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Scary Movies from Every Year Since 2000

Every year in September, just as the leaves start turning entrancing shades of gold and red, we start watching scary movies in our house. It’s just what you do. Clean up after supper, gather some blankets, snacks and beverages, then browse through DirecTV, Netflix, Prime, and Hulu, and if all else fails, resort to our […]

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Fiction Unexplained

Short Story: The Rider

Patrick Elliott is a troubled driver for an Uber-style rideshare service. After a moment of inattention leads to a violent traffic accident, Patrick flees the scene, leaving a motorcyclist dead on the side of the road, but soon, he finds himself haunted from beyond, and hunted by the law.

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: Unlocking the Door

The last installment of this serial, a year and a half ago, was intended to be my last. Living in a haunted house is something we’ve come to accept since the presence here has never really felt malevolent or menacing. That’s not to say nothing has happened in the last few years–plenty of things have. […]

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: Conclusion

The events I’ve written about in this serial took place over the course of about two years, from summer of 2007 to spring of 2009. As I said in my last post, I don’t have a Hollywood ending for this story. I’ll tell you what other people have said, what we think, and where we […]

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: The Investigation

My initial investigation of the strange happenings in my home was totally amateur, but I managed to come up with some evidence, including recordings of Electronic Voice Phenomena I mentioned in my last post. One bit of sound recorded under my son’s bed sounded like carousel music. As I investigated the history of my home […]

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: Researching Our Home

In order to find out more about the history of our home, I went down to the Fargo title company and took possession of our abstract, a thick, three hundred page document, worn at the edges and bound at the top with brass fasteners. I sat down at the table and thumbed through it, eager to […]

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: Don’t Go in the Basement

Its one thing to see and hear a few things in your house, but it becomes quite another when it begins scaring members of your family, changing their behavior. We’d been in our home for a few months and we set up a home video system in the basement family room. A couple times every […]

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: Bedtime Wanderings

We had been in our first home for only a few weeks, and we’d had some experiences with the unexplained. As we got more settled in, I began to see things. Rebecca and I were talking in our dining room late one night. We didn’t have any kitchen furniture yet, so I sat on a […]

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Non-Fiction Unexplained

A Haunting: Our First Home

In the course of my life, I’ve had a few run-ins I would characterize as supernatural or paranormal, but the experiences we would have when we bought our first home would leave no doubt in my mind about the reality of the supernatural. With Halloween not far off, I thought this story would be appropriate. […]