A few weeks ago, I received a lovely note from a new reader, who also happens to be an author too. In her note, she asked me if I really had a ghost in my house and then admitted that she’d only seen and heard one ghost in her life. Amy Heyman, from Sheybogan, Wisconsin…
Category: Freaky Friday
Grandma’s Visit
During the past few weeks, I’ve met some very interesting authors who have great stories to share- so I’ve invited them to guest blog. I met David Hatton through my Twitter account. David is from Lancashire, England. He spent a year living in Chicago before traveling across America; his second home. He released his first…
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…
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Okay, just by reading the title of this Freaky Friday, you know that this is not going to be one of those light-hearted blogs. According to their website, The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (aka the Weston State Hospital) served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill beginning in the mid-1880s. It is the largest hand-cut stone…
Yūrei Banashi – Japanese Ghost Stories
Last week, as I was flipping through the Internet looking for information on all of the storms and flooding we’ve been having, I stumbled upon a YouTube video taken of a tsunami crashing up onto the shores of Japan. The video was taken from a tall, industrial building, not far from the shore and the…
Our Best Friends
One of my freakiest up-close-and-personal encounters with an apparition was when I was working through the night in my attic office. It was about four in the morning and my beloved Riley, a Golden Retriever/Bernese Mountain Dog mix, looked up from the couch he was resting on, glanced over to the attic stairs and wagged…
Nurses – Part 2
As most of you know, I spent some quality time at a hospital in Fort Worth earlier this week welcoming a new grandson to our family. There is no nursery, so the newborn “rooms-in” with the mom. So, I got to “room-in” with mom and baby, and “dance” with little Noah while his mom got…
Angels Among Us
This week I was reading about the Latter-Day Saints hand-cart exodus to the Salt Lake Valley. Two handcart companies got a late start, the Willey and Martin Companies. They had hardship after hardship, from running out of food to being stranded on the plains of Wyoming in an early-season blizzard, waiting for help to arrive….
Boleskine House
In the past, we chatted about house hunting and making sure that you don’t purchase a house with extra, paranormal residents. Or, depending on what you want, finding a house with extra, paranormal residents. Just in case you’re one of the latter house hunters, here’s a potential ideal house for you that had recently been…
House Hunting
A couple of weeks ago, I was reading through the posts on a Dead Files Facebook page and someone asked, “what happens to the houses that people sell when Amy says the families have to move out and can no longer live there?” I responded, “I think Zillow needs to add a category in their…