Two things immediately caught my eye about The Banishing, which begins streaming on Shudder on April 15. One, Jessica Brown Findlay, who played one of my favorite Downton Abbey characters, stars in it. Two, its description claimed it’s “the true story of the most haunted house in England.” Oh really?Continue Reading
You might have heard the news that the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum has new owners. U.S. Ghost Adventures recently acquired the property in Fall River, Massachusetts, after the previous owners decided it was time to retire. U.S. Ghost Adventures plans to continue operating it as a museum andContinue Reading
I’ll never forget the moment Carl and Angie told me the name of the historic house they live in and are now renovating: The Looney Jones House. I couldn’t wait to replay our video-recorded conversation to see what kind of face I’d made upon hearing that. Or what I’d said.Continue Reading
Them is a forthcoming Amazon original limited horror anthology series that explores terror in America. Think American Horror Story, except instead of being created by Ryan Murphy, it’s executive produced by Little Marvin with Lena Waithe. Amazon recently released the trailer for the first season, Them: Covenant, which premieres onContinue Reading
When news broke earlier this year that the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum was for sale, I wondered who would buy it. I speculated maybe it would interest Zak Bagans. Perhaps become an east coast haunted museum? Nope. We now know who the Lizzie Borden house’s new owners willContinue Reading
Have you heard of the Medical Medium, Anthony William? He’s sort of our time’s answer to Edgar Cayce, who some consider the “father of holistic medicine.” I’m not really sure when I first learned about the American clairvoyant and mystic who was also called the Sleeping Prophet because of theContinue 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
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of taking a ghost tour of Anchorage led by Ghost Tours of Anchorage owner and proprietor, Richard “Rick” Goodfellow. The other day I spotted an article from an unlikely source about the Anchorage ghost tour owner and a historian solving a trueContinue Reading
In the new discovery+ series, UFO Witness, paranormal investigator Ben Hansen reopens case files of some of the most astounding UFO encounters in history in cooperation with former federal agent and Project BLUE BOOK investigator Jennie Zeidman. But what is Project BLUE BOOK? Or, rather, what was it? Besides aContinue Reading
#FunFactFriday: Haunted Al Capone Goes to the Atlanta Penitentiary Infamous mob boss Alphonse “Al” Gabriel Capone entered the Atlanta Penitentiary on this day, May 4th in 1932. His stay was brief, as he was then transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1934. Despite popular belief, Capone was jailed for carryingContinue Reading
Grave Gardening: Conserving America’s Garden Cemeteries Prior to 1830, families buried their dead in local church cemeteries or family cemeteries. In 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts became the first modern public cemetery. It was a “garden cemetery,” whereby landscape designers incorporated water features and plants amongst the graves.Continue Reading
#FunFactFriday April 20, 1841 Our #FunFactFriday factoid is that on this day April 20, 1841, Edgar Allen Poe published the first modern detective short story titled “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in Graham’s magazine. This started a new genre whereby an outsider (non-police officer) solves the case. Poe calledContinue Reading
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