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Original: 2/1/2002 6:00 PM
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Friday, February 01, 2002

 
    I was watching a show yesterday on Discovery Channel about haunted places -- then saw the tv movie Stephen King's Rose Red. I had a lot in mind when I go down there and looking for the most haunted place in New Orleans. I will write in the other one when I return from there. I know that I had neglected this journal some but I haven't visited anywhere haunted yet -- I was trying to go into the Regalto Theature in Joliet before going to GothCon and get a few pictures in there because it had been recorded about the paintings where they would have their eyes move and stare at the visitors. My question is this; is there a real place as Rose Red -- where it would be written in the Ringbower's diary; her life in Rose Red. I had been very much intrigued by this one more so as a writer. It had crossed my mind after watching the special on Discovery Channel. I had watched about the idea of haunted people -- this is something that is evident with me because how I would come up with such narratives.  I had been thinking a lot about this more when I am getting the train tickets next week for Amtrak.  I had a lot of dreams about the hauntings of the hotels in New Orleans -- more about the doctor who would do the grostesque practice of pulling the organs out of his patients and they would not survive. It would be told of the ghosts that would inhabit the place.
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Rose Red isn't a real place, but the house they filmed it in IS. Its a place in Seattle, and according to the owners I believe they said they'd had some "disturbances" there. Also, Ringbower's "diary" is made up by King, as a clever marketing ploy -- there is no such woman nor house. Methinks King took a healthy dose of the Winchester House in Northern California as well as other famously known haunted houses. As for New Orleans (GOD I miss it so much) are you speaking of the house that belonged to the woman who beat and tortured her slaves, hung them in the attic, etc etc, until a fire was started in her house by one of the slaves trying to escape, and then when folks came to put it out, they found all the bodies and atrocities? I can see the house in my mind, having been past it, but can't remember what block its on... Anyway, tell me all about your explorations when you get back, I am intrigued. I have been outlining a book on Northern California's haunted past for some years now, and am still mulling it over...
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I saw that thing on discovery channel too
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Discovery, Travel, History, and Fox all have had some interesting programs on haunted places.  Part of Rose Red was definitely based on the Winchester House in San Jose, CA, since a medium told Sarah W. she'd live as long as she kept adding to the house, which she did for years.
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Hey Nick: Are you going to go look for the real Cujo too? That red car that kills people? Plan on visiting Maine anytime soon so you can roam the sewers, looking for Pennywise the Clown, you dumbfuck?

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