Last week, when I was scrolling through Facebook, I saw an article about sightings of a rare fish in Japan called an oarfish. The only problem with the sightings is the legend that seeing the…
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Happy Halloween – Screams
Several people suggested the new Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House” to me and I finally got up enough courage to watch it. Well, two episodes so far. One of the things I…
Black-Eyed Kids
Several years ago, I was listening to a podcast about Black-eyed Kids or BEK phenomenon. It was an occurrence that I’d never heard of before. But as I listened, I felt the chills creep…
Eureka!
As many of you know, I’m spending this week in lovely Branson, Missouri with my entire family at a family reunion. We had 34 people at the Fall Village Resort, and the adults were…
House Calls?
As I’ve researched ghosts and heard stories, one of the things I’ve learned is that some ghosts follow the patterns they established when they were alive. A jogger who has a heart attack on…
The Friendly Skies
I’m sitting upstairs in my office on Wednesday night scaring myself for your benefit. The house is quiet, the wind is howling, the night is dark – pitch, black, dark, and I am reading…
Ghostly Love
Ghost stories and Valentine’s Day? It’s surprising to realize how many ghost stories are actually stories of unrequited love, love gone wrong or star-crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet – I bet their ghosts spend…
The Loo
Let me share a secret about the hygiene of many, many writers. When we’re on deadline or in the midst of a creative burst, we may forget about one of the basic processes in everyday…
Haunted Hegewisch
Hegewisch (pronounced heg-wish) is a neighborhood on the South-East side of Chicago. Actually, you can’t go any further South or East without leaving the City! One of my friends, an avid fan of all-things-Chicago,…
Window Shopping
Emmet Kryndle was a businessman. That was what he considered himself when it came down to it. He counted the bills and the coins in the till and sharply closed the drawer on the…
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