I just thought Jaime and Mike would be interested to know I heard on WGN news this morning that this year Savannah Georgia is reported to have the best and most Haunted houses. Each year I guess they rate them and Georgia has had them before but this is the first time in Savannah. I think you 2 should go take a look and let us know how good they are.

Mom, Savannah IS in Georgia...maybe you should come visit & you would know that

Savannah has more ghost tours and haunted stories than any place I've heard. We don't have the cool above-ground cemeteries like New Orleans, but Factor's Walk can be really scary at night.

If anyone comes down to visit, we can give the personalized ghost tour.

Hey Mom Of 3.

If you have not visited Savannah you're missing out! I, (and my husband) visited there
maybe twenty years ago, and we talk about going back. We get to Georgia once or twice
a year, but around Atlanta. If you go, be advised, people move S L O W in Georgia.

OK Jaime just cause it is your b-day I will let you slide. I meant that others cities in the state of Georgia have been rated as having the best haunted houses before but this is the first time Savannah got the highest rating. And yes I know where Georgia is.

We don't have to go anywhere. According to Jaime, our house is haunted.

Really, though, it is kind of a creepy city.

Apparently sometime long ago, they needed to widen the road, so they paved over the cemetery. This is the same cemetery that has a "wall of tombstones" which the corresponding graves and bodies seem to have been misplaced. Hmmm. Maybe they're under the road?

There is another cemetery with a tombstone that reads, I kid you not, "See, I told you I was sick."

Mike

Just a little more on Colonial Park Cemetery.

The story goes that the land was originally part of large plantation. One night the owners were having a large dinner party and the house caught fire. Being that this was the early 1700's there was no fire department to put out the all-timber-construction manor.

The owners were good natured people and instead of freaking out, they simply moved the entire party out to the back garden. They are said to have toasted each other as they watched the house burn.

Some say that they can still hear glasses clinking and laughter when they are in or near the cemetery. I haven't heard anything...yet.

This isn't about a haunted house. It's about haunted candy. That's right, haunted
candy.
I buy three or four bags of candy for Halloween. I warn Himself to keep his paws
out of it and I put it way up in the very top shelf of my cupboard. I tell myself to
forget all about it. But, the darn candy is haunted. It calls out to me all day
long. Just eat a few pieces... no one will ever know, it says. I can't get away from
it...the whole house is filled with the sound of that haunted candy.

The haunting is much worse at night. I can't go to sleep because those little
Butterfingers are bumping in the cupboard. I hear them taunting me with sounds like
CRISPETY, CRUNCHETY, PEANUT-BUTTERY FUN SIZE UMMMM, and
then the Almond Joys join in... COCONUT AND ALMONDS COVERED WITH
MILK CHOCOLATE, COME GET US....NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!
I give in...,well, what do you expect? I can't take it any more. I run to the kitchen,
grab a stool climb onto the counter and get the bags from the top shelf and tear them
open. I stuff a couple in my mouth, paper and all. I'm sitting on the stool reading the
nutrition facts, 100 calories and 4 fat grams per little tiny bar, but that does not stop
me.
Himself comes stumbling into the kitchen, mumbling, "What the he$$ is going on?"
"It's HAUNTED, THIS CANDY IS HAUNTED, IT GOT ME OUT OF BED." I
tell him to have some and since he has been doing what I tell him for over fifty years,
we both sit there in the kitchen, in the middle of the night eating haunted candy.

Now, I have to buy more candy for all the little ghosts and goblins who will be
around on Halloween. The plan is to race to the grocery store at the first sighting of a
trick or treater on Halloween night, not a second before. The rest of the strategy is to
stand outside and pass out the candy. I will not bring any more Halloween candy into
my house. I know it's haunted! Has this happened to anyone else?

Madtown, We have had our candy here now for about a week. This being Tuesday night we only have 2 more days to go. We have been good so far even though it is calling to us all the time. WE have of course only bought what we like. The weather outlook for Halloween doesn't look good. COLD and a chance of SNOW. We are praying that the weather people are right. In past years when it is cold, rainy or snowy kids tend to stay home. God I feel like the Grinch. Maybe we will be the Grinch who stole Halloween. Yummy yummy yummy!!!!

No, no, Mo3, you are not a grinch. You are just concerned that the little ones should not be out in the cold, and on a school night too. Besides all that candy isn't good for them. and it's bad for the teeth. You know, I think dentists are behing Halloween.

MT

Madtown I told you about this Damn candy. Calling our names but we were good and didn't eat any before Halloween. Well weather wasn't too bad. We just moved into this place in April. A townhouse. There is a park just outside our building. There are many kids playing there all the time. So we went and bought enough candy to cover what I think would of been enough and then a little for us. We had, are you ready for this 18 kids. So I am in my glory!!!! Maybe I will finally gain some weight or have to see a dentist real soon.

You know what? I stopped at the store
For bread and milk only, not anything more

But, all of a sudden, my cart had its own mind
And pulled me to an isle with candy of every kind

Then all the candy jumped into a bag
And filled my cart till it started to sag

What could I do? I have no will power
Now I'm stuffing my mouth every hour

MT