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This is a guest contribution from Sally Writes. With 100 million Americans planning to go on a family vacation in 2019, many will be considering a fall holiday. However, for families who enjoy the Halloween season and wish to embark on a seasonally appropriate trip, finding a destination suitable forContinue Reading

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On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, Travel Channel will premiere Haunted Salem: Live. It’s a special four-hour live ghost investigation in and around the historic city led by a team of the network’s biggest paranormal stars. The team will simultaneously lead separate investigations as theyContinue Reading

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This post contains affiliate links. See affiliate disclaimer here.  We don’t always stay in hotels with concierges, but when we do we often utilize their knowledge. In addition to food, sightseeing and transportation recommendations, they know other things too. Like the hotel’s history if it’s old enough to have one. Continue Reading

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Travel Channel’s Ghostober 2018 was apparently the network’s highest-rated yet. Looks like they’re trying to top it with Ghostober 2019 programming. The month-long event promises to up the thrills and chills with 31 days of the network’s most wicked and blood-curdling premieres yet. Says Matthew Butler, Travel Channel’s general manager:Continue Reading

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Just don’t expect Ghost Adventures in the Most Terrifying Places and witches all at once. As in all in one program. That’s not happening. But it will all happen in one place: Travel Channel, during their Ghostober event. Every night during October, Travel Channel will serve up 31 days of thrillsContinue Reading

This is a guest contribution from Chloe Bennet. Everyone loves a good ghost story, and America is a country filled with spooky, unexplained happenings and creepy old buildings full of history. If you’re interested in ghouls and poltergeists, you don’t need to look very far to find them! 1. FlaglerContinue Reading

Thanks to a guest I had on my radio show earlier this year, Chris Verstraete, yes, I did know Lizzie Borden had another home. Under her nom de plume, C. A. Verstraete, Chris has written two books involving Lizzie Borden: The Haunting of Dr. Bowen: A Mystery in Lizzie Borden’s FallContinue Reading

Christine (C.A.) Verstraete is the author of Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter. The Haunting of Dr. Bowen: A Mystery in Lizzie Borden’s Fall River (releasing August 4, 2017 and available for pre-order now), offers another view of the Borden murders –through the eyes of the Bordens’ neighbor and family physician, Dr.Continue Reading

The guest for the Haunt Jaunts radio show on Tuesday March 21, 2017 is Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter author Chris Verstraete. (Who writes as C.A. Verstraete.) Chris also happens to be a long time friend of mine. (I wanted to get acclimated to this radio hosting gig with people IContinue Reading

I’m pleased to welcome back author Chris Verstraete to Haunt Jaunts. This time we’re one of the stops on her book blog tour. Chris, who also writes as C.A. Verstraete, has a new book releasing Tuesday September 13, 2016, Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter. Poor Lizzie. “She took an axe andContinue Reading

I write about my love for cruising a lot here on Haunt Jaunts, so it’s no wonder this Strange Escapes event caught my eye: “Witching You Were Here,” a Paranormal Cruise from Salem to Bermuda, May 25th, 2017-June 2nd, 2017. Well, to be honest, witches, ghosts and cruising all caughtContinue Reading

The theme in my social media feeds the past week has been “haunted places that require waivers before you’re allowed in.” Okay, so maybe I’m exaggerating a little. So far I’ve had friends share just two such places with me, both Spooky Stays. But two haunted hotels in one weekContinue Reading