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Image The Graveyard

St. Paul, Minn. — Remember that house where you went for your first piano lessons? Scary, eh? Well not as scary as what that house looks like now it has been empty for years and devoid of life, or at least, human life... hahahahahahaha. It lies abandoned there on Cedar and 7th Street among the derelict ruins of downtown Saint Paul. Some say there was once a radio station run out of the attic and ghostly sounds can be heard from the cobweb-ridden furniture. You only have to look and the green miasmic mist is illuminated and the songs of the undead assault your eardrums and shiver your spine into jelly and I don't mean blackcurrant.

Perhaps you'd like to visit the graveyard: there are no more tickets to the funeral so stay behind the gates. If things should get freaky, head indoors for a while where it might be nicer and take the chill off in front of the fireplace. Cheer yourself up with some reassuring radio programming and cast out the demons with a pleasant air on the organ or phonograph.


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