This month we're off to see the #2 spot on our Must See Haunts for 2013 - Louisville, KY, to be specific, and the Classically Creepy Baxter Avenue Morgue.
There are various rooms and corridors that will terrify you....graveyards, spider's lairs, crematoriums, prisons filled with tortured souls, body bag alleys, werewolves, vampires, banshees...there all here, waiting for *you*
This place features one of the all-time BEST Master of Ceremonies hosts - funeral director Warren Vanderdark, in addition to his wife Lillian, and their son Nathanial, who steal the show every time..
Did I neglect to mention that the place is rumored to be genuinely haunted...?
Did I neglect to mention that the place is rumored to be genuinely haunted...?
A few blocks from the haunt are the Eastern and Cave Hill cemeteries. Easter was shut down in 1989 when it was discovered cemetery officials were burying multiple people in the same graves since the '20s, while Cave Hill Cemetery has been flourishing in their operations since 1948...wonder if anyone from either of these has wandered over to the Morgue?
The Baxter Avenue Morgue ranks as one of the best haunts in the Louisville area - makes for a great haunt trio if added in with a dash of Jason Besseman's Devil's Attic and, over in Jeffersonville, Indiana, the Industrial Terroplex - all within a stone's throw of one another - but do pay special attention to the Morgue while there - people are just dying to get in....
Next
time around, October is upon us at last and we're off to Jefersonville, Indiana to visit the might Industrial Terrorplex....
Just a few shots of the adjacent cemetery nearby the attraction...not the best of photos, I know, but you get the idea...BTW, with this one, there is an occupied residential property attached to it on the cemetery grounds!!!!....haven't they see any zombie movies???
.....a little sampling of Morgue humor....
....and speaking of dead bodies....Midnight Syndicate has released a new CD based on the Classic Universal Horrors of yesteryear...The Monsters of Legend!
Monsters of Legend has arrived! This “tribute to the golden age of horror” is inspired by horror films from the silent era, Universal Studios’ horror classics, Hammer Films,
and other European horror films of the 60s and 70s. It features
sweeping symphonic horror instrumental music and sound effects in the
signature style the band helped pioneer. "We want to make you feel like
you are a character in one of those classic horror films - that you've
entered a world where any one of those iconic Universal monsters could
be right around the corner," said composer Edward Douglas. The CD
artwork features original images from classic Universal Studios horror
movies including Bride of Frankenstein, Werewolf of London, and Dracula.
“Those classic horror films are at the core of what we do in Midnight
Syndicate, so to do an entire disc based on them was a lot fun,” added
Douglas. “Musically it required us to use more traditional orchestral
instruments, and use them in more ways than we have in the past. The
result is a fuller orchestral sound with a heavy classical music
influence. There are plenty of nods to James Bernard, Bernard
Herrmann, and other early film composers.” Although the band promises
the new disc will deliver the dark atmosphere haunted house designers,
roleplaying gamers, and Halloween music enthusiasts expect from them,
they feel they've crafted a disc that transcends their favorite time of
the year. “Like Carnival Arcane,
we feel we’ve taken things up a notch both musically and with the sound
design on this release,” said Gavin Goszka. “There’s a lot there to
listen to and lose yourself in.”
In addition to over 50 minutes of new music, the band went back into its archives and recreated several tracks from Born of the Night and Realm of Shadows, bringing the total runtime of the disc to over 65 minutes. “Both the new CD and those older releases are set in and around the mysterious hamlet of Arcacia. We felt it would be a great opportunity to breathe new life into a few hidden gems from those albums to help tell this story," said Douglas. For additional atmosphere the band called on voiceover artist Dick Terhune. “Dick’s known throughout the haunted house industry as the “Voice from Hell,” needless to say he was the perfect match for this disc,” added Goskza.
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