Nightmare on Beech Street food

Here’s some info about another haunted dining experience, this time from a restaurant in Long Beach, New York. Starting October 8, The Beach House is transforming itself into the Nightmare on Beech Street. It’s not one of Fever’s Haunted Dining in the Dark experiences. Although Patch staff member Jerry BarmashContinue Reading

Speed Art Museum exterior

The “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” exhibit is on the move and will open in a new home this fall. Earlier this year I wrote that it would be on display at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from June 12 through September 5, 2021. Well, onContinue Reading

Funny Jack o lantern with straw drinking a cocktail through a straw

Haunted houses of the Halloween variety, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, and hayrides have all become standard October activities. But have you noticed a new Halloween 2021 trend? Or have haunted drinking and dining experiences always been around and they’re just now making my radar? It’s something we definitely didn’t seeContinue Reading

Addams Family house with footprints in snow

Thanks to COVID, AddamsFest had to pivot last year. Alt AddamsFest, as they called it, featured favorite AddamsFest fun like the Wicked Windows of Westfield and the Haunt Your House Decorating Contest. In true 2020 style, it also used Zoom for a pumpkin carving contest. Dudley’s Drive-In allowed folks toContinue Reading

Haunted Gorge Underground Boat tour poster 2021

  Updated September 15, 2021 What comes to mind when you think of Kentucky? Horses and the Derby? Bourbon? Baseball? What about a great place to explore the outdoors? Or, in the case of the Gorge Underground, explore Mother Nature’s indoors. Among other things, Kentucky is cave country. You canContinue Reading

House of Spirits logo

Themed cocktails. Macabre magic. Sinister séances. Tarot readings. Strange roaming specters. Live music. Hidden secret games. Giant Ouija boards. Plus more. Such as, it all takes place in a haunted mansion. Sound like an evening you’d like to attend? Let’s take a look at the three cities where you canContinue Reading

The House a Homecoming Dark Zone event banner

In 1970, the Perron family moved into an old farmhouse on Roundtop Road in Harrisville, Rhode Island. Little did they know what lay in store for them. Hauntings. Possession. Terror. Paranormal activity so out of their realm they called in the only real “experts” at that time for assistance, EdContinue Reading

Destination Fear team Tanner Wiseman, Chelsea Laden, Dakota Laden and Alex Schroeder

Season three of Destination Fear premieres Saturday, July 24, 2021, on both Travel Channel and discovery+. However, if you can’t wait and want to see them sooner (by only a day, but hey, it’s technically a little sooner), you can catch the entire Destination Fear team during a special Comic-Con@HomeContinue Reading

Stranger Things The Experience graphic

Are you a Stranger Things fan? If you could jaunt inside Hawkins Lab, would you? If you answered yes, you’ll get a chance when the lab is not only resurrected but made open to the public —as long as you have a ticket to Stranger Things: The Experience, that is.Continue Reading

Unexplained Maine Campout 2021 graphic

Have you ever been on a midnight Sasquatch hunt? What about a UFO meditation? Ever participated in anything like that? Do you like camping? We’re talking full-on roughing it where you have to haul all of your gear in (and out) and there’s no running water or other amenities. IfContinue Reading

Silhouette of alien standing in beam of light from UFO hovering above the ground.

Whether you believe in extraterrestrial life or not, one thing’s undeniable: how much the possibility of alien life pervades our culture. Sure, it’s been the inspiration for plenty of great science fiction movies and books. But join me in considering it from another angle. I submit into evidence Exhibit A:Continue Reading

Zak Bagans and Ghost Adventures crew on the banks of Utah’s Great Salt Lake

When Ghost Adventures returns on Thursday, July 22, 2021, fans want to know two things: Where the new season will premiere: Travel Channel or discovery+? What episodes can they look forward to and how many will there be? Well, the clue to one of those questions is in the titleContinue Reading