Spook or Treat Answers to Truth of Fiction! ~ Calisa Rhose
Osiyo~
I promised to reveal the truth behind my Haunted Garden Blog Hop post stories so without dragging out the suspense, here they are!
Answers to this post:
- Does tossing a coin in the sea while speaking a chant break a curse?
According to my aunt who fell ill many years ago- She told me she visited her Faith Healer and this was the remedy offered to her and which she followed to a T.
Another witch’s curse… I asked about that, but she just responded with this strange, almost secretive laugh.
This is a TRUE story.
- Will an egg under bed cure fever?
My aunt claims to have personal knowledge this works, having used the method on her own children over the years.
I’ve never tried it. If you do, come back and share how it turns out!
TRUE only because I have just her word for it. LOL
- Does having your photos taken steal your soul?
I personally don’t believe this one. If it is true, I don’t expect to have a lot of soul left by the time I die. I’ll say this is FICTION.
- Did the man suffer beatings while locked up ‘safe’ in a jail cell?
Auntie won’t say she was responsible, but she doesn’t deny it either. I have asked her outright several times if she did it and all she says is, “Someone put a bad curse on him.”
TRUE- it happened. Even my mother who saw him, heard his story too, couldn’t explain it.
But then ~
- It was also my mother who also told me about her sister the first time I heard that chilling story- but she’s not the only one who told a version of my aunt’s death. This is a story with many more layers and elements to it. As creepy as it may seem, as incredulous as it sounds, I grew up hearing this story from various family members and, though each story differs slightly on a detail here or there- each version of the base facts have remained constant over the years.
Men, people, really are this evil. My cousin (that aunt’s only daughter) and I have tried to research it, at her request, and as seems to happen often in small town rural Midwest America, the records that could clear this up (or add more questions) was conveniently flooded in the 70s–and the sheriff is long-dead–effectively destroying all paper trails and evidence.
What I’ve told you is completely TRUE. (and if certain family members read this I’ll probably get some serious flack for sharing a family skeleton. Lol)
So there you have it. The answers to my spook stories. Yes, my life is one thrill after another! 😆
Have a Happy and Spooky Halloween!
**I hope you’ll come back tomorrow when Nano 2012 begins. Are you participating in this furious and crazy contest? Is it your first time, your fiftieth? Come share your National Novel Writing Month experiences!
I’ll also have a surprise for visitors on the Ranch Monday. Shhh- It’s a secret you’ll have to come back then to find out what it is!
Dodadagohvi~
Posted on 10/31/2012, in Blog Hop, Pen of the Dreamer, Promotion and tagged answers, Calisa Rhose, Halloween, haunted garden blog hop, NaNoWriMo, Pen of the Dreamer, the ranch, The Wild Rose Press, truth or fiction, twrp. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
love these old houses, make great photographs
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Thanks Sherry. I don’t know how, but your reply is on the wrong post. LOL
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Loved this post. Thanks for sharing your “skeletons.”
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Glad you came by to share Lilly. 😀
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I’m so glad you reminded us to come back and check out your true freaky life. (Love it!!)
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I’m glad you think it’s Freaky and not twisted! LOL Thanks Karen. 😀
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Yep, I got ’em right! I’ve known men like your aunt’s husband….who says small towns are dull?
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YAY for you getting them right! And that’s right. Never a dull moment is it, Diana? LOL
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oooh, thanks for clearing that up – and I’ve got the heebies and I only read the little you posted!
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LOL You’re funny Kristina! Thanks for stopping. All commenters here will also be entered in the contest–The lucky one will be announced Friday.
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You are my second gift certificate WINNER, Kristina!!!!!!
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Very interesting..love this type of stuff!!!
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Thanks Christine! 🙂 I do too.
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Wow! Consider me stunned. I was sure the one about your aunt had to be fiction. Those are definitely some unique and spooky skeletons in the closet.I’ve got goosebumps!
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If my family won’t disown me, I’ll post the story one day. But yeah- that one gives me the creeps. He’s dead now, but I always felt heebie jeebies around him BEFORE I knew the story! LOL
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