Myers House NC Halloween Bash 2019 banner

One of the weird dates I have listed on the Weird Holidays & Observances page is October 19: Michael Myers Birthday. You know, the homicidal maniac in the Halloween movie franchise? “He has a birthday?” you may be wondering. (I know I did when I learned about it.) According toContinue Reading

AlienCon Dallas 2019 banner

What does the show Ghost Hunters have in common with the upcoming series, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch? Two things: A+E Networks AlienCon® As I discussed in the “Fall 2019 Paracons, Horror Fest, Ghost Hunting Events and More” podcast episode, Ghost Hunters would be at AlienCon®. I hadn’t written thisContinue Reading

Walker Stalker Banner with Daryl

I’d love to go to every para con and horror fest I could. Money and time, of course, does not permit that. One I’d always been curious about was Walker Stalker. I used to be a huge The Walking Dead fan. (I’m still a fan, but the series has gotten aContinue Reading

Alien sign in middle of the desert area 51

Travel Channel greenlit a show about the UFO Brothers attending the Storm Area 51 and Alienstock festivities in Nevada on September 20, but…will any of it even happen? Storm Area 51 and Alienstock have both been cancelled. Sort of. It’s now supposedly merged with the Area 51 Celebration in LasContinue Reading

Area 51 Celebration poster

First came Storm Area 51. As a joke. Allegedly. So says the man, Matty Roberts, who started it all. It was just meant to be a satirical stunt. Uh huh. Are you buying it? I’m not. Why start a joke like that in the summer? Wouldn’t that be more suitedContinue Reading

The Heretic by William Mortensen

Raymond Buckland’s Museum of Witchcraft and Magick has collaborated with the Stephen Romano Gallery to display “Witches,” an exhibition of vintage photographic works by William Mortensen (1897 – 1965). The exhibition opened August 3 and will continue through November 3, 2019. It features many previously unseen works, as well asContinue Reading

Alienstock Festival Banner

The Storm Area 51 event was ambitious enough, but as I recently wrote, it’s now morphed into the Alienstock Festival. It’s set to take place around the same time as Storm Area 51, September 20th, but without the storming and more of a Burning Man vibe. Here’s the nitty grittyContinue Reading

Alienstock Festival Banner

First Matthew “Matty” Roberts proposed a Storm Area 51 movement. Mostly as a joke, but as we know it caught fire to become one of summer 2019’s viral news stories. The Storm Area 51 event was supposed to take place on September 20, 2019 in Amargosa Valley, Nevada from 3-6Continue Reading

Storm Area 51 T-shirt design

There’s a lot of things to consider when it comes to storming Area 51, including: what are you going to wear? As you might imagine, some clever T-shirt designers have hopped on the creating Storm Area 51 shirts bandwagon. Which inspired me to create a Storm Area 51 idea listContinue Reading

Area 51 Alien Center

As of this post, 1.8 million people have indicated they’re going to Storm Area 51 via the Facebook event called: Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop Us All. Another 1.4 million have expressed interest. What started as a joke has become one of summer 2019’s viral news stories. I first sawContinue Reading

The Haunting at Moon River Brewing logo

I don’t always write about individual events that I add to the Ghost Tours & Ghost Hunting page, but this one is a little different so I figured it deserved it’s own post. It’s an event called “The Haunting” happening at Moon River Brewing Company. Moon River is the mostContinue Reading

Scary clown holding red balloon in forest

Updated July 8, 2019 When you read the title, did you hear the Friday the 13th “ch ch ch ah ah ah” in your head? Did you maybe even get a few goosebumps? One of the more exciting types of events I added to the Halloween Cons & Haunted HouseContinue Reading