by mike | May 2, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Back in 2019 I wrote about the seven films (at the time) that comprised what is called The Conjuring Universe. This is a multi-billion (with a “b”) franchise of horror movies “based on the true stories” of hauntings and demonic possession cases involving Lorraine and...
by mike | Jan 10, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
“Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of spook central.” Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) delivers that line to fellow Ghostbuster Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in the 1984 comedy/horror classic, one of my all-time favorite films. The building Ray is referencing...
by mike | Sep 16, 2021 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Nightmares, Romance, Uncategorized |
This was supposed to be a “Christmas post” when it first ran in 2017, but since then it has been viewed countless times—in just about every month of the year. As a Jewish kid growing up in The Bronx—in a neighborhood of mostly other Jews—I had little exposure to...
by mike | Sep 9, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
True or not, the legend of this passage to Satan’s digs in mid-America sounds pretty creepy. I first presented this post in 2017. An unincorporated community called Stull, located a short distance from larger Kansas cities Topeka and Lawrence, has the dubious...
by mike | Aug 5, 2021 | Movies, Nightmares, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This post, which first ran in 2017, is about Invaders from Mars, one of the first influential science-fiction films of the 1950s. Growing up in the 1950s I got to experience first-hand the new wave of science fiction movies that defined the era. One of my absolute...
by mike | May 20, 2021 | Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Did Al Capone stash the corpses of his enemies in this haunted cemetery? I first presented this post in 2017. One of the most haunted places in the U.S. is located in suburban Chicago, of all places. The Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, abandoned over four decades ago, is...
