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Dennis Guern and I will be discussing the mysterious wonders of our complex and unexplained universe.

Things to do in October: The Month of Outdoor Activities

 

 

It's hard to justify staying indoors when October weather comes. We are so fried from the summer and seeking the deep shadows and chill air of evenings outdoors.

And October doesn't just usher in great weather, it also ushers in as many events outdoors as summer does.

Halloween TV 2022

 

I really love this time of year for so many reasons, but sharing the Halloween tv lineup is a prominent fave - 

Doll's Head Trail and Doll Crafts

 

Finally shopping habits are taking on the healthy concept of reusing items, buying from thrift stores, turning trash into treasures. And, the abundance of cheap or even abandoned dolls makes for some really cool craft ideas and Halloween prop concepts.

Vintage Halloween: The Most Hated Treats in Your Trick or Treat Bag

 

Sure, sometimes as kids we got baked cookies, candied apples, or other homemade yummy treats, but upon occasion homeowners doled out some supposed treats that ended up in the trash or traded away for something tasty. 

Let's take a fun trek down memory lane at some of the worst treats ever - 

Worldwide Gateways to Hell

 

One of the worst curses locals could put on a location is to call it the gateway to hell. Here's just some locations around the world that earned the moniker - 

Autumn Scents

 

HOME AND LINEN SPRAY SPICE LATTE

Let's get the smell of the season started - 

Vintage Halloween Party

  

We are all a little fascinated and also creeped out by vintage Halloween pics.

1970s Halloweens

 

There were some wonderful Halloween specials in the 1970s. Halloween was just catching fire big time in popularity and nearly every single child trick or treated. I recall going out until midnight and carrying a pillowcase. We were greedy boogers and being part of the baby-boomer generation, there were a lot of us!

CANDY TAMPERING

There is a much darker side to Halloween in the 1970s - the tainted candy fears and sometimes urban legends.

I don’t know about ya’all, but my Halloweens as a kid were totally wild and free orgies in which the children ruled the streets. We carried pillowcases `cause we were cocky son-of-a-bitches and we figured it was going to carry our enormous amount of loot. In my area we knocked on doors until midnight and covered miles and miles of the suburbs. Whoever reached the townhouses knew they had done a huge haul because they were on the periphery of the subdivision.

Even though we were allowed to travel far and alone knocking at strangers’ doors and getting candy offerings from them and sometimes coins or apples (why even answer your door and waste both our time?) we still had to go home and have the candy examined. Then, the kids would begin with all the urban legends of razor blades in apples and ground glass in Bazooka bubble gum and poison injected into Tootsie Rolls. Ironically, it did not stop us from nibbling on the way home. Every candy the parents tossed out that had a loose wrapper caused a sigh of disappointment. Oh, why couldn’t it have been the candy corn, why the Snickers?

The most famous case of actual tampering came from the murder of an 8-year-old named Timothy in the mid 70s, who was actually killed by his father who laced his Pixie Stix with cyanide. And, just as people need to realize, we actually are at more threat by our own family more than strangers (which is why persons of interest are pretty much always a family member--comforting, huh?). This evil man also gave the candy to his daughter and some of her friends, but they hadn’t eaten the candy. This was apparently motivated by an insurance policy on the kid.

A woman named Helen Pfeil in 1964 was tired of older teenagers showing up for free candy so she handed out ant killer poison buttons to those kids. The packages contained steel wool, dog biscuits, and the ant buttons and were marked “poison” and with a skull and crossbones. She told the kids it was a joke and no one was hurt, still she was charged for potential harm.

A great deal of this legend comes from hysteria. Some years, fear of strychnine poisoning made companies and stores destroy packages, but once tested nothing unusual was found. Some children getting sick around Halloween sparked fear of poisoning. Children coming down with infections or dying on that particular day became linked to Halloween and more rumors began.

It’s not to say we shouldn’t continue to look for tampered candy and even better, do like I did and stand at the end of the sidewalk and wave to the person handing out the candy as a show of “I remember you giving my kid candy…”

Still, I have to admit that wicked scene in Halloween 2 where the kid and mom come into the hospital with the kid holding a cloth to her mouth with a razor blade sticking out of the tongue was pretty bad ass and gave me chills. I never did eat those apples on Halloween (but that’s probably because I had a pillowcase filled with candy)!


- Here's a priceless video about safety at Halloween -




Mass manufactured costumes were hitting the stores at Halloween time in the 1970s. Still, a great deal of kids enjoyed cutting eyes into a sheet to make a ghost or painting their faces and wearing a pointed hat to be a witch. What did 1970s kids want to be for Halloween?



















- See if any of these vintage photos resemble you in the 1970s -


























Pick up a collection of 1970s Halloween candy - 





- Some candies were delightfully inappropriate -

Schools in the 70s had no political correctness (thank goodness!) The kids all wore costumes to school and they celebrated Halloween fun.













- The games (can find many of these on ebay now) - 














- The songs of the 1970s Halloween -





We really were given the freedom to express ourselves in Halloween in the 1970s, whether it was costumes in school or knocking on doors late at night. We were surrounded by awesome TV specials and cute songs about Halloween, a huge array of candies, and enough spooky urban legends to keep us on guard and awaiting witches and full moons, monsters and egging.

AZ Halloween Markeplace! WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN

 

The AZ Halloween Marketplace

1960s Halloweens

 

If you were a kid in the 1960s, your Halloween was getting some serious momentum. The 50s started the craze, the 60s fortified it, ensuring that the 70s would be the last great decade of panhandling door to door for candy.

Look to the Skies! My favorite UAP and UFO channels on YouTube

 

Once I find a favorite YouTube channel, guided by educated, experienced, and intelligent hosts and experts, I am all over that! With the new acceptance of things in our air space we  can't identify, I'd like to see curious folks finding great sources of being updated and hearing from those in the expert-know.