June 2008

The Spooky Series

• Bunko Kelly and the Funeral Parlor
  The notorious crimper Bunko Kelly shanghais 22 dying men and sends them to sea. (Oregon)

• The Ghost of Pearl White
  A young girl watches each night as a woman climbs the staircase to the apartment on the upper floor, never suspecting that the woman is a ghost. (Oregon)

• Nine-Eleven
  A New York resident playing tourist has a strange vision when viewing the World Trade Center. (New York)

• The Sasquatch and the Bear
  Sasquatch is fishing for his lunch when along comes a hungry bear. (Oregon)

May 2008

• Bigfoot Wallace and El Muerto
  After getting the lay of the land, so to speak, Bigfoot Wallace moved from Austin to San Antonio, which was considered the extreme edge of the frontier, to sign up as a Texas Ranger under Jack Hayes. (Texas)

• Bigfoot Wallace and the Gray Bean
  Turns out, Well, the rough and tumble life of a Texas Ranger wasn’t enough to satisfy Bigfoot Wallace. No sir! He hungered for adventure, and he found it.(Texas)

• Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts
  Bigfoot Wallace was as crazy an individual as they come. (Texas)

• Bigfoot Wallace Runs the Mail
  Bigfoot Wallace – that wild and wacky Texas Ranger -- returned to the wilds of frontier life once the United States won the war with Mexico, and it suited him as nothing else could do. (Texas)

• Boo Hag
  Bobby sets out to find a beautiful wife and ends up with a monster! (Texas)

• First Things First
  What's more important than rescuing your neighbors from a flood? Rescuing the moonshine! (Vermont)

• Round River Drive
  Paul Bunyan tries to send his logs down the river only to find out it's round.

• The Shaggy Dog
  A woman loses her pooch between Salem and Springfield and starts looking for her extremely shaggy dog.

• The Yellow Ribbon
  Jane always wears a yellow ribbon around her neck and Johnny really wants to know why.

• Why Lizards Can't Sit
  (Mississippi)

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