Did you know Austin is a hot spot for witches and vampires and other creatures of the night? I guess it stands to reason since Austin is such a bat friendly city. (What with their famous bat residents who call the Congress Avenue Bridge home during certain parts of theContinue Reading
The Myers House NC throws a big Halloween bash every year, but check out this exciting post on Instagram that I spotted: View this post on Instagram I’m excited to finally announce SPOOKHOUSE THEATER! This has been a long time in the making and a dream come true forContinue Reading
Recently I got an email about pre-sale tickets for a Josh Gates Live tour. My first thought was, “Josh Gates on tour?” My second was, “Here? In Nashville?” I briefly wondered about the price, but unless it was some cuckoo crazy outrageous one, they’d be worth just about anything. (They’reContinue Reading
One of the weird dates I have listed on the Weird Holidays & Observances page is October 19: Michael Myers Birthday. You know, the homicidal maniac in the Halloween movie franchise? “He has a birthday?” you may be wondering. (I know I did when I learned about it.) According toContinue Reading
What does the show Ghost Hunters have in common with the upcoming series, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch? Two things: A+E Networks AlienCon® As I discussed in the “Fall 2019 Paracons, Horror Fest, Ghost Hunting Events and More” podcast episode, Ghost Hunters would be at AlienCon®. I hadn’t written thisContinue Reading
I’d love to go to every para con and horror fest I could. Money and time, of course, does not permit that. One I’d always been curious about was Walker Stalker. I used to be a huge The Walking Dead fan. (I’m still a fan, but the series has gotten aContinue Reading
Travel Channel greenlit a show about the UFO Brothers attending the Storm Area 51 and Alienstock festivities in Nevada on September 20, but…will any of it even happen? Storm Area 51 and Alienstock have both been cancelled. Sort of. It’s now supposedly merged with the Area 51 Celebration in LasContinue Reading
First came Storm Area 51. As a joke. Allegedly. So says the man, Matty Roberts, who started it all. It was just meant to be a satirical stunt. Uh huh. Are you buying it? I’m not. Why start a joke like that in the summer? Wouldn’t that be more suitedContinue Reading
Raymond Buckland’s Museum of Witchcraft and Magick has collaborated with the Stephen Romano Gallery to display “Witches,” an exhibition of vintage photographic works by William Mortensen (1897 – 1965). The exhibition opened August 3 and will continue through November 3, 2019. It features many previously unseen works, as well asContinue Reading
The Storm Area 51 event was ambitious enough, but as I recently wrote, it’s now morphed into the Alienstock Festival. It’s set to take place around the same time as Storm Area 51, September 20th, but without the storming and more of a Burning Man vibe. Here’s the nitty grittyContinue Reading
First Matthew “Matty” Roberts proposed a Storm Area 51 movement. Mostly as a joke, but as we know it caught fire to become one of summer 2019’s viral news stories. The Storm Area 51 event was supposed to take place on September 20, 2019 in Amargosa Valley, Nevada from 3-6Continue Reading
There’s a lot of things to consider when it comes to storming Area 51, including: what are you going to wear? As you might imagine, some clever T-shirt designers have hopped on the creating Storm Area 51 shirts bandwagon. Which inspired me to create a Storm Area 51 idea listContinue Reading
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