Sacriest Halloween Story!!!! BOO!

Bob Hill and his new wife Betty were vacationing in Europe, as it happens, near Transylvania. They were driving in a rental car along a rather deserted highway. It was late and raining very hard. Bob could barely see 20 feet in front of the car. Suddenly the car skids out of control! Bob attempts to control the car, but to no avail! The car swerves and smashes into a tree.

Moments later, Bob shakes his head to clear the fog. Dazed, he looks over at the passenger seat and sees his wife unconscious, with her head bleeding! Despite the rain and unfamiliar countryside, Bob knows he has to carry her to the nearest phone. Bob carefully picks his wife up and begins trudging down the road. After a short while, he sees a light. He heads towards the light, which is coming from an old, large house. He approaches the door and knocks.

A minute passes, then a small, hunched man opens the door. Bob immediately blurts, 'Hello, my name is Bob Hill, and this is my wife Betty. We've been in a terrible accident, and my wife has been seriously hurt. Can I please use your phone?'
'I'm sorry,' replied the hunchback, 'but we don't have a phone, but my master is a doctor; come in and I will get him!'

Bob brings his wife in. An elegant man comes down the stairs. 'I'm afraid my assistant may have misled you. I am not a medical doctor; I am a scientist. However, it is many miles to the nearest clinic, and I have had a basic medical training. I will see what I can do. Igor, bring them down to the laboratory.'

With that, Igor picks up Betty and carries her downstairs, with Bob following closely. Igor places Betty on a table in the lab. Bob collapses from exhaustion and his own injuries, so Igor places Bob on an adjoining table.

After a brief examination, Igor's master looks worried. 'Things are serious, Igor. Prepare a transfusion. 'Igor and his master work feverishly, but to no avail. Bob and Betty Hill are no more.

The Hills' deaths upset Igor's master greatly. Wearily, he climbs the steps to his conservatory, which houses his grand piano. For it is here that he has always found solace. The scientist sits and begins to play, a stirring, almost haunting melody that fills the house.

Meanwhile, Igor is still in the lab tidying up. His eyes catch a movement, and he notices the fingers on Betty's hand twitch. They appear to be drumming on the table keeping time to the haunting piano music. Stunned he watches as Bob's arm begins to rise, marking the beat from the piano as well! Then suddenly Betty and Bob both sit straight up!

Unable to contain himself Igor dashes up the stairs to the conservatory.
He bursts in and shouts to his master:
'Master, Master! ...The Hills are alive with the sound of music!

Bear 07-27-2008

I was outside about 12:30ish Sunday (July 27, 2008) and I heard something moving in the woods back below my house. It sounded like it was over towards the road. I had my video cam out with me as i usually do, so I walked down my driveway to see what I could see. What I'd heard was a bear going across the bottom, the north end, of my property and he was out in the road coming up hill towards my driveway. I turned on the video cam and tried to get him in the road, but with me being in the shady woods and him in the sunny road all I got was glare. You'll see in the first few seconds of the video. So I turned off the cam and made some settings to better see him. By then he was out of the road and back on my property and heading towards a path I use to walk down to that corner of my property. He then gets onto that path, which by the way I had started going down before I saw him in the road. As he got closer I'm thinking he's just gonna come right on up that path to where I'm standing. I started backing up the hill trying to keep the camera on him. When he's maybe about 40 feet away from me you hear me start saying "no, no" to him. I was surprised my movement hadn't scared him off already. You might hear a little nervousness in my voice. I kinda hoped my "no, no" would scare him, but then too I kinda wanted just to slow him down as I DO love to watch bears up here. Well you'll see my "no, no" gave him pause, but then he came right on up. I, on the other hand, started my retreat up my driveway towards my house.

I stop a short way, maybe 35-40ft, up my driveway and try to find where he has gone. I scan the woods with the cam looking for the bear to retreat back the way he had come. Then I see the bear has come on up the path and up to the light pole I was standing beside my driveway. He stands up on his hind legs beside the pole sniffing the air - sniffing for me I imagine. He then drops back to all fours and goes back down the path and into the woods. I get shots of him as he heads back down the hill and around behind my house. I go back up my driveway and to the back of my house trying to see him again, but I can only hear him moving. I don't see him again.

At the end of the video, notice the still pics I took from the video of him beside the pole and then me beside that same pole. The two photos side by side compare my height, I’m six foot maybe 1/2 inch tall, to his height beside the pole. His territorial scratch marks on the pole are a good indicator of his height compared to mine.

Pretty cool huh?

Bear 07-28-2007

This is just some video of ol Mr (or Ms) Bear around my house.

BEAR!!!! 07-23-06

BEAR!!!! 1997 or 98

This bear appeared behind my house one day. I saw it from my kitchen window, but by the time I got my video cam he was gone from view. I went out my front door to look again and didn't see it. Then all of the sudden there it was right in front of my house. It had been hidden behind a lounge chair. I was out on my porch and just froze. After a few minutes he came towards me and then came up on my porch (which as you can see was under construction) and he/she ate my cat's food. I was standing outside my door, on my porch no more than six feet from the bear as he ate the food. My heart was a racin' I'll tell ya!