Leave it to 2020 to have a milestone-marking full moon on Halloween, which hasn’t happened in decades. Specifically, the last time there was a full moon on Halloween in all time zones was 76 years ago on October 31, 1944. The Farmer’s Almanac reported that in 2001 there was aContinue Reading
Several years ago we took a jaunt to Istanbul. One of the places we visited was the Basilica Cistern. Something I’d forgotten we’d done was to search for the Medusa heads that we heard were down there. (Yes. Plural. Heads.) I was reminded of that adventure, though, when a viewerContinue Reading
The other day I recorded a Halloween episode with my A Haunt Mess podcast ghoulfriends, Deedee and Sara. (Hence the get up in the photo.) One of the things we had planned to do for the episode was to share a real ghost story. I didn’t decide until the dayContinue Reading
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
An article from CultureMap led me to an interesting list of the top 20 haunted states. It was titled, “Why Texas claims the creepy crown as the most haunted state in America.” Well, that caught my eye for two reasons. One, I wanted to know why Texas claimed the creepyContinue Reading
What are ghosts? That’s a million-dollar question, isn’t it? Heck, it’s probably worth far more than a million dollars at this point. If anyone can ever answer it, that is. Which no one has definitively done yet, so for now ghosts remain myths and folklore. Even without concrete proof, however,Continue Reading
On July 4th I posted “The White House’s Basement Demon Cat That Foretells Disaster.” Afterward, I realized something I’d shared from my research couldn’t be true about the Demon Cat story. Then someone on Instagram posted a comment that pointed out another potential mistake. Did you catch them too? IfContinue Reading
When I was researching stories for “11 U.S. Presidents, Their Paranormal Connections and the Dreamland Wax Museum in Boston,” one of the articles I used was from HuffPost. In addition to the writer recalling a White House ghost story Ronald Reagan had told her, she listed other paranormal presidential encounters,Continue Reading
Recently I’ve gotten a couple of very nice emails asking about the same thing: “You seem to be publishing more posts lately. I signed up to ‘Never Miss a Thing’ and get notified of new ones because I enjoy what you write, but I don’t want to get notified eachContinue Reading
The 1947 UFO sightings spawned two World UFO Days, both of which are celebrated about a week apart. One is on June 24 and commemorates the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting in 1947. The other is on July 2 in observance of the Roswell crash with a goal to raise awarenessContinue Reading
At first glance, including Log Cabin Day, which falls on the last Sunday every June, on the Weird Holidays and Observances page may not seem unusual enough. But what about haunted cabins? That’s a little more interesting, right? That’s why I included Log Cabin Day. I always intended to writeContinue Reading
If you Google “America’s first serial killer” H. H. Holmes pops up. Mental Floss wrote an article listing nine things we didn’t know about America’s first serial killer. There’s a documentary called H. H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer, which you can watch on Amazon Prime. Even tour companies inContinue Reading
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