If there’s a National Mermaid Day, which there is, then you know there has to be a National Unicorn Day too. Yep. But do you know when National Unicorn day is? (I know you uni lovers out there do!) What about why there’s such a day, or when the firstContinue Reading
Have you seen all of the Shock Docs to date? If so, stop reading right here and cast your vote for the scariest Shock Docs special you’ve seen so far in the comments below. Then resume reading to learn why Ed Gein: The Real Psycho may take the crown forContinue Reading
If you could go back to visit any point in time, what period would you choose? One of the three periods of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous)? Or has Jurassic Park ruined such an adventure for you? Maybe something more modern, like the Roaring 20s? The Victorian era? TheContinue Reading
Fish swim in schools so it stands to reason that mermaids would too, right? In fact, learning how to operate that monofin skillfully requires lessons. That’s what AquaMermaid School does. Teaches people “how to swim like a mermaid.” Did you read that and think, “AquaMermaid School? Is there such aContinue Reading
Something has been gnawing at me for a few years now. It has to do with a piano and a ghost they call the Lady in White that’s reputed to haunt the Queen Mary’s Starboard Lounge. Which, if I understood a section on Weird California‘s site about the ship, isContinue Reading
A special two-hour episode called “McCormick Farm” is among the new episodes of Portals to Hell that start streaming on March 20 on discovery+. (The other one is “Hotel Monte Vista.” New episodes follow every Saturday after that until May 8.) It’s a sort of an investigation first for JackContinue Reading
Have you heard of the Medical Medium, Anthony William? He’s sort of our time’s answer to Edgar Cayce, who some consider the “father of holistic medicine.” I’m not really sure when I first learned about the American clairvoyant and mystic who was also called the Sleeping Prophet because of theContinue Reading
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
Do you remember the story about the Oklahoma state representative who introduced a Bigfoot hunting season bill at the beginning of this year? Today I saw a follow-up to the story from Coast to Coast AM. The Oklahoma Bigfoot hunting season story has progressed from cray to cray cray. Let’sContinue Reading
Last month, shortly after I published, “A Mermaid in Nashville: Does She Live in Percy Priest Lake?,” I received an email from William Uchtman about the Nashville mermaid sighting. William sometimes contributes content to Haunt Jaunts. He’s a fellow Middle Tennessean who I’ve known pretty much since I started HJContinue Reading
Thanks to some of 2021’s new documentaries, like Ghost Adventures: Cecil Hotel and Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, there’s been a lot of interest in L.A.’s Cecil Hotel. Namely, a lot of people want to know if you can still stay there. Not anymore. However, maybeContinue Reading
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of taking a ghost tour of Anchorage led by Ghost Tours of Anchorage owner and proprietor, Richard “Rick” Goodfellow. The other day I spotted an article from an unlikely source about the Anchorage ghost tour owner and a historian solving a trueContinue Reading
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