This morning, I was out and about early – before 5 a.m. – driving down our country road toward the highway. There was a thick fog everywhere, and as I passed areas where I knew there had been fatal car accidents, I felt a tightness in my chest and wondered if I was somehow connecting…
Tag: ghostly encounters
Halloween and A Blue Moon
Because tomorrow is Halloween and, on top of that, we are going to have a full, blue moon, I thought we needed some good old-fashioned ghost stories today. Let me start by explaining that scary things have been happening in my house. I wake up in the morning and things that had been on tables…
Ghost Trains
On Tuesday afternoon, toward the end of my live feed telling ghost stories, we started chatting about ghost trains. Terrie S. asked, “Do you think there could be haunted trains or just a ghost driving them? A few years ago, just as we went to bed, there was a train that roared right outside our…
Kids Say the Darndest Things 2
Last November, I wrote a Freaky Friday about some of the creepy and unexplained things children say. I thought it was time to find some more creepy things – you know, before we are all out of lockdown and can’t be as freaked out as well. Here are some from Reddit: I was playing with…
Ghost Horses
Back in the mid-seventies, Michael Martin Murphey performed a song called “Wildfire.” It was a song about a horse that gets lost in a blizzard and its owner, a young woman, goes out searching for it. Both the woman and the horse die in the storm. (See, it’s one of those uplifting kinds of songs.)…
Long-Distance Call from Heaven
Claire Gem is an award-winning author of supernatural suspense, contemporary romance, and women’s fiction. She not only loves exploring the paranormal, but she also holds a certificate in Parapsychology from Duke University’s Rhine Research Center. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. I asked Claire if she’s like to share a personal…
Freaky Friday – Black Friday!
Freaky Friday – Black Friday! What a great combination!!! So, in honor of the retail holiday – I’ll share with you a few ghostly encounters in your favorite retail haunts. In Panorama City, CA a local Wal-Mart is the permanent home of a young woman killed in an elevator accident. The ghost appears on the…
Power Outage
Where were you when the lights went out? It was an exceptionally warm May evening, just a few weeks ago. Our family was gathered around the table chatting when suddenly, the power went out. Living in rural northwest Illinois, occasional power outages are just part of life. Whether it’s a combine taking out a power…
Hum
The young, college-aged man had come home for the week-end. He had enjoyed several days of visiting with both family and friends, although his last visit with friends had ended up much longer and later than he had planned. Which was why he was struggling out of bed well past his usual time. He made…