REVIEW: Sharknado 4 Tonight on Syfy Channel!

TONIGHT - Syfy channel - 8 pm EST

I am quite honored to be on the press for NBC/Syfy and I got to preview this movie weeks ago. I will not give a thing away except to tell y'all why I love this!

Where Ghost Investigators Fail

I'm not always popular with other ghost investigators.

I don't push fear.

I push strength.

Victorian Era Creepy Photos

There is no doubt the Victorian Era was a dark time in which people were immersed in deep thoughts, serious subjects like death, disease, deformities, and the spirit realm. With photography becoming en vogue, it produced an interesting archive of a difficult yet revolutionary transition to the modern era. Post mortem photos, ghost trickery in photographs, and trick photography were all popular methods of archiving the "awkward" adolescence of our modern times. 

Soldiers Encountering Ancient Adversaries in Afghanistan Caves

Ancient flying machines, alien beings, and giants. These are some of the things reported in the media by supposed American soldiers in the Afghanistan campaign. These stories tell of finds that are extraordinary and chilling.

Desert-Themed Horror Movies

Desert horror movies in the middle of summer - makes you realize there are worse horrors than your rising humidity levels!

Is This Lake Cursed?

A gorgeous idyllic-looking lake in the urban setting of Dallas, Texas harbors a dark history of taking lives and hiding the dead. Locals believe White Rock Lake is haunted, and with good reason.

The Urban Sasquatch Journal: Considering Overnight Stay

This is the reporting by a Bigfoot researcher of an ongoing study in the Southern part of the United States in a very large park area near homes and urban setting.

The Wookie Whisperer: Living With Wookies

(This is a series about a real-life Bigfoot habituation situation in the Midwest and the man who has learned to coexist in a most playful and remarkable way).

Believe: The Magical World of Bubbles

Secret: Bubbles are the carriers of wishes.

My Feelings About the Patterson Film

I begin my personal take on the film by saying that most of my life, I assumed what everyone else assumed from the film and from the popular 1960s/70s take on Bigfoot, that there was some form of gorilla in our woods. 

Boycotting Summer! Straight To Autumn!

I have a tumbling autumn leaf tattoo and it is my badge for the greatest season.

This summer has been brutal for most of us this year. And, predictions say a late-arriving autumn. For those of us in the desert, leaves don't change until the first week of December! 

The Creepy Side of Carnivals and Sideshows

Carnivals have weird music, bright lights, strange sounds, clowns, funhouses and sideshows. They are run by what we equate with traveling gypsies who have no connection to our community and who are often times antisocial folks who are seen as "freaks."

Dark Figures of the Victorian Era

 

The Victorian Era produced an unprecedented and prolific group of thinkers, writers, mystics, spiritualists, inventors, and more. They embodied the basic framework for all of us Paranormal Geeks today. When asked who you would like to spend an afternoon with, most para-geeks would say one of these folks.

Why Facebook Needs To Change Its Ways

I easily hand in a dozen people a week who are trying to friend me with fake accounts. They are easy to spot. These foreigners are hoping to get in and start a routine with you that could cause you great grief. That is only the beginning of the issues with Facebook that make it a scary place to friend people.

5 Ways To Cleanse Your Home of Haunting Activity

There are lots of ways to handle haunting activity in a home. One of the most common ways is to buckle up and deal with it alone. By the time people contact teams, they have run out of options and are just plain tired. Determining if the home is haunted is a first step, but for those who are having unusual occurrences in the home, there are some very no-nonsense ways to eliminate anything that feels negative. It can simply be the bad chemistry/mindset of family members that are creating a tone in the home or it could be genuine unexplained events, but either way these five tools can help the situation. 

The Urban Sasquatch Journal: Missing Monkey Doll

This is the reporting by a Bigfoot researcher of an ongoing study in the Southern part of the United States in a very large park area near homes and urban setting.

LINK to prior installments 

The Wookie Whisperer: Infrasound Zapped!

(This is a series about a real-life Bigfoot habituation situation in the Midwest and the man who has learned to coexist in a most playful and remarkable way).

Netflix Streaming: "Stranger Things" Series

Netflix found our audience - "Stranger Things" series!

Horror-Themed Weddings

Of all the thousands of ways a person could plan their wedding, one of the most intriguing is to honor the love of horror. 

Pokemon Go Accidents, Injuries and Death

Arizona Highway sign

It's hard to not shake your head with wonder at how devices are leading people off cliffs and into oncoming traffic. It has been bad enough with cell phones, but now it seems that insurance companies and officers might need to check people's phone apps when they cause collisions to see if they are loaded up with Pokemon Go! 

Believe: Souls Captured On Film?

Could a soul be captured on film, digital camera or cell phone photography? It's been debated ever since the invention of the camera and continues today - 

1970s Commercial Jingles: World's Worst Ear Worms!

Us Baby Boomers grew up with these ditties and they stuck in our ears and we sang them on playgrounds. Let's remember the epidemic of catchy songs - 

City of Edinburgh Ghost Tours: A Most Haunted City

A tour company that runs walking tours around Edinburgh’s Old Town has just scared its 100,000th customer.

Are Adolescent Bigfoots Rebelling?

(From the movie "Bigfoot") 

As in our own culture, there once was a time when youth respected their elders and their ways. They listened intently to their legends and took them to heart, embraced the responsibility of being a next generation to carry on with their ways, and didn't ask why.

Horror Movie Locations

One of the best points of horror movies is taking us to locations where the imagination can take hold and terror can elevate. Let's take a look at some inspiring horror movie locations  - 

Why Are There Ghosts in the Attic?

Attics can be haunted. But, why? It's not as if anyone lived in the attic when they were residing in the house. 

