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Image by George Cruikshank
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31 Oct 2025
Happy Halloween to the dreamers, candy hoarders, pumpkin carvers, midnight wanderers, and the ghosts who still love a good story. May your lanterns burn bright, your spirits stay kind, and your night be just the right amount of haunted. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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Leave one porch light for the living and one for the spirits passing by. It costs nothing to be kind to both. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
Art: Edgar Jerins
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31 Oct 2025
Witches in good moods. Cats with extra shine. Pumpkins smiling like they know a secret. The veil is thin, yes, but so is the line between magic and joy. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
Art: David Irvine
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In Italy’s Lucedio Abbey, monks were rumored to chant backwards to summon demons. Visitors describe echoing screams and black mist rising from the altar. Locals won’t go near it after sunset. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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At Ohio University’s Ridges Asylum, psychics claim to sense a “shadow collector," an entity said to feed on fear. Security guards quit after hearing whispers through dead intercom lines. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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In 17th-century London, the Devil’s Footprints were found in snow across rooftops, walls, and locked gardens, perfectly spaced and leading nowhere. No one ever explained them. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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30 Oct 2025
Hauntings aren’t always dramatic. Sometimes it’s the faint smell of sulfur, the shadow where light shouldn’t fall, the feeling that something remembers you, and doesn’t want you to leave. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
Art: Dean Gioia
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During the 1600s, the Loudun Possessions in France involved an entire convent of nuns allegedly tormented by demons. Their contortions and shrieks drew crowds, and led to the execution of priest Urbain Grandier, accused of witchcraft. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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30 Oct 2025
To be a vampire is to exist between two worlds, neither fully alive nor dead.
✍️ Karpov Kinrade
#31DaysOfHalloween #31daysofhaunting #Halloween
~ Lestat de Lioncourt born mid 1700s (Anne Rice's 'The Vampire Chronicles'). Tom Cruise as Lestat in 'Interview with the Vampire'.
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The “Screaming House” of Union, Missouri, gained its name from the neighbors, who heard howls echoing from the empty home long after its owners fled. Paranormal investigators later found claw marks under fresh paint. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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The Smurl family of Pennsylvania claimed their home was plagued by a demon between 1974 and 1989. Walls bled, beds shook, and voices mocked them. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated (The Conjuring). They left convinced it wasn’t a hoax. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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30 Oct 2025
The Smurl family of Pennsylvania claimed their home was plagued by a demon between 1974 and 1989. Walls bled, beds shook, and voices mocked them. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated (The Conjuring). They left convinced it wasn’t a hoax. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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In 1975, the Lutz family fled their new home in Amityville, New York. They claimed unseen voices whispered at night, green slime oozed from keyholes, and invisible footsteps shook the stairs. The house had been the site of a mass murder. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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In the 1949 case that inspired The Exorcist, a boy known only as “Roland Doe” was said to speak Latin in trance and levitate. Words like evil appeared carved into his skin. Priests recorded over 20 exorcisms before the phenomena ceased. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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30 Oct 2025
The 1972 Entity case in LA terrified investigators. A woman named Doris Bither reported being attacked by invisible forces that left bruises and burns. Researchers recorded lights appearing in midair. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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30 Oct 2025
In 1975, the Lutz family fled their new home in Amityville, New York. They claimed unseen voices whispered at night, green slime oozed from keyholes, and invisible footsteps shook the stairs. The house had been the site of a mass murder. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting
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29 Oct 2025
I saw the grave-worms crawling..😱
✍️ Mary Shelley: #Frankenstein
#31DaysOfHalloween #31daysofhaunting #Halloween #WyrdWednesday
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