. In March 2018, I blogged about a woman who married a Haitian ghost pirate called Jack in international waters, so the legitimacy of her matrimony couldn’t be denied. You can read it here, Would You Marry A Pirate Ghost

Since then, other women have come forward to speak to the media about their intimate experiences with ghosts. I will be posting about a lady who fell in love with a ghost she met on a bushwalk in Australia.

In the fictional world of specters, I found a very old ghost story from 1845. The story is called, “An All Hallows' Eve Party” and was written by Miss Beale. The haunted tale was published in a newspaper from Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia.

I liked the olden and therefore unusual style of the story-writing. It also touched a memory and a heart string. My grandmother on my father’s side of the family was a welsh women, and she had the gift of the Fae (some sort of second sight, according to family members). 

I decided to read the story aloud and record it on my phone. Then I made a youtube video of the tale so others can hear what was considered eerie and creepy in 1845. Perhaps, “An All Hallows' Eve Party” is a little ghoulish, but not as frightening as Halloween celebrations of today.

Pally is the name of the lady in the story. She recounts her scary experience of meeting the ghost of John Lewis, on Halloween night. The audience in the story includes a footman who is not impressed by the tall tale told by a Welshwoman. But Pally was a happy woman from meeting the handsome spirit.

It’s a trip back in history on a boo-tiful night.

Please enjoy & give it the thumbs up, if you like it!

It was my first time reading something on my youtube channel.

I was so nervous.

Thanks friends.

I hope you can join me again for more Halloween posts.

Enjoy your weekend,

♥ Ashlyn