Why People Like Scary Stories

 

Image thanks to Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

I think when the day is saved at the end of an end of the world disaster movie or armageddon film, there is great relief and then we thank our lucky stars we are still here! It is good to be able to say "not here not now."      

But then as for grade B horror films, sometimes I watch them because they can be so silly and humorous and sometimes I watch them because of the bizarre and/or gruesome image. The film industry got in trouble when TV could air movies so they had to make money making grade B sensational films. Is there anyone out there that doesn't want to see what The Blob looks like or The Mushroom People?      

But then I can't stand much that is a scary more-human image like zombies--I can't look at zombie depictions, whether ads or movies; I see them and run. For me the almost human scary image or alienated human state is too close for comfort.      

Yet, I do often write horror, but only the type of horror I can stand and not have gruesome nightmares about.     

See my library video on my website/Sandusky Library YouTube page on Hansel and Gretel and horror and why people like horror and what Stephen King has had to day about it! You can find the video on my website under MEdia and Videos or you can go directly to YouTube with this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMYMolUbiqQ...

The Witch of November

(Photo from Wikki)

Ahh, November10. My birthday, Neil Gaiman's birthday same day same year, he born just a few hours ahead of me, my astro bro. Then, fifteen years later the same day came "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when "the witch of November" comes, as it says in Gordon Lightfoot's song, as is said by the lake locals here--it is part of our folklore. I am a Great Lakes Girl (I mean 'Girl' with all due respect-- I was born on the Great Lakes and grew up on here and stayed my whole life here). The ship was on its way along the Great Lakes to Cleveland, where I was born, that fateful day, which was on my 15th birthday. And not the same year of course but my and the Marine Corps birthday are on the same day, Nov. 10. Very good day to be born, at18 degrees Scorpio if you know deep-dive (an overused phrase I can barely stand by now!) astrology and not just popular astrology. Here's that witchy song, link below.  

https://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw?si=-hZv6WATLlDUBQZs

My heart goes out to all those on the ship that went down. There is a sea captain who lives on the lake, who some of my friends know. who was on the Edmund Fitgerald many tmes before it ever sank  I hear he tells Great lake and sea stories. I hope to hear some someday. When I do I will see if he will give me permission to tell some to my readers.

.I was also aboard the HMS Bounty (of the Pirates of the Caribbean) one day, I forget hiw long it was then  before it sank in the hurricane in the Atlantic  and still have pics of me on it. 

I have posted and written about both these shipwrecks before on Facebook and other places. I tend to post or write something about it every year on my birthday. I can't seem to find on YouTube anymore the original video I used to post with the actual news footage in it that was not blurry in spots like this video is. Also I liked how at the end of the other one it showed the faces and brief writeups about each person on the ship that went down with it. 

Not everything about my birthday is gloomy, of course, but this does always give me a somber note to think about befoe my birthday festivities renew my celebration of life. 

And again,, Happy Birthday to one of my astrological Water Sign Scorpio soul mates Neil Gaiman. I admire his writings, his books, his storytelling. 

For images of the Edmund Fitgerald, go to https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2014/11/07/rare-
photos-edmund-fitzgerald/18642865/