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.
Anyway, it was the word “smart” that did it. I wasn’t expecting to see it paired with the word “notebook.” There are smart everything these days, from phones to refrigerators and my perennial favorite, smart alecks, but a notebook? How do make one of those smart? So, yeah. See whyContinue Reading
Most cemeteries contain at least one mystery, and the Rest Haven Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee, is no different. It contains the remains of an unknown Civil War soldier whose family and friends likely mourned him but never knew what exactly had happened to him. However, beyond an unknown identity, there’sContinue Reading
You’d think a previous traumatizing Halloween Horror Nights experience would’ve been enough to last me a lifetime. Well, like myself, you’d be wrong. As I’ve admitted before, I’m a bawk, bawk chicken butt when it comes to Halloween-style haunted houses. Venturing to haunted places? No problem. Watching horror movies lateContinue Reading
“I’m—I’m shit scared. I’m terrified,” Kudzanai says in “Believers,” the second episode of Netflix’s four-part docuseries Encounters. That’s how he felt following his sighting. He and his brother Tapfu were among the over 60 students who reported seeing a UFO and mysterious being during break time at the Ariel SchoolContinue Reading
“Winner of Ring contest gets $1 million for proof of extraterrestrials from Ring cam,” the CNET headline read. However, I only saw the first part of the headline, which registered as “Ring alien contest.” And the first “Ring” I thought of was the horror movie The Ring. Which completely confusedContinue Reading
Rotten Tomatoes is getting into the Halloween spirit with curated horror watchlists. But they’re also offering some creepy-cool horror-themed gift cards redeemable at Fandango and Vudu. All of this is well-timed, considering a lot of scary movies are releasing in theaters and/or becoming available to stream. Let’s check it out.Continue Reading
Since it is trick-or-treat season, Lionsgate picked the perfect time to release a few first-look photos from the forthcoming The Strangers trilogy. An exact release date hasn’t been announced yet, but the first one, The Strangers: Chapter 1, is set to hit theaters in 2024. But it’s never to early toContinue Reading
Screambox recently revealed the films joining the horror streaming service in October. They include horror comedies like Shaky Shivers and HeBGB TV, the documentary More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead, and a classic fave Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, inspired by real-life serial killers Henry Lee LucasContinue Reading
MGM+ invites horror fans to tune in on October 31, starting at 11 AM ET/PT, to their Halloween marathon. (If you dare…) They’re cramming five of their most chilling shows into 12 hours of spooky good programming. The marathon consists of their top series and hit documentaries, including Chapelwaite, FROM,Continue Reading
I know this sounds crazy, but in years past, the original Halloween used to prove tricky to find on TV during October. You know, back when cable ruled, On Demand was in its infancy, and streaming services didn’t exist. If you didn’t own a copy of it, you had toContinue Reading
It was all smiles as mom and son Sharon and Jack Osbourne arrived to investigate the Glen Tavern Inn, a century-old hotel in Santa Paula, California, with a colorful but tragic past. But things took a scary turn when Sharon passed out during an experiment. Travel Channel has made noContinue Reading
In addition to a cursed brothel bed, a cauldron from serial killer Ed Gein’s home, evil puppets, and a mummified head are among the eerie artifacts from Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. They’ve also inspired the next season of scripted episodes when the series The Haunted Museum returnsContinue Reading
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