Another Halloween treat – a story from the second Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern, one of my favorites because it’s based on a true story. This time, Margaret O’Reilly is telling the tale. “When your father and I were just a young couple and Sean was a wee boy we lived in a small apartment…
Category: Freaky Friday
The Paper Route
The day had finally arrived, twelve-year-old Timmy O’Reilly was old enough to have his own paper route. How he’d envied those other boys with their pockets filled with change, buying the latest comics books or stopping for a treat at the ice cream parlor. He was, at last, a working man. He had thought of…
Grandma’s Here!
As a grandparent, I know there is nothing that gives me the same joy as visiting with one of my grandchildren. Grandchildren are the reward for having children. They are like compounded interest on the investment you made raising your children. So, why wouldn’t a grandparent want to take the time to say one more…
Safety First
Last week I wrote about an experience I had in the old Union Pacific Railroad Station in Salt Lake City. At the end of the article, I mentioned that if you were going to participate in paranormal investigations, you should protect yourself. Today, I’d like to talk a little about what that kind of protection…
The Shadow Man
A little over six years ago, I was invited to have a meet and greet at the Barnes and Noble at the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. I met some wonderful people there, including a paranormal investigative group who shared their amazing EVPs with me. We had a great time and, even though…
Psychometry
A few weeks ago, I was reading on the Facebook page for Jim Harold’s Virtual Campfire where people share stories of ghosts, cryptids, and UFOs. One poster was an archaeologist, George Luke, who shared this story: “In 1993 I was working on various archaeological sites along a new gas pipeline in Hertfordshire. In this case,…
Full Moons and Friday the 13th
The full moon will not occur this month until Tuesday, and then it will be a Supermoon—the Harvest Moon—but it sure seemed to me last night that there was a lot of “full moon” activity in the air. So, I thought we could chat about both full moons and Friday the 13th lore. Let’s first…
The Gray Man
Last week I wrote about being prepared, this week I’m going to share another sort of “emergency warning” the folks in the Carolinas have when the weather gets bad. Most of us start to really worry when Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel shows up in our neck of the woods. He’s actually been close…
Freaky Weather
This isn’t going to be the usual Freaky Friday because there’s a lot of freaky things predicted in the near future or the next few months, and I just wanted to chat about that. The main reason I’m writing this is that my mom (who is 88 years old) lives in West Melbourne, Florida by…
Creepy Dolls
Today’s Freaky Friday blog was in response to a Facebook post by Mickey Claus called “A Doll in the Hall.” It was the picture above with this copy, “Hey Parents, Instead of an Elf on the Shelf in December, let’s do “A Doll in the Hall” in October. You take a creepy porcelain doll that…