Besides green beer, shamrocks, and pots of gold, leprechauns are also prevalently represented on St. Patrick’s Day. So you might think, and rightfully so, that Leprechaun Day would fall on March 17. Because, yep. There is such a day to revere the wee little green guys. However, if you goContinue Reading
Recently an article on TripSided caught my eye. It was about how Amazon is venturing into the travel business. Sort of. They’re currently Beta testing a new hub called Amazon Explore. It offers a variety of private virtual experiences from around the world that “lets you learn and discover differentContinue Reading
Are you a fan of Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House? If so, The Inheritance trailer may be worth your peepers. ComicBookMovie.com described the forthcoming horror movie as “channeling” Hill House, so of course I had to check it out. However, before we get to the trailer, let’s first establishContinue Reading
There’s a lot happening in the discovery+ Paranormal & Unexplained hub March 15-28. New episodes return for both Portals to Hell and Ghost Adventures. In addition to the season finale for Expedition Bigfoot, the special episode revealing the unexpected DNA evidence that the team collected also airs. Speaking of seasonContinue Reading
At the beginning of this year, I wrote a Haunted Walk update after talking with HW’s creative director, Jim Dean, for the podcast. One of the things that came up was up their Virtual Haunted Campfires for 2021. Jim hosts them but he turns it over to special guests fromContinue Reading
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
The other day I saw a story on Looper about an “intense paranormal horror you can stream on Amazon.” That’s how I learned about a 2018 movie called Followed. That’s also how I learned there’s a new sub-genre of “found footage” films called “desktop films” or “Screen Life.” The firstContinue Reading
Do you remember the story about the Oklahoma state representative who introduced a Bigfoot hunting season bill at the beginning of this year? Today I saw a follow-up to the story from Coast to Coast AM. The Oklahoma Bigfoot hunting season story has progressed from cray to cray cray. Let’sContinue Reading
Last month, shortly after I published, “A Mermaid in Nashville: Does She Live in Percy Priest Lake?,” I received an email from William Uchtman about the Nashville mermaid sighting. William sometimes contributes content to Haunt Jaunts. He’s a fellow Middle Tennessean who I’ve known pretty much since I started HJContinue Reading
I spotted an article from WTOL11 about a new exhibit that will be on display at the Toledo Museum of Art from June 12 through September 5, 2021. It’s called “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” and was organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. As WTOL put it,Continue Reading
The iconic psychopaths featured in the blockbuster movies Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Psycho were not just fictitious villains. They were inspired by a real-life personification of evil —Ed Gein. Gein was a convicted murderer and grave robber who had a malicious obsession with human flesh.Continue Reading
The Expedition Bigfoot team collected surprising DNA evidence while in the field searching for the most famous and elusive cryptid, Bigfoot. Throughout their two-month journey, the team —Bryce Johnson (expedition operations), Dr. Mireya Mayor (primatologist), Russell Acord (ex-military/survivalist) and Ronny LeBlanc (Bigfoot researcher)— used the latest in advanced technologiesContinue Reading
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