everyday is halloween

haunted attractions have really become a staple of the scary season.  i remember when i was a wee lad halloween haunted houses were small scale affairs, or so they seemed to me.  haunted houses were always too frightening for me to visit them.  but i remember one sultry [yes, it is often very warm in october, & smoky (the smoke in the 1970s was from nearby rice farmers burning their fields which gave an acrid smell that for me, & i believe anyone who grew up in this region, the smell of autumn) now the smoke is often from nearby wildfires] the charity march of dimes hosted a haunted house & the local news did a story about it.  i recall the camera going down a long corridor, peeking in to a bathroom where a ghoul was sitting in the bathtub, & a frankenstein's monster was shuffling at the end of the hallway.  that freaked me way the fuck out.  still, i love haunted houses.  & with the interwebs i get to visit haunted attractions from all over the u.s.  this vlogger, who calls himself the carpetbagger, visits NETHERWORLD in georgia.  this haunted house is well known for its attention to detail as well as its animatronics.  & jacob the carpetbagger is a wonderful host as he leaps from fright to fright.  i really dig the museums dedicated to horror movie props & cryptids.  i have a fantasy - let's call it a bucket list, even tho i think the very concept of the bucket list is crap - that nick & i visit haunted houses during the scary season in the united states.  perhaps after he graduates college & he doesn't mind hanging out & humoring his crazy poet dad.  we'll drive across our wide & varied lands sampling the best of our halloween traditions & haunted attractions.  in the meantime, i must content myself to armchair travel & visit these places via writers & vloggers like the carpetbagger.

boo