Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
Among the interesting things you should know about 2017’s Friday the 13ths is that there are two of them. The first kicks off the New Year in January; the second takes place during Halloween season in October. Haunted houses of the Halloween variety will be in full swing during theContinue Reading
Happy New Year! I thought a fun way to kick off the New Year would be to look ahead at some of the horror movies coming out in 2017. There’s going to be a lot of sequels and remakes, which I’ll cover in another post. But there’s also going toContinue Reading
Yesterday I was doing some Christmas (and personal) shopping at Lakeside Collection, when one of their sidebar articles caught my eye: Unique Christmas Traditions from Around the World. Presents under the tree and milk and cookies for Santa — it’s what Americans do every year in anticipation of Christmas. AroundContinue Reading
Just a quick note to let those who have been faithfully participating in our Caption This contests know that we’re taking a hiatus from them for the rest of 2016. We may resume them again in 2017 OR we may introduce some kind of fun new monthly challenge. You neverContinue Reading
I could’ve sworn we had two entries in the #MyHJPumpkin Jack-O-Lantern contest but when I went to check again today I only saw the one. So, when there’s only one entry, that one automatically becomes the winner! Congrats to Holly Makitra and her porch sitting jack-o-lantern which came to usContinue Reading
I created the #MyHJHaunt contest with selfish intentions initially. I LOVE Halloween decorations and seeing all the creative ways people spook up their houses. That’s what I was after. However, I wasn’t expecting how hard picking a winner would be. Holy cow there were some GREAT entries. I’ve put offContinue Reading
We had some great entries for the #MyHJSelfie Halloween Costume Contest. We had seven categories to choose winners for. However, we goofed on our original post and listed “Most Original” twice. One of those should’ve been “Cutest.” Didn’t catch that until now. Best Couples Costume AND Most Original Costume: VampireContinue Reading
According to our Weird Holidays & Observances Calendar, October 30 is Visit a Cemetery Day. (It’s also National Candy Corn Day, Mischief Night, and Haunted Refrigerator Day.) But this post is dedicated to Cemetery Day. I thought it’d be fun to revisit some of the most hauntingly beautiful cemeteries we’veContinue Reading
After playing around with the Facebook Live feature, we feel like we’re getting a little more comfortable with it. And thankfully we have a couple very dedicated friends/fans who’ve shown up to our experimental FB Live events. They’ve made them even better. (Otherwise it’d just be me and Skellie twiddlingContinue Reading
For the entertainment portion of our Halloween 2016 festivities, we’d like to treat you to a reading from our anthology, Shadow People and Cursed Objects: 13 Tales of Terror Based on True Stories…or are they?. And by “we,” we do mean Skellie (our spokes-skeleton pictured above) and our Ambassador ofContinue Reading
Here’s another contest for our HJ Halloween Festivities. Do you like the Human Organ for Transplant lunch bag pictured above? Enough that you’d like to have it for your very own? If you answered yes to the above questions, great! Read on for how you can enter to win it.Continue Reading
Happy Halloween Season! As we wrote in our Invitation to Haunt Jaunts 2016 Halloween Party, we intended to do giveaways all October long. We also meant to do a #WishYouWereHere and #IfYouDare Halloween challenge. Well, we decided to do something a little bit different. (Of course the inspiration forContinue Reading
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