Showing posts with label dark zone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dark zone. Show all posts

10/15/2025

His Hideous Heart

Welcome Halloween Post Readers

As Halloween rapidly approaches I find my blog is behind in updates. I will rectify that as of now with this following post. 

The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more distinct: --It continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definiteness --until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears.

No doubt I now grew very pale; --but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased --and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound --much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath --and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly --more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. 

Why would they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men --but the noise steadily increased. Oh God! what could I do? I foamed --I raved --I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder --louder --louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. 

Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! --no, no! They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

As always, Edgar Allen Poe has come through once again. I promise more Halloween posts in the upcoming days. I guarantee it.


Happy Halloween 


LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL



10/02/2025

Halloween Beginnings 2025

Happy early Halloween bitches and bastards. Its October 2nd and the Halloween season is now upon us all. I'm ready for the season. Are you? Well, you better be for this year we will certainly supply plenty of sexy Halloween sirens, adult costumes, and ghost stories. 

Plus haunted video from conventions, demons from hell, ripe melons, haunted tips, urban legends, and our own special blend all things Halloween. 

I ask, no wait, encourage, no wait, behoove you to check our blog daily for the month of October including a little bit of Edgar Allen Poe. Yes, Poe. 
I said it, I'm doing it, so there. 

Happy Halloween 


LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

11/04/2024

Eddies Grill Back Patio Geneva On The lake

 


So, yes I know I missed the Halloween season. And yes, it is my upmost favorite time of the year. October is the time of year where my blog flourishes with wonderful people, (And some crazy people) coming to see what is up in my town during All Hallows Eve. I love reading all the comments from each post. And I must say, many are very clever, and mostly humorous. (I get paid for doing this) LOL

Anyway, this post is a first of its kind for the Grassy Knoll Institute. Take a close look at the Eddies Grill billboard above. See that crazy guy holding a spatula and a famous Eddies Grill cheeseburger? (Go ahead, I'll wait a few seconds) 

Yes, Eddies Grill, located on Geneva On The Lake, is now closed. Eddies closed early September and will reopen on Mothers Day weekend in May of 2025. 

Getting back. See that guy smiling. Wearing glasses. That's me. The Curator of the Grassy Knoll Institute. 

I know this is not a Halloween themed post, but hey, I do look a little spooky. OK, a lot spooky. 

However, its taken me 45 years working at my job to get this far. And I have had so much fun working. 

But, last week I retired. Halloween day was my last day. 

Anyway, as I have stated in past Halloween posts, I am not leaving my blog. I will be the last person blogging, even if I am the last one. In fact, I welcome that. 

I am making a promise that I will have at least 20 Halloween posts for the 2025 October season. I guarantee this statement. 

I patiently await comments. Please let them fly. Or swim. Or walk. Or Waltz. 

Happy Halloween (Or November)


LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/03/2019

Its Showtime Halloween 2019



It's Showtime Bitches.

This Halloween season the Grassy Knoll Institute had a difficult time securing a Ghost Host. Many guests were interviewed. Many guests were turned down. Until we asked Beetlejuice what his qualifications were....

His reply...
Ahh, Well... I attended Juillard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT... NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY... NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK??? You think I'm qualified?

Yes, the Grassy Knoll Institute believes Beetlejuice is qualified. After all, he's the ghost with the most...
Qualified enough to host the 2019 Halloween Dark Zone main event.

This year, we have a bevy of sexy Halloween sirens. Many outlandish adult Halloween costumes. Real ghost stories. Wild haunted video from Halloween conventions. Demons from Hell. Big ripe Halloween melons. Haunted house tips, urban legends, and our own special blend of all things Halloween. Check back daily as we will be updating continuously throughout the month of October.


Happy Halloween

LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/30/2018

Halloween Upon Us

"Cue John Carpenters Halloween theme!"

It's October 2018 and that means the poppies in the enchanted Wizard Of Oz fields are in full bloom. It also signals that Halloween is right around the corner. The Dark Zone has plenty of tricks and treats for you this October guaranteed to scare the Helloween out of you. 

Please check back here at the Dark Zone today and tomorrow for updates on everything pertaining to Halloween including sexy costumes, huge melons, ghost stories, haunted house critiques, urban legends, and our own special blend of Halloween humor.  

Halloween is coming!

Happy Halloween

LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/17/2013

Vlad The Impaler Video


Vlad The Impaler, better known as Dracula, makes a sensational entrance as the cement tombstone looking doors swing open revealing Vlad in all his glory. Vlad was at the entrance of the Dark Zone at the St. Louis Halloween trade show. Vlad was a perfect welcome prop. And, Vlad doesn't sparkle like those other sissy vampires you see on TV these days. 

Happy Halloween


LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/05/2013

The Sixth Level Of Hell Video

Inside the pits of Hell, also known as the Dark Zone at the Halloween trade show in St. Louis, I filmed these quick six dark room props perfectly suited for an upscale haunted house. These props can be either automated or triggered by motion or pressure. I especially love the flying vampire. Great audio.  Happy Halloween
LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/01/2013

I See Dead People - And Boobs

Sexy Halloween Babes In Bikinis
Happy Sexy Halloween 2013
It's October and that means not only have the tree leaves fallen and changed colors but also that Halloween is right around the corner. For 2013 the Halloween Dark Zone has plenty of tricks and treats for you this October. 

We are chock full of some very sexy Halloween sirens, outlandish adult Halloween costumes, real ghost stories, wild video from Halloween conventions, demons from Hell, big ripe Halloween melons, haunted house tips, urban legends, and our own special blend of all things Halloween. Check back daily as we will be updating continuously throughout the month of October.

Halloween Fact #1: The Miley Cyrus Twerking costume will be the #1 Halloween costume this year followed closely by a sober Lindsay Lohan and her tag-Along mother combo.

Happy Halloween


LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/31/2012

Happy Halloween 2012

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2012 FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL INSTITUTE
Happy Halloween to all the readers of the Grassy Knoll Institute. I hope you enjoyed the bevy of beauties in our sexy Halloween costumes pages plus our bumper crop of Halloween melons. I appreciate your patronage and commenting through all these years. With the ever changing Internet experience as everything is shifting to smart phone access and 140 characters or less, the non commercial personal blog is quickly becoming extinct. I do not know what is in store for next year, or even tomorrow, or the direction this blog will take if any but once again I appreciate the patronage.

Happy Halloween




LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

9/30/2011

And Nothing Will Ever Be The Same


It's astounding, Time is fleeting, Madness takes its toll.
But listen closely... Not for very much longer.
I've got to keep control.

I remember doing the time-warp, Drinking those moments when,
The Blackness would hit me, And the void would be calling...
Let's do Halloween again.
Let's do Halloween again.


With a bit of a mind flip the 2011 Halloween season is upon us. Haunted houses are already on their second weekend, decorations dot residential houses, hay rides are at capacity, and the Halloween Dark Zone is dying to reveal the hottest adult Halloween costumes, plus home grown giant melons, urban legends, demons, ghosts, and all things Halloween.

Check the Dark Zone frequently as we will be updating continuously throughout the month of October.

And nothing will ever be the same.

Happy Halloween

LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

10/16/2007

Giant Halloween Jack O Lantern


Just In Time For Halloween

In a futile and stupid gesture, Grassy Knoll Institute scientists scaled a landed alien ship and positioned a carved giant pumpkin stolen from the ships galley and hoisted it on top of an exhaust vent. We left our calling card emblazoned on the side of the ship to let the giant aliens know exactly what type of organization they are dealing with.


LURKING ON THE GRASSY KNOLL