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.
People seem to get freaked out by dolls so, with Halloween looming, I thought that’d make a good Halloween week Movie Monday offering. I tried to find some of the freakiest, creepiest doll video clips on YouTube that I could. Here’s three that I thought were great. Very atmospheric and haunting –inContinue Reading
We have a winner in the Frog on the Pumpkin giveaway! Congrats to the lucky person who won the flat garden skull and set of Davis Graveyard prints. (Yep, I’m playing tricks again. You want to know who won, you gotta watch the vid. I don’t make them for my healthContinue Reading
The next stop on the Party Express is to a very good friend of mine’s blog, Chris Verstraete’s Candid Canine. Let me give you a little background on Chris… We met online 10 years ago. We were both members of a Yahoo Group called Short Mystery Fiction Society. ChrisContinue Reading
I recruited a tennis buddy to help me with the next Haunt Jaunts Spooktacular Halloween Blog Party Giveaway. After practice I had her record me doing something we do before games: spin the racket to choose serve or side. Make the right call and, if your name’s drawn,Continue Reading
Well, if I was trying to make this contest complicated, I succeeded! I even confused myself, but I did end up picking some Boo Bling giveaway winners. Two in fact, plus a runner up. Congrats to them, and thanks to the rest of you for playing. More contests coming, so stayContinue Reading
Yesterday I had to take my cat Mr. Meow in for some blood work. As we pulled up to the vet’s office we found it had been transformed for Halloween. It had taken on a rather haunted appearance. The bushes out front were covered in cobwebs, and poking out ofContinue Reading
I never should’ve written a “Top 5 Hilarious Halloween Costumes for 2010” post so early in the season. While the ones I initially picked as Top 5 were funny, I’ve been looking at a lot of costumes ever since. I’ve now found 15 even more hilarious Halloween costumes. Like the initialContinue Reading
I’m devastated. Last night one of my friends I play volleyball with confirmed something I had started to fear over the weekend: even if the recovery disk gets my crashed computer restarted, it’ll do so with a clean slate. Meaning, anything I didn’t backup will be wiped out. DREADEDContinue Reading
I thought I’d do something a little different again for Movie Monday: list the horror movies I’m watching this Halloween season. It was inspired by last week’s Movie Monday Party Express stop to Nate’s Peer Review and his Part 1 review of Halloween film classics, as well as by some ofContinue Reading
I first learned of Frog on the Pumpkin via the prolific Autumnforest of Ghost Hunting Theories back when I first started up Haunt Jaunts. FotP instantly appealed to me. Why? For one, I’ve always wanted to do what Chris Davis (better known to many as the Frog Queen) and her husband do withContinue Reading
As I’ve alluded to before, most recently in my post about the best haunted house attractions, masks freak me out. I think this quote from the Baroness de Pontalba, a character in the book New Orleans Legacy by Alexandra Ripley, comes closest to explaining it: Something happens to people when they’reContinue Reading
Giveaway time again! Up for grabs this go around we’ve got some Halloween bling: HOW TO ENTER Leave a comment below telling me what jewelry you’d like to win. But here’s the catch…you can win them ALL! It just has to be noted in your comment. For instance, if youContinue Reading
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