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CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« on: October 30, 2009, 03:58:05 pm »
Welcome!

I hope you are ready for some scary fun!

But first, let's start with a story!  The explanation of Halloween.









Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones.

The day is often associated with the colors black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Halloween has origins in the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".  This was a Gaelic festival celebrated mainly in Ireland and Scotland. However, similar festivals were held by other Celts – for example the festival of Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf) which was held by the ancient Britons.

The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.  Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.  Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

The term Halloween, originally spelled Hallowe’en, is shortened from All Hallows' Even – e'en is a shortening of even, which is a shortening of evening. This is ultimately derived from the Old English Eallra Hālgena ǣfen.  It is now known as "Eve of" All Saints' Day, which is November 1st.

A time of pagan festivities,  Popes Gregory III (731–741) and Gregory IV (827–844) tried to supplant it with the Christian holiday (All Saints' Day) by moving it from May 13 to November 1.

In the 800s, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were once celebrated on the same day.



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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2009, 08:33:13 pm »
Disclaimer:

This tour will contain images that may be considered frightening.

Those who have weak hearts, are upset/unnerved by images of monsters and scary situations, may want to turn back now.

Last year, there were "Cuteness breaks".  Those are not an option on this tour.


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heart palpitations caused by those who decide to continue on*





Now, if you're ready.................... please come this way.......









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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2009, 09:02:20 pm »



Before we reach the house, we must hike our way through what is known as "Weeping Woods".






Legend has it that the forest was named this after the woman who used to live in the house we will visit.  She had a family, and one cold winter, one by one, they fell ill, and died, leaving her a widow, and childless.  Grief-stricken, this woman wandered sobbing into the cold night, and froze to death among the trees.

There are people who claim to hear mysterious sobbing in the woods at night, especially at winter, when the snows fall.

Come along now..........















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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2009, 09:21:47 pm »

We're about halfway through "Weeping Woods", and if you look towards your right, you'll see "Old Crone Cave".





This cave was once the home of a self-proclaimed witch.  A few brave souls would come to her for "cures" to illnesses.  Most people could never muster up the courage to walk to the cave in the first place.  She was mostly left alone, however, after the family died, she was hunted, the villagers assumed she was the one who cursed the family.  When they arrived for her, they found bones on the floor of the cave, and the hysterical crowd decided she had killed and eaten unwary travelers.   They never did find out if that was true or not.

They burned her at the stake.


Come along.............







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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2009, 09:29:48 pm »



Well, it appears that we've reached the house..........











Shall we go inside? ? ? ? ?






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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2009, 09:42:24 pm »


Well, we've come into the living room.




I'm sure there were many happy nights here for the family.  I wonder if they're still here......do you feel a ..certain energy in the room?   Perhaps we should move along.....






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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2009, 09:54:57 pm »
It looks like the next room is the kitchen....I'm sure wonderful homecooked meals were always ready for the family.



Holy Shit!




























Quickly!   Get upstairs!!!!!!!!!





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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2009, 10:12:47 pm »
*catches breath*


Is everyone here?   It looks like we've made it up to the master bedroom.
 






I can only imagine the lonely nights the "Weeping Woman" had in here after she lost her family......OMG!  In the corner of the room!








RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2009, 10:27:41 pm »



We need to escape down the hallway!






Run quickly!   RUN!!!!!!!







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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2009, 10:30:20 pm »




Don't look in the bathroom!!!!!!!!!!
















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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2009, 10:35:43 pm »



FASTER! 



They're after us!!!!!!!!!!!


























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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2009, 10:38:24 pm »



I think that's the way out..........
















Oh hell no!!!!!!!!!!














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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2009, 10:40:38 pm »


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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2009, 10:44:50 pm »




Holy shit!


They got him!!!!!!!!





























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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2009, 10:45:32 pm »


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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2009, 10:48:14 pm »
I don't think we're gonna make it!















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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2009, 10:50:44 pm »
Look!



*points*


The sun's rising!















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« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2009, 10:52:28 pm »



We made it!


We're safe!













Until next year!


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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2009, 11:45:18 pm »
Excellent job on the Haunted House, Chuck.

I thought it was close enough to Halloween now.
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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2009, 11:56:12 pm »
Lovely visit - thanks Chuck

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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2009, 01:19:26 am »
OMG!!!

I just escaped you haunted house!!!!   :o :o

That was some scary tour!!!!!   :o :o

I just about had an heart attack more than once!!!

I feel very lucky that I survived and are safely out of there!!!


*makes mental note NEVER to go to any kind of haunted places ever again!!!*

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« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2009, 11:55:52 am »
Btw, come to think of it, now your name REALLY fits you, Morbido!!!!!


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« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2009, 01:17:54 pm »
Btw, come to think of it, now your name REALLY fits you, Morbido!!!!!


 ;) ;D :laugh: :-*

Sonja, I'm shocked to think that you would dare enter Chuck's Haunted House!   :o

After all, you KNOW he's Morbido, so you should have been forewarned!


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« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2009, 01:29:54 pm »
I love your haunted house, Chuck! Those zombies nearly got me, but I was too fast for them!

Never ran so fast in all my life! :o

*pant*

Thanks for taking the time to create a fun haunted house for us Chuck! :D

And Happy Halloween! :-*

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Re: CellarDweller's Haunted House! Halloween on BetterMost!
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2009, 01:40:50 pm »
Sonja, I'm shocked to think that you would dare enter Chuck's Haunted House!   :o

After all, you KNOW he's Morbido, so you should have been forewarned!


 :laugh:

You're right Debbie, I can't believe how careless I was!!!!  :o ::)

Well, I learned my lesson; NEVER again!!!


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« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2009, 01:55:14 pm »
Whoo-hoo!
What a great haunted house you provided for us, Chuckie :). I loved especially the before/after pics of the rooms :laugh:. Oh, and the skeletons running in slow-mo :laugh:. I think we all can safely outrun them. Thank god! But I'm not so sure about the Zombies. That's a scary bunch.

Thank you for doing the work :-*.

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« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2009, 07:07:50 pm »
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« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2009, 11:56:10 am »


Ohhh i am still nervous and all shaking up.

 I am so glad I made it out with all my body parts intact.

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« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2009, 07:54:04 pm »
Hey CHuck.  Thanks for all your work putting together CellarDweller's Haunted House. This years All Hallow's Eve has been really sscary and you madeit even scarier.  GLad I made it out of there alive

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« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2009, 08:28:57 pm »
Thanks for the shivers, Chuck!  ;D
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