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Cultural archeology, mostly movies

This was the most chilling and memorable local ghost story growing up. "Crazy" wasn't the word that was handed down, but modern perspective suggests a ton of revision. I like how the owner of the house tears up over the portrait he tracked down.. as a Mother's Day present.


Amazing that social media hasn't mustered more analysis of what happened here. The episode was less scary than the opening of HR Pufnstuf. Parents seemed bothered by other elements, and at least one letter mentioned how merely *changing* stories supposedly disturbed the children.

This is from the banned 1976 Sesame Street episode that only aired once, where Margaret Hamilton played the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. She doesn't Play it for laughs, she plays it scary and little kids were terrified!



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