Today I had my son's birthday party at Pump it Up. Naturally, I went camera crazy. I snapped picture after picture of my boy's big day hoping to make that scrapbook I've been promising myself I'd make for going on 7 years now. As I went through the pictures this evening, I noticed they were cluttered with orbs. Orbs are balls...
I have blogged before about animals' uncanny ability to sense the supernatural in ways that people can not. One of my favorite examples of this is Oscar. Oscar is a therapy cat that lives at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Oscar has been doing rounds...
My family is from Detroit and I spent much of my time there as a child. My family remembers back to the days when Detroit was a flourishing city. My grandmother tells the same stories over and over again and her favorite stories involve taking the street car to the theater. There was nothing more...
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The Church Street Cemetery is tucked neatly away in the shadows of the lazy oaks of Mobile, Alabama. The moss drips off the trees and brushes the ancient tomb stones. The graves here are old. Some of them go back two hundred years or more. During Mardi Gras, the cemetery is almost festive and...
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Mobile, Alabama is on of my favorite places. It has a long history that mixes cultures and blends stories ina a way that is entirely new. We travel to Mardi Gras in Mobile every year and I was sure to pick up a few ghost stories along the way. This was one of my favorites. It plays...
During my castle tour of the Loire Valley, I listened to many audio tours and studied the history of each castle. There was no mention of anything supernatural. They contained only the facts. Interestingly, my son's audio tour of the castle of Chenanceau was quite different from mine. It was designed for young children and...
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This is a famous ghost story and any google search will produce a plethora of conflicting information on this site. I first learned about this location on a haunted New Orleans tour and although parts or the story may be fiction, if even a portion of the story is true it is horrible. As on most such tours, I never saw anything...
I don't live in a very big city so it seems odd to me that our little town is rocked by mass murders and bizarre killings more than it should for its population. Last week, UAH, where I went to college, was devastated by the shooting of 6 professors by a neurobiologist who didn't get tenure. ...
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Chichen Itza in Mexico is one of the most monumental of a series of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan area. Mayan culture has been polularized lately due to some poorly historically structured films and because of the Mayan 2012 apocalypse predictions. However, very little that has been popularized about...
I met a wonderful woman this morning. I met with Ms. Jacquelyn Procter Gray. She is the proprietor of the Huntsville Ghost Walk in Huntsville, Alabama. She is the keeper of North Alabama’s best ghost stories and a brilliant historian and writer. She’s written several books for History Press including Wicked North Alabama and...
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The more I write about ghosts, the more I realize how important it is to define what kind of ghosts or spiritual disturbance might be lingering in each haunted place. I began researching this topic thinking there would be an easy breakdown to types of hauntings. This was not the case. Every different...
Spoke with Ad Industries today. They said this is a scam. Nice one. What was the red flag on this one? "Our legal representative won't be able to take on this matter since it is out of their jurisdiction." Except this company is located in Washington (our same jurisdiction). So who hires lawyers that can't handle matters within their own state? Well, not Ad Industries. From talking to the folks at...
The Quigley House is a perfect examply of a Southern Mansion. Walking by this old house, you might feel like you’ve been swept back in time to the old days of the South when Southern Belles sat lazily on their long front porches drinking tea and fanning themselves. The house has been perfectly restored and is a pleasure...
One of my favorite things about traveling is finding the unexpectedly fascinating location. I travel a good deal and have stayed in many rental houses and hotels, on a rare occasion one of them is really interesting. On my recent trip down to the Gulf for Mardi Gras, we got lucky and our rental house was interesting.I...
I have always thought that Mobile, Alabama has a better Mardi Gras than New Orleans. The floats are more beautiful, the throws are better, and there is less nudity and vomit. So every year we travel down to the deep South where the lazy oaks are heavy laden with moss to become part of what is a cultural...
For the last few nights my family and I have been traveling off the beaten path looking at strange haunted places that we might normally miss. We've thrown ourselves into the middle of things and slept with ghosts and found ourselves in places without internet and places that my GPS can't find. Our first stop...
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I learned an easy Southern recipe for performing an exorcism on a haunted house today. A few of the nurses I know gave me this wonderful glimpse into Southern culture and a way that they say always works to clear a house of dark spirits.One of the nurses I know learned this after her grandfather passed...
While I was out investigating various ghost stories, a man pull me aside and told me a story he thinks may have something to do with ghosts. He wasn't exactly sure what happened, but he knew it was very odd and more than a little creepy.He told me about a hotel in some rural town in Alabama that he used to visit...
The old Birmingham Public Library is one of the most striking buildings in downtown Birmingham. It's darkened windows seem to hint at movement even when the library is closed. Sitting across from the old Library two nights ago, I thought I saw a face staring out at me. I watched it and it watched me...
I began my investigations in Birmingham with the historic Tutwiler hotel, which I immediately assumed was not haunted. I was completely bowled over by the human activity within the hotel and the unhelpful staff. After the night had quieted and the party ended, I awoke with the dawn and started again. ...
I took a little road trip today and traveled to the famous Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. This hotel is famous for it's friendly ghost, Colonel Tutwiler. He supposedly likes to turn lights on and off in the kitchen and make a rather large mess from time to time. I have asked as many staff as I...
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I have been out and about talking with people about ghosts and trying to find the origin of certain local ghost stories. In my journey, I've discovered something wonderful. Once you start asking about ghosts, people pull you aside and tell you the most amazing ghost stories. Here is one of the...
I love finding ghost stories on the internet. There are several websites I go to on a regular basis to find interesting stories. The internet is cluttered with sites that list the haunted locations through out the world and usually do some kind of write up or short description of the haunted site. Often times, the write up seems to be word for word the same on multiple sites so they...
Mackinac Island is a small island pushed up against the North of Michigan in Lake Huron. For me, this tiny island was a place of magic. My earliest childhood memories started with trips on the Ferry across the lake to a place that seemed to be trapped in history. I felt like a time traveller. I'm...
