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Houska Castle is a pretty scary place!

Houska Castle is a castle about 47km away from Prague in the Czech Republic. It was built in the 12th Century, mainly as a means of keeping out monsters. Yes. You read that right.

According to legend, there's a massive hole underneath Houska castle, which stretches forever. It was, and allegedly still is, the gateway to hell. So because everybody was so scared, they built a castle on top of it.

But that's not all!

They also decided to investigate the hole. So they lowered prisoners down to have a look. The first "victim" of this screamed to be pulled back up after just a few seconds. When they did, his hair was white, and he'd aged many years. He died within two days.

Now, I don't know how real all of that is. But I heard some of this on Most Haunted Live, which prompted me look research it some more. For more information, look here, or just do a Google search. It's an interesting little castle. What do all of my clearly-existent-readers think about it?

Today, somebody saved my life...

I would like to thank the writer of this article, as you have pretty much just saved my life.

Yesterday, an evil search engine called MyWebSearch somehow changed my Firefox address bar from a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, to their second rate search. It got on my nerves.

Luckily, I found this solution (through Google I might add), and now I'm my usual, happy self once again!

So if your browser's been damaged like mine was, you might want to check out that link at the top.

So who exactly is this Joe fella?

Yeah. I know you've all been asking this. Who exactly am I?

Well, obviously my name's Joe. I'm 16, and live somewhere near London, England. I'm currently studying for my GCSEs in the Summer, and should probably be revising for my French oral exam on Monday. But never mind, I'd rather be doing... anything to be honest. Which is why I'm here!

As you may have guessed from my picture, I'm a player of the guitar. I absolutley LOVE music. But only good music, like rock, metal, and some indie. I like the occasional pop song but they're few and far between. My favourite bands are Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, and recently (on Thursday) really got into Dire Straits. And if anyone's going to the UK Sonisphere this Summer, I'll see you there!

I'm not too much into television and films, but I watch the occasional show. I really enjoy Doctor Who, and it's by far my favourite programme. I like good old comedies too, like Only Fools and Horses. Who doesn't?

Well there's the end of my biography section!!! I'm hoping you understand me a bit more. And stuff... :P

Most Haunted Live

Well, following my dramatic loss on the lottery, my family have deemed it important to watch Most Haunted Live: Gothic Prague - Evil Within. That's one long winded title. It must match the fact that it lasts for four whole hours. Of course, when you take away the time hogged by adverts, the time spent watching a bald guy talk about webcams, and the time waiting for the team to stop screaming (it's very unprofessional, bearing in mind they've been doing this for 8 years), you've only got about 15 minutes of ghost hunting.

Nevertheless, we watch it whenever it's on, and it can get quite humorous. Who wouldn't find a team of people crawling around haunted houses and screaming at shadows and footsteps funny?

Now I believe in ghosts and spirits and things like that. But I'm not sure if I believe that this particular team of investigators are truthful. It seems at times that they are simply making the show over the top and exaggerated.

However, there have been events in the show's history that do seem unexplainable. Such as one time where the two people were perched on two chairs round a table, before the table suddenly flew across the room, seemingly by itself. Now I'm aware that they may have tied some string around the legs, but I'm not too sure. It seemed too... Real.

Whatever your beliefs, there's no reason why anyone shouldn't give the show a chance, even if you just want a laugh. If anyone reads this, they could, I dunno, tell me and anyone else any ghostly stories they've witnessed. Please...

P.S My dad's just announced that he has a feeling something horrible is going to happen tonight to one of the team! Emoticon time - D:

I have no money!

Yes. It's official (and has been for quite a long time). I'm moneyless. And I don't like.

I've spent this beautiful sunny day not out with mates socialising, but on the interent searching for ways to make some cash. After sifting through the rubbish, I've found nothing except filling out forms, and doing survey after survey. After not getting very far, I ended up ranting on here!

So if any of my readers that don't actually exist have any suggestions to make me some money, please feel free to let me know. In the meantime, I'm going to watch the lottery, and hope I win! That would certainly sort out my money needs!

Think Floyd

I went to see a band last night called Think Floyd at Chelmsford's Civic Theatre. For those who don't know, they are a Pink Floyd tribute band who are "regarded as the UK's number one" when it comes to Pink Floyd tributes.

Anyway, from quarter to 8 until it finished at about... half 10ish, we were treated to songs from the beginning of Pink Floyd's career to the end. And it was all very good.

Apart from one thing.

Having finished their set, we left to the not-so-brilliant music of the Scissor Sisters. And of all the songs they could have chose, the Scissor Sister's cover of Comfortably Numb was playing. I'm not sure if there's a better way of insulting the music they'd spent two and half hours playing than by playing that.

HOWEVER! Despite that little - snag - Think Floyd played the original music brilliantly, and I would recommend them to anyone. Well, anyone who's into Pink Floyd.

My first post!!!

Well here I am, thinking I should probably say something a bit more creative for my first post. But I won't.

I will, however, welcome you to my blog about everything and anything! I'm not sure how long I'll keep posting to it, but let's hope I'll keep at it. You never know, I might surprise you, and myself.

And that's the end of my first post. I hope you enjoyed it! Stay tuned for more exciting stuff, coming soon (hopefully).