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…
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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…
Old Town Spring
Here in the Midwest, it’s finally acting like spring. We have rain instead of snow, the temperatures are in the 40s and 50s, instead of the 20s and 30s, and I can actually see green sprouting up through the brown ground. So, when I was thinking of this week’s Freaky Friday, I was thinking “Spring!” …
Open Communication
Those of you who are familiar with my Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery series know that Mary O’Reilly can see and communicate with ghosts. There is no guesswork in her communication, they talk – she hears. But, unfortunately, most of us don’t have that ability to communicate with the folks on the other side of the…
Ouija Boards
I was going to write about something else this week, but as I was doing research I found this story from WISN, Channel 12 about a mom who wants a kindergarten teacher fired for using a Ouija board at school. This is from the article, “An outraged mother is calling on Milwaukee Public Schools officials…