Bad Luck Charms

Everybody has that one object that they consider a good luck charm. Whether it is a pair of socks, a bracelet your mom gave you, a keychain, or even a rock, you believe that when you have the thing with you, you are invincible. But, some people believe in bad luck as well; I know I do. Some just call it "unlucky coincidences" but some of these things are known to cause bad luck all around the world.

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1: Friday the 13th. This is definitely the most widespread bad-luck superstition of them all. In fact, some people are so terrified of it that they refuse to leave their houses all day when Friday the 13th occurs. There is actually an official word for the fear of this day: Friggatriskaidekaphobia. Kinda stupid if you ask me, but hey, if you really believe that you have increased chances of dying or something on that day, feel free to lock yourself in your room.

2: Spilling salt. Salt is actually supposed to ward off spirits, but apparently if you spill salt, you are actually INVITING the devil in. You know, I always thought that you would have to have like a whole seance or something to contact the devil, but if you can just knock over a little salt, why do seances even exist? Just something to think about… 

3: Upside down horseshoes. Normal horse shoes are supposed to bring good luck, but as soon as someone flips it over, BAM, bad luck.

4: Walking on someone’s grave. I don’t think that this would bring you bad luck, or that a dead body will reach up from their grave and pull you under or something, but it is really disrespectful, so if you want to see if bad lucks charms really have an effect, please don’t do this one. 

5: Encountering a black cat. Black cats were supposedly the companions of witches, but I really don’t think a cat can bring you bad luck. All cats are amazing regardless of color, and who knows? Some witches could’ve had tabby cats, and we don’t discriminate them. 

6: Walking under a ladder. The only thing that is bad about this is the possibility of the person on the ladder falling on you. 

7: Stepping on a crack. I will admit that I wholeheartedly believed this one as a child. But, if “Step on a crack and you’ll break your mothers back” was actually true, 99.99% of women would be hospitalized right now. 

8: Chain Emails. This one actually makes me really angry. You know when you get one of those emails that is about a ghost story or something and that the end it says, “forward this to 10 people or a little demon child girl will be in your room tonight”? Please please PLEASE don’t forward them. The only bad luck that results from them is that you end up with a virus on your computer. 

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There are several others that are quite popular, such a breaking a mirror, opening an umbrella indoors, seeing a raven, and even spitting in public. I do believe in bad luck, even though most of these “bad luck charms” are kind of ridiculous. But, if you really do think that walking under a ladder will cause you to die tomorrow, it is totally fine by me if you don’t go near one. 

-Allie

How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse

I feel as if this will be the most important post I have written so far. Having the right skills and knowing the right facts will really benefit you when the apocalypse happens, and who knows when that day will come? Tomorrow… Next week…. A couple of years???? For all you know, it could be happening right now, and in that case, I am choosing to write this post just in time. I am indeed an expert in these kinds of things, and you my friends, have come to the right place for guidance. 

1: The first and most important rule of surviving the zombie apocalypse is: Every man for themselves. This doesn’t mean that you have to be completely independent, but when you are being chased by the zombies, don’t expect everyone to survive. Natural selection rid your group of the weak links. If someone trips and falls to the ground like in a stereotypical horror movie, leave them there. In the words of my geography teacher, “Never leave your wingman behind unless you are being chased by an angry bear,” or in this case, zombies. 

2: Make sure you have a large supply of food and water, especially Twinkies. Everybody knows that Twinkies never expire and can basically withstand a nuclear blast, so they are a good thing to have. 

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3: Wear armor. This does not mean wear heavy clothes, this means you should go all medieval by wearing metal plates all over your body. Once you're bitten, there is no going back. Also, duct taping magazines to your arms and legs doesn’t work. I know in the movie “World War Z”’ Brad Pitt does that and it works for him, but it will not work for you. He is Brad Pitt. Everything works for him. 

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4: This one is actually a pre-zombie apocalypse tip: stay in shape so you will be able to run fast while carrying all of your equipment. And no, playing Call of Duty your Xbox will not benefit you when the undead attack.

5: The more isolated you are, the better.

6: All zombies do not move slowly. I know that the stereotype is that all zombies are slow and have limp, but this is not the case. It all depends on how fit the person was before they became a zombie. Who knows? One of those zombies could’ve been a world class athlete. 

7: When killing a zombie, only aim for their head. Shooting or cutting off their limbs does not work, and if you set them on fire, they will still keep moving. 

8: Zombies don’t like loud noises. If you choose to blast your music in the middle of the apocalypse, I wish you good luck.

9: Do not provoke the zombies. Surprisingly, throwing rocks at them will only make them more angry. 

10: Don’t base your knowledge of survival off of Hollywood stereotypes. Listen to me instead. 

You are welcome in advance. 

