Dark Zone Haunted Hollywood Inside LAPD Station 11 event poster

In 2020 Dark Zone Network stepped up to provide spooky virtual investigation events of haunted places like the Conjuring House and the Queen Mary. They recently announced they’re conducting another similar experience, this time in America’s most haunted police precinct: the Los Angeles Police Museum. The three-day live streaming eventContinue Reading

The Haunted Walk's Virtual Haunted Campfires graphic

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a Haunted Walk update after talking with HW’s creative director, Jim Dean, for the podcast. One of the things that came up was up their Virtual Haunted Campfires for 2021. Jim hosts them but he turns it over to special guests fromContinue Reading

Gothic haunted looking girl holding a heart in front of a puddle of blood with knife on the ground.

In year’s past, right about now is when haunted houses (of the Halloween variety) start advertising their Valentine’s Day dates. Where cities and states allowed it, haunted attractions did open for Halloween 2020.  So what about for the most romantic day of the year? Will haunted houses be open forContinue Reading

November 13, 2020, marks the second Friday the 13th in 2020. The first one was on March 13. I had no idea when I updated the Weird Holidays & Observances page this year that Friday the 13ths in 2020 would be so memorable…or scary. Well, time will tell if thisContinue Reading

Man with white makeup and red hands screams in frustration, despair and anger

Never has a year needed a day like International Moment of Frustration Scream Day, which falls on October 12 every year, worse than 2020. Because we’ve all pretty much had our moments when we wanted to scream this year, haven’t we? (Don’t leave me hanging. I know I’m not aloneContinue Reading

Giant octopus tentacle wrapped around a lob cabin porch post

One of the observances on the Weird Holidays & Observances page that has always intrigued me is Curious Events Day. A few years ago I shared nine curious photos to celebrate the day. I admitted,  “I’m not exactly sure what Curious Events Day is.” And then I wondered, “Who createdContinue Reading

The Haunting at Home Paranormal Adventure logo

The other day I got an interesting email from the folks at the Haunted Walk, a ghost tour company. They also have a podcast called Haunted Talk. They were reaching out to other paranormal podcasters to see if they’d be interested in giving their “The Haunting at Home – AContinue Reading

Queen Mary Virtual Haunt and Music Fest logo

The Queen Mary’s annual Halloween event, Dark Harbor, may have been canceled this year, but there is a way to experience the haunted ship this spooky season after all. I recently discovered it’s the location for the Dark Zone’s next virtual event. (So far in 2020 they’ve hosted live virtualContinue Reading

Alt Addamsfest 2020 logo with Addams Family in face masks

Would you rather hang with the Addams Family or the Munsters? Or both? If you picked the Addams Family and were wondering if AddamsFest is happening this year, you’ll be happy to hear it is. But, of course, since this is 2020 we’re talking about, there will be some modificationsContinue Reading

Zak Bagans Haunted Museum Sign

This Halloween season Zak Bagans is offering unprecedented access to his museum with Haunted Museum flashlight tours and a ghost hunting experience. The Late Night Flashlight Ghost Tour Experience will allow 20 people free-reign of the museum after hours in total darkness for one and a half hours. Zak andContinue Reading

Ghost photo circa 1920 in Buckland Museum's Apparitions Exhibition

The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick in Cleveland, Ohio, recently released a press release about their “Apparitions” exhibition, which opens on October 1, 2020 and runs through the end of December. It features important vintage spirit photography, prints, and drawings plus contemporary art on the subject of ghosts, spirits,Continue Reading

Halloween Road graphic

Oh, we are major in the thick of gearing up for spooky season now. While COVID-19 may change the look of our Halloween landscape a bit this year, it can’t change the feel. Which is that delicious shiver up our spines and tingles of nerves as we anticipate all theContinue Reading