Photo Five Picture Prompt

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So, after a mobile phone video of a lighthouse in the rain prompted this awesome fic from lipstickcat, I thought we could use some picture prompts here at the Eerie, Indiana fandom. On the 5th, 15th and 25th of the month, I'll put up a post where we can share photos or pictures that evoke a sense of Eerie, and these can be used as prompts for fic or art or a poem or icons or whatever shakes loose.

Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Mystery Box

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Written for Day 5 of the 31_days October challenge. The prompt was "the big chest"

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Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: The Stand

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Written for Day 5 of the 31daysoffandom October challenge. The prompt I used for this one was "jack-o-lantern". Crossover with Sleepy Hollow.

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Screenrant lists the fifteen scariest kids shows ever

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Having directed horror classics like The Howling and Gremlins, Joe Dante took that love of genre and helped usher in a supernatural kids show in Eerie, Indiana.

Watching TV, kids could only wish that their lives were exciting and interesting as that of Marshall Teller’s. The show’s young protagonist moved from New Jersey to Eerie, Indiana, a strange small town where the weird is commonplace. Kids were immediately drawn into this strange version of suburbia as Elvis and Bigfoot lurked around in the opening credits. When the series premiered on NBC in 1991, there was nothing else like it on TV. This cleverly written show, made just for kids, didn’t dumb down the horror or science fiction storylines.

Before we had Agents Mulder and Scully, Marshall Teller and his buddy, Simon Holmes, were the best investigators of the strange and unexplained. The series developed a cult following with fun and creepy episodes like “Foreverware”, “The Retainer”, and “The Hole in the Head Gang.” The series only lasted one season but in 1998 Fox Kids reimagined it into Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, though this new version never reached the popularity of the original.

People Magazine article on Eerie, Indiana from 1991

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Imagine Twin Peaks for preteens. That's the concept in this intriguing kids' fantasy series. Omri Katz is the new kid in town, a transplanted New Jerseyite who is convinced that beneath its boringly placid exterior his small Midwestern town is "the center of weirdness for the entire planet."

Katz is good as the boy who finds supermarket tabloid stories in even well-kept yard. (A guy on his paper route looks just like Elvis.) Katz gets help from Justin Shenkarow as his pal and Mary-Margaret Humes and Francis Guinan as his concerned parents.

The boy's conspiracy theories make a nifty metaphor for the wary alienation of adolescence. So while you've got on 60 Minutes, the younger set may be upstairs tuned in to this fanciful space shot.

Scarfolk Council blog

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Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread