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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Spook-a-licious: Where Books Devour You: Blog Hop Tour Oct. 17-24


TOUR RULES:
1) HAVE FUN!!!

2) INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

3) THIS TOUR STARTS: Monday, October 17, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
THIS TOUR ENDS: Monday, October 24, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
Winners will be drawn and posted October 25th! ***

4) MEET AND MINGLE WITH ALL THE AUTHORS AND BOOK PAGES!  EXPERIENCE A NEW DESTINATION AT EVERY STOP!  PARTICIPATE IN EVERY BLOG CONTEST AND BE ENTERED FOR CHANCES TO WIN MULTIPLE PRIZES!  EVERY BLOG VISITED IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN.

5) PARTICIPATION AT ALL BLOGS IS RECOMMENDED, BUT NOT REQUIRED. REMEMBER, THE MORE BLOGS YOU HOP, THE BETTER YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING PRIZES. EVERY AUTHOR & BOOK PAGE IS WAITING TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH YOU, SO PLEASE BE SURE TO SHOW THEM SOME LOVE!

6) HAVE FUN!


***Authors & Book Pages have full discretion to choose an alternate winner in the event any winner fails to claim their prize(s) within 72 hours of their name being posted or after notification of win, whichever comes first. Anyone who participates in this blog hop tour is subject to these rules***
And now for some fun!

Do you believe in ghosts?  Lots of people do.  Look at the 1959 photo below.  Mabel Chinnery had just spent the day at the cemetery visiting her mother’s grave. To finish off a roll of film she snapped a picture of her husband who was seated in the front seat of the car waiting on her.  She had the pictures developed and I’m betting her skin started to crawl.  In one of the pictures her dead mother is sitting in the back seat of the car.  Shudder.  Picture and story at http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphotos/ig/Best-Ghost-Photos/The-Back-Seat-Ghost.htm


This picture was taken in 1967 at Gettysburg and shows a Civil War soldier at Devil’s Den.  (Picture from Secret Crypt.com) 



This picture absolutely gives me the willies!  This is a World War I English squadron attached to the HMS Daedalus training facility.  After the group had its picture made, they spotted someone who shouldn’t be there.  Two days before the picture was taken, Freddy Jackson had been killed by a flying propeller.  They’d had his funeral the very day the photo was taken.  See the man behind the guy in the closeup?  Everyone identified him as Freddy Jackson.



Okay, enough about ghosts.  Would you like to win something to read?  I’m giving away a PDF copy of A New Dream by yours truly.  To win, follow my blog and leave a comment telling me you did so.  If you already follow, leave a comment and say so.  If you’d like to double your chances of winning, tell someone else about me.  Post something about me on FB, your blog, at Goodreads, etc.  Then leave a comment telling me where you posted.  That’s it! 

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19 comments:

  1. thank you for hosting a giveaway on the blog hop

    Terri M
    oklahomamommy0306@gmail.com

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  2. yah that last pic was ubber creapy!
    good luck to all!!

    terri_dion@hotmail.com

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  3. I've seen that picture of the soldiers somewhere before. Always fascinating!

    reading_frenzy at yahoo dot com

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  4. i love the ghost
    i belve them and have caught them on camera elvis and other
    desitheblonde@msn.com

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  5. I've seen a lot of different photos like the one with the soldier. It's amazing how objects can cast or capture a similar pose of a human face. Even when I've stared into a fire I can sometimes see objects form, its quite interesting. I love believing in the paranormal and hope that one day is will be discovered as being real, I'd love to know that others exist on another plain, I think it would make death being part of life not so dreadful as it comes close to us.

    Happy Halloween!

    mrsqueentutt@yahoo.com

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  6. I love seeing pictures like that. Thanks for the giveaway.
    GFC PamM
    Kydirtgirl68 AT gmail DOT com

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  7. What an interesting selection of pictures, Elaine.

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  8. Those pictures are very interesting and rather chilling.
    Old GFC follower JeanP

    skpetal at hotmail dot com

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  9. Thank you for participating in the blog hop. Your pictures were a great 'scary' piece for halloween.

    frizeda

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  10. Thanks for being part of the hop. I'm a GFC Follower.
    Renee
    reneebennett35 at yahoo dot com

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  12. Very spooky pictures, gives me the chills. I always have really liked Halloween, scary movies were my favorite when I was growing up, not so much now though...

    Thanks for participating in the Blog Hop :)
    GFC follower: Eva Perez

    evitap67(at)gmail(dot)com

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  13. Just stopping by my fellow Blog Hoppers and checking everyone out...
    Love the pictures... Ubber Creepy!!!

    Kelly
    Books-n-Kisses

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  14. no need to enter me. im just stoppin by to say hi to a fellow blog hopper! awesome post and great pics.

    Lindsey

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  15. I followed :)

    shadowestr@aol.com

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  16. Oh my goodness, Elaine!!! Those pix are spooooooooky! Perfect for this blog hop, too. WOW. I'm still shivering.

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  17. Thanks for the giveaway and for participating in this blog hop! These pictures are just too cool! I have seen the first one before but not the last two. The last one was definitely eerie! I'm a new follower via GFC and Twitter (MamaHendo3).

    Tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/MamaHendo3/status/128303137609105408

    BornajhawkATaolDOTcom

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  18. GFC follower - beckerjo

    thanks for the giveaway

    beckerjo at verizon dot net

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