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Unusual Deaths in 1977

Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.

Natural disasters in 1977

1977 Bucharest earthquake
Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
Independence Day Derecho of 1977
1977 San Juan earthquake

People who died on October 29 (various years)

2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan
1995 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter
1987 - Woody Herman, American musician
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor
1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer
1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl
1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist
1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian
1933 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician
1932 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general
1829 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed)
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed)
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland
1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury


And a Halloweenie meme snurched from venkman:

What Do You Pop into the DVD Player/VCR on Halloween?
1. The Haunting
2. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Halloween (natch!)
5. Mad Monster Party

And my list of guilty pleasures as well that I shouldn't really admit to:

1. Elvira Mistress of Darkness
2. House of Frankenstein '97 (C'mon! Adrian Pasdar and Greg Wise! Dude!)
3. Warlock
4. House on Haunted Hill ('99 remake)
5. Hocus Pocus

Which of Your Costumes Do You Remember Most Fondly?
1. Princess Leia (an old poloroid got me in the online version of Bantha Tracks as one of the best Leias a coupla years back. See it here. I'm the little devil on the very bottom.)
2. Cyndi Lauper
3. Raggedy Ann
4. A Newsie
5. Elvira

What Treat Brought You Most Joy?
1. LAFFY TAFFY (it's like crack to me, seriously!)
2. Junior Mints
3. Nerds
4. M&Ms
5. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

What "Treats" Made You Want to Put a Flaming Bag of Dog Poop on Someone's Doorstep?
1. Pennies and/or nickles
2. Boxes of raisins
3. Black licorice
4. Religious tracts
5. Any sort of "healthy" treat

Finally, have you ever experienced anything of a ghostly nature?

I felt my g-ma's presence in my childhood house up until the day we moved. One time I was lying on the couch with my back to the path you'd take to walk to her room; my sister had moved in and went in and out all day, would sometimes stop and comment on whatever I was watching and then go. I felt someone pass, dammit I could even feel the gentle rush of air a person creates in their wake; I could almost hear breath as a kind of sense beyond my hearing--I *felt* it in that other way of feeling things. It felt like they paused right behind me like my sister did so very often. After a couple of seconds I turned to say something to her, so very, very sure she was there, and there was no one.

I've had some "elevator dropping out from under me" moments in supposedly haunted places, in the seance room at the Winchester Mystery House, then during my paranormal class' field trip;the latter in two different rooms: The first time it happened, I was in the dining room, I felt dizzy and looked up and the ceiling seemed to be stretching upwards even as I stared at it; a group after us later recorded a very high EMF level. The second was in an upstairs bedroom where even my skeptical partner felt something uneasy queasy about it. We walked over to the bed and didn't like standing there so we moved on quickly. we later learned that the girl who used to sleep in that room often witnessed a menacing apparition of a man walking up to the bed from the door in almost the exact route we took.

Peace, Ghani