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Continue reading →: #25SpookyStories: A 2020 Christmas Reading ChallengeNothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood. – Jerome K. Jerome, Told After Supper (1891) The following post is a recycled and…
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Continue reading →: Happy Halloween! My Top Five #humpdayhauntsOne my favorite ways to keep the Halloween spirit going all year long is through my Instagram series #humpdayhaunts. Every Wednesday (well, sometimes Thursday), I share haunted history. I always look forward to the opportunity to research a new haunting. In a chaotic world, it is indeed my constant! I…
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Continue reading →: From the Newspaper Archives: More Midwest MonstersToday I share three more Midwest monsters from the newspaper archives. As we saw in the last post, old newspapers have an interesting and witty way of investigating the supernatural. It always makes for some fun reading, especially when the current news is stressful. Enjoy the following stories and say…
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Continue reading →: From the Newspaper Archives: Hoosier MonstersOne of my favorite activities as of late is browsing the newspaper archives with a cup of tea or a pint of pumpkin beer (depends how my day was). My most recent rabbit hole was reports of monsters in Indiana, which eventually opened up to surrounding states. Two pints of…
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Continue reading →: #31SpookyStories: October 2020 Reading ChallengeI asked my friends on Instagram if they would be interested in bringing back #31SpookyStories and the response was more than expected. Let’s do this! 🎃 Last year, many committed to reading 13 or 31 spooky short stories during the month of October. This challenge is not only doable, but…
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Continue reading →: Using Commonplace Books to Study (Save?) HalloweenThis Halloween will definitely be interesting as we create new traditions in response to COVID-19. What is great about Halloween is that it has always adapted to societal challenges and in impactful (and sometimes questionable) ways. Did you know that haunted houses have roots in the Great Depression? Instead of…
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Continue reading →: Interview with Leigh Paynter, Author of the The Pine Barrens’ DevilLeigh Paynter provided me a copy of her book, The Pine Barrens’ Devil, to review. I enjoyed the book so much that I asked Leigh for an interview and I am thrilled she agreed. The Pine Barrens’ Devil is a collection of stories about the Jersey Devil, each set in a different…
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Continue reading →: Ghosts in My Family Tree (Part I)My mother and I have recently started to build our family tree and my first thought was: Ohhhh. I wonder if I’m related to an actual ghost?! In this two-part series, I explore two haunted stories I came across during my genealogy research. We will start with The She-Wolf of…
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Continue reading →: More Haunted Cemetery Statues in the United StatesI recently shared two haunted cemetery statues on my Instagram during my weekly #humpdayhaunts post. This took me down a spooky rabbit hole on the internet. I have covered this topic before on the blog, but I thought I might quickly share some more haunted cemetery statues. I got…
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Continue reading →: Indiana Cemeteries: James Moon & His GuillotineTW: Discussion of Suicide I recently visited the grave of James A. Moon, a “fighting quaker’ in the Civil War, a farmer, a blacksmith, and an inventor. Yet, his legacy is attached to his final deadly invention. On June 10, 1876, Moon drove a wagon away from his two-story house…
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