Some Halloween day trips for Vermonters: J.W. Ocker/OddThingsIveSeen Grave of a Mummy, Middlebury Harry Sheldon was a collector in the 1800s who wanted a bona fide mummy in his collection. The one he got? Prince Amum-Her-Khepesh-Ef. Unfortunately it was a 2-year-old prince and badly preserved. So he stuck it in an attic where years later it was found and buried in a Middlebury cemetery. West Cemetery, Route 30, atlasobscura/places/grave-of-amum-her-khepesh-ef The Lottery Site, North Bennington Lincoln Square is an easily overlooked median, but it helped inspire Shirley Jackson to write her chilling 1948 short story, “The Lottery.” She lived just a few houses away, and got the idea while shopping at the square. Intersection of Sage, Prospect, Nash, and Main streets, atlasobscura/places/lincoln-square-lottery J.W. Ocker/OddThingsIveSeen Grave with a Window, New Haven Dr. Timothy Smith saw death misdiagnosed enough in his career that he was afraid of it for himself. So he had a window installed in his grave so that people wouldn’t make the same mistake. Evergreen Cemetery, Town Hill Road, atlasobscura/places/grave-timothy-clark-smith J.W. Ocker/OddThingsIveSeen Walloomsac Inn, Bennington Built in 1771, the impossibly decayed structure is now a private residence in a prominent part of town, just across the street from the churchyard where Robert Frost is buried. Monument Circle, oddthingsiveseen/2012/09/stopping-by-haunted-house-walloomsac-inn.html J.W. Ocker/OddThingsIveSeen Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier With its funeral art and natural setting outside the capital, this is one of the more beautiful and eerie cemeteries in New England, especially in fall. 251 State St., oddthingsiveseen/2010/09/new-england-grimpendium-green-mount.html J.W. Ocker/OddThingsIveSeen Flying Monkeys, Burlington Some of the terrifying metal flying monkeys dotting the roofs of the Champlain lakefront were originally mascots at a Wizard of Oz themed waterbed store in the 1970s. The rest came about due to the popularity of the originals. One Main St., oddthingsiveseen/2008/11/flying-monkeys.html J.W. Ocker/OddThingsIveSeen Ted Bundy Birth Site, Burlington It is a bland office building, but it stands on the spot where the serial killer was born. In 1946 it was the site of a women’s shelter, where Bundy’s mother gave birth to him. 346 Shelburne Road, atlasobscura/places/birthplace-ted-bundy Town of Beetlejuice, East Corinth The downtown area of East Corinth is where Tim Burton filmed the exteriors of his 1988 horror comedy, “Beetlejuice.” The place still looks the same, except the bridge isn’t covered and the hill where they built the facade for the Deetz house is back to being an empty hill. atlasobscura/places/east-corinth-vermont-beetlejuice
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