SPOOOOOKY LADIES-TOBER II - GHOSTLY, GHASTLY, WITCHY AND BITCHY

  




Ghostly - two school teachers met Marie Antoinette...118 years after she died

Ghastly - splish splash she was takin' a bath... in the blood of virgins


Witchy - a woman tried for witchcraft...in 1944


Bitchy - Lizzie Borden took an ax ... or did she? Yeah, she probably did


 


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