Reading: latest New Yorker
Music: Liz Carroll
TV/Movie: Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Link o' the Day: ComicBookScriptArchive.com

With Halloween coming up, this week's Rumor file features its Spooky edition.

Boo!



Rumor has it... The most haunted building in recorded history is the former asylum for the insane in Vienna which once housed Salieri, a contemporary and rival of Mozart. Reports of piano music, moaning, apparitions, doors opening and closing, strange lights, specftral visions, darkmen, and unexplained screaming have plagued the edifice for generations. Today the building serves as a storage facility for the Austrian municipal park system and is still haunted.

Rumor has it... Ghosts and hauntings are mentioned six times in The Bible.

Rumor has it... According to the International Paranormal Institute, there are twelve documented cases of dogs being haunted, and three cases of of parrots being haunted. Also, while there are countless cases of ghosts being sighted on ships and submarines, there are no documentated cases of apparitions aboard airplanes.



Rumor has it... According to the journal of the pilot of the Mayflower which delivered the Pilgrims to the New World, a sailor who signed on in Denmark was accused of vampirism by a pair of Pilgrims (John and William Water) and thrown overboard. Both men died of dehydration before landing in Plymouth. The incident is not mentioned in any of the colonists' documents--and there is no mention of anyone, not even wives or children, with the surname of Water.

Rumor has it... Dracula author Bram Stoker was a member of The Golden Dawn, a mystical organization based in Great Britain devoted to magical studies based on esoteric interpretations of the Kaballah and Egyptian mythology. Other members included Eliphas Levi, Arthur E. Waite, and Aleister Crowley. Stoker left the organization after one of is many re-organizations following the creation of the American branch in Chicago.

Rumor has it... In Asia, vampires don't so much fly as they jump around.



Rumor has it... Vampires fall victim to sunlight, garlic, holy water, and stakes through the heart. Werewolves succumb to silver bullets and wolfsbane. According to legend, a mummy can only be stopped by placing sheets of clean rice paper in its path, then setting the paper ablaze from a flame fed with beeswax and jasmine.

Rumor has it... Speaking of mummies, they were once so prevalent in Egypt that they were often used as fuel in steam engines.

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Today's link goes to ComicBookScriptArchive.com for a fairly decent collection of MSWord Docs and PDF files of various comic book scripts. If you're looking for info on how to format a comic book script, this is a good place to check out.

Cheers!