The Winchester “Mystery” House

You’ve heard the stories about how Sarah Winchester was haunted by all the people who had been killed by Winchester guns and how she built a huge mansion with stairs that led to nowhere and doors that opened to nothing and trap doors and blah blah blah.

It’s all crap. I’ve been saying it for years, but nobody wanted to believe me. I even thought it was crap when TAPS went there for an investigation on Ghost Hunters back in 2005. I get it, ratings, right?

Wanna know the truth about the place and about Sarah? This video I just stumbled on tells the truth.

I won’t name names, but someone said “it’s still fun to believe.” Yeah, well how about believing the truth? That’s my biggest issue with ghost hunting and the paranormal. You’ve probably come to realize I’m all about the truth here. I even post about creepy things that happen where I live when I discover what is actually happening, like with the last post. I could’ve let it all go and let everyone who read those posts believe it’s all paranormal, but that’s not me, because that’s not right.

Stop thinking every speck of dust you catch in a picture are orbs. Always assume whatever you catch is NOT paranormal until nothing non-paranormal explains what you’ve seen or heard. THAT is how you’re supposed to ghost hunt. We’re looking for proof of the paranormal, not whatever you dream could be. Reddit’s Ghosts subreddit is full of people bitching about this very thing. That sub is inundated with tons of posts from people who are posting pictures and videos of nothing and claiming it’s ghostly. It’s sad. It’s also the reason the paranormal will never be taken seriously by skeptics.

Lastly, with the above video in mind, do some research once in a while. Google is your friend. Anyone can use it, I’ve checked. You think something is haunted? Do some research.

Updates

I decided to do some research on the area I live in. I sent out two emails to tribes that used to live in this area and have history here, but I haven’t heard back and at this point I doubt I will, so plans to figure out what’s going on around here have come to a halt and I may never go back to it.

My paranormal podcast, To Catch A Cryptid, is over. So are all the other ones I’ve done, including Quick History, which I just got started again. The reason for this sucks, but it’s out of my control. I go into more detail here.

Lastly, I just noticed there’s a local ghost tour group called Cincinnati Ghosts. The first thing I noticed about their site is, they misspell “Cincinnati.” You can’t tell on the site itself, but the “title” of their site that appears in the tab says otherwise.

That’s all I got for now.

New Paranormal Podcast!

I know, long time no see! Well, I’ve been going through a lot of stuff, but one of them just so happens to be my new weekly podcast I do with my wife where we talk all things paranormal, including all of the creepy stuff we’ve experienced! And of course yes, I talk about all of the stuff I post here! If you’re interested, and I hope that you are, check it out on all of the fine podcast places, like iTunes, Goodpods, Spotify, and more!

You can get all of our links on our website, or click here to check us out on Spotify now!

Big Green Men

This happened a week or two ago. Behind my house is a 9 acre lake, and residents of this community can fish in it for free, anytime, day or night. And many do. My wife and I do, and it’s a fun place to fish.

On this particular day I had the dog out in the back yard and I noticed there was a white truck of some kind parked up on the dam, which I don’t think is allowed, and there were three people that I could see, fishing. Nothing out of the ordinary, other than the truck all the way up on top of the dam. There’s one gravel parking space just behind where he was at the bottom of the other side of the dam. Maybe there was another car there, I don’t know.

Later that night I took the dog out and it was almost pitch dark, as it always is. I happened to glance over where they had been, and I saw three figures, and they were all glowing.

Updates

Hey y’all, I’ve been busy with nothing lately and I’m sorry I haven’t been around much. My podcasts are over. But I have two new stories to share, so those will be coming soon!

Ghost Hunters Show

I just discovered an article written in 2019 about Jason and Grant, the two men who created TAPS and then starred on the hit show Ghost Hunters. It has been a while since I’ve been able to watch the show and I honestly haven’t followed news on it. I had heard that the show ended and was moving to another home, but that’s all I heard.

The article says that both men are now doing separate ghost hunting shows on rival networks, so the article was all about there being a possible rivalry between the two long-time friends. While I doubt that’s the case but of course don’t know anything about it, another thing that the article talked about was why Grant Wilson left Ghost Hunters and TAPS back in 2012.

At the time he said he wanted to focus more on other aspects of his personal life. At the time I had heard a rumor that his wife was sick of never seeing him. I also read a rumor that SyFy was getting less viewers of the show because of a lack of ghostly activity at each location on each episode, so they were planning on faking paranormal activity to keep viewers and Grant was having none of it so decided to leave, but Jason was made a nice monetary offer from the network and stayed.

I have no idea if any of that is true, and of course can’t find anything on either of those rumors anywhere. Therefore, I take them with a grain of salt.

