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…
Tag: Haunted
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…
Why don’t you spend the night…
We have a cute sign on the wall next to our front staircase. It reads, “Remember, as far as anyone knows, we are a nice normal family.” I’ve often thought that I ought to create a smaller sign and hang it right underneath that would say, “Just please ignore the ghosts.” However, quite frankly, some…
Haunted Inn
Clare (not her real name) grew up in a stone house that used to be an inn along an old stagecoach route. So the ghosts she lived with while growing up were just part of her family’s history. “My mother always talked about seeing the ghosts of a little boy with his governess or nanny,”…
Orbs
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with the Lake Carroll Women’s Club and tell some ghost stories. I had a great time, they were a wonderful audience. Afterwards, one of the women came up to me and asked me what I thought about orbs. She mentioned a friend who has taken photos of…