Bloody Mary and La Llorona are among two of the most popular paranormal folklore legends involving women. But there are also some other frightening female supernatural entities in myths, legends, and horror stories from around the world. Since March is Women’s History Month, and these phantom femme fatales have enduredContinue Reading
A vampire beauty pageant? By all accounts, that’s what the post of an old black-and-white photo of a man crowning a gothic-looking dark-haired woman portrayed. Back when I was still on what was known as Twitter, someone I followed posted it. He’s since deleted his account, or I’d share itContinue Reading
“What you’re seeing is a re-imaging of those events,” the narrator in The Enfield Poltergeist trailer tells us. “But what you’re about to hear is real.” The trailer for the four-part docuseries premiering on Apple TV+ on October 27 is brilliant. First, the narrator’s voice is deliciously creepy and chilling.Continue Reading
Ghost Adventures returns with a new two-hour special, Devil Island, on Wednesday, October 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel. However, the name of the special is deceptive and misleading, especially if you’re familiar with the actual San Francisco Bay island that was sometimes referred to as the Devil’s Island,Continue Reading
Did real houses inspire each of the Haunted Mansions in U.S. Disney parks? What about the one in Tokyo Disneyland? Phantom Manor in Disneyland Paris or the Mystic Manor in Hong Kong Disneyland? Are they just reincarnations of either the Haunted Mansion in California or the one in Florida? OrContinue Reading
About one of the three shows he summoned for Ghostober this year, Zak Bagans said, “Creepy clowns, portals to a dark and evil circus underworld, 3 Ring Inferno hosts all the classic horror people yearn for on Halloween. It’s what nightmares are made of!” But what item from his museumContinue Reading
I’m really excited to bring you this guest contribution from a fellow Feminine Macabre vol. 1 contributor, Mallory Cywinski. She saw the call for Writers Wanted and queried about contributing a piece on the Rhoads Opera House, which I was definitely interested in looking at. And the rest, as theyContinue Reading
Gunslinger Gulch is an old west mining ghost town and guest ranch on the outskirts of Anaconda, Montana. It’s comprised of 19 historic abandoned buildings salvaged from across the state that is now home to who knows how many ghosts. Because, oh yeah. Gunslinger Gulch owner Karen Broussard discovered firsthandContinue Reading
New Orleans abounds with vampire stories. There’s even one about a pair of men known as the Carter Brothers, who some say were arrested in the 1930s for being serial killers, confessed to being vampires, and were executed. Allegedly their ghosts still haunt the French Quarter to this day. This isContinue Reading
While producing the “Ghosts Who Solved Their Own Murders” episode of the Haunting American True Crimes series, a year popped out at me: 1990. It ended up factoring into two things I referenced. The first was the movie Ghost. In fact, that’s how I begin the episode: “Unfinished business whereContinue Reading
All I could wonder as I finished watching The Curse of Lizzie Borden was, “Is the Lizzie Borden House still haunted?” That wasn’t Dave Schrader, Chris Fleming, Sam Baltrusis, or Luann Joly’s goal. Their aim was to investigate whether a dark family curse led to the most infamous ax murdersContinue Reading
The Curse of Lizzie Borden, the next installment in the Shock Docs series, premieres on discovery+ on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader assembles a team of paranormal experts to investigate whether a dark entity helped facilitate one of the most infamous ax murders of all time. TheContinue Reading
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