Increasingly I’m noticing a trend in some of my Google Alerts: stories about Haunt Jaunts as fundraising venues. Especially for historical societies and foundations. This weekend I came across another one. How the Vaughan-Smitherman Museum in Alabama recently did a ghost hunt as a fundraiser. Specifically, The Friends of theContinue Reading

I found a story about haunted golf courses when I was slogging through my backlog of Google alerts today and stumbled upon a posting by Stephen Wagner at About.com: Paranormal Phenomena called “The Latest Paranormal News.” Wagner was listing ghost-related or otherwise odd stories he’d found, among them one entitledContinue Reading

Earlier today I wrote about using Haunt Jaunts to teach based in part on a headline one of my Google alerts popped up with: “Tracking Ghosts in the Valley: Ashby Lee Students Use GPS for New Learning Program” by Aimee Cregger. Well, I finally got around to reading the wholeContinue Reading

This past weekend I spent a lot of time adding books to Haunt Jaunt’s Emporium. Among them was The World’s Most Haunted Places: From the Secret Files of Ghostvillage.com by Jeff Belanger. I’d heard of Ghostvillage.com, had even clicked through from some Google search I’d run on something or another,Continue Reading