The article points out that Grant decided to leave because of the constant traveling and terrible sleep schedule, which I can fully believe. Hell, just switching from a first shift job to a third shift job kills me for months. I can’t imagine keeping his schedule for the almost decade that he did.

I also know that right after Ghost Hunters got going, I had my paranormal “group” that I started with a friend before Ghost Hunters was a show, and I tried to get us to become a TAPS Family group, but that never happened. I also had emailed Grant about interviewing him for my website, which is politely accepted and made my day, but he never got back to me with answers to the questions I sent him. I was going to let it go but eventually emailed him asking why he never did the interview and he quickly got back to me and said their email server went down because of the huge amount of emails they got and they lost all of their emails, so I should send it again. I did, and he never responded after that, so I gave up.

Anyway, I know I won’t get any answers here, but were/are you a fan of the show? Are you a fan of any other paranormal show? I’ve tried watching others but none seem to compare for me. The only other one I ever got into outside of GH was “Psychic Kids.” Now that I’m looking info up on that on A&E’s website, it says there was one season with 6 episodes. The description says there are eight episodes, and the episodes list has 7 listed. So I have no idea what’s going on with that.

The article I read that lead to me writing this one can be found on Distractify.

How London Deals With Ghosts

I saw this on Facebook and thought it was pretty funny. I’m not sure who the original poster is because I forgot to look.

Humanoids Caught On Tape

I was spending time on YouTube watching videos of death and stuff. I found some channels that I might be keeping up with, because they include videos like this…

Do you believe these videos are real? Whether or not you do, do you believe these sorts of creatures can exist?

Because of the age we live in now, I can’t believe anything I see on tape. While these are cool videos, I have to believe that each one is a fake. However, I do believe there are a whole lot of things in this universe that exist that we’ll never discover or understand. Maybe each one of these beings do exist. Maybe they don’t. Maybe we’ll never actually know for sure. Regardless, cool video!

Vote For Me!

Hey folks, I’m going to take a small break from the haunted goodness of this blog to promote myself a bit. I have a short story in a contest and I can use all the help I can get to win this thing!

My story Watching Them Change is a nice creepy story about a woman who has to watch her neighborhood turn into evil, soul sucking demons. It’s a quick read and even though it’s creepy, it’s pretty much safe for all ages. A good camp fire type story!

Head on over to Inkitt to the Shiver contest and give me a vote by clicking the heart at the bottom of your screen! The site will ask you to sign in, so if you don’t have an account you can easily sign in via Facebook or Twitter. Please make sure to tell everyone you know! There’s a lot of time left in this contest, but I have a long way to go to get near first! I’m currently in 4th place out of well over 120 stories! Thanks a ton!!!

Day Ghosts

Hey folks! I know I haven’t been around much lately, but I’ve been busy and I’ve had nothing to talk about. Until now.

ViralNova, a site I really enjoy, just posted this piece about Day Ghosts. I don’t agree with aspects of it, and of course I’ll share my thoughts here. Normally I love ViralNova, but every now and then they post something that makes me wonder.

The title for this piece is, One Couple’s Theory About Ghosts Is Unheard Of…But Oddly Makes Sense

If you’d like to read it first, that would probably be best. My problems start immediately with the title of the piece. Only one couple has that theory and it’s unheard of? No, it’s not unheard of, because more than just that couple believe it. Apparently ViralNova aren’t that into ghosts. I’ve been saying it for years that ghosts come out at all times of day and night. I’ve heard them say it on Ghost Hunters before.

The fact of the matter is, people who go ghost hunting do so at night because there’s not a lot of traffic going on outside, things are typically more quiet, and because everything is dark you have to focus your attention on those things you can see, such as where you’re shining your flashlight. If you know ghosts hunters who only turn their equipment on at 3 AM, they’re terrible hunters and probably believe everything they see in pictures are orbs.

Lastly, the couple in the article says they’re going to live on different sides of the country because, “To cover more ground and further their research, the power couple has decided to become bicoastal, with Ted in New York and Mary living in Los Angeles. They believe these cities have highest concentration of day ghosts in the country.”

That’s just terrible. I love their dedication, but seriously, it’s not worth it. They’re living a part from one another to study something that people have been studying for decades and still haven’t come up with anything solid enough to get everybody on board. And why do those two cities have the highest concentrations of day ghosts? Why is “day ghosts” being used as if it’s a thing separate from night ghosts? Ghosts are ghosts, they come out when they want. There aren’t different ghosts coming out just in the day or night. I think they went to LA and NY just to get more publicity somehow. Otherwise, why wouldn’t you go to where there are likely more ghosts? Not just more “day ghosts,” like Gettysburg or New Orleans for example?

This whole article is just terrible and makes me think ViralNova is running out of stuff to post.