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After I posted my entry about haunted travel sites yesterday, I came across yet another travel site: Roadside America, an online guide to offbeat tourist attractions. Its focus isn’t necessarily restricted to haunted places, though. It’s a smorgasboard of things. WHAT YOU CAN FIND ON ROADSIDE AMERICA As travel sitesContinue Reading

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I’m planning a Haunt Jaunt to Florida’s Gulf County for July. When I was blogging at Families.com I wrote about Cape San Blas, a dog-friendly city in Gulf County. I’ve wanted to go ever since (and so has my pooch, Murphy). Wayne finally agreed that’s where we can take ourContinue Reading

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Today I finally had some time to skim the posts on the Yahoo! Groups I belong to and ended up stumbling across Haunt Jaunts galore! (I didn’t have much time to lurk around these groups before, but I do now that I’m done with radiation. After what I came acrossContinue Reading

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Thanks to the Haunted Formula AutumnForest is working on over at Ghost Hunting Theories and Lisa Logan’s Where Would YOU Haunt guest blog, I can’t stop wondering: is there a law to becoming a ghost? You know, like the Law of Gravity, the Law of Attraction…is there a Law ofContinue Reading

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For the last six months I have been haunted by a hitchhiker. (My euphemism for cancer.) Today is the end of that haunting. I completed my 20th and final radiation therapy. “What does cancer have to do with Haunt Jaunts?” you may be wondering. Everything! Let me explain… MY HITCHHIKER,Continue Reading

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A while back I wrote about HauntedCon, but this week I got to thinking about other ghost conferences coming up for the rest of 2009. Where were they and when? (I knew I’d seen some others during my travels around various websites, so…) I decided to do a little investigatingContinue Reading

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On one of the blogs I’ve been following lately, Ghost Hunting Theories, the author has concocted a “Haunting Formula” in conjunction with some research she’s doing to rate “50 haunted sites around the US.” She uses a criteria of six things to base her scoring on: What the building’s constructedContinue Reading

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My husband and I don’t have kids, but I got to thinking today how, if we did, what a great teaching tool Haunt Jaunts would make. Check out the various lessons that could be taught: HISTORY LESSONS   Some kids find history dull. Others love it. I was one ofContinue Reading

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There are a lot of administrative things to take care of while I’m building HauntJaunts.net, including designing a logo and tackling advertising. (Both from the perspective of doing it for the site and getting others to advertise on the site.) THE LOGO Last year Randy Okane at 5MinuteMystery.com hooked meContinue Reading

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My favorite ghost show is Ghost Hunters, but while they’re in reruns this summer I can still get a ghost fix from other TV and radio shows. GHOST ADVENTURES In addition to Most Haunted, the Travel Channel also has another paranormal show featuring ghosts and ghost hunters: Ghost Adventures. StartingContinue Reading

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I got to see the Telephone to the Dead in practice the other day while I was watching the Travel Channel. I had turned it on while I was folding laundry and Extreme Mind Blowing Hotels was on. I just happened to tune in right when they were featuring theContinue Reading

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I am so excited about receiving my very first submissions for travel articles at HauntJaunts.net. I contacted Hope Clark at Funds for Writers to let her know about my call for submissions a couple of weeks back, and she included it in this week’s Small Markets listings. But I alsoContinue Reading