Is Treasure Island really a haunted island in Case Inlet? No one knows for sure, but it certainly could be. Most of the summer crowd is gone by now, and it gets mighty dark at night this time of year. With Halloween season upon us, the Island reader board has posted a spooky reminder to the remaining residents in the form of a brief Halloween poem (see photo). Trick or treat?
Just a friendly little greeting to wish you happy trick or treating
K and her friends Cindy and Sheila get together at Treasure Island whenever they can to make cards for holidays and special occasions like graduations. They have hundreds of rubber stamps and a wide variety of paper, ink, glue, and cutting tools. Their hobby is called stamping, but to me they have gotten so good at it that I consider them to be card artists. I have saved every card K has ever sent me. Whenever I get one I feel lucky and privileged.
Was this motel for real?
I generally watch one scary movie a year. A couple of years ago my movie-critic friend recommended Psycho as that year’s Halloween night movie. As I watched it, I remembered some of the scenes from seeing the movie as a kid. But I must have been in the lobby or hiding under my seat when Janet Leigh, caught in a storm, checks in to the Bates Motel. After watching the movie as an adult, I can answer the question posed in the post’s title this way: No way. Not even if it was the only motel in western Washington with a “Yes” light on.
Are all scrapyards haunted or just this one?
This sounds a lot scarier than Christine, the Stephen King novel and movie about a haunted 1958 Plymouth.
Spider on board
You can achieve a bit of notoriety by hauling around a giant arachnid that looks like it might leap out onto the hood of the car behind you. Even so, this big guy isn’t for me. If I looked into my garage one morning and saw one like it in the bed of my truck, I would slam the door and then freak out, hopefully in that order. I haul a lot of firewood and yard waste so spiders undoubtedly hitch a ride with me from time to time. But there aren’t any spiders in my truck right now. I just checked.
Boo!
Clearly the family who lives here likes to decorate their road frontage on Hood Canal’s North Shore Road. Last February in A Thousand Icicles I included a picture of the icicle tree they created in the same spot. They also go all out at Christmas with lights, snowmen, and hanging snowflakes. But the Halloween display, with its party atmosphere, might be the most impressive of the three.
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