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.
This past Halloween I saw something I hadn’t seen in Halloween’s past: debates surrounding ghost tours and haunted houses. Specifically, people protesting them and working to shut them down because they felt they’re disrespectful and/or not politically correct. In year’s past there has been a religious element against ghost tours andContinue Reading
Big things are brewing for Haunt Jaunts in 2011. Here’s some of what’s ahead in the New Year. HAUNTED TRAVELS I’ve got my eye on some more jaunts to haunted places, of course. San Francisco, Vegas, and a return to New York City are all possibilities right now. However, I’dContinue Reading
Something I really enjoyed doing last year that I had to bring back this year was the Haunt Jaunts Best Of Awards. If you are listed below and receive this award, don’t panic! It’s not like so many of the awards that circulate amongst blogs in which you have toContinue Reading
Last year I looked ahead to what was in store for Haunts Jaunts in 2010. I didn’t set too many goals. I had three pretty simple ones: Haunt Jaunt more. Write more travel-specific posts (as opposed to so many about ghost TV shows). Institute more theme days. So how’d IContinue Reading
I thought it’d be fun to take a look back at which of the nearly 300 plus posts published on Haunt Jaunts in 2010 were the most popular. The following list is based on which ones got the most hits. (I listed hits accounted for as of today in parenthesis next toContinue Reading
Marilyn is one of HJ’s Facebook pages most active commenters even though she also maintains her own Facebook group, The Unexplained and Paranormal Phenomena Group. She had made a comment on her group’s page recently about she hopes to go on a ghost hunt in 2011. I know others feel likeContinue Reading
I have a confession to make. My name is Courtney Mroch and I’m a 40 year old woman who’s never stopped believeing in Santa Claus. I forget how old I was when my dad finally broke the news about Santa’s real identity. I couldn’t believe it. It sort of madeContinue Reading
I’ve had the pleasure to come to know a lot of really neat people this past year and a half since I’ve been blogging as the Director of Paranormal Tourism for Haunt Jaunts. As I’ve been shopping this holiday season I’ve come across things that have made me think ofContinue Reading
This holiday season as I perused the many catalogs that filled my mailbox, I came across a lot of neat things that appealed to my macabre sensibilities. Some things I was able to find on Amazon. If that was the case, I immediately added them to the Holiday section of the Haunt Jaunts Emporium.Continue Reading
While I was searching out haunted Christmas-named places I came across a delightful Christmas ghost story: the tale of the Mistletoe Bride. It hails from England, a land rich in wonderful ghost stories. I came across it while searching for haunted places named “Mistletoe.” That search led me to “TheContinue Reading
Last year I got to wondering about haunted Christmas places. You know, places that have Christmas-themed names? Like North Pole, Alaska or Santa Claus, Indiana. Did any of them have reports of paranormal activity? But that’s all I ever did was wonder about it. I never took the time toContinue Reading
I learned of a book I’d never heard of before this holiday season: The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike. It caught my eye because it’s illustrated by one of my favorite artists, Edward Gorey. I haven’t read it yet, but some of the reviews make me want to.Continue Reading
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