In My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue (the historical basis for Blood Meridian), Samuel Chamberlain relays this strange story about encountering a "ghost":

Camping in Iceland I kept seeing signs near some of the glacial streams advising you to wear bright clothing before crossing. Eventually I asked someone what that was for & it’s so they can find your corpse from a helicopter

Glastonbury Tor! The dark figure was not there when I took the picture ❤️

I made a list of Books for Halloween onmortalthoughts.substack.com/p/books-for-ha…

And you can read an article I wrote about it here: atlasobscura.com/articles/shado…

I know how it got there

It’s done for aesthetic reasons

Loving going to church and babymogging the other parents with my chillmaxxed and chadpilled infant

They Juicero’d a crockpot

“If you ask me, memorizing the Georgics in the original Latin is the real punk rock” I tell my son as he searches tiktok for “how to kill father”

It’s Spooky Season! 👻🕸️ The @InternetArchive is serving frights all week. Today’s treat: a 1928 Saturday Evening Post cover by Frederic Stanley of a woman carving a pumpkin 🎃 97 years later & still haunting! 🖤 More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@sterl… 🧵