by mike | Oct 21, 2019 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Having viewed over 17 million horror movies since the invention of celluloid, I’m pretty jaded when it comes to being scared by any of them. But I just about had to change my shorts after watching the 2013 thriller, The Conjuring. If it isn’t the scariest movie I ever...
by mike | Apr 1, 2019 | Ghosts, Movies, Myths & Legends, Non-Fiction, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
File this one under “unsolved mysteries,” an incident that has confounded researchers, as well as ordinary people, for over a century. How did three lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr, site of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, vanish one day without a trace? Eilean Mòr is...
by mike | Jan 14, 2019 | Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
The accident that killed young Condie Cunningham over a century ago was no myth. But what followed would move the needle to the top of the “WEIRD” meter, where it remains to this day. A LATE-NIGHT SNACK TURNS DEADLY The University of Montevallo is a public,...
by mike | Dec 3, 2018 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
So what did horror-meister Stephen King think about the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, a revisionist version of the 1959 classic ghost story by Shirley Jackson? He tweeted that it was great, practically a work of genius. And remember, he is no fan of...
by mike | Oct 8, 2018 | Death, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Why does a rural road in Nebraska appear on current lists of the scariest places in America? How come there is so much documented paranormal activity along this creepy byway? The following scenario offers some clues as to how the legend of Seven Sisters Road began. AN...
by mike | Sep 10, 2018 | Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Spirituality, Uncategorized |
Chicago and its environs are home to quite a few ghosts and spirits. I’ve already written about one of America’s most haunted places, the Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, located in the Windy City’s suburbs. (Check out my post, “Myths and Legends: The Bachelor’s Grove...