Caves are spooky, but add psychics and the spirits

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Caves are spooky, but add psychics and the spirits Oct 30, 2005 10:49:17 GMT -5

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Post by L Roebuck on Oct 30, 2005 10:49:17 GMT -5

Caves are spooky, but add psychics and the spirits really fly

You could hardly pick a spookier place to spend the pre-Halloween weekend.

Fantastic Caverns, with its breathtaking stalagmites and stalactites, in the dark Friday night, unlit until someone turns on the electric lights, is a scare-maker's dream. That's why Bridal Cave has an annual Halloween tour, including scary figures as you follow the cave trail, said Fantastic Caverns Public Relations Director Kirk Hansen.

"You can scare someone silly in a cave," Hansen said, sitting in an area of the cave near where the Ku Klux Klan held council meetings and then came out, in their brighty whiteys and hoods, to pronounce doom on someone.

But Hansen didn't open the cave after hours to scare anyone. He was contacted by Joyce Morgan, a psychic who will be featured on Court TV this Wednesday and the following Wednesday for her work in police cases. She talked to Hansen because she'd been reading about the cave's history. She and her crew wanted to see what they could feel in the mammoth, historic cave, which also served as a speak-easy during Prohibition.

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Caves are spooky, but add psychics and the spirits Oct 31, 2005 9:45:59 GMT -5

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Post by madratdan on Oct 31, 2005 9:45:59 GMT -5

Cave of the Winds tried a haunted trail to a cave one time, several years ago. Several of us project members dressed up and hid in the bushes to scare people. We had a great time, but it wasn't a big money maker for the cave, so they didn't try it again. A haunted cave tour does sound like a blast. Seems like the haunted house here in town that made the best money this year was rated "R", with a special PG showing tonight for the older kids. Sex and Gore is what sells, but not really a good combination for a Cave of the Winds tour.

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Caves are spooky, but add psychics and the spirits Oct 31, 2005 17:43:02 GMT -5

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Post by Azurerana on Oct 31, 2005 17:43:02 GMT -5

Onondaga Cave State Park does a haunted cave, with ghosts of historical characters associated with the cave on the final Saturday night before the cave closes on Oct. 31.

They have also done a more conventional haunted cave-- my husband dressed as a mad scientist with an extra arm for that one, a fright wig, and cyalume adjacent to (but not on) steaming dry ice.

Last Saturday night, we were part of a Creatures of the Night haunted trail at a state park with almost all igneous. I was Lucy the bat who couldn't stay awake--had my teddybat, a pillow and blankie and was liable to drop at any moment. Eugene was a blind cave salamander. We had been kidnapped from a cave and were trying to find our way home before sunlight (for him), beforeI fell asleep and before both of us froze to death outside. It was about 40 degrees, and with only costumes and long underwear on, we WERE freezing for a couple of hours and didn't have to pretend much. He had dark glasses on, whiteface, whitecoveralls, shoes, gloves and a clown balaclava.

Lots of fun! Now the neighborhood munchkins arrive. Sigh. In the Halloween rain.