Haunted tower

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I wish I had all the facts and the backstory to this creepy old house, but I've got nothing. All the locals know is that this house was built with no records and no family history. It is abandoned - nobody has lived in it for years. If you peek in through the windows, you see the furniture untouched, cobwebs covering everything and old melted down candlesticks with burnt tips. As you walk up the stairs and peek inside, this eerieness overcomes you and most people get so nauseous that they can't even approach the house.

There is an old legend that an old woman once lived here and her family disappeared one night. It was almost like they vanished into thin air. So she dragged her old rocking chair up the multiple flights of stairs into her tower. She would sit there.. night after night after night watching the streets for her family to come back home. They never came home. She died in her rocking chair, frozen, her eyes wide open with fear.

(bomber jacket - be hip! by me jane | selective potential dress - c/o modcloth

boots - jeffrey campbell | full tilt purse - gift at modcloth party)

Hehe! Alright, alright. If you can't tell by Brett's super scared face, I totally made that story up. I love you guys too much to lie. Muaaha! I took a creative writing class in college - I had to put my skills to good use! Right? Plus, I had you all so scared, right?! The truth is.. I don't know a single thing about this house except that it looks creepy.. and nobody lives here, but it's not for sale, so it's kind of abandoned. I love it though. It's such an amazing old historic home! Hehe, I'm still giggling over here at my story!

I love my namesake dress from ModCloth! When they wrote up the description about it last May, they said it would look great paired with a bomber jacket and lace-up boots. At the time, it was a bit warm to try that look.. but now that it's cooler, I wanted to give it a go! We've had insane winds these past couple of days! I absolutely love it - except for now our trees are so bare!

currently playing:

the replacements - asking me lies

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Ada Giveaway!

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Closed Tuesday, November 2 at 9 PM!

This week's giveaway is from Ada!

They are offering one of my lucky readers this darling blue floral dress!

(It's one size)

To enter, you must:

1) leave a way for me to contact you if I can't through link

2) name your favorite item from the shop!

This giveaway is open to U.S. and international readers.

Entries will be accepted until Tuesday, November 2 at 9 PM EST.

And the winner of The Novel Hunt's neon pink clutch is...

#97 // Laura!

Please contact me at tieka@selectivepotential.com to claim!

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Stairway to Hell

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This past weekend, Brett and I took a trip to explore our local cemetary. There is an old urban legend of the Stairway to Hell. It is in Lake Forest Cemetary, near the Civil War burial section. The legend goes that when a person is buried in that cemetary (and there are over 22,000 graves currently), the soul of that person goes to the bottom of the stairway. The "person" then walks up the stairway.

As they approach the top, if they are meant to go to heaven, a beautiful white light will appear: the "doorway" to heaven. If the soul gets to the top and a white light never appears, they are doomed to turn around and walk back down, knowing that hell is waiting for them at the bottom. The stairway itself is paranormally active. Unexplained geomagnetic disturbances and temperature drops have been recorded on it. - Nicole Bray via Weird Michigan

Ooooh, so scary, right? Haha! I love scary ghost stories! It's especially funny that Brett and I rode our scooters here to this spot.. so I parked my mint-green cute little scooter at the bottom of this creepy staircase. Hehe. Brett and I have visited this spot often - it's so interesting! If you climb the staircase, at the top, there are the oldest gravestones! I'm not sure why it's creepier when a gravestone is tilted sideways either!

(plaid flannel - target | wedges - forever 21 | black and white stripes dress - c/o the novel hunt)

Anyone have plans for Halloween yet or know what they are dressing up as? I have no idea! I'm not sure what is happening next weekend.. and Brett and I haven't planned costumes or anything yet. I absolutely love Halloween though. Passing out candy to trick or treater's as they run through the leaves in the front yard, watching scary movies, stuffing my face with chocolate bars, dressing up in costumes. It's all just so much fun!