Exterior view of the Old Joilet Prison with fencing around it

The Chicago Tribune recently reported that the Old Joliet Prison Historic Site in Joliet, Illinois, is reopening for tours. Starting this month, March, and running through October, visitors can choose from self-guided tours or group ones. In 2020, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the prison found itself adapting to theContinue Reading

Exterior of the Stay on Main at the Cecil Hotel

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

Romantic historic hotels with haunted 14th floors would’ve been an even better list in time for Valentine’s Day and February 14 and all, right? Yes, I agree with you. However, I really only know of one with a storied haunted 14th floor: The Hotel Monteleone. That doesn’t mean there aren’tContinue Reading

On February 5, Alex Matsuo from The Spooky Stuff sent me a message on Facebook with a link to a post that blew me away. The link was to a list of 30 of the most influential people in the paranormal that she had “compiled based on [her] personal developmentContinue Reading

Destination Fear at Old Hospital on College Hill

Destination Fear fans may recognize the Old Hospital on College Hill from one of its episodes. (Specifically, season 2 episode 15.) WYMT reported that the haunted hospital in West Virginia is being “resurrected” as a tourist attraction and celebrating its grand opening this month! For those of us who didn’tContinue Reading

The Haunted Walk logo

Back in December, I took a podcast jaunt with Jim Dean. Jim is the Creative Director for The Haunted Walk ghost tour company out of Canada and is also the host of their Haunted Talks podcast. If The Haunted Walk sounds familiar, they’re also the ones who came up withContinue Reading

Shock Docs The Exorcism of Roland Doe cover

On Friday, February 5, another installment in the Shock Doc series will launch on discovery+: The Exorcism of Roland Doe. The two-hour special reveals surprising new details of the real exorcism case of a 13-year-old boy, known as Roland Doe. The case inspired the iconic 1973 horror film The Exorcist,Continue Reading

Dr. Pepper Museum logo

Did you know the Dr. Pepper Museum is rumored to be haunted? Or maybe we should back up a bit. Did you even know there was a Dr. Pepper Museum? I didn’t, but apparently there is and it’s in Waco, Texas. I thought that was interesting enough. (I don’t drink sodaContinue Reading

Greenbrier on a map of West Virginia

Was Elva Zona Heaster Shue murdered on January 22, 1897, or on January 23, 1897? It depends on which reference source you consult. Both The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits and RoadsideAmerica.com say her body was found on January 23, but I found an article from The Independent-Herald dated FebruaryContinue Reading

De Soto Hotel exterior

Is the most haunted hotel in El Paso, Texas, the De Soto Hotel? I don’t know, because that raises the complicated question of how do you really determine what “the most haunted” is? However, the De Soto Hotel is definitely one of El Paso’s most known and popular haunted places,Continue Reading

Figure in doorway during Ghost Adventures investigation at the Cecil Hotel

During their investigation of the Cecil Hotel, the Ghost Adventures crew experienced a lot of paranormal activity. In a previous post, I shared what I thought three of the freakiest moments in the Cecil Hotel episode were. All included Patti Negri. Two involved the SLS camera detecting anomalies, the otherContinue Reading

Glowing lights in the sky

In the new discovery+ series, UFO Witness, paranormal investigator Ben Hansen reopens case files of some of the most astounding UFO encounters in history in cooperation with former federal agent and Project BLUE BOOK investigator Jennie Zeidman. But what is Project BLUE BOOK? Or, rather, what was it? Besides aContinue Reading