Scary Places

Keeping with the Halloween theme we started yesterday with our special edition of Cartoon Saturday, I thought I'd point out this article from the CNN website: Top 10 Spookiest Buildings Around the World.

Some of these buildings are seriously scary. The one that illustrates the article is the Wat Rang Khun temple in Thailand ...

... which one approaches on a bridge "over a field of fangs and hundreds of pleading white arms and suffering faces of statues reaching up from hell." Just the place to take the family for a pleasant sightseeing excursion.

There are other spooky, scary places around the world. Highgate Cemetery in London is one, as you can see ...

And ...

As is the Catacombe dei Cappuccini in Italy ...

You don't have to go that far to get a real scare, though ... there are plenty of seriously scary places right here in the good old US of A ...

This one was said to have been haunted by the ghosts of responsible statesmen, but those have evidently been well and truly exorcised by the evil trolls which now roam its halls. Perhaps it can be ... uh ... repossessed? One wishes.

Have a good day. Stay warm. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

P.S. - The wonderful ghost story Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger is set in and around Highgate Cemetery. Just in case you were looking for a scary book to read in front of your fire ...

B.