Halloween fun stuff

Lu-Ann Farrar - Online Content Manager

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For your Halloween amusement: Hauntings, Ghost Stories and Urban Legends, (AppalachianFolk); El Dia de los Muertos display at the University of Louisville; "The Strange hobby of graving," (Slate.com); "costumes to inflict on the innocent," (MentalFloss); "the largest collection of carnivorous plants in the nation," (Garden and Gun). And for really big fun: a recipe for a meat hand (and you might need this product to really do it up right.)

A dog found in a Kentucky animal shelter has had his sight restored by a doctor at Virginia Tech, according to the Bristol Herald. A retired teacher from Abingdon, Va., found Homer the cocker spaniel through Petfinder.com, a Web site that places animal shelter pets in homes. According to the news report, before he was adopted, Homer was so sick with mange, eye infection and heartworms, it took half a year to restore his health, said Hannah Harris, the Winchester, Ky., woman who rescued him from the shelter and served as his "foster mom."

A former Kentuckian is now making guitars of wooden cigar boxes in Walla Walla, Wash. The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reports on Kurt Schoen, a UPS pilot who used to live in Louisville, and his "Turbo Diddley" guitars. "The guitars produce rich, thickly complex twangs of tonal layers. And although Schoen claims not to play guitar, his fingers say otherwise as he strums chords," according to the report. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Andy Summers of The Police own his guitars. Prices for the one-of-a-kind instruments, which take up to 120 hours to build, range from $1,500 to $5,000.

The Mt. Vernon, Ky., family on a 7,000-mile bike trip is profiled in the Natchez Democrat. Bill and Amarins Harrison and children Cheyenne, 6, Jasmine, 4, and Robin, 2 are traveling to Alaska by heading to the Atlantic Ocean, then south along the East Coast and into Florida before heading back north and along the Gulf Coast through Mobile. "We wanted to go certain places and see certain things and to do all of that we had to plan the route this way," Amarins told the newspaper.