31 Days of Halloween #9

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Day 9 - A personal spooky, Fortean, or supernatural experience

Apart from the back from the dead thing? Oh, well.... I have seen a couple of interesting things over the years...

Let's do the crop circle one. I've seen a crop circle actually form, right in front of my very eyes. Oh, just a rough one, no fancy pattern, but there was definitely no guys with boards and strings in the field at the time. Sadly there were no flying saucers or dancing faeries or anything either- just a stiff breeze, ripples in the wheat being blown, and then, suddenly, a patch of the wheat just twisted down in a rough circular patch.

So, you can definitely put me down as believing that there are such things as *natural* crop circles caused by localised momentary whirlwinds.

Batman 1940

Having recently played through Arkham City, and being a classic movie fan, my brain decided to fantasy-cast again. In this case, what if there was a big-budget star-studded Batman epic circa 1940?

Now, there actually *was* a Batman movie serial in 1943, starring a guy called Lewis Wilson, but what if there had been a movie with real stars? Who would play which character? Here are my picks, and some are characters created decades later, but still...

Batman/Bruce Wayne- Tyrone Power. Actually, Cary Grant would be a great Bruce, but less of a Batman. I'm thinking Power made a good Zorro, and seeing s the characters are (deliberately) similar...

Robin- Mary Morris, if we have to have Robin at all (which I admit I'd rather not). Yes, you read that right. A female Robin. Trust me on this.

Alfred- OK, you got e there. I want to say David Niven, but he's still a little young at this point.

Commissioner Gordon- Claude Rains. Obviously. He's got the 'tache sorted.

Now the villains:

The Joker- Anyone suggesting Connie gets a punch in the face. No, this is 1940, we can actually just have Cesar Romero, from the 60s series, except here he's the right age!

Harley Quinn- Bonita Granville here, I suspect.

The Penguin- Edward G Robinson

Two-Face- Bogie. Just because.

Poison Ivy- Joan Crawford. Obviously.

Mr Freeze- Conrad Veidt. Because he's the villain whose evil is all done in the name of love. Everything Freeze does is with the aim of healing his wife.

Ra's Al Ghul- Basil Rathbone. Who else would be so perfect? The smooth and vicious snarker and swordsman... And to have him be one always looking for the "World's Greatest Detective" to be his successor...

Feel free to add your own...Catwoman and Riddler, especially, are still up for grabs.