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Boris Karloff was my neighbor
Oct 31st
I am reminded that Boris Karloff lived 7 miles from my home in New Milford Connecticut. I never knew that. No one around there knew. This was a small New England town. Everybody knew everything. Certainly, if a big star like Karloff lived there. I only found out because my new girlfriend Slylvia Prichard lived in his house with her parents. Her parents were British. So was Karloff. The Pritchards bought the home shortly after karloffs death in 1969. They had lived there just over a year when I met Sylvia.
It was a long time ago but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Sylvia and I were swimming on a hot June day in 1971. Only her mother was at home. She didn’t want to be left alone at night. Her mom had PTSD from being an English searchlight girl during the London Blitz in the 1940s. She was a bit quirky. Sylvias mother invited me to stay for dinner and to spend the night.
That is when I first heard the story of how Karloff had murdered his wife some 20 years earlier. Karloff was never arrested for the crime, but New Milford police always suspected him. At the time I was a young reporter, so I ventured over to the Police department and got my hands on the police report. It seemed Mrs Karloff had fallen down 30 stairs into the basement one night after an New York theater party. I had never heard of this. It was never in the papers. Never except this death notice from 1961 in the New Milford Times. “Andresca Karoff died accidently at her home on 312 Maple trail”
But the police report said they had found blood on Karloffs clothes.
As the evening wore on Mrs Pritchard revealed that she did not want to be alone because Andrescas Karloffs ghost roamed the house at night. Also, that sometimes Boris was there too. And that the murder was played out over and over. By this time it was nearing midnite. Both Sylvia and her mother were looped from wine we had been drinking.
I was like what the fuck?? Get out of here. Sylvia asured me that it was true but she didn’t care cause she took sleeping meds and never saw anything. I didn’t believe it. I thought they were both crazy.
Mrs. Pritchard saw that i wasn’t on board with yet another New England tale of horror and ghosts. No of course not I don’t believe in ghosts period. I didn’t then and I don’t now. I spent then night without episode.
I was tired and went off to my room in the basement. The guest room at the bottom of the stairs. Then something curious occured. An old car had pulled up to the back of the house when an older women came in through the sliding gloss door. It was Agness Mrs Pritchards sister who was visiting the family from England. She had been to bridge party in town. Not wanting to appear rude I sat at the sun table downstairs and chatted with her.
OMG she kept me up all night talking…… endlessly about her life in Liverpool. It was daybreak when I finally went to bed. agness went to bed in the room next to mine. Syvia and her mother had apparently passed out, because they did not come downstairs and rescue me from this odd duck.
I awoke late the next morining . Sylvia was smashed on ludes for sleeping and I from the old lady. During coffee when I asked about Sylvias aunt….Mrs Pritchard said. “What aunt??”
Your sister I said” Agnes. she kept me awake half the night talking”, Both Mrs Pritchard and Sylvias face drew pale.” I don’t have a sister Jann” When I took them to show them the old Mercedes parked in the back it was gone. The room next to the guest room was not a second guest room at all but an old unused coal furnis room.
Mrs Pritchard insisted ” It was her. It was her. It was Andresca Karloff you spoke with.” Like I said I don’t believe in ghosts. With a couple of lushes like the Pritchard, i have no idea what to believe. But this story is true and the case of Andresca Karloff death is still unsolved. And Agness? I don’t know what to make of her. But i did talk to her . she was as real as that cup of coffee you’re drinking. One other small fact. Andresca Karloff drove a 1961 Mercedes 220. The same car i had seen that June night in 1971.
from a place where innocent girls are murdered for fun
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado
People in Boulder drive like idiots: cars bikes and scooters
Oct 17th
As I drove down a parking lane in the Sun Flower lot a girl on a light green scooter came blasting toward me nearly hitting me and two other cars in the process. She wasn’t stopping for shit and everybody yelled at her.
On the way down Folsom I was making a right turn onto Canyon and noticed a road bike in my right mirror. I was going to make the turn and then thought “ you know, this guy isn’t going to stop..he is going to keep coming and pass me on the right”….and’ surin than shit’ he did…head down, head up ass, pissed off look….fuck! I almost killed him. This happens to me about once a week in Boulder.
Then as I headed east on Canyon in the left hand turn lane following traffic, some guy behind me got into a road rage incident with another car and proceeded to screech his brakes right next to me trying to force the other guy off the road.
At 28th and Jay road with the coast clear, I made a left turn out of the left turn lane and a CRX came blasting through at about 70 mph nearly hitting me. He looked at me with one of those, what’s your problem? I started up again and a guy in a BMW SUV jumped out of his left turn lane coming from the other direction. He shot into the intersection almost hitting my car and the one behind me. He locked em up and slid sideways.
How many of us go through this shit every day here in Boulder? I know it’s Sunday but Jesus H. Christ! I like to flash my hi beams at people when they do stupid shit. Then when I get their attention, I shake my finger at them in a scolding manner. That’s better than giving them the middle finger. They feel like their 3rd grade teacher just scolded them.
From the yuppie impatient capitol of the world
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado
Plastic Bags out and the DEA is coming to Boulder
Oct 13th
When the DEA comes calling in Boulder Don’t say we didn’t ask for it. They busted California and now they are coming to Boulder. The entire state of Colorado has recklessly legalized marijuana with little or no controls. Boulder has been the worst violator. The entire city council especially Macon Cowles have been criminal in their actions and I won’t be a bit surprised if some city officials are arrested when the DEA starts busting down doors. Cowles has publicly stated that he advocates breaking federal control substance laws. The DEA works in a vacuum and does not notify local police or District Attorneys when they come crashing down. They swoop in in mass, start arresting people and hauling them off to federal holding detention centers. They don’t even use the local sheriffs jail. Not only that, they don’t give a shit what you think and will not bend to protests or congressional pressure by Jared Polis. They laugh at him . And the joke is going to be on us when the DEA come. I’ll tell you one thing I wouldn’t want to be anywhere around the MMJ business.
The other problem is that so many kids have been turned into drug addicts by city of Boulders irresponsible actions. I volunteer to help a lot of these kids. It is heart breaking what has happened over the past two years. So many young kids lynched by the city in their stupid selfish decision to allow children the access to illegal drugs and growing operations.
note to you dear reader: Today I begin Jann Scotts Journal again after a 5 year hiatus.
From Americas drugiest small City
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado