As a very young child, about the age of four, I had a nightly visitor to my room that terrified me. I remember lying awake in the dark, waiting. For a few nights in a row, this specter would walk through the door of my bedroom, slowly and deliberately, and head straight for my bed….
Tag: Haunted Tales
Happy Halloween – Manic Monday!
How could I not do a ghost story on Halloween? I have to admit; it was really hard deciding on which stories to tell. I wanted a couple of stories that would send goosebumps up your arms, because that’s what a good Halloween ghost story should do. So, I decided that I would tell you…
Your Mawmaw would have loved you
I often think that as I rock one of my three grandchildren. I never met anyone so in love with their grandchildren than my kids’ Mawmaw. Mawmaw was born in Mississippi and lived there for most of her life, with brief stops in Louisiana and Illinois. She had beautiful blue eyes, a happy smile, and…
Close the Closet Door
This week’s Freaky Friday is “ghost-written” 🙂 by my very own sister – Maureen Tan. It freaked me out! I hope you enjoy it too!!! As much as I hate to admit (because it sounds silly, doesn’t it?) I can’t fall asleep in my bedroom if the closet door is open. It’s not like I…
More Gettysburg
Several years ago, I had the distinct pleasure to speak at the Illinois Paranormal Society Annual Conference. I met quite a few very interesting people, and I’ll share some of their stories in later Freaky Fridays, but today I wanted to share one of the stories told by their keynote speaker, Mark Nesbitt. The cool…
FREE!!! Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern 1
I released my first “Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern” two years ago today. And as an anniversary gift – Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern 1 will be FREE starting tomorrow (Saturday, October 1st) through October 5th. This is the perfect time to get your friends hooked. 🙂 Here’s a here’s a link to get…
Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern
What could be better than one edition of Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern? How about all three boxed together for your Halloween enjoyment? 🙂 If you haven’t read the first two years of Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern, this is a great opportunity to get all three years at a discount price. Seventeen spooky stories…
Penny Candy
It was a dark Halloween night. A cold drizzle soaked the leaf-covered sidewalks and extinguished jack-o-lanterns that perched on porch railings and steps, their cold, dark, empty faces even more frightening than their candled-glowing ones from earlier that night. The year was 1964 and this Chicago neighborhood was a combination of single-family homes, apartment buildings and,…
New Hope, GA
A couple of years ago, my husband and I got the chance to spend a weekend in Georgia with my daughter, son-in-law, and some of my adorable grandchildren. We drove down from Illinois and when we reached Georgia, we drove down the back roads to their house that is northeast of Atlanta, rather than take…
Between the Lights
The men and women who are part of our Armed Forces are incredible people. They have volunteered a part of each of their lives in order to help our country maintain the freedoms and liberties that we all enjoy. They work long, hard hours and when they are deployed they are often faced with conditions…