Is anyone interested in joining me on a Haunted Savannah after-hours tour, on Saturday April 5th, 2008, after our dinner at Old Fort Jackson? At approximately 10:00 P.M., when our dinner evening is over, we can arrange for the trolley that takes us to Old Fort Jackson to continue on for anyone interested in coming along with me for this eerie evening of chills and thrills...in the darkening hours, just before midnight!

We're still in the planning stages, so all I need right now is an indication of interest from all of you who want to ride the trolley with me, deep into the black Savannah night towards...who knows what?

If we have 35 brave souls, the cost will be $10/per person...more $$ if there are less people, of course.

Screw your courage to the sticking point and say yes!

"Dead time lasts an hour...
half-hour before midnight
till half past.
Half-hour before midnight
for working good...
half-hour after for evil."
~ Minerva, voodoo queen in "Midnight in the Garden..."
Brenda

Midnight is a Place – Denzil’s Song

Meet me, meet me at Midnight,
Among the Queen Anne’s lace
Midnight is not a moment,
Midnight is a place.

When, when shall I meet you
When shall I see your face
For I am living in time at present
But you are living in space.

Night’s winged horses
No one can outpace
But midnight is no moment
Midnight is a place.

Time is only a corner
Age is only a fold
A year is merely a penny
Spent from a century’s gold.

So meet me, meet me at midnight
(with sixty second’s grace)
Midnight is not a moment;
Midnight is a place.

-- from Joan Aiken's book "Midnight is a Place", one of my favorite children's authors.

Short answer Brenda -- count me in on the cemetery tour!

Brenda, count me in.
Nancy

If we can stay awake, Craig & I will be there.

Ginger

P.S. Janie loved that poem.

Me for sure. Cal is out cutting the grass right now. I'll ask him later. (I don't want to distract him from this important job. Must keep the place looking spiffy!)

David says only if you're promising a ghost, but you can count us in as well.

Marcia

Sounds like fun to me - if I can stay awake!

Ann

I'm in Brenda. Thanks for organizing this.

Count us in, this sounds fantastic

Jen and Chris

Brenda - Paul and I would love this! Spending time with you - even better.

So, intrepid travellers of the darkening netherworld, here's the list of this ghostly group, so far...
Janie
Nancy L
Ginger and Craig
Earline (and maybe Cal)
Marcia and David
Ann
Colleen K
Jen and Chris
Jerry and Paul

Including my ghostly, ghastly self, that's 15 and counting! We need 35 hairy-scarey individuals to break even on the trolley rental/ghost tour, and we are almost 1/2 way there!

As long as the wispy witherings of midnight's shivering wraiths don't frighten the rest of us away, we should be right as rain! Voodoo or no voodoo, this will be a trip into the great void of the beyond, accompanied by flaming black horses and their skeletal riders...

“Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe, so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.” ~ Jack Handy
Brenda

Call us intrepid or call us foolhardy. Fred and Joan would like to join the fun.

I'm pleased to add...
Fred and Joan!
Doyle, with Ann!

Yayoye (aka Shirley from Toronto), are you coming with us, as well?

Here's our creepy crew so far:
Janie
Nancy L
Ginger and Craig
Earline (and maybe Cal)
Marcia and David
Colleen K
Jen and Chris
Jerry and Paul
Fred and Joan
Doyle and Ann
...and me...

That makes 18 midnight marauders prepared to take the scare factor to the next level! I have a special frightful treat planned for everyone taking this Ghost Trolley Tour...ooooooeeeee, are you ready?

At the cemetery for a funeral...
John Kelso: "Why don't you come in?"
Minerva, #1 Voodoo queen: "I never enter the office on Sunday. Ba-a-a-a-d juju."
~ From a scene in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'
Brenda

Brenda, i thought i replied but i don't see me here. Count me in too.
S.K.mom

Here's our creepy crew updated:
Janie
Nancy L
Ginger and Craig
Earline (and maybe Cal)
Marcia and David
Colleen K
Jen and Chris
Jerry and Paul
Fred and Joan
Doyle and Ann
S.K.
...and me..

I missed ya, S.K...my apologies!

"The lawn
Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return
Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn,
The sad intangible who grieve and yearn...."
T.S. Eliot, to Walter de la Mare
Brenda

Another updated creepy crawlers' list:
Janie
Nancy L
Ginger and Craig
Earline (and maybe Cal)
Marcia and David
Colleen K
Jen and Chris
Jerry and Paul
Fred and Joan
Doyle and Ann
S.K.
Kim and Kevin
Wendy and Rob
...and me...

We're at 23 and counting!

Oh, yes, I now have an accomplice in Savannah, to help with the haunting!

Looking longingly at a pack of cigarettes, the
Subway Lord ghost in the movie, 'Ghost', complains, "Ahh what I wouldn't give for a drag! Just one drag!"
Brenda

quote:

Oh, yes, I now have an accomplice in Savannah, to help with the haunting!

Should I be so bold as to ask for details here?

quote:

Should I be so bold as to ask for details here?

Oh, yes, you can ask...

But, truthfully, I've been working for the last week to make sure this Haunted Savannah Almost Midnight Tour is a goody...that it will scare the panties off everyone! I have finally felt the presence of a ghostly co-conspirator coming through the esthers of the Universe to assist me!

I promise you more updates, as the spirit moves me...

"A surprise is the most amazing thing! It can open our eyes to what we've not seen before." ~ Unknown
Brenda

Okay, I'm in!

Just registered to attend the GTG - and, Tom and I are definitely in for this tour!

Thanks, Brenda for organizing it.

SuzanneF

Okay, we'll say we're interested. Me and my husband.

Will we be able to sleep at all, after this?

Again, the numbers are growing for the Haunted Savannah Late Night Almost Midnight in the Garden tour!
Janie
Nancy L
Ginger and Craig
Earline (and maybe Cal)
Marcia and David
Colleen K
Jen and Chris
Jerry and Paul
Fred and Joan
Doyle and Ann
S.K.
Kim and Kevin
Wendy and Rob
Cindy
Suzanne and Tom
Chiaro and her darling husband
...and me...
28 in all...and, I suspect, more to come...

Cindy, welcome aboard my Haunted Trolley ride...I'll do my best to make sure its entertaining and fun!

Suzanne and Tom, you're most welcome...this is the most fun I've had in organizing anything, for ages!

Chiaro, can you sleep afterwards? Heh, heh, heh..... You make me laugh out loud, girl!

First sad, sad jokes about scary, scary things:
What did the skeleton sing while riding his Harley?
"I'm bone to be wild!"
Brenda