The Urban Sasquatch Journal: Urban Site Perspective

This is the reporting by a Bigfoot researcher of an ongoing study in the Southern part of the United States in a very large park area near homes and urban setting.

The Wookie Whisperer: Night Moves

(This is a series about a real-life Bigfoot habituation situation in the Midwest and the man who has learned to coexist in a most playful and remarkable way).

Prior installments - 
#1  Home (Not) Alone
#2  Tootsie Pops and Bacon
#3  Little Andy the Klepto Peeping Tom

#4 The Hairy Owl Ladies 
#5  The Coyote Men and the Sentinels

The nights were once a time of TV watching or getting indoor chores done, but over time, Dave couldn't help being drawn outside to the deck, to listen to the night. 

He got to know the sounds of the crickets and bullfrogs and other nightlife in the forest, but occasionally he would hear a new sound or a creature he wasn't certain of, or perhaps the call of a bird that sounded kind of wrong.

Artist in an Apartment and Art Movies

For all the artists out there struggling with work space, I started a playlist of videos on my YouTube Channel that shares how to be an artist in an apartment (link below) 

Bigfoot Body Proportions

I am 68 inches tall. 

Like most humans, my legs are nearly half my height (note the red slash mark showing the length of my leg, when doubled it lands at my neck). 

Crop Circles: A Breakthrough Hypothesis!

I am always thrilled to bring new ways of looking at things, new hypotheses, conjecture, and the legends to the blog so you readers can get fresh input to come to your own conclusions. I haven't covered crop circles as much as I would like to on the blog and I hope to remedy that. I get caught up on certain studies of my research and focus on those subjects and forget to bring in other exciting unexplained titles. 

Rules For Halloween Prop Making

How do you know, before you put a lot of effort into it, that your Halloween prop idea is going to be a hit or a flop? 

It has to do with how to know when to add just a bit more and when to stop. 

Hidden Rooms and Hiding Strangers: Terror Within Homes!

One of the most creepy themes involving old buildings is a new owner investigating only to find a trap door, a movable bookcase, or a wall that was covered over to hide an unknown void....

Death By Selfie

The selfie craze is an interesting twist to our modern culture. In the old days, we used to knock on our neighbor's door, sit down, have some coffee and talk. Now, we sit remotely in our tees and underwear in our living rooms chatting with people around the world and then trying to add some humanity to the experience by sending an image of our face to give it that real-world flavor. 

Sketch Artist To Hit the Road To Meet Bigfoot Witnesses

Sybilla Irwin is a very talented artist and Bigfoot researcher out of Kentucky. She has a plan that is ingenious and, well, let me have her tell you about it - 

The Urban Sasquatch Journal: Dawn's Early Light

This is the reporting by a Bigfoot researcher of an ongoing study in the Southern part of the United States in a very large park area near homes and urban setting.

The Wookie Whisperer: The Coyote Men and Sentinels

(This is a series about a real-life Bigfoot habituation situation in the Midwest and the man who has learned to coexist in a most playful and remarkable way).

Prior Installments:
#1 Home (Not) Alone
#2 Tootsie Pops and Bacon
#3 Little Andy the Klepto Peeping Tom 

#4 The Hairy Owl Ladies

Horrifying Locations: The Devil's Playgrounds!

Devil's Tramping Ground, Bear Creek, NC

Like hitchhiking ghosts and crybaby bridges, devil's playgrounds are found in many locations. These are generally sites where something bad happened and bad luck continues there. Let's see about some of these infamous locations of dark urban legend - 

Believe: How Do We Explain the Birth of the Universe?

Did God create the universe in seven days? How do we explain such a feat? Well, as this is a physical world, there had to be some scientific and technical tools at hand to birth such a magnificent wonder!

The Red Camel Ghost Legend

I am intrigued by the fact that the Southwestern US was forward-thinking enough in the 1800s to acquire camels for use by the army men. When the Civil War interrupted their charting of the Arizona territory, the army sold some at auction but let some loose into the desert. That is how the legend of the Red Camel came to be.

The legend says that in the 1880s a woman at a ranch went out to the well to get water. The woman inside the house heard a scream outside, the dog barked, and she looked out to see a huge reddish beast with a devilish creature strapped to its back. Later, the men came and found the frightened woman barricaded inside. They went out to find the other woman trampled to death and cloven footprints around here body. And, besides these, they found long reddish hairs.

Later, stories grew. Some saw the red camel killing a bear, perhaps disappearing into thin air. Years later, a rancher came across the camel and recognized what it was. When he got closer, he saw a human skeleton tied to its back. No one believed him, but later others saw it with something tied to its back and tried to shoot it. When the camel ran from the gunfire, something dropped from its back, a human skull.

A few days later, some campers were startled by screaming sounds and the men hid. Later, they found cloven hoofprints and red hairs.

About a year later, a cowboy in Phoenix saw the camel eating in a corral. The cowboy unsuccessfully tried to lasso the beast, but it charged him and ran off. The cowboy recognized a skeleton upon its back.

About nine years later, in 1893, the last reported sighting happened. A rancher found the animal grazing in his garden. He shot the beast and then found that there was a skeleton strapped tightly to its back, the straps cutting into his flesh.

No one knew why the body was tied to the camel. One story says that a young army recruit could not learn how to ride a camel, so they tied him down and smacked it on the rear and it bolted off into a nonstop gallop with the man tied to his back.

Some still report sightings of camels in the Arizona Desert including reports of the Red Camel Ghost with a screaming devilish ghost rider.

URBEX: Abandoned Churches

There are so many types of abandoned buildings in America, but there is something so vulnerable and sad about an abandoned church.