- Sep 22, 2013
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I'm very interested in the folklore of the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) and the horror-cinema cartoon mayhem of the psycho zombie Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th film franchise.
So, here's a story combining the two, perhaps invitational for our new age over-blitzing with art/culture icon/avatar graffiti (and perhaps wary).
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Mrs. Voorhees explained to the cops that her son drowned in Camp Crystal Lake due to the neglect of the irresponsible counsellors and had returned from the grave of the lake to become a hockey-mask wearing super-psychotic wielding a machete and murdering randomly. The cops did not believe Jason existed, but there were so many murders now that people were craving creative theories about the existence of a true phantom stalker in the modern world. The stir raised up some strange protests by the Satanists when a handful of rangers organized themselves (and told on radio) that they would hunt for Jason Voorhees.
A new investigator arrived in the Crystal Lake area named Ichabod Crane who had a curiosity about criminality, which he believed could be extracted and separated from demonism claims (e.g., exorcisms, ghosts and phantoms, etc.). Ichabod did not know, however, that the vengeful evil spirit of the Headless Horseman was stalking him and planned to decapitate him while he was walking home alone from his offices. This strange intersection of 'personalities' would ultimately pit the Headless Horseman against Jason Voorhees, and the world would finally decide if these two 'folk spooks' were actually real! The stage was set in the Pine Barrens (the dense patch of forests in New Jersey where folklore originates about the cryptic the Jersey Devil), where hunters believed Jason had wandered over to, and Ichabod went on the trip, trusted detective and investigator.
Ichabod noticed that the Pine Barrens were very dense, and he asked everyone (hunters, the mayor's men, the rangers) to carry powerful bright lantern lights. At night-time, there were patrols in shifts. At about 3 a.m., during Ichabod's shift, a rustling and then a faint patter of horse-hooves could be heard, and Ichabod believed it was the murderer scaring people in bizarre costumes. As he went nearer to the sound he realized the Headless Horseman and Jason Voorhees were standing face-to-face on a forest clearing, and Ichabod hid behind a tree to witness the apparent battle. Jason swung his machete towards the Headless Horseman's sides, but the spectre raised himself up on his raised horse and threw a pumpkin-on-fire at Jason's head. As Jason lay on the ground trying to put out the flames surrounding his own head, the Horseman rode away. After a few moments, the burning body of Jason stopped moving.
Ichabod told reporters that the two mythic spooks fought each other and that unless Jason is actually immortal (sigh), the Headless Horseman disposed of him. However, Jason was not dead, and his spirit was resurrected from collecting organic mud material near the area where his burnt body lay, and the psycho zombie was raised to the world again seeking more vengeance. Ichabod remarked to himself, "I dearly wish our people had the help of some composed vigilante such as Batman," who is a masked weapons-wielding crime-fighter. Batman at the moment, however, was being confounded by Ra's al Ghul, an eco-terrorist with eerily realistic fantasies about complete industrialization revolution starting at the Gotham Aquarium on the 4th of July.
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So, here's a story combining the two, perhaps invitational for our new age over-blitzing with art/culture icon/avatar graffiti (and perhaps wary).
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Mrs. Voorhees explained to the cops that her son drowned in Camp Crystal Lake due to the neglect of the irresponsible counsellors and had returned from the grave of the lake to become a hockey-mask wearing super-psychotic wielding a machete and murdering randomly. The cops did not believe Jason existed, but there were so many murders now that people were craving creative theories about the existence of a true phantom stalker in the modern world. The stir raised up some strange protests by the Satanists when a handful of rangers organized themselves (and told on radio) that they would hunt for Jason Voorhees.
A new investigator arrived in the Crystal Lake area named Ichabod Crane who had a curiosity about criminality, which he believed could be extracted and separated from demonism claims (e.g., exorcisms, ghosts and phantoms, etc.). Ichabod did not know, however, that the vengeful evil spirit of the Headless Horseman was stalking him and planned to decapitate him while he was walking home alone from his offices. This strange intersection of 'personalities' would ultimately pit the Headless Horseman against Jason Voorhees, and the world would finally decide if these two 'folk spooks' were actually real! The stage was set in the Pine Barrens (the dense patch of forests in New Jersey where folklore originates about the cryptic the Jersey Devil), where hunters believed Jason had wandered over to, and Ichabod went on the trip, trusted detective and investigator.
Ichabod noticed that the Pine Barrens were very dense, and he asked everyone (hunters, the mayor's men, the rangers) to carry powerful bright lantern lights. At night-time, there were patrols in shifts. At about 3 a.m., during Ichabod's shift, a rustling and then a faint patter of horse-hooves could be heard, and Ichabod believed it was the murderer scaring people in bizarre costumes. As he went nearer to the sound he realized the Headless Horseman and Jason Voorhees were standing face-to-face on a forest clearing, and Ichabod hid behind a tree to witness the apparent battle. Jason swung his machete towards the Headless Horseman's sides, but the spectre raised himself up on his raised horse and threw a pumpkin-on-fire at Jason's head. As Jason lay on the ground trying to put out the flames surrounding his own head, the Horseman rode away. After a few moments, the burning body of Jason stopped moving.
Ichabod told reporters that the two mythic spooks fought each other and that unless Jason is actually immortal (sigh), the Headless Horseman disposed of him. However, Jason was not dead, and his spirit was resurrected from collecting organic mud material near the area where his burnt body lay, and the psycho zombie was raised to the world again seeking more vengeance. Ichabod remarked to himself, "I dearly wish our people had the help of some composed vigilante such as Batman," who is a masked weapons-wielding crime-fighter. Batman at the moment, however, was being confounded by Ra's al Ghul, an eco-terrorist with eerily realistic fantasies about complete industrialization revolution starting at the Gotham Aquarium on the 4th of July.
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