-Allie

Strange Fears

I have some pretty weird fears. The fear of not being good enough, getting lost in a foreign country, the dark (actually more like the things that may lurk in the dark), being depressed for a long period of time, not being able to get into college, and quite a few others that aren’t really “cliché”. As for my stereotypical fears, I am afraid of clowns, spiders, heights, and failing at life (even though I kind of already have). If you think those are weird though, you should see some of these:

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1. Ablutophobia: The fear of bathing yourself. Ew. That’s all I have to say. 

2. Nomophobia: The fear of not having your phone or service all of the time. I relate to this on a personal level as the school’s 4G service is complete crap.

3. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: The fear of long words. Ironic much?

4. Aerophobia: Fear of swallowing air. Not breathing, but swallowing air.

5. Boogeyphobia: The fear of the boogey man. Check under your beds, kids. 

6. Cibophobia: The fear of food. Those who have it, bless your soul.

7. Didaskaleinophobia: Fear of school. Again, I can relate to this on a personal level. 

8. Jeliophobia: The fear of laughter. For those with no soul.

9. Levophobia: Fear of objects to the left side of your body. 

10. Dextrophobia: Fear of objects to the right side of your body. 

Can we just take a moment to reflect on these? If you legitimately have one of these phobias, I’m not really sure whether to feel bad for you or to laugh at you. 

11. Melanophobia: The fear of the color black.  Well stay away from my soul then…

12. Panophobia: The fear of EVERYTHING. I don’t even know if that’s possible but okay.

Oh so I just remembered… One time in fourth grade there was this girl and she claimed that she was afraid of the sun so the teachers let her stay inside during recess. Like what??? If I said I was afraid of learning would I get an excuse???

13. Peladophobia: Fear of bald people.

14. Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.

15. Phobophobia: Fear of fear. Well that’s really unfortunate and if you have it why the hickitey heck are you reading this post????????

16. Triscadecaphobia: Fear of the number thirteen. I’m pretty sure that a lot of people actually have this one. 

17. Clinophobia: The fear of going to bed. PARTY ALL NIGHTTTTTTT.

There’s literally about 250 more hella weird fears that I couldn’t get to, so I just chose best ones that I found. Here’s the website we got them from. Link

Maybe I’ll do a part two to this post. Let me know if I should.

-Allie

Shoutout to Jade for reading the names of these phobias out loud and spelling out every single one for me. 

30 Things To Do In The Dark

Okay, so I know that this post is pretty different from my other ones, but I was thinking to myself and I realized that you can do a ton of cool stuff at night or just in the dark. Not all of the things that I list will be scary things, but hey, they’re all super fun. Okay so without further adieu, here is a list of 30 things to do in the dark.

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1: Sleep… duh.
2: Have a glow in the dark silly string fight. Have everyone wear glow sticks on their heads, legs, arms, etc., and give everyone at least 5 cans of silly string (if you do any less the game will last for only about ten minutes). Chase each other around and spray each other; I would recommend doing this outdoors (I say this from experience). Also, if you play really intense music in the background it really adds to the effect.
3: Play “The Midnight Game”. If you don’t know what that is, I have a whole post dedicated to it down below. It’s really sketchy.
4: Have a fire and roast marshmallows
5: Have a midnight snack
6: Freak yourself out by watching horror movies. It obviously doesn’t have the same effect if you watch them during the day.
7: Play “Mafia”. It’s super fun but takes a long time to explain so here’s a link to all of the rules.
8: Become a real mafia.
9: ^^^Actually don’t do that last one… ;)
10: Film a horror movie with your friends. But if you don't have any friends you could just do it by yourself I guess.
11: Go to a haunted house. I have a list of good ones in one of my posts.
12: Tell ghost stories
13: Play with a Ouija board. I don’t really want to but if you do that’s cool.
14: Watch fireworks; it’s kinda hard to see them during the day.
15: I sound like such a white girl for saying this but… take artsy pictures. Trust me they’ll turn out really cool.
16: Read creepy-pastas.
17: Have a late night jam session
18: Play “Ghost in the Graveyard”. I don’t know about you but that game was my childhood and I was devastated when they told me that we weren’t going to play it in P.E. anymore…
19: Sneak up on someone
20: Explore an abandoned house
21: Go ghost hunting. Even if you don't believe in them it’s still really fun.
22: Play hide an seek in a forest 
23: Visit an old graveyard
24: Read my blog. *coughselfpromotioncough*
25: If it’s Christmas time, go see the festive lights.
26: Have a “zombie night”. People dress up like zombies and chase you around trying to infect you.
27. Flashlight tag is always fun.
28: Prank call someone and use dialogue from horror movies.
29: Perform a seance
30: Snuggle with your cat… or your dog… or with whatever pet you have.

I know that you can still do these things in the daylight, but I personally think that they are more fun to do when it’s dark out. Hopefully this list will help you out if you are beyond bored one night with your friends and have nothing better to do.

-Allie