Haaaalloween Special: Spooooooky and piiiic heeeaavvy

zulu42 · Oct 26, 2020

When Virginia City, Nevada was a boooooming mining town with a population greater than Los Angeles, The Washoe Club was a thriving boarding house serving the hiiighest paid miners in the world. The pay of four dollars a day, compared with 80 cents a day elsewhere, was high because of the extreeemely high fatality rate. Soooo many tenants of the boarding house died, they had an in-house crypt for cooolld storage of booodies. Over 70 corpses after one disaster. Waiting for spring to be buuuried.

Featured on tv's Ghost Hunters, the Washoe Club is one of the hauntedest and spooookiest places in America! You can enter IF YOU DARE, aaand if you have 8 dollars for a 35 minute tour.

1 Crreeeaky Stairway

2 There's a ghost floating around of Lena, who had her throat slit (murder)
We were with our friend Lena, Who Once Had Her Throat Slit!!!!! (surgery)

3 creeeepy ceiling

4 Mirror "made with diamond dust"

5 rolling chair to make scaaaary noises downstairs

6 BOO!!! Gotcha

7 Said to be the ceiling from a tenant that was a bullwhip performer. Don't ask about his roooommate

8 Room with a "100 mile view"

9 Nowhere to Jump

10 Lots of shots looking up to avoid the other tourgoers

11 Staircase to the Millionaire's Club, where you'd find the highest of society's poker room

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14 Corpse Eye View. Looking up from the bottom of the crypt. Truly creepy. Happy Halloween!

waday · Oct 26, 2020

These are great! Love the processing. Composition and framing of 11 is really good!

As far as creepiness, I’m liking the attached one (not numbered), 12, 8, and 1. The shadow in #1 is great.

PJM · Oct 27, 2020

Great set and story. Very nicely done. #11 took me a while to figure out and I like it.

Grandpa Ron · Oct 27, 2020

Nicely done.

zulu42 · Oct 27, 2020

waday said:
These are great! Love the processing. Composition and framing of 11 is really good!

As far as creepiness, I’m liking the attached one (not numbered), 12, 8, and 1. The shadow in #1 is great.

Thanks waday!

PJM said:
Great set and story. Very nicely done. #11 took me a while to figure out and I like it.

Thank you. It's a structurally interesting staircase in that it was built without screws or nails - entirely glue and dowel construction, and only attached at the top and bottom with no middle support.