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

Patti Negri on elevators in Cecil Hotel

It’s been a week now since I watched the Ghost Adventures: Cecil Hotel episode and I’m still perplexed by it. Or maybe “haunted” is a better word since they showed some stuff that was just downright creepy. Especially when it came to using their equipment to validate what psychic mediumContinue Reading

The Haunting at Home Paranormal Adventure logo

Back in September, Jim from The Haunted Walk, a ghost tour company, reached out to paranormal podcasters with an invitation to try a virtual paranormal experience they had created: The Haunting at Home Paranormal Adventure. It sounded super interesting, but he made it even more enticing by offering a freeContinue Reading

old books and skull over black

During the press conference call with Travel Channel stars Amy Bruni, Cindy Kaza, Katrina Weidman and Chelsea Laden to promote their Comic-Con@Home panel ā€œWonder Women: Superstars of Paranormal,” Allison Jornlin asked a couple of great questions. The first was to inquire about who their female paranormal role models might be,Continue Reading

The ā€œGhost Nationā€ Team ā€“ left to right: Steve Gonsalves, Jason Hawes, Dave Tango.

In case you haven’t already heard, Travel Channel greenlit a second season of its new series, Ghost Nation. But not only will we see Jason, Steve and Tango back in action, we’ll see more of them. Travel ChannelĀ added more episodes. The expanded 20-episode season will air in 2020. Ghost NationContinue Reading

1990 Guinness Book of World Records

Previously I wrote about how I’m trying to figure out if there was ever a Most Haunted Village Guinness World Record category. I had a couple options for trying to find out. One was finding a copy on Amazon. At the time of the last post, I had. I’d orderedContinue Reading

Destination Fear's Dakota Laden, Chelsea Laden, and Tanner Wiseman at Old South Pittsburg Hospital

Destination Fear premieres on Saturday, October 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. It’s one of the seven new series premiering on Travel Channel during GhostoberĀ this year. Will the 10-episode series be the most terrifying road trip ever attempted? Paranormal explorer and documentary filmmaker Dakota Laden spent the last few years investigatingContinue Reading

A&E World's Biggest Ghost Hunt Pennhurst

One of A&E Network’s paranormal shows premiering this October is the ambitious World’s Biggest Ghost Hunt: Pennhurst Asylum. Not WLGH But don’t confuse it with the World’s Largest Ghost Hunt. That’s a different beast entirely. The WLGH coincides with National Ghost Hunting Day every September. Teams from around the worldContinue Reading

Haunted Salem Live Travel Channel banner

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 networkā€™s biggest paranormal stars. The team will simultaneously lead separate investigations as theyContinue Reading

The last couple of years I basically abandoned the Ghost Tour & Ghost Hunting Events page. At least here on the site. Last year I did note that while the page was taking a temporary hiatus, events were still being shared on HJ’s Eerie Events and Paracons Facebook Group. Well,Continue Reading

It seems like good ideas are like fine wine: they take time to age. In this case, I’m talking about the World’s Largest Ghost Hunt, which happens on National Ghost Hunting Day. (Both of which are listed on the Paracons & Horror Fests and Weird Holidays & Observances pages, respectively.)Continue Reading

Last week I saw a story on Today about how a team of researchers filmed a giant squid in its natural habitat for the first time ever. In fact, you may have caught the show Monster Squid: The Giant Is RealĀ on Discovery Channel? It aired on January 27. The footageContinue Reading