A Midsummer Night's Nightmare

On This Day In History
1981: Six year old Adam Walsh abducted

Quote Of The Day
"One missing child is one too many."
(John Walsh)

In the heat of the summer, it is popular for Japanese to tell ghost stories, watch plays about ghosts, look at pictures of ghosts and many other kinds of spooky activities. It dates back to the ghost story gatherings, known as kaidan (or "weird tales") during the Edo period (1603-1868.) These activities are popular because, in the heat of the summer, spooky stories will give you chills and goosebumps that will cool you down. So today I went to look at some spooky ukiyo-e painted by Honen Tsukioka at the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History. It was very interesting.

Sad to learn that Adam Walsh may have been a victim of Jeffrey Dahmer. There is a huge amount of evidence, gathered largely by Arthur Jay Harris, to suggest it was Dahmer who murdered Adam Walsh and not, as the Florida Police claimed, Ottis Toole. What poor Adam Walsh would have suffered at the hands of that monster; that is truly the stuff of nightmares.

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