The Screaming Trees were a band from Seattle—they broke up in 1999. But the original screaming tree is still going strong, or at least this is what legend tells us. Legend instructs the seeker to drive to the end of a dirt road in Lakeside, an eastern suburb of San Diego. Look for a feedlot…
Growing up in San Antonio, I have heard and seen some pretty weird stuff. There are the haunted railroad tracks near Espada Park, Donkey Lady Road, Midget Mansion, ghosts of the Alamo, haunting of the Gunther Hotel, specters in Milam Square and many, many other oddities. It seems that San Antonio is the grand avenue…
Tales of strange people bonded together in self-policing communities are common throughout the States, and indeed, throughout the world. Pennsylvania is no exception. These communities can include anybody out of the ordinary, but the particular favorite candidates for such campfire scare stories are albinos. There’s nothing like a lack of pigmentation to send the overactive…
The Farmersville Green Man sighting was an extraterrestrial sighting that took place in May of 1913 near Farmersville, Texas. While chopping cotton one May morning, Clyde, Sid, and Silbie Latham heard their two dogs barking as if in distress. The three brothers ran to see what was bothering them, and found the dogs had cornered…
Kelly Cahill was a normal wife and mother from Australia right up until she got in the car with her husband on August 8, 1993 and they started to make a late night trip home through the Dandenongs foothills. Out of nowhere Kelly Cahill was struck by the appearance of bright lights and a strange…
What does the name cemetery mean? sleeping place The word cemetery is taken from the Greek word Koimeterion, which is the word for ‘sleeping place. ‘ The word implies that the land has been set aside as a burial ground. Although the word graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, a graveyard is only a…
It was on a cool, moonlit evening in early June of 2004, that I along with six other members of TAPS set out on a planned investigation to the rural town of Foster, Rhode Island. Included in this investigation would be my wife Sandra, my brother Carl, myself, Brian Harnois, Chris Finch, and Jennifer and…
These lovely, rugged mountains that run southeast from Monterey all the way to San Luis Obispo are the home of the eerie “Dark Watchers.” The Watchers are black, humanlike phantoms who stand silhouetted against the sky on the Santa Lucias’ ridges and peaks. Nobody knows what they are, where they came from, or why they…
The Center of the World is not New York City, home of the United Nations and a hub of world finances. And it’s not Washington DC, where political power brokers make decisions that affect individuals globally. And it’s not Jerusalem, where important landmarks from many of the world’s major religions reside. No, believe it or…
Visitors to Los Angeles are often disappointed if they come home from their trip without a single celebrity-spotting story in which to regale their less-worldly small town friends. Imagine the disgrace of traveling all the way from Chippewa Falls and back, only to remain shamefully silent when your next-door neighbors ask if you rubbed elbows…
