Ok i just read the thread about internet myths so i decided to look into Candle Cove a bit more... here we go. Hey guys, candle cove was real! i just found out that it was on public access in Zanesville OH, thats why so little people saw it, all of the people that did were around the same area, it also says that that episode was the last because they went "insane", it was on their own channel so there was no review by anybody, that means it couldn't have been cut, it was just there... creepy. Edit: Jodie Silver is apparently the little girl in the show, but all the information about her is on facebook, which i believe isn't her, or on a wiki, where all the information there is "aschsduchgsuycgysgcyusgcvydsgcwdvuwgzbxoskwp" Just jumbled letters. Edit: Found some more info: Occurring to the fact that most kiddie shows have turned up dead ends, one show, Candle Cove, has made an impact here. I made myself hunt down whatever cast remained of the show, reguardless of their fear. I wanted to know EVERYTHING about this show. But in the process, I came to understand that there hid something much darker aboard it than just what I was told and what I had heard. I have posted some of my thoughts into the page at points, to have a feel for the interviewees here. I note that those being interviewed are indicated by the quotation marks around them. You may notice that a censor will appear. I did that so no one may want to bombard me with questions and such. It's a privacy thing and I'm sorry if I offended the readers. With that, I present to you this page in the lore... CANDLE COVE EXPERIENCES: TALES OF THE LAUGHINGSTOCK (DAY 1) My first knowing of the CANDLE COVE lore came out on the NetNostalgia Forum back some time, however many of the episodes have never been found and many of the props either long gone or spread out over the world, however after this mention of the show, I had to dig further into it. What I discovered over my round trip was something dark residing within the studios itself... The show, originally called "Pirate Place" was loosely based on an old, quite lost short story called "The Nickerbocker's Tale" from 1767 about a little Irish boy arriving to a land of pirates to find his way back home. The story's writer, a man believed to be named Collin Caulkry, vanished into the dark. Stories about it say that he was a madman who married well and had a daughter who vanished without a trace near his home. This inspired him to write the story and shortly after, he was found dead by his wife. The story was lost for several years until in 1970, when a local TV station in Ashland found the rights to the story and converted it into a children's series. I managed to find some of the studios workers but none of them were able to tell me about it...Well, there was one... (DAY 2) Asking this woman to nearly relive her nightmare of 1971 was a near impossible. But thankfully she decided to, reluctantly anyways... Ok Ms.... "I'm not comfortable giving my last name OR my first." Okay then mind I call you 'Jane'? "No I don't." Okay then. Well Jane, I understand you had a part in the kiddie show 'Candle Cove' correct? "Set designer, well part of it. I helped in the construction of The Laughingstock and many of the characters as well." I see, was it a good experience? "Oh very. It was a great one, until towards the end of the show itself." How do you mean? "Well that damn Grimes, that's what it was." Grimes? Emerson Grimes, the show's director? "Is there another Grimes you know on the series?" Here she lit a cigarette, something that from her appearance and fear of Grimes fortold I actually expected from her. Well how did he manage to scare you? "How did he...HE WAS A NUTJOB! A LOONEY! He forced a five year old girl (Jodie Silver) to near heatstroke, changed scripts. Everything was fine until the show grew darker and darker." How dark was it getting? Now this I kind of knew about, the infamous question to the Skin-Taker and his answer to Janice. "When a skeleton named the Skin-Taker proclaims that the reason for his mouth to move weird is for grinding your skin, you will have some problems. Grimes was insane. But the last straw was the LAST episode of the series." I knew about this and moved onto her designs of the show. She explained that it was a damned kiddie show that turned into a "puppet show from hell" overnight. She wanted to end the conversation but not before I asked about any surviving members or crew... "There are a few of them still around but you'll have to find them on your own..." (DAY 3) I did however manage to find Jodie Silver, who played Janice on the show, now an adult of 45. She resides with her husband, Damon Louis and her two kids. If you see her now, she has lost all of that childhood spunk like that she had on the show. She works as a writer of Pirate stories and haunted mysteries. I managed to record, on tape, an intrview with her... Um, Are you Ms. Jodie Silver? "Why I haven't been called that in years. Yes I am Jodie Silver, but people call me Jodie Louis nowadays." Oh I am sorry about the mixup, I'm (censored) and I am writing a book on an old kiddie show you used to be on "Oh Jesus C. Please tell me you are joking!!" It was here that I noticed she seemed agitated at the sound of a book being written on something she was trying hard to put behind her. It's no joke Mrs. Louis. "Well I will not warn you that you are a total nutcase for doing it. That show has given me bad dreams, ruined my childhood and I have had therapy because of it. I don't wish to speak about..." Please Jodie, just one interview, that's all I'm asking for. Just one, hell, if you have to go through therapy again for it, I'll personally pay out of pocket for it. It was here she stood long and hard. "Christ! Fine fine, meet me here for an interview." With that, she handed me a card with her address on it. I promised she won't regret this, but I had a feeling that she already was... (DAY 4) Hello there Mrs. Louis. "Well hi there. Come on in." Her house wasnt a big house, but not small either. I could tell she had little ones running about from the sounds of kiddie shows floating faintly from the television set and many toys scattered about. It was like trying to walk through a forest of mousetraps without setting one off. Eventually we got to the small dining area of the home, a good outlook over the water. A place to dream dreams. Okay, now about the show. "Well (censored) it started out as a dream come true. I was a huge fan of the shows, like Jumbo's Circus and Sunshine City and Fisherman Fred, that I really wanted to be on a kiddie show. I got my wish when the studio was looking for a young girl to play the role of 'Janice' for their new show. And sure there were many little girls who wanted the role so bad so i did my best to win the studio over, which happened. I loved the idea of the show. I did my very best to do everything right. Turned out you should be careful of what you wish for." Why is that now? "I really don't want to tell you but I must...You see, on set, some changes started happening. Grimes would change scripts, things seemed to be a bit scary. And for the first episode to seem so mean and such was odd for a kid's show. And then that horrible last episode..." What episode, the last episode of the first season? "Wow (censored), you REALLY need to know your history of this. There were two seasons of the show. The final episode of the second season was the worst ever." I tentively and carefully asked her to tell me... "Screams!" Huh? "Just screams. Everyone screaming and that sick man Grimes destroying the sets. He told everyone to just scream, and loudly many did. It got to the point where one of the actors, the man who played the Skin-Taker (reffering to Michael Colon) started to bleed. He nearly chocked on his own blood. I bawled my eyes out." It was there she started to cry, all of these memories coming back to her/ She asked me to stop and I did. I explained I was sorry to bring back these memories. I never meant that as my intention. "I remember the Skin-Taker. He hung, his head tilted and low, his jaw hanging from one socket and parts of his arms torn off..."