29 Days 'Til Halloween - Haunted Horseshoe

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Today, I hung on the wall, a brand new addition to my Cabinet of Curiosities. It's not there for luck, nor is it just any old rusted horseshoe. According to it's label, it's a Hessian warhorse shoe from the late 1700's found in Sleepy Hollow.


Prestigious historians and expert metallurgists have confirmed it, but to believe it's from the actual Headless Horseman's steed of legend is just plain silly. Many such objects from the Revolutionary War are often found in that part of Tarrytown, New York.

However, none can explain why every October 31st it emits a ghostly light. Glowing as if being forged again in some unseen demonic fire...


Could it be? Maybe. Now, if I were to make a prop like this, I might take an old horseshoe, give it a faux rust treatment using fluorescent orange and glow in the dark green mixed in. Then I'd attach it to an aged up frame with wood backboard. Finally, I'd glue on a computer made label antiqued with watercolors and plug in a black light.