Empty Nest: Spooky Games

Spooky Games

When I was growing up, my cousins and I had a stint where we were really into playing the Ouija board and having seances. We simply couldn't get plenty of calling off the spirit world because it scared us and for some inane reason, we liked being scared.

One day we went to the home of the girls who lived behind my cousins- Beth and Hope- to play.

Dusk in Autumn: Hearing spooky songs as a child

Pursuing the root of how, during the preceding 20 days of falling-crime times, children have missed their vulnerability to scary things while growing up, I thinking about what some less obvious examples might be. What's an obvious example? When I was 6 or 7, my babysitter (a cool high school guy) let us view The Terminator, and about that time I used to stay out Aliens from the public library every week.