Coming Back To Life

The Mountain Ridge Paranormal Research Society has sponsored a haunted house in order to raise money for a hospital. Their theme is of an asylum haunting and the scene is at a former psychiatric hospital. Sounds like fun, right? Enter the party-poopers. Yep, these Radford University students are protesting the exhibition because it is “disrespectful [...]

New TV Series: Paranormal Witness

Paranormal Witness is Syfy’s latest foray into actor re-created scenes narrated by families recalling paranormal experiences. If you have ever seen an episode of A Haunting, then you’ve pretty much seen what Paranormal Witness is about. Want a little proof? Check out the descriptions of each show: Of Paranormal Witness, Syfy states: Don’t watch it alone! Paranormal [...]

Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond – Hans Holzer

If you’re looking for a comprehensive book on actual ghost stories, you need look no further. Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond by Hans Holzer is 768 pages of stories accumulated from investigations all over the world. This gem weighs in at a whopping 3lbs and covers investigations conducted from the late 60′s to [...]

Orb – Roan Mountains, North Carolina

Continuing my hike along the Appalachian Trail, I walked through the Unaka Mountains. This tract of mountains, including Unaka Mountain, Roan Mountain, Round Bald, Jane Bald, and several knobs, are some of the most beautiful the AT passes. The feeling one gets whilst hiking along is that of traversing on sacred ground. Not as an intruder [...]

Orb – Great Smoky Mountains National Park

From April through August, I hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Massachussetts (you can view my Trail Journal here: www.trailjournals.com/sage). The goal was to reach Katahdin in Maine but I fell roughly 600 miles short due to a knee injury. While hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, I had a [...]

Most Peculiar, Momma

The paranormal has always fascinated me. As a child, I lived with what I now believe to be a spirit watching over me. In 1972 my parents moved from one small West Texas town to another. I was only four at the time but I still recall with a smidgen of horror the memory of [...]