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For the last six months I have been haunted by a hitchhiker. (My euphemism for cancer.) Today is the end of that haunting. I completed my 20th and final radiation therapy. “What does cancer have to do with Haunt Jaunts?” you may be wondering. Everything! Let me explain… MY HITCHHIKER,Continue Reading

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A while back I wrote about HauntedCon, but this week I got to thinking about other ghost conferences coming up for the rest of 2009. Where were they and when? (I knew I’d seen some others during my travels around various websites, so…) I decided to do a little investigatingContinue Reading

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I found this clip of an alleged ghost in a museum on YouTube thanks to a Google alert about an alleged ghost caught on a CCTV in an office building in South Carolina. (I went to YouTube to try and find it, but of course got distracted and found thisContinue Reading

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In my very first blog I explained the reaction I’d had the very first time we drove by the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine: Here there be ghosts… Well, if you watched Ghost Adventures on Friday, you saw they investigated the fort. And they did find paranormal activity.Continue Reading

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I don’t know if ghosts exist or not. I’ve had some weird encounters (for instance, the Shilo Inn and Harry’s), but I didn’t have any kind of recording devices on me to capture any evidence. (And at that time I didn’t know about EVPs and such so even if IContinue Reading

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I love ghost caught on tape or CCTV videos from YouTube. I love trying to figure out if they’re real, tampered with, shadows, reflections…you know. The standard kind of thing most people wonder about when viewing alleged footage of “real” ghosts. The thing that lends some credibility to CCTV camerasContinue Reading

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I found a story about haunted golf courses when I was slogging through my backlog of Google alerts today and stumbled upon a posting by Stephen Wagner at About.com: Paranormal Phenomena called “The Latest Paranormal News.” Wagner was listing ghost-related or otherwise odd stories he’d found, among them one entitledContinue Reading

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Okay, this is more of a “virtual Jaunt” rather than the kind of Haunt Jaunt I prefer to write about, but how could I pass up commenting about haunted dolls? It all started last Friday when my Google alert included a link to this eye-catching title: “Yet Another ‘Haunted Doll’Continue Reading

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On one of the blogs I’ve been following lately, Ghost Hunting Theories, the author has concocted a “Haunting Formula” in conjunction with some research she’s doing to rate “50 haunted sites around the US.” She uses a criteria of six things to base her scoring on: What the building’s constructedContinue Reading

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My Google alerts notified me about a great story today on Baxterking.com: “Get Yourself A Bottle of Wine Containing a ‘Real’ Ghost.” It was about a company selling ghosts in wine bottles, appropriately named Ghost in a Bottle. Oh, the array of “spirits” jokes that immediately popped into my mind…Continue Reading

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Today I came across a story on TheUnion.com called “Explore hauntings in the county” which told about the Haunted Grass Valley Historical Walking tour in Grass Valley, California. It caught my eye because the ghosts featured on the tour sounded a little edgier than those on most ghost tours. WhyContinue Reading

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Earlier today I wrote about using Haunt Jaunts to teach based in part on a headline one of my Google alerts popped up with: “Tracking Ghosts in the Valley: Ashby Lee Students Use GPS for New Learning Program” by Aimee Cregger. Well, I finally got around to reading the wholeContinue Reading