COMMENT OF THE DAY: WHAT TO EXPECT ON THAT FIRST NIGHT IN YOUR NEW FUNERAL HOME “We are planning on buying a old [mortuary] that was built in the early 1900’s. Although I walk the old path & do a little dabbling in the Craft, even this is starting to creep me out. We are planning on [spending] our [first] night there around the 8th. of August. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE THAT HAS LIVED IN A MORTUARY / furnral home / Hauted house…what should I exspect ?????” [Tabby the Witch, commenting on Home Sweet Funeral Home: Washington Terrace Mortuary Seeks Residents]
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I had a friend who lived in a cemetery (the old caretakers house) who I occasionally spent the night with and I found it to be very peaceful. Not creepy at all.
Cemeteries: Best. Neighbors. Ever.
No noise, nice greenery, never ask to borrow your stuff. What’s not to like?
Yes, cemeteries are so nice that everybody’s dying to move in…
For advice, Blockbuster has tons of helpful movies… Amityville Horror, 13 Ghosts, Devil’s Backbone, Session 9, The Innocents… but I think you’d get the most constructive use from The Shining; what with the self defense tactics and all.
I did for a while. In Texarkana my family bought the old Texarkana Funeral Home in which the downstairs was the funeral home and the upstairs was the living quarters. The family turned the downstairs into medical offices and stayed upstairs for a while. Years later we converted the upstairs into law offices. All I remember is that old buildings creak and have noises. And, I guess because of the background of the building’s background it makes you a little jumpy. Otherwise, nothing else to report.
What’s the big deal? people are already dead when they get to the mortuary – it’s just handling at that point.
SCARY is where the un-dead wander aimlessly seeking revenge!!!!!! like along every highway in town.
Speaking of: I really like the memorials constructed at “death-sites” along roadways: They honor the deceased and alert us to risks, causing us to reflect on how easy it is to die in traffic accidents.
I first saw this memorial custom on Grand Cayman Island where signs were erected at the sites of traffic fatalities. Years ago there were only a few, and, the twisted, rusty car wreckages were left in-situ as well. It was vivid and effective: Like performance-art really; Printed in white on the circular, black signs: “Accident Black Spot.”
_Although I walk the old path & do a little dabbling in the Craft, even this is starting to creep me out._
No, the fact that you openly admit to practicing witchcraft creeps most everyone else out.
Trent Reznor bought an old funeral home a couple of blocks from my house in New Orleans. That’s where Marilyn Manson recorded AntiChrist Superstar (it figures). Never met them, but never heard any tales.
One advantage is good parking. Reznor or his hangers on kept jet skis there.
” ‘Although I walk the old path & do a little dabbling in the Craft, even this is starting to creep me out.’
No, the fact that you openly admit to practicing witchcraft creeps most everyone else out.”
Um, yeah….ditto to that.
Maybe the ghosts you are about to encounter will scare you into using your spell check or better yet how to spell properly.
“_Although I walk the old path & do a little dabbling in the Craft, even this is starting to creep me out._
No, the fact that you openly admit to practicing witchcraft creeps most everyone else out.”
I’m much more creeped out by religious bigotry.
I lived for 2 years in the one I now operate as a restaurant/bar/dancehall here in Marfa. Great layout for the living or dead. No, very quiet and nice. I did have to basically rebuild the thing from scratch, but the original adobe walls are intact. Room placement is the same, and I re-used the wood floors and ceiling shiplap. View some pics at http://www.padresmarfa.com Videos of the place under re-construction are viewable on YouTube by searching Padre’s- David Beebe