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		<title>Skelemingos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year as I started stocking the Haunt Jaunts Emporium&#8217;s Halloween Home and Yard Decorations section I saw something I&#8217;d never seen before: a skelemingo.
This is one of those ideas that has me saying &#8220;Damn, I wish I&#8217;d thought ot that!&#8221; and &#8220;Okay, now I do believe I&#8217;ve seen everything.&#8221;
These suckers are clever and funny. They also come in a few different price points and styles. I&#8217;ve included pics below to give you an idea what I mean.
But now it has me wondering, &#8220;What&#8217;s next? Skelegnomes? Zombie gnomes?&#8221;
Hmmm, think I&#8217;m on to something?




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		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/09/02/skelemingos/</link>
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		<title>The Early Birthday Present from Mommy D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a break from my regularly scheduled programming (if I even really have such a thing?) to write about the very special box that came in the mail from one of my very dearest of friends, Mommy D. (You might know her as Dinell, the mastermind behind Mommy D&#8217;s Kitchen and/or the Weekly Spectre. They&#8217;re both her babies.)
She had given me the heads up she&#8217;d sent me a birthday box. She had also said, &#8220;Open it before you leave on your trip.&#8221;
Okay! I&#8217;m good at following orders like that!
Here are the amazing gifts inside that box full of love.

Mommy D, if you read this, THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN FOR SPOILING ME ABSOLUTELY ROTTEN FOR MY BIRTHDAY WITH ALL OF THESE MOST AMAZING HAUNT JAUNTS DESIGN GIFTS!!!!!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!
A PLUG FOR MOMMY D
She&#8217;ll probably be appalled that I&#8217;m doing this, but if you like these designs and would ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/09/02/the-early-birthday-present-from-mommy-d/</link>
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		<title>Haunt Jaunts Recognizes National Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Awareness Month</title>
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I snagged the above cool icon from the Patients Against Lymphoma&#8216;s Facebook page. I can&#8217;t let the first day of September begin without acknowledging a cause very near and dear to my heart: lymphoma. (Because September is National Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month.)
LYMPHOMA &#38; ME
On the About page I used to have a more in-depth explanation about how a trip to the emergency room ended with a four day stay in the hospital where I underwent a battery of tests before I was finally diagnosed with Stage 2 B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma on December 31, 2008. I was initially given a 50-50 chance of survival. Not bad odds, but I wanted better.
The first question I asked my oncologist after he gave me and my husband the news was: &#8220;What can I do to help myself beat this?&#8221;
He said, &#8220;The people I see who do the best are the ones who get ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/09/01/haunt-jaunts-recognizes-national-leukemia-lymphoma-awareness-month/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating the Release of Jessica Penot&#8217;s Haunted North Alabama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to give a special shout out to a blogger pal of mine: Jessica Penot of Ghost Stories and Haunted Places. She&#8217;s doing a little celebrating because her book, Haunted North Alabama, was recently released! Congrats, Jessica!

I love the cover! I&#8217;m looking forward to reading what&#8217;s between it. If Jessica&#8217;s blog is any indication of what her book might hold, I&#8217;m positive I will be entranced. I love the ghost stories of haunted places she shares there. She&#8217;s a very talented writer who skillfully blends together legends, history, and personal dramas to create alluring stories of the haunted places she features.
Jessica did something kind of fun to celebrate her book&#8217;s release too: a book release party giveaway. But it was a different kind of giveaway, a sort of a treasure hunt.
She had four prizes:

