Category: Freaky Friday

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

Victorian picture people frightened by a ghost

I was reminded on Monday by a dear friend, Terrie Snyder, that I hadn’t posted a Freaky Friday the previous Friday. I was gobsmacked! She was right. I totally forgot about Freaky Friday – and I offer you both an apology and an explanation. I learned several weeks ago that my dear daughter, Sarah, and…

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to a wonderful group of students, teachers, and administrators this week at the FOCUS House in Rochelle, Illinois.  During our time together, we started chatting about ghost stories (are you surprised?) and several young men shared stories about a ghost that haunts their residence hall. A ghost who…