When I think about the Civil War, I tend to picture places like Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, Antietam in Maryland, Fort Sumter in South Carolina, or Shiloh in Tennessee. The first state that comes to mind is never California. And yet, California actually paid an important part in the War Between the States. For a quick…
Category: Freaky Friday
The Demon Cat of Washington, D.C.
A harbinger spirit is a spirit that foretells the coming of a future event. I think we’ve chatted about the Gray Man who foretells the coming of hurricanes by walking along the end of a pier. Well, the harbinger of the week, and the one we least want to see, is the Demon Cat of…
Haunted Guest Reviews
Well, the reviews aren’t haunted – but they are about experiences that guests have in hotels. Let me explain – every so often, I love to get onto the Trip Advisor site and do a search on reviews with the word “haunted.” This time I ended up choosing two hotels, one in Chicago and the…
Old Shoes
A couple of weeks ago I was watching one of the new episodes of Kindred Spirits, a paranormal television show I really enjoy. This episode was called “Watch Over Me” and if you click on the link, you can find more about it. But basically (no spoilers) there is an old shoe in the old…
Ghostbusters
Several weeks ago, I wrote a Freaky Friday about attics. I mentioned that the reason I was moving my office upstairs to our refinished attic was that my daughter, son-in-law, and three delightful grandsons were moving in with us for a while. Well, they are officially here – and we are having a great time….
Is Santa Real?
I really thought that last week was my last of Christmas Paranormal stories, that is until The Singular Fortean Society sent me their newsletter with the headline “Witness Reports Childhood Sighting of Santa’s Sleigh.” On their blog, they interview Holly Pearce, 24, from Lancaster, Ohio (can I just add that many, many strange things happen…
A Christmas Tree Ghost
I want to thank plat00n from Reddit for giving me permission to share his story. I thought this was the perfect story to finish up our ghost stories of December. Three years before I was born, my mother and father had their first child. He lived for a mere seven minutes before his breathing stopped…
Family for Christmas
The holidays are a wonderful time to get together with family members and friends you haven’t seen for a while. And in these stories, you’ll discover that something like being dead doesn’t always stop someone from visiting during the holidays. These next stories were taken from Reddit and are true stories. I hope you enjoy…
Christmas Parties with Ghosts
Everybody loves a good Christmas party, right? (Okay, those of us who are introverts might not “love” them, but we can put up with them during this time of year.) From Mr. Fezziwig’s Christmas Party in Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” to the party at the Bailey’s home to show George that indeed he had…
December Ghosts – Doppelgangers
Victorian picture people frightened by a ghost