Grow your own Pumpkinhead

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Grow your own Pumpkinhead
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This trick
actually came in really handy the last time reckless teenagers accidentally killed a member of my family. It takes several months for the pumpkin to grow into the shape of the victim’s face, but, that’s actually sort of useful because it gives you time to cool down and figure out if you really want to go through with the whole vengeance-from-beyond-the-grave thing or not. If you decide against it, you can always use your hellpumpkin as the world’s creepiest Jack-o’-lantern, which is what I ended up doing. It worked out great, at least until those same reckless teenagers kicked it into a pile of goo on my front porch. That’s irony for you! So now I’m growing another one…

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2 thoughts on “Grow your own Pumpkinhead

  1. Anonymous says:

    Actually, I find the painted-on eyebrows of the woman much creepier than the pumpkin head.

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