Haunted Sculpture and I’m not Sure I Like my Hair…

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I posted a picture of The River Rest Cemetery a few days ago; it was featured in an article about Flint’s Most Haunted Places, because a J Seward Johnson creation called Crack the Whip is supposed to kill you (or worse) if you put your foot in the sculpture’s whimsical, mislaid child’s sandal.

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If you read this blog regularly, you know I bounce back with rather alarming alacrity from life’s foibles (and man have I got foibles…). Yesterday I was feeling sorry for myself and edgy, so I went to the cemetery to see this phenomenon first hand. I took my mother with me for moral support; I mean no disrespect when I say she’d be about as helpful as Fiona if I was really in need of ghost-busting aid…

My mother sat in the car while I made my way like Nancy Drew to the scene of The Cursed Statue. Believe it or not, this is the kind of expedition that takes my mind off drinking and depression…

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The River Rest Cemetery is a huge, lovely park. There is probably $5 million dollars worth of bronze statuary nestled among aged maple trees and the crypts of the rich dead. My entire extended family resides on a grassy hillside at River Rest: the graveyard equivalent of the middle class, comfortable homes in which they lived.

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Crack the Whip is a LONG way from the road, down a knoll and centered artistically in a grassy glen. As you can see, it features creepy children dragging each other off kilter, with determined cruel faces.

It is definitely haunted.

I lasted about three minutes before I walked, turned back, walked faster, turned back and then ran like the fat red squirrels who scamper with dominion over the cemetery lawns. I was thinking the children were going to get me and that I’d end up bronzed and screaming for all eternity – the odd adult added to the end of the whip on the Halloween of 2014…

Oh…and I got my hair done, and I don’t think I like the color…

Today I’m not drinking because I might have to run from a haunted sculpture or get my hair highlighted or both

How come you’re not drinking?