Halloween, the time of year I make a special effort to stay off the Borgo Pass!
Stay off the Borgo Pass!
For the uninitiated, the Borgo Pass is high in the Carpathian mountains and basically down the street from Castle Dracula. Only bad things can happen if you continue on the Borgo Pass this time of year. I know. I saw on TV what happened to people who didn’t heed the warning.
As a kid, I used to love staying up and watching old, classic horror movies on late night Saturday television. Each week there was a double feature starting at 11PM. Often, I would have a friend stay over night, or else brave watching those terrifying black and white flicks alone. Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, etc…There was no cable TV in those ever more distant days, so the reception was a little grainy, which added to the creepiness. The first movie of the Saturday night double-feature started at 11PM and ran to one in the morning. The second movie started at one and finished at three. In between, we would drink root beer, eat pretzels, make crank telephone calls and be otherwise scared. My parents would be fast asleep. It was a lot of fun.
But, if there was anything I learned from this experience it was simply this:
Stay off the Borgo Pass!
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