In The Spirit of Halloween

I’ve always loved a good scare. This has driven me to see all the classic horror flicks – The Exorcist, Halloween, Rosemary’s Baby, It, Night of the Living Dead, The Thing, Amityville Horror and a few others so poorly made their almost funny. I’ve traveled to haunted cornfields and the cheesy staged haunted houses.

A few years ago, when the editor at the newspaper I was working at came to me looking for a “different” Halloween story all I could do was grin. I knew exactly what I was going to do – scare the pants off myself and hopefully a few readers.

In pursuit of this, I headed directly to the library, then the Internet to do a little research. What did I find? Well, some pretty wild tales of haunted areas across the city.

I made sure to pinpoint the creepiest one, loaded a staff photographer and navigated in the dark to the outskirts of the city.What I found when I arrived was a scene right out of some of the best horror films. The wind was blowing, stirring the leaves that had already begun to fall from the trees. A wrought iron-gate leading to the circa 1800s church, completely surrounded by old gravestones mind you, was creaking loudly.

It was literally perfect!

To see what happened, follow the link: http://www.erinrickert.com/html/ghost.html