Thread: Jan. Wind chill -15 and PEOPLE!

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Cold out tonight yet I saw a total of 24 people here tonight going through the house for the tour!
They appeared as 9 then 3, then 10 more , then 2 more.
The last couple , the 30 yr. old man was wearing a tee-shirt!??
Go figure?

Well, Gym, what’s that old saying...neither cold , nor rain, nor dark of night...it’s great that you’re still busy in January!! When you’re good, you’re good, huh?

Personally, I think the cold lends itself more to fright and a scary atmosphere. Mr L and I went to Universal Halloween Horror Nights one year and waited in line, elbow to elbow, for over three hours in the humid, sticky FL heat. By the time we got in the haunted house we were nothing but cranky. I’d rather wait in the cold...shivers tend to up my scary anticipation more.

It is never too cold to get a chill!

To a certain degree , you all are right. Remember how people have always said supernatural things about chills and the cold? "I felt a chill go right through my bones, a ghost must have passed through me" or "Someone just walked over my future grave!"
"You can always tell when a ghost is in the room, you feel that cold spot?"
So as they enter my wine cellar where it remains 52 degrees year-round....yes, it helps set the mood, as if that room's design didn't already do that!
One large "cold spot" 31 feet by 16 feet with a 12 foot high stone arch ceiling.
Upstairs there have been some "Hot Spots" (besides in the bedroom).
A woman who was in this house during the 1920's told me how mystfied they all were by this "Hot Spot" because there was nothing there that could have created any heat. A psychic also identified this same spot. What does this mean? I don't know?
I think one of the major problems the former owners had in renting the apartments out was the terrible heating design of this house. Big hot water radiators fed by very small pipes with no insulation on them!??
Pipes as small as one's pinky finger!
All they could do was "Pray For Spring!"

When the temps got bone chilling cold here the news/weather ppl were warning folks that it only takes 20 minutes for serious problems to set in and they were advising everyone that needed to or the diehards that wanted to go out to cover all exposed skin. Remember the movie the day after tomorrow and the scene where ppl immediatly froze when exiting their copters? If the folks that made it out had fun, didnt suffer any problems i say good for them, have a good time.

Well Gym, it looks like I should have waited until saturday to take the tour, you know "The more the merrier"
But I rather enjoyed being able to talk to you and get a more personal tour of your haunt, which my wife and I enjoyed immensly.
Especially the ride down the chute from the bed, God I loved that.
I'd be willing to pay to play on it all day, it was almost as good as sex, well ALMOST.

Wife said she was afraid to try it because of her back, but I think it was more than that.
She told me on the way home that I was there one minute then I was gone.
And that kinda scared her.
Bet she would like to have that happen around here sometimes.

Yeah, it was cold, but very enjoyable, I look forward to coming back when it is warmer.
Hope your cold is going away and you feel better soon.

"Feels like 3 degrees here tonight" , says the weather info.
Guess what? 10 people showed up for a tour , then played hide and seek for another hour! All of them work in another haunted house in October and only two of them had been here before.
When the month of December was incredibly warm...not many people showed up!??
That's the way it sometimes goes with a business, you just never know?

This is a thought....bare with me.........maybe with all the world goings ons, horrbile weather...... ppl just need an escape from the news, weather etc.......look at during the depression when movies like the wizard of oz came out and gone with the wind......it gave ppl a temporary escape from their daily problems........think this could be the case?

It has also been pointed out by others (a long time ago) that those famous Monster movies all were the escape entetainment from the real villians faced in world war two.
As scary as Frankenstien, Mummy, Dracula might be, they were always defeated by the end of the movie (or seemed to be) These movies weren't made during those war years but they became very popular and were reshown many times.
The human mind likes to feel reassured that problems have solutions. The on-going political problems with other countrys and the leaders of those countrys never seem to lend themselves to anything like a good, perminent solution.
Movies usually pander to this desire and for that short period of time we can feel better about everything.
People coming in my house might think they have an idea about what may await them here but everyone is usually wrong.
90 minutes later they will have laughed, screamed, jumped, jerked ,pondered, wondered and physically their body traveled about 1/3 of a mile, indoors, outdoors, from the highs of the cupola on the roof to the lows of the wine cellar below the basement.
Almost everyone going through here lose all track of time.