Ghostly sites enhance Halloween

Site-Seeing with Jan Perry

With the haunted holiday just days away, requests are still coming in for more Halloween sites. Here are a few more of my lesser-known - more off-the-wall - favorites.

http://www.raken.com/monster/index.asp. A nice place to visit late in October - or any other time of the year for that matter. This is Monster Ridge, home to four areas of adventure, Halloween, the Swamp, Transylvania and Dread Manor. Share all the haunted happenings at this madly moody site.

http://members.nbci.com/candiecorn.. This site has a bit of everything, from best scary movies to directions for carving a Winnie-the-Pooh pumpkin. Not all sections have been updated recently, but most of this stuff is timeless anyway.

http://www.castleofspirits.com. A fast stop past the Castle of Spirits will get you a collection of true spooky

stories, some great links and the chance to participate in a horror movie poll.

http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com. This is a wonderful site covering the history and the mystery that surrounds ''talking boards.'' From the well-known Ouiji to the odd and dramatic ka-bala, this site covers them all. (By the way, if you are really interested in these fortune-telling, future-predicting tools, the links page is not to be missed.)

http://www.ghostweb.com. At the International Ghost Hunters Society site, you'll find thousands of photos of ghosts and ghostly apparitions as well as page after page of stuff you might find in an X-file.

http://www.ksghosts.com. This is the site for the Kansas Ghost Hunters Society and B&C Paranormal Investigations Home Page. If you're interested in some ghostly photos and ''real'' ghost stories, this site claims to have them.

http://members.nbci.com/rascal/Halloween/Halloween2.html. Looking for some great graphics to add to your personal Web pages? This site offers some spooktacular scenes as well as an interesting history of our now familiar Halloween.

http://www.the-v oid.dk/incident/intro.html. These ghostly images created such a stir, two Web hosts refused to let them be shown on their servers. Read the story and study the photos then take a look at the rest of Balder Olrik's art.

Jan Perry is a freelance writer. Send questions or suggestions to her at SiteSeer2K@aol.com.