Plant Monsters

From Tramai Ceramics.

Click here for the shop.

BATS

A really neat name for a very cool thrift shop:  BATS.  Got quite a few scarecrow jackets for cheap at this place over the years.  We took a trip to snap some photos after learning it will soon be torn down and relocated to accommodate the building of a new school.

Thankfully, the new location will be using some of the old wall/floor boards and beams, so hopefully it still has the feeling of walking through an old barn filled with fake bats.

Monster Bat

I started hearing a loud flapping noise that sounded like a flag blowing in the breeze and I thought it must have been a semi truck on the overpass that got a flat tire. However when I got under the overpass the noise was so loud it was almost ear splitting. I looked out my driver window and I saw a monstrously huge bat with a wingspan longer than my SUV (ford escape) and who's body was larger than my own (I am 6'4" and 240lbs), it was on the opposite side of the street separated by the support columns. It had the snub nose face of a vampire bat, but it's face resembled more of a gorilla almost. The overpass is illuminated underneath by street lights and when the beasts wings were up I could see it's veins through the membrane of it's wings. It almost looked like it's flight was incredibly labored as though it was struggling to keep itself in the air. I immediately began to panic and rolled my window up. As soon as the beast and myself were out from underneath the overpass it shot straight upwards into the sky and turned east flying higher and higher and was soon out of sight. 

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Image by Scott Daniel Ellison.

Chiroptera

Image by Yaroslav Shuraev.

Reese's Puffs BATS

Great Halloween packaging and terrific flavor.  Each peanutty or chocolatey bat has a nice crispy coating to keep it from getting mushy in milk.  Eating them in a bat bowl really helps.

Oh, Winged Creature

I respect a Yard Haunt with an Ambrose Bierce tombstone.  Class act for SURE.

Images by jennconspiracy.

Desmodus Rotundus

Matheus Andrade, a 22-year-old engineer, was bitten three times in his sleep by the elusive bats. He sought treatment thanks to a public health alert issued after Souza’s death.

“I never felt any pain at all on both the nights I was bitten. But in my dreams, I did feel as if something had hooked itself onto my toe,” he said.

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Image by pumpkin_patch_pete.

And Long Leggedy Beasties...

I love this SO much...

Images by tattooedstranger.

The Basics: Pure Halloween

Images by Earl Ware.

Artifact Pottery Finds

Man, these sell out fast when they're on her shop, but the below are about to go to an expo on April 30th.

Thanks, Wren!

Click here for Artifacts' IG.

And here for the empty Etsy shop!

Things That Go Bump In The Night

Images by Charlie Atlas.

Cats & Bats

The art of Maggie Vandewalle.

Oh, to own a winged cat.  What could possibly go wrong?

More works here.

There Are Ghosts In The Attic

And other cool things.

Click here for Skelley Cottage.

And here for more cool photos from the previously-featured Enchanted October Moon (run by the same folks).

Rabies

Someone I work with found a bat in her house.  So she was ordered to get treated for vaccinations against rabies.  As a lot of captured bats test positive for rabies. 

Naturally I felt horrible for her because this would mean a foot-long needle to the stomach.  Something, I recall, we told each other as children in grade school...like some kind of urban folklore...the horror story of getting the rabies shot.  It always seemed worse than foaming at the mouth and dying from rabies. 

So I googled it...and found THIS STORY...  and felt better about the future bat bite I'll hopefully get at some point.


And my concern for my coworker didn't keep me from sending her this: