Candle Cove—Scary Story

This is one Urban Legend that I didn't author, but I felt I had to share with you all. The author is unknown, as the story has been around for a while and has 'changed hands' a lot. Yet and still, I had to share this with you.
I DO NOT CLAIM OWNERSHIP!!!

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NetNostalgia Forum - Television (local)

Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid's show?
Does anyone remember this kid's show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.

mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
it seems really familiar to me...i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove...was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
YES! Okay I'm not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body. I don't remember what station this was! I don't think it was WTSF though.

Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in '71, not '72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.

It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn't a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don't remember the girl's name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.

mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
ha ha i remember now too. do you remember this part skyshale: "you have...to go...INSIDE."

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That's what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock's face with each pause. YOU HAVE... TO GO... INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.

You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.

kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.

Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
That wasn't the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain's sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.

But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can't believe what they let us watch back then.

kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
Wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin??

mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn't open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said "why does your mouth move like that" and the skin-taker didn't look at the girl but at the camera and said "TO GRIND YOUR SKIN"

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.

kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
i don't think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.

kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
maybe i'm manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.

Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn't have the courage to turn it back on.

mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid's show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said "because i used to think it was so strange that you said "i'm gona go watch candle cove now mom" and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show."

Reviews

[No More Angels]

OHMYGOD that was so freaky i mean just whoah i cant even.... but it was still very very awesom owo

[Steven Cash]

:)

[Poison Ivy]

OH MY GOD!!!!! HOLY S**T!!!!!! I'm sorry, im usually very professional when it comes to reviews, but hopefully you will take this as a complement when i say, THIS STORY SCARED THE F**K OUT OF ME!!!!
THIS IS F*****G AWESOME!!! LOL!
i swear this is the scariest thing i have ever read!
adding to favorites!

10000/100

[Steven Cash]

lol ahaaaa thanks lol

I found this on a site called 'UrbanLegendsOnline.com'

read morelol ahaaaa thanks lol

I found this on a site called 'UrbanLegendsOnline.com'

[lothlorienwriter]

So this isn't your writing but belongs to someone else but with your name on it?? Hrmmm

[Steven Cash]

Did I say I put my name on it? No, actualy, I say in the descriptions that SOME are not my own.
read moreDid I say I put my name on it? No, actualy, I say in the descriptions that SOME are not my own.

All that say 'Original Urban Legend or Original Scary Story' are mine, all mine

the others, as I said, are ones I found.

[Steven Cash]

And plus, it is nearly impossible to find the original author of an Urban Legend, cause some have been around for years.

That's why movies base plots off of them, and don't have to fear being sued

[lothlorienwriter]

Am sorry but at the top it say "A Chapter by Steven Cash"
So it struck me as something you are claiming credit for and makes me wonder now what is and what isn't your writing on here? Copy and Paste best left alone........

[Steven Cash]

Before you go out making a statement, please check your facts sir.
I am no plagurising conspiritor.
If I copied and pasted the Magna Carta on here, it would say, "A Chapter By Steven Cash"

I have no control over that. It says that cause I posted it. I never said I authored it

If you would read the others, you would see that I CLEARLY spell out the ones I have authored

[lothlorienwriter]

If you post others work on here with your "name" attached to it whether you meant it to be there or not is irrelevant. The fact is its not your work. Some may be copyrighted or not either way its still unethical on such sites as this where the inference is that the work on users profile's is their own. I expect some have been mislead in this regard when they see 'By Steven Cash' at the start of each article. I think most writers would agree with me and surely you would not want this confusion? Or to be thought of as a plagiarizer.

[Steven Cash]

The point is I don't attach 'By Steven Cash' to each one

The site does that

read moreThe point is I don't attach 'By Steven Cash' to each one

The site does that

And nobody will think I just took it without credit because *gasp* I spelled out what was mine and what was not from the BEGINNING

obviously this is all you read



AUTOMATICALLY TO EVERY AUTHOR

[John Phoenix Hutchinson.]

I think Mark has a point here especially with the inference that work on profiles seen here is your own but I also know Steven would not want people to think this and he certainly did not intend to claim anybodies elses work of that am 100% certain. Steven does mention its not his work at beginning perhaps though I might make a suggestion. Put a statement on each piece IN CAPITALS stating you make no claim to the piece and perhaps give your own review and reason for listing it here as an introduction. That way there would be no confusion.

[Steven Cash]

Thanks for the advice John. I already have/had such a statement on the book description, but I will edit now and make sure it's on each chapter.

[Steven Cash]

Ok it's been updated

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[Steven Cash]

ahaaaa glad you liked it!

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

That last paragraph/comment added double creep! These are "nightmare fuel"!

[Steven Cash]

Yep yep LOL

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

Definitely!

[Summer'sBreeze]

Another great story!
:)