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The Phantom Monk of Sawtooth Mountain
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holland decided to leave the hustle and bustle behind and vacation in the remote environs of Alaska at the foot of Sawtooth mountain one summer in the early part of the 20th...
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Professor's Relic Revelation Haunted Career
Professor Florentino Amanghino, an Argentine scientist (1854 - 1911), was the founding father of South American paleontology and a driving force in the field world wide.However, according to one...
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WRITE IN THE DEAD OF WINTER (REDUX)
I gave it a shot last winter without any success, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel quite yet. To that end, I'm resurrecting the mouldering corpse of last year's inaugural WRITE IN THE DEAD OF...
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Tulsa Comic Con Appearance
Come out to Wizard World Comic Con this Saturday from 6 to 7 at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa. I and other local purveyors of the paranormal, including Tulsa's own Teri White (PITT; Tulsa Spirit...
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Comic Con Panel with Paranormal Pop Culture Guru
Yesterday, I made a mad dash (fighting post game-day traffic) to Tulsa for the Wizard World Comic Con where I sat on a panel with Teri White of Tulsa Spirit Tours and the book Tulsa's Haunted Memories...
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Mysterious Unmoving Mirror
Jeffrey DuRossier lay dying in a ward at the War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. His nurse, Adeline Neuf, watched over his final hours. At one point, the old man suddenly awoke from his...
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A Spot of Death
A marker denotes the spot whereWood was killed.On the night of July 16, 1823, William Wood, a weaver, was returning home to his small village from selling his wares in Manchester, England. On a lonely...
View ArticleConfessions of a Sometimes Psychic
There are many people who have on and off experiences with the paranormal. Untapped skills and abilities that rise once and awhile to leave a lot of unanswered questions in their passing. This is...
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Psychic Dream Saved Six
In November 1852, Captain George Yount (Yountsville, CA is named for him) accompanied Henry Horn on a hunting trip in the mountains. One night, Yount had a dream about a party of nine immigrants...
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Michigan's Fire Breathing Man
A. William Underwood (1855) was a young African-American man from Paw Paw, Michigan who many believed could breathe fire.Pyrokinesis one might call it in the parlance of parapsychology. In 1882, Dr. L....
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Son Sacrificed Mother in 'Aztec' Ritual
On the frigid morning of January 27, 1958, the savaged head of Edna Burns was found in the vestibule of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas.The culprit was the woman's own son,...
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Two's A Dream, Three's Company
The City of Limerick, a 1300 ton vessel built in 1867 by the Royal Mail Steamship Co. and sailing out of London, had spent the past nine days being tossed about by storms in the North Atlantic. One of...
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The Ghosts of Shakespeare
<Dressed in white as she exits the old hotel, a lovely woman of graceful form walks down the street and is lost along the curving track of the long dead rail line....It is now little more than a...
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The Beast of Bald Mountain
Author Maurice Russell* had retired to a cabin in the mountains of Northern Georgia to work on his writing. His abode was somewhat remote, so a knock on the door was always a surprise.However, this day...
View ArticleIt Follows
This indie flick, which has critics talking, looks to be one of the best horror films in a while. I hope it doesn't let us down. It's got a great 80s horror pastiche to decorate a chilling film that...
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Déjà Vu or Past Life Experience?
An American, George Lawton, was in London on business in 1914 when he detoured to meet his old friend, Paul Bixby, in York. Lawton had never been, but was keen to see the city's famous cathedral.As...
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Haunted Hellfire Club
In 1725, atop Montpelier hill near Dublin, a wealthy Irishman named William Connolly built a hunting lodge over a burial mound. In fact, legend has it that some of the stones from the cairn were...
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Undead Beliefs Among The Taino People
In researching the origins of zombies for a work in progress, I ran across an interesting assertion that this tradition doesn't come from African slaves, as is oft-cited. The premise is that beliefs...
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Real Life Is Horror
If you like your strange but true a bit more true--and a lot more dark--then you should check out this blog. While still fairly new, it has nonetheless managed to collect some truly morbid, weird, and...
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