Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

A Tale of Two Halloween Lights

Thursday, November 9th, 2023

See this?

This is a two-pack of Hompavo LED Flame Light Bulbs. It simulates having a flickering firelight instead of your outdoor lights for the Halloween season. I’ve been using them since 2021 and they still work fine. If you like that sort of thing for Halloween, I recommend them.

See this?

It’s “Red Light Bulb 9W (60W Equivalent) E26 Base, LED Colored Light Bulbs for Halloween Christmas Party Holiday Lighting 2-Pack.” They’re absolute worthless garbage. Both bulbs stopped working within minutes of screwing them in and turning them on. No wonder there’s page after page of one-star reviews.

Avoid

Fark Annual Scary Story Thread for 2023

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023

Today is Halloween, which means it’s time for the annul Fark scary story thread!

Here are the links to threads from previous years:

  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • While you’re here, feel free to check out some of my other freaky/creepy/scary/silly Halloween posts.

    Halloween Horrors: Strange Sky Sounds

    Monday, October 30th, 2023

    All around the world, people hear strange things from the sky. Here’s a roundup of the various “sky trumpets,” booming noises, hums and other things people have no explanation for.

    Halloween Horrors: Creepy Spider Light

    Sunday, October 29th, 2023

    Who wouldn’t like a lamp in the shape of a spider wandering around your house at night?

    Dog Halloween Costumes

    Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

    Tis the Halloween season, and here are some pretty good dog costumes. Enjoy!

    Halloween Horrors: Transworld 2023 Show

    Friday, October 20th, 2023

    Once again, here’s footage from a Transworld Halloween trade show, filled with animatronics, masks, props, etc.

    Halloween Horrors: Steamed Hams as Terrifying Soviet Animation

    Thursday, October 12th, 2023

    Once again, The Simpsons “Steamed Hams” segment has inspired the Internet to produce an alternate version, this one in terrifying Soviet-style animation.

    The juggling Crusty is pure nightmare fuel.

    (Previously.)

    Halloween Horrors: Mel’s Hole

    Tuesday, October 10th, 2023

    Here’s a nicely creepy borderlands of science/urban legend/conspiracy theory video about a hole that has no bottom.

    80,000 feet worth of fishing line found no bottom. Plus animals avoided it, and radios went crazy, when they weren’t picking up signals from 30 years before.

    Then the government took it over.

    Much more paranormal weirdness ensues

    Was it real? Well, as real as anything else with a Wikipedia entry featured on Art Bell.

    Good luck finding it on map…

    Happy Halloween!

    Monday, October 31st, 2022

    Today is Halloween, which means it’s time for the annul Fark scary story thread!

    Here are the links to threads from previous years:

  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • While you’re here, feel free to check out some of my other freaky/creepy/scary/silly Halloween posts.

    Halloween Horrors: The Backrooms

    Sunday, October 30th, 2022

    The Backrooms are a liminal space CreepyPasta setting where you’ve “no clipped” out of reality into and endless office maze of office corridors decorated in ugly yellow wallpaper and brown carpets illuminated by buzzing florescent lights.

    Several video creators have run with this idea and produced some pretty convincing depictions of it. In the ones below, YouTuber Kane Parsons, AKA Kane Pixals, has filled in background lore where the Async Corporation has created (or possibly tapped into) The Backrooms as a potential money-making project, documenting their work as bland, 1980s-corporate speak promotional videos and handheld camera footage that have come down to us as grainy VHS copies. It’s a pretty-inspired mating of presentation format and subject.

    And the people exploring the Backrooms start to realize that the deeper you get, the weirder things seem to be, and that there’s something else wandering those yellow hallways…

    Evidently he’s doing all this in Blender, which you can download for free.

    And there are lots more YouTube creators doing their own versions of the Backrooms…