Happy Halloween Legend Trippers.

Happy Halloween Legend Trippers! 

Hey Legend Trippers, believe it or not, Halloween is my favorite Holiday. I have fond memories of dressing up as a ghost, Sinbad the sailor, and the Catman for the rock group KISS. When I was living at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, a television station out of Boston would traditionaly air this Japanese cartoon called “Peter and the Witch”. I loved watching it before headed out for the evening to get candy. My brother and I would walk for miles, getting candy from all over the place. We would then come home and my father would inspect our loot. He said he was inspecting the candy for razor blades and other dangerous items. What he really was doing was pulling all the Reese’s peanut butter cups out for himself. For the record, I never got to taste a peanut butter cup until I joined the military. I also remember being stuck with Sweet Tarts candy after all the good stuff was gone. I’d end up throwing them away. We usually lived on an Army base, so after Trick or Treating was done, we would all head over to the recreation center for the big Halloween carnival and see if you could win the costume contest. "Man, those were good times!"

 

 

Now I enjoy Halloween by turning my house into a haunted one and giving out wax fangs. I bought  a a huge inflatable haunted castle, which I set up in the front yard. I would put one sons ,in monster costume, in the castle, turn the fog machine on and the scary sounds, and Presto!, I have the best house on Halloween that year. Another I like to do ,with my kids being all grown up now, is it to get together and go all to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal. 

Now as far as legends go, when I was going to school at Lansing Kansas, we (the high school kids) use to go to these railroad tracks outside of town, at night. Of course, Halloween was the customary night to do this. We would then turn all the lights off, watch down the tracks and wait. At midnight a light would appear and it would get bigger. Legend has it that back in the 1800’s a railroad worker, while working near the tracks, had been decapitated by a passing train. His head was never recovered. From that day on, people would report seeing a strange light on the tracks at night going up and down them. If you approached the light, it would disappear and reappear further down the tracks. It was said that it was the ghost of the railroad worker looking for his head. We use to dare each other to run up to the light. I think you can still go out there as see this light.

Happy Halloween Everybody!