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Thanks to a recent issue of Woman’s World magazine, I came across some cool hotel and museum freebies. They could potentially be applied to any Haunt Jaunts you’d like to make. (Say to a Spooky Stay, Apparition Attraction or Historic Haunt.) VOLUNTEER REWARDS Do you do volunteer work anywhere? CompleteContinue Reading

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My husband had a host of travel troubles last week. “Damn Mercury retrograde!” he cussed on the phone to me while he waited to hear when his delayed flight might be allowed to take-off. (This after troubles just getting to the airport, then fearing his flight might be canceled, butContinue Reading

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Yesterday I heard about JetBlue’s $599 All-You-Can-Jet pass and thought, “Wow. Think of all the Haunt Jaunts you could hit!” THE ALL-YOU-CAN-JET PASS In case you haven’t heard about JetBlue’s unlimited travel pass, here’s the scoop: It costs $599 It’s good for one month: September 8 through October 8 YouContinue Reading

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Anytime is a good time to take a ghost tour, but ghost tours aren’t always offered year round. Soon the high season of ghost tours (October) will be upon us. After that many of them go on hiatus during winter before reemerging in spring. Technically we have about three monthsContinue Reading

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The time to make reservations for ghost tours in October is now. I discovered this thanks to my friend Amy. She thought it’d be fun to do a ghost tour with a group so she started asking people if they’d be interested. I think initially she had in mind toContinue Reading

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With the Tour de France well underway, I thought it’d be interesting to take a ghost tour of France. The trouble is, I had a hard time finding ghost stories from France!LOST IN TRANSLATION?I figured finding ghost tours in France, or ghost stories from France, would be as easy asContinue Reading

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Recently I wrote about how some historical organizations are using haunt jaunts as fundraisers. Now I’ve come across an article about how state tourism departments are realizing haunt jaunts as revenue streams. ALABAMA’S “GHOST TRAIL” Yesterday I read a great article by Marty Roney on MontgomeryAdvertiser.com called “Alabama’s ‘ghost trail’Continue Reading

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Increasingly I’m noticing a trend in some of my Google Alerts: stories about Haunt Jaunts as fundraising venues. Especially for historical societies and foundations. This weekend I came across another one. How the Vaughan-Smitherman Museum in Alabama recently did a ghost hunt as a fundraiser. Specifically, The Friends of theContinue Reading

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I found this clip of an alleged ghost in a museum on YouTube thanks to a Google alert about an alleged ghost caught on a CCTV in an office building in South Carolina. (I went to YouTube to try and find it, but of course got distracted and found thisContinue Reading

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I never considered camp grounds as potential Haunt Jaunts until I stumbled across an About.com: Paranormal Phenomenon post called “Camping Encounters with Monsters and Ghosts” by Stephen Wagner. The only thing I normally think about when it comes to camping and ghosts is telling ghost stories around the camp fire.Continue Reading

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A BRIEF HISTORY ON MY CONNECTION WITH CHEESEMAN PARK I attended Cheeseman Academy from 1st grade through 6th. My class was the last to graduate from the school, in fact. Cheeseman Academy was situated on the fringe of Cheeseman Park. It was housed in a glorious old brownstone mansion. ItContinue Reading