I wish I had a ghostly tale to tell, one where I had a scary encounter, one to knock your socks off! Sadly, I do not. Not even close. Ghosts fascinate me. What lingers on the other side of the veil makes me quiver with delight. A movie about ghosts? I'm there, the first in line. A show that follows ghost hunters? I watch them all. Any TV series that tells real life experiences? Ghost hunting? I've been...twice. And will go again, just ask me. Dude. Ghosts. Are. Intriguing. Why? Because we don't know everything. Maybe we can't know everything, which mak[...]
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0 I love a good ghost story. I mean, who doesn't? Right? (At least in this crowd?) I got to write one ghost scene in my book Liberty Bound, and I'm writing a lot more of them in my upcoming series Brody Undead. There are so many different kinds of ghosts, and so much folklore, leaving so much room to explore! Since it's ghost month here on The Midnight Society, it's the perfect time to explore some of those different ghosts. Here are some haunted reads for your shelves... My Daylight Monsters was originally supposed to be a stand alone novella, but be[...]
Hello Kittens! I have quite the treat for you. As you know, my Midnight Society pals and I ingest horror in a multitude of different ways. We read it, we write it, we play it, listen to it, draw it, design it, and we watch it. We watch a lot of it. Which is why I'm so, SO excited that Christian Ackerman is joining us on the blog today. You may know him from his newest release, RESTORATION, which he acted as both associate producer AND a medic. I could spend the next few paragraphs telling you all about Christian, or I could let the interview b[...]
May is Ghost Month here at the Midnight Society! I love ghosts stories more than a person should. Normally if I talk to someone for more than thirty minutes, I can be found asking if they know any good ghost stories. It's the truth and the rest of the Midnight Society can attest to that! The story I'm here to tell you today is true, and it's a story of murder, heartbreak, and a mystery that still haunts the Hotel Del Coronado today. On Thanksgiving day in 1892, a beautiful woman checked into the Hotel Del Coronado. She never checked out. The Hote[...]
Hello, Kittens! I have a surprise for you all! So you guys obviously know how much I love podcasts, specifically The Black Tapes If you haven't listened to The Black Tapes before, head over to their website and check it out. It is awesome. In fact, I love it so much I may or may not write Alex/Strand fanfiction. (Spoiler alert: I totally do). So it gives me immense pleasure to welcome Alex and Nic to the blog!! First off, I'm dying to know how have your lives changed since you’ve started delving into the paranormal? Are you more weary of the sounds c[...]
Morning, Kittens. As most of you know, children are kind of disgusting. They grow INSIDE another person, FFS. They come into the world screaming and covered in goop, and that's just the beginning. Now don't get me wrong, I love my tiny human. He is my teenie best friend and I wouldn't trade one second with him for the world. But he is, for lack of a better word, a little bit gross. Some of my favourite horror movies of all time are speckled with creepy kidlets. So in honour of Thanksgiving and kids everywhere, here are some terrifying tots I'm thankfu[...]
This week is Ghosts Week for Midnight Society's #OctFearFest, and today I want to talk a bit about the ghost of the Springwood Slasher. Perhaps you know him by a different name--Freddy Krueger. When people think about what Freddy is, the word ghost doesn’t immediately jump to mind. And over the course of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, he became something much more than a ghost (we can chat about the Dream Demons another time). But at the start of the Elm Street saga, Freddy Krueger was definitely a ghost. Specifically, a vengeful spirit. Like the spiri[...]
Hello Kittens, As you may have noticed, it's GHOST WEEK!! Now I love Ghosts. I love ghost movies (still undecided on the Poltergeist remake), ghostly books, and especially ghost-hunting reality TV shows. My favourite ghost hunting show of them all is GHOST ADVENTURES. If you're unfamiliar with the show, it follows ghost hunting trio Zak, Nick, and Aaron as they check out the world's most haunted locations. These dudes are all over the states, Europe, and even Japan! Each episode starts with a local history, interviews, and a run down of the place. Th[...]
When it's late at night and you can't sleep, does your past ever snuggle under the covers, and haunt you? Do you think about embarrassing things you've done, or people you miss? Do you ever feel haunted? “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls I love a good ghost story, and I've noticed that there are some very emotional ghosts out there. They're stuck in their pasts. They're often stuck on one thing that happened to them, and they're after the living for that reason.[...]
Today we kick off Ghost Week here at The Midnight Society! Some people are skeptics when it comes to ghosts. Not me. I have never been a skeptic. Why? I’ve lived in a haunted house. I have experienced things that cannot be explained. I have seen orbs with my own two eyes, in the middle of a cemetery at midnight flitting through the sky. And no, I hadn’t been drinking at the time. In honor of Ghost Week, I thought I’d tell you a little story about one of my first ghostly experiences at an old house I lived in when I was a child. With t[...]