J.W. Ocker

Sleepy Hollow Twilight Village!

The two most important rooms in Washington Irving’s Sunnyside: the room where he wrote and the room where he died.

Wanna track the devil with me? Let’s hoof it to Ipswich, Massachusetts.

One appearance left this year: Wed., 10/15, 7pm, in Dover, NH. Sponsored by the Dover Public Library, it'll be held in the Jeffrey Leaf Theater at Dover Middle School. I'll talk cursed objects in a way I haven't before, as I'll discuss the recent developments in that weird world. Come and hang!

A burial simulator!

Chased all night by the Headless Horseman.

The hill the Headless Horseman died on. More soon!

Goblin’s [Koblin’s] Pharmacy, Nyack, NY.

2025 Salem Haunted Happenings Grand Parade.

Parade night in Salem.

Wanna know what Fright Kingdom in Nashua is like? Let’s go. #Halloween #haunt #hauntedhouse #newhampshire

Posted about this sale yesterday, but forgot I’m a video guy now.

Thank you, Sean!

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It’s Halloween, and my house exists again.

If you visit Salem and pick up this season’s free issue of Haunted Happenings Magazine, you’ll see coloring pages by my two youngest. Which means that their work will get more exposure in one month than my entire body of work across my whole career. I’m eating all their Fruit by the Foot right now.

A smidgen of Salem from today.

Fright Night. Who’s it gonna be tonight?

Getting our spook on at Fright Kingdom in Nashua—always a highlight of the season.

Ha!

Your high school mascot was definitely not as cool.

Last night.

We…headed…to the Sleepy Hollow Street Fair. Saw a herd of Headless Horsemen.

Sleepy Hollow Street Fair crowd. Lots of heads to choose from.

“Some mention was made also of the woman in white, that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, having perished there in the snow.”

—The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

Excited to read @jwocker.bsky.social latest!

Oh, excellent!

Time to deathorate for Halloween.

A 17th century kidnapping that yielded the country’s first bestseller.

Queen to Rook 5.

Classic authors sharing some dirt.