A smoking monkey
A collection of Lovecraft stories
Two necklaces

She tucked $75 into one of them. (Well, she ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/31/celebrating-the-release-of-jessica-penots-haunted-north-alabama/</link>
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		<title>The Curious Email from an Unhappy &#8220;Ghost Hunters&#8221; Fan</title>
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Last week I received an email with the subject line &#8220;Why did Ghost Hunters do this?&#8221;
Well of course that piqued my interest and I opened it, even though I didn&#8217;t recognize the sender&#8217;s ID.
But let me pause here for a second. While I&#8217;m on the topic of IDs&#8230;not that there was a name attached to the email (it was sent using an online alias), but the sender requested I just refer to him &#8211;or her, because I&#8217;m not even sure which gender he or she is&#8211; as Anonymous if I wrote about this. He or she attends some of the Ghost Hunters events, knows (and is known by) many of the GH stars and doesn&#8217;t think they&#8217;re all bad. He or she was just super peeved by this particular incident.
And what was the incident? I admit I haven&#8217;t done my full diligence yet so I&#8217;m not 100% sure, but I ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/30/the-curious-email-from-an-unhappy-ghost-hunters-fan/</link>
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		<title>The Ghost Deer of River Park</title>
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One of my favorite paths to walk on is the one at River Park off Concord Road in Brentwood. There are over 10 miles worth of trails that connect up with other paths in Concord Park (which River Park is a part of) and Crockett Park.
THE WHITE DEER
When we first moved here random strangers on the path would stop me and ask, &#8220;Have you seen the white deer yet?&#8221;
They&#8217;d be so excited about it I couldn&#8217;t help but think it was a big deal. However, I came to think of the white deer as the ghost deer because I never saw it. I&#8217;d see part of the herd of deer that live and roam in the park from time to time, but I never saw the white deer.
Not for the longest time at least. Every chance I got to take a walk in the park I would, and one day ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/29/the-ghost-deer-of-river-park/</link>
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		<title>Scooby Hired as Assistant for Halloween Blog Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much to my cat&#8217;s chagrin, I found an assistant as I was out and about running errands today. One I thought would put the &#8220;Spooktacular&#8221; in the Halloween Blog Party: Scooby Doo!
Scooby comes complete with party pouch and everything. (A handy tool come prize giveaway drawing time.) I was so excited about it I decided to make a video of what he can do. (I was trying to show how Scooby shakes and scoots around, but it didn&#8217;t come out too good.)
However, my other assistant, Mr. Meow, didn&#8217;t think much of my bright idea. He didn&#8217;t have any qualms about throwing his weight around and showing Scooby who&#8217;s top dog around this joint.
I caught it all on video, which bodes badly for Mr. Meow if Scoob opts to gets H.R. involved!

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		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/27/scooby-hired-as-assistant-for-halloween-blog-party/</link>
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		<title>16 Awesome Pet Friendly Haunt Jaunts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 26 is National Dog Day and in honor of it I thought it&#8217;d be fun to write about some pet friendly haunt jaunts.
I always like to take my Murph (pictured above) along on jaunts with me when the haunts will allow. I try to keep a list of haunted places, like hotels and B&#38;Bs (or spooky stays as I like to call them), that welcome both my ghost enthusiast self and my pooch.
However, my list was pretty slim. I decided to put a shout out on HARO to find more pet friendly haunted places and boy did I get a great response!
Below is the list I put together of 16 pet friendly haunt jaunts for those of you who also like to ghost hunt with your four-legged friends. Woof!

Admiral Fell Inn &#8211; Baltimore, MD: On Friday and Saturday evenings the Inn does a Historic Ghost Tour. (And one of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/26/16-awesome-pet-friendly-haunt-jaunts/</link>
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		<title>Spooktacular Halloween Blog Party Prize Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning on our Facebook page I created a new album: Spooktacular Halloween Blog Party Prizes. I couldn&#8217;t help it. I&#8217;m no good at keeping secrets. I&#8217;m also no good being patient when I&#8217;m excited about something.
I&#8217;m so stoked for Halloween I&#8217;m about to bust! I want to get the party started NOW!
Alas, I have to wait. But I can at least show you some of the prizes I already have on hand for the giveaways!
These were too fun to pass up. They&#8217;re labels that say things like &#8220;Zombie Virus&#8221; or &#8220;Truth Serum&#8221; that you can stick on an ordinary bottle of wine (or any bottle really) and transform it into something deliciously macabre!
You&#8217;ll be sporting Halloween style with ghosts, spiders and spider webs encircling your wrist if you end up winning this giveaway prize. (I don&#8217;t think the Frog Queen will appreciate this item since she&#8217;s not too fond ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/25/spooktacular-halloween-blog-party-prize-preview/</link>
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		<title>Just How Haunted Is Cape May Anyway?</title>
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Is Cape May the new paranormal tourism hotspot? I&#8217;m thinking it must be because this summer it&#8217;s the one place that I keep seeing over and over again.
CRAIG MCMANUS IN CAPE MAY
It all started when I got one of Craig McManus&#8217;s newsletters earlier this summer. He talked about a paranormal weekend he was going to do in Cape May starting on August the 13th.
As part of it he was returning to Historic Cold Spring Village. (I mentioned and linked to a post he wrote about the village in one of mine about avoiding bringing home unwanted guests.) But this visit the Historic Cold Spring Village was going to be open for a first-time ever ghost hunt.
Then on Saturday of that weekend he was in Cape May for a &#8220;Ride with the Ghost Writer&#8221; ghost trolley tour. Making for a very neat way to take in Cape May&#8217;s paranormal hotspots.
THE GUY ...]]></description>
		<link>http://hauntjaunts.net/blog/2010/08/24/just-how-haunted-is-cape-may-anyway/</link>
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