Working on a mask for the next episode of Beyond These Haunted Streets: BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS. Coming along nicely, I think. 🙂
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When you hop on the train remember to check the destination. While not on the schedule, rumor has it there are lines that have only one stop, and it's the End of the Line.
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Photo of a beautifully rendered antique iron fence with sharp points, curving leaves, and a twisted spiral finial in an onion shape rising to a point. In the background we can see the arched doorway of an apartment building, surrounded by another stone arch supported by ionic columns. They literally don't make them like this anymore.
The city's builders used to surround homes and apartment buildings with cold iron. There were good reasons for that. As many of the missing have discovered...
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ICYMI my review of Rosemary’s Baby… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/r...
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My review of Rosemary’s Baby: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/r...
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The dark girder-lined alley running beneath the elevated tracks in Uptown Chicago. Empty, lit with pools of light and shadow. And unseen ghosts? You'll have to walk beneath them and see what you hear...
2 million people ride CTA trains each year. Also, 9-11 people die jumping or straying onto the tracks. Statistically, a very low number. But the rails are over 100 years old. That's a lot of ghosts, whispering beneath them: "Take my place...
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A few years back I was lucky enough to direct this little nightmare with the help of a tiny but excellent cast and crew of collaborators. Use what you have! Tell your stories!
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Has anyone else seen this atmospheric and trippy folk-horror journey into the underworld?
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The looming dark shape of interlaced tree branches against a foggy background, lit up at night by lights from the buildings. Taken form the Loyola Red Line stop - the station sign is visible in the foreground.
I *love* Chicago - a city of stories: history, mystery, and legend. I want to add to its mythology. I want to re-enchant its streets.
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He is watching.
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goddess. Looming cathedral lit from below at night.
St. Ita's Church in Andersonville. Ita of Killeedy "The Brigid of Munster" is a saint with snakes and stars as her symbols. Almost certainly started as an Irish goddess.
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Brilliant surreal silent short where spirits of vengeance are born from spilled blood. From innovative director Slavko Vorkapich.
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People pray for their dead loved ones to return. But when they actually do, there's all this running and screaming...
(Testing out the mini-fog machine I got for Yul.)
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Great creepy local lore. I filmed in that building once - it definitely still has a spooky vibe.
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A faded 70s photo of a scarecrow-like witch effigy against trees and power lines.
In the 70's in Chicago and nearby suburbs there was a Halloween tradition of burning witch effigies on a big public bonfire before a large crowd. Harmless community fun, or whispers of darker forces like Mary Worth or The Thorn Witch? #FolkHorror #UrbanWyrd #TheThornWitch #IndieHorror #ChicagoGothic
Today, the Windy City is home to plenty of benevolent practicing Witches. But in 1919, belief in darker forces was very much alive in Chicago. Unjust slander? Misunderstood magick practices? Or dark sorcery that still lingers beneath the city's surface?
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A Ghost Train on the Red Line in the middle of Rush Hour? Is this eerie feeling invisible riders long dead?
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Photo of busy Chicago street circa 1909 with text quote: "More people believe in Witches in Chicago than ever believed in them in Salem." from Chicago Daily Tribune, August 23rd 1903
Some beliefs never fade.
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Looking down a dark apartment hallway bathed in blue light. At the end of the hall in the dark is a warm flickering light.
What is that flickering light at the end of the hall? Are those voices? Who islaughing?
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The building is abandoned. There's no power. It's four floors down. Is that a light in the sub-basement?
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I can't help it. It is a blatent plug. The short story collection I wrote with Hammer music expert David Huckvale is available from lulu.com. 50 tales of shattered nerves and cracked concrete, all set in abandoned spaces. #liminalspaces #urbanwyrd #horrorstories #hauntology #psychogeography
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The #horror #podcast I was a guest on just dropped! Give it a listen for a deep dive on it all + bunch of great film/book recs. Thx to Paul, Rowan, and Premee for the lovely discussion. 🤘🏼
You also get to hear my voice (VERY weird, for me) 😱
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