We attended 9th Annual Butler Paranormal Conference today for the first time. Here are my thoughts on the con as a whole: There’s only one negative, so I’ll get that out of the way: If everyone needs to be out of the building at 7 p.m., then the con should officially end at 6:30, and […]
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Grave Slavery: The Real-Life Zombie
It’s almost Halloween, so let’s talk about monsters. Specifically, let’s talk about the trendiest, hippest monster of the zeitgeist, the zombie. Of all the classic monsters, I find zombies the least interesting. For starters, they’re mindless, which means that, despite endless fantasies to the contrary, they’re no plausible, long-term threat to a technical civilization. Their […]
Unsolved Haz-Mat Mystery that inspired ‘Miasma’
This article was originally published on July 25, 2014. Now that After Dark is out, I can share one of my favorite tales of High Strangeness from my local area. But first, a scene from the “Miasma” chapter of After Dark to set the mood: “I must have missed something,” said Sebastian Pereira as he […]
Thoughts on the ‘Jinx’ Phenomenon
This article was originally published on June 26, 2014 In modern times, the presence of paranormal entities, whether identified as extraterrestrials, poltergeists, or ‘monsters’ like Bigfoot or Mothman, are often associated with the spontaneous failure of complex technology. Paranormalists tend to attribute this to the presence of unusual electromagnetic fields that short out or cause […]
Story Fertilizer: Mermonsters and Blood Baths
This Story Fertilizer article was first published on May 6, 2014. I saw a couple of intriguing links on Google Plus the other day, both, I think, from the Suppressed Transmissions community. Besides being interesting in the creepy, paranormal fashion I find so irresistible, they’ve stimulated some story ideas that are now percolating. With that […]
