I watched this show when it premiered on Monday night and came away from it puzzled as to how they obtained their supernatural abilities and where the plot was going to go. I’d seen the preview of the cheerleader surviving a nasty fall and got the general gist of what this new show was going to be about. My interest was lukewarm, so I didn’t give it much thought or attention until the premiere, which I watched on a whim. Here’s a short summary from Kendra on WordPress:

Heroes will chronicle the lives of these people and the lives of others like them – whose destiny just might be saving humankind and themselves as they come together to evade the series’ antagonist who wants to capture them so they can be studied and experiemented on in order harness their super-DNA for himself.

The premiere episode involved introducing the main characters and their backstories, which intrigued me enough to want to watch next Monday’s episode. I’d like to see how the writers of Heroes connect all of the subplots they have going on right now.

This A&E special, hosted by Harry Smith, airs every year around Halloween. It tells the history of Halloween dating from the time of the Druidic festival of Samhain to the 20th century. Smith discusses Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday, and various cities are visited to explore their Halloween traditions and festivities. Also included in the program are clips from horror films such as Halloween.

Our tours follow a course of history that starts with the very beginnings of Chicago, traveling from its humble origins as a frontier outpost, through the 19th century — including the Great Chicago Fire and its aftermath–, into the 20th century and the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s, and forward to today. We cover a lot of information and a lot of stories. There is no exact formula; we don’t set out to scare people, rather we let the stories and our own experiences speak for themselves. This, we’ve learned, seems to work well.

Among the more popular locations they visit include the Fort Dearborn Massacre site, Iroquois Theater & Death Alley, the Eastland river disaster site, haunted Streeterville, death site of Resurrection Mary, Hull House, Harpo Studios, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre site, Graceland Cemetery, Candyman’s Cabrini Green, the Tonic Room, the Biograph Theater and many others.

Visit ChicagoHauntings.com to learn more about their tours and to make reservations.

Join three college students from Inda as they explore a creepy haunted house, solving puzzles and helping them make decisions. I checked out the “scary” videos, but couldn’t see what got them freaked out. I blame poor film quality. The puzzles look interesting though.

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