The Historic Haunts Team has not done their annual ghostly photo contest the past couple of years, but this year it’s back! Please email them your best REAL ghostly photos for their annual contest. The top three will be featured on their website and Facebook page. They will giveContinue Reading
In January, we had a day layover in Los Angeles before we flew to Singapore. Perfect excuse to do something I’d long been wanting to do: book a room and stay aboard The Queen Mary. Other than to see it as we boarded a Carnival cruise from the cruise portContinue Reading
Even though we don’t have cable, I of course know who Mike Wolfe is from American Pickers. Mostly because he has a house out in Leiper’s Fork and is neighbor’s with one of my tennis buddies. What I didn’t know was that he had a store here in Nashville calledContinue Reading
A favorite place my husband and I like to get out and exercise not far from our Nashville home is at River Park in Brentwood, Tennessee. An extensive path system connects it to other area parks. One of them is the Primm Historic Park off of Wilson Pike. I’m rarelyContinue Reading
This is a guest contribution from Desmond Rhodes. The Old Idaho Penitentiary, or the “Old Pen,” was home to over 13,000 murderers, rustlers, and bank robbers—among other criminals. Over its 101 year span, inmates were hanged, planned escapes, and kept in deplorable conditions. The Old Pen houses a history ofContinue Reading
This is a guest contribution from H. Davis. In 1991, a commercial aired for a psychic board game that gave kids the ability to ask questions about their future: the Ouija Board Game. At the time, the board wasn’t highly known as the game that lets you talks to spirits.Continue Reading
This is a guest contribution from freelance writer Sally Writes. Africa has to be the ultimate destination for an unforgettable holiday. Whether you want to explore unique cultural history, go on safari to encounter the big five or simply laze around on a sun-kissed beach, nothing can beat an African adventure. ButContinue Reading
What is it with April? I’ve shared my theory here before (we’ll get to those links later) that I believe it’s a cursed month. It’s been a while since I went there though. But every April I can’t help but wonder, “What, when, where, and how will disaster strike thisContinue Reading
The guest for the Haunt Jaunts radio show on Tuesday March 21, 2017 is Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter author Chris Verstraete. (Who writes as C.A. Verstraete.) Chris also happens to be a long time friend of mine. (I wanted to get acclimated to this radio hosting gig with people IContinue Reading
But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek- Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland! My Maryland! –from Stanza VII, “Maryland, my Maryland” by James Ryder Randall (1861), state song of Maryland since 1939. Point Lookout State Park 11175 Point Lookout Road Scotland, Maryland Where the PotomacContinue Reading
Today this Herald Journal article caught my eye: “Travel Channel, HBO confirm filming in Cache Valley.” Pretty innocuous title, right? You may be wondering why it appealed to me. It had to do with this description that accompanied the title in my feed: The “Ghost Adventures” episode will be partContinue Reading
“Peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts”—A Grand Tour of Southern Ghosts The weather was raw and freezing on that fateful January day in a remote valley called Shelton Laurel in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The Civil War had been raging for two long years and the tensions amongContinue Reading
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