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
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
Thanks to some of 2021’s new documentaries, like Ghost Adventures: Cecil Hotel and Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, there’s been a lot of interest in L.A.’s Cecil Hotel. Namely, a lot of people want to know if you can still stay there. Not anymore. However, maybeContinue Reading
Romantic historic hotels with haunted 14th floors would’ve been an even better list in time for Valentine’s Day and February 14 and all, right? Yes, I agree with you. However, I really only know of one with a storied haunted 14th floor: The Hotel Monteleone. That doesn’t mean there aren’tContinue Reading
On February 5, Alex Matsuo from The Spooky Stuff sent me a message on Facebook with a link to a post that blew me away. The link was to a list of 30 of the most influential people in the paranormal that she had “compiled based on [her] personal developmentContinue Reading
Destination Fear fans may recognize the Old Hospital on College Hill from one of its episodes. (Specifically, season 2 episode 15.) WYMT reported that the haunted hospital in West Virginia is being “resurrected” as a tourist attraction and celebrating its grand opening this month! For those of us who didn’tContinue Reading
Back in December, I took a podcast jaunt with Jim Dean. Jim is the Creative Director for The Haunted Walk ghost tour company out of Canada and is also the host of their Haunted Talks podcast. If The Haunted Walk sounds familiar, they’re also the ones who came up withContinue Reading
On Friday, February 5, another installment in the Shock Doc series will launch on discovery+: The Exorcism of Roland Doe. The two-hour special reveals surprising new details of the real exorcism case of a 13-year-old boy, known as Roland Doe. The case inspired the iconic 1973 horror film The Exorcist,Continue Reading
Did you know the Dr. Pepper Museum is rumored to be haunted? Or maybe we should back up a bit. Did you even know there was a Dr. Pepper Museum? I didn’t, but apparently there is and it’s in Waco, Texas. I thought that was interesting enough. (I don’t drink sodaContinue Reading
Was Elva Zona Heaster Shue murdered on January 22, 1897, or on January 23, 1897? It depends on which reference source you consult. Both The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits and RoadsideAmerica.com say her body was found on January 23, but I found an article from The Independent-Herald dated FebruaryContinue Reading
Is the most haunted hotel in El Paso, Texas, the De Soto Hotel? I don’t know, because that raises the complicated question of how do you really determine what “the most haunted” is? However, the De Soto Hotel is definitely one of El Paso’s most known and popular haunted places,Continue Reading
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