Recent Chilling Tales
DON’T BREATHE Pulls No Punches And blood flows in bunches
Don’t Breathe opens on the unsettling scene of an unconscious girl being dragged down the street by her hair; the surrounding scenery shows the cracked sidewalks and overgrown backyards of an abandoned neighborhood somewhere in the suburbs of Detroit. It’s a brilliant hook, one that sets an intense tone for the unnerving home-invasion flick that follows.
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America’s Most Haunted Joins Forces with The Lineup for New Podcast Hosts Eric Olsen and Clarissa Cole dive into haunted honky tonk Bobby Mackey's in first episode
The Lineup’s legendary podcast is back after a hiatus with new hosts, America’s Most Haunted’s Eric Olsen and resident forensic psychologist, Dr. Clarissa Cole! In each new bi-weekly episode we will dissect a strange new case—from haunted locations to true crimes throughout history and have a ripping good time doing so.
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SPIRIT TRAVELER Sonja Grace Visits After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio New book explores spiritual realities of eight world historic sites
Join us for a luminous episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — as we talk with mystic and healer Sonja Grace who has the unique ability to travel through time and space to do remarkable spiritual detective work. Sonja will join us in the 10pE hour. In the 9pE hour Joel and Eric will amaze and amuse with the week’s hot paranormal news.
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Halloween Symbols – Pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns
Pumpkins and their gutted and mutilated offspring jack-o-lanterns are THE most pervasive symbol of Halloween in the United States. Recall that the Peanuts Halloween classic is called It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, that the Headless Horseman’s temporary head is a jack-o-lantern, and that Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King of Halloween in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, not the Bat King or the Witch King.
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Halloween Symbols – Release the Bats Bring on the furtive, winged, nocturnal mammals that roost upside down in creepy caves, decrepit barns, and moldering crypts
A key element of Halloween is honoring the darkness and the mysteries held therein. Originally Halloween was celebrated by the ancient Celts and their Druid priest class as Samhain, “summer’s end,” marking the death of the old year and birth of the new year and the transition from the seasons of light — spring and summer — to the seasons of darkness — fall and winter. It’s perhaps inevitable that bats, furtive, winged, nocturnal mammals that roost upside down in creepy caves, decrepit barns, and moldering crypts would become a symbol of the dark holiday.
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Bloody History of Staten Island’s Haunted Kreischer Mansion Suicide, murder, ornate decor
Kreischer Mansion sits on a hill on Staten Island, New York. Originally, a second mansion occupied the land beside it, mirroring the structure that still stands today. The houses were built by Balthasar Kreischer, who earned his fortune fabricating and selling fireproof bricks. Construction was complete in 1885, and Balthasar’s two sons—Charles and Edward—moved into their own sprawling abode. Balthasar died just a year later. Not long after his death, Balthasar’s brick business fell on hard times. In 1894, after an apparent argument at the factory, Balthasar’s son Edward committed suicide.
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Nannie Doss – The Femme Fatale Next Door Notorious "Giggling Grannie" killed off four husbands and other assorted family members
When the term “Femme Fatale” comes to mind, it is likely fraught with juicy film noir imagery: A sexy woman wooing the unsuspecting private eye into a tangled web of seduction and murder. But – perhaps fortunately – such scenes are relatively rare in real life. In this gritty world, a femme fatale is less likely to look like Lauren Bacall, and more like your next door neighbor. Such is the case with Ms. Nannie Doss. Aptly nicknamed “the Giggling Granny,” Nannie was always considered an approachable woman – so approachable, in fact, that she married no less than five times! But, unlike other sparkling beauties who married multiple times, Nannie’s husbands all seemed to have something in common: except for one, they were all dead.
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Talking Madly Haunted Knickerbocker Hotel with Peg Knickerbocker on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio The Knick is one of America's Most Haunted
On this chilling AND heart-warming edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we delve into the fascinating history and mad hauntings of Linesville, PA’s KNICKERBOCKER HOTEL, one of America’ Most Haunted, with owner and gracious hostess Peg Knickerbocker. Peg will join us in the 10pE hour. In the 9pE hour, Joel and Eric will penetrate the week’s paranormal news in a manner both informative and entertaining.
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Halloween and the Lost Art of Divination For centuries soothsaying was at the core of Halloween celebrations
Though it’s still very summery in much of the country, with the opening of a number of haunted attractions, costumes and candy overflowing shelves in stores, and spooky programming easing onto screens big and small, the Halloween season is upon us. Amidst the noisy, colorful pop cultural extravaganza that is contemporary Halloween in America, an element central to the extended history of Halloween — all the way back to the pre-Christian Celtic celebration of Samhain — has virtually been lost: the art of divination.
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EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL Sings Like a Well-Tuned Chainsaw I sing the deadite fantastic
The 1980s are cool again, as evidenced by the popularity of Stranger Things. But there was something from the 1980s even stranger: the Evil Dead trilogy. The films starring Bruce Campbell as Ash (The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness) set the bar for campy horror. Can something be stranger yet? Yes. Evil Dead The Musical.
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