I have a great deal of respect for first responders, they rush in when others are running out.  They risk their lives every day for complete strangers and often, really stupid or careless complete…

In another Facebook group I belong to, someone posted a photo of an old Victorian house being moved from one place to another on the back of a flatbed truck.  The house had sat…

One of my favorite Halloween traditions is to create a new Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern story for the O’Reilly family.  All of the O’Reillys sit together every Halloween night and share real ghost…

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a small writer’s conference in Michigan. We were only about an hour’s drive from the ferry for Mackinaw Island, so we decided to take the time…

Kathi Kresol might sound like a familiar name to many of you– she was the superstar organizer of the Paranormal Conference in Delayed Departures (Book 18).  Actually, I first met the real-life Kathi at…

Ambassador Kevin Vickers is not a man who is frightened easily. With a nearly 30-year career with the Canadian Mounties and an appointment to Sergeant-at-Arms in Canada’s House of Commons, he had demonstrated his…

Last week I wrote the sad story about the miner’s wife who wandered around in her nightgown after her death, either trying to find her husband and son who had died in a mining…

We stopped in Craig, Colorado on Wednesday night.  It was a beautiful drive from Provo, Utah. We drove up through Heber Canyon and then across Hwy 40 that passed through beautiful mountains and desert…

I’m really enjoying traveling and talking to people about their ghostly experiences.  Most of the successful conversations have been with waitresses at various establishments along the way.  Yesterday, we stopped in Walden, Colorado, a…