Extreme Paranormal and Bonita City

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Ghost Stories | 3 Comments »

Someone I know has a tv show!  It's called Extreme Paranormal and it's on A&E. (I know the guy in the middle!) What I really appreciated about this show was the new stories. Usually you hear about the same ...

A Few Things …

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Books and Publications, Ghost Stories | 2 Comments »

There's a few things I wanted to post about today. First, this new book, Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts by Ken Summers. So many ghost books seem to just retread the same material ...

Pictures of Elizabeth Bullock’s Grave

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in Ghost Stories | 2 Comments »

Nancy Wallace very kindly sent me pictures of the grave of Elizabeth Bullock, whose strange story I tell here. Nancy had grown up nearby and on a recent visit home she drove to the St. Patrick's Cemetery at Table ...

Another Ghost Story That Didn’t Make the Book

Saturday, June 13th, 2009 Posted in Ghost Stories | No Comments »

I came across a few letters in the Duke Parapsychology Lab archives about a haunting in Virginia at a place called the Oakland Farm School. The letters were dated 1964 and they written to Gaither Pratt (a scientists at the ...

My Favorite Ghost Story That Didn’t Make the Book

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Ghost Stories | 12 Comments »

On June 26, 1957, The New York Times ran a piece by Meyer Berger about a haunted house in the West Village called:  Ghostly Coincidences Puzzle Bohemian Couple in 125-Year-Old House in Greenwich Village.   Briefly:  Harvey Slatin bought the ...

Raymond Bayless and the Spook Light

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in Ghost Stories, People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

Some stories are just more fun than others. I picked a few people who crossed paths with the scientists at the lab to write about, and one of them was an amateur researcher named Raymond Bayless.  (More below.)                           I wrote ...

The Best Poltergeist Case

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Ghost Stories | No Comments »

This is a Life Magazine picture of the Herrmann family in their home. I thought people who've read Unbelievable might appreciate seeing what they looked like.  (It's also a pretty great shot.)  I gather the objects at the boy's feet ...