Paranormal Parlor

The Poltergeist Within: An Excerpt from Paranormal Parlor

We Are Family The idea of family ghosts, or ghosts that attach themselves to people and are “inherited” from generation to generation can perhaps be traced back to a time when families remained in one place for longer periods of time. Were these “inherited” ghosts simply ghosts of a place, a castle for example, where all […]

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Try to Keep an Open Mind: From Frederick Douglass to the Fox Sisters

Amy and Isaac Post were a pretty radical couple for the 1840s. As outspoken abolitionists it isn’t surprising that their open-minded attitude meant that not only were they Quakers, free-thinkers, anti-slavery, and women’s rights advocates, they were also believers in the Spiritualist movement. They held regular abolitionists meetings in their home and hosted the likes

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Tonight! Sunday! Live! Video! with Dave Cruz & Beyond The Strange Radio

Happy Halloween week, you lovers of the bizarre and starlings of the strange. Tonight join me on Beyond The Strange Radio for a live video interview with the one and only Dave Cruz. We’ll try and scare one another as we traverse the world of ghosts, vampires and other creatures of the night. Join us

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Jeff Belanger Interviewed Me on GhostVillage (Life Goal, Achieved!!!)

If you are a fan of the paranormal, then you have no doubt spent time on Ghostvillage.com, Jeff Belanger’s website dedicated to ghost research and evidence. If not, for shame! Get thee on over and join the community of thousands—ghost encounters, curious and skeptics alike. It’s been around since 1999 and I’ve been a fan

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Here There Be Ghouls: A Teaser from Paranormal Parlor

Creatures of mist, half credited; Our faint form flings No shadow in moonlight on the bed We visit; noiseless is our tread, Who come from deserts of the dead, Where no bird sings. —Anon, 1887 (from Ghost Stories and Presentiments) Here There Be Ghosts I have never met a ghost story I didn’t like. Whether

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Happy New Year & An Annoucement

Happy 2018 you delightful devils! Let’s hope your celebrations (and libations) didn’t take you too far off the path. We all know how those Pookas can appear when you least expect them… 2017 was a big year for me personally: it saw the publication of my latest book, Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complet Guide

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Wild Thoughts of the Fairy King: Ghost Chronicles, Tonight!

Join me and the lovely hosts of Ghost Chronicles, Ron Kolek and Anne Kerrigan, as we gather round the radio-machine to discuss all manner of creatures real and imagined. Tune in live tonight, Wednesday, March 22nd at 7 p.m. EST to talk about my new book, Fairies, Pookas and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild

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A Christmas Ghost of Dickens’ Past

Happy Holidays, you weirdos! I’ve got a little present for you. I recently got together with my esteemed publisher for Weiser Books Radio Hour, to read to you from a little tale from Charles Dickens’ A Haunted House. Charles Dickens’ Christmas ghosts were rampant in his 1894 pamphlet Christmas Stories, a holiday supplement to Âll

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