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Trick Or Treat
Just
a bunch of
monsters
Looking for some
treats
Hoping for some
goodies
Good enough to
eat
Took our time to
dress up
Thought of it
all year
Please no penny
candies
They seem to
disappear
Like those big
fat chocolates
Forget those
bellyaches
Mommy will
inspect them
She'll say they
tasted great
Monsters on a
rampage
Looking for some
stash
Hoping in the
special bag
We'll find a
little cash
Pennies by the
handful
Nickels by the
pound
Monsters by the
dozen
With pockets to
the ground
Really we're not
choosey
Just delightful
guests
Happy that it's
Halloween
Hoping you're
impressed.
~
Francine
Pucillo
~
©used
with permission.
And Here Is A Little
Something For All Of
The Adults Out There
The USS Sullivan
Captain Miller of 'Saving Private Ryan' wasn’t there to save the five Sullivan Brothers. Maybe if he were, things would've been different. When the five Sullivan Brothers' ship sank near Guadalcanal in World War II, the family earned the unwanted distinction of the greatest wartime loss to an American family. Although they didn't have a Hollywood movie made about their lives, the five Sullivan Brothers continue to make their presence known by haunting the USS Sullivan in dry dock in Buffalo Naval Park on the Niagara. Every Friday the 13th, rumor has it, the five brothers appear on the ship that bears their name. Their five floating forms have been seen walking on air through the ship. In 1993, the grisly apparition of a horribly burned figure appeared in front of a security guard. Other horrifying incidents have included the disembodied voices of the brothers playing a craps game, electrical malfunctions aboard the ship and an invisible voice calling out, ''Hey, you!'' -- perhaps to remind us that the cost of war is with us still.
Written By Laura Picard
Source: Winfield, Mason. 'Haunted Sites and Ancient Mysteries of Upstate New York.' Western New York Wares, Inc., 1997.
Devil's Hole
Vacationing near Niagara Falls? Here's a tip on a site to avoid: the Devil's Hole. Located near U.S. 62, this spot is renowned for its paranormal activity and causing its visitors a stream of bad, bad luck. The site earned its name from the Seneca Indians, who believed that the Hole was actually home to the Evil One -- the spirit who actually oversaw the activities of all that were malevolent. The spirits themselves are generally not malevolent, but they are sad; lurking spirits are generally there as a result of a violent accident or some other manifestation of the Hole's bad luck. On July 1, 1917, the Great Gorge Route Trolley -- which President William McKinley visited mere hours before his 1901 assassination -- derailed, sending at least 50 passengers straight to their death. Their tragic deaths only served to add to the Hole's lethal aura.
Source: Blackman, W. Haden. 'The Field Guide to North American Hauntings.' Three Rivers, New York, 1998.
Thunder Waters
Niagara Falls is home to many deaths-by-jumping. Both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls have their own ghosts; the American side is populated by the Great Spirit of Thunder Waters, a Native American spirit who the Iroquois made sacrifices to on the falls. But the Canadian side's spirits are more active, and generally from more tragic beginnings. Near Horseshoe Park, an attractive female apparition known as the Maiden of the Mist has often risen from the waters. She is surmised to be the Native American maiden Lewlawala, who leapt to her death as a protest against marrying a man she did not love. Lore claims that her leap was cushioned by another omnipotent spirit, He-No the Thunderer. He-No, it's said, granted Lewlawala immortality and made her his wife; spirit-watchers claim that a cave beneath Horseshoe Falls remains the couple's home to this day.
As Told By Mary Jones
Source: Blackman, W. Haden. 'The Field Guide to North American Hauntings.' Three Rivers, New York, 1998.
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