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 […]
Pennsylvania
This Day in AE history: the Liberation of Pittsburgh from the Martians
April 16, 1900 – The Martian occupation of Pittsburgh is broken by a combined army of partisans and remnants of US and CS formations led by William ‘Butcher Bill’ Kernan. Refugees in the mountains around the city had been fighting a guerrilla campaign against the Martians for nearly a year after several failed attempts by […]
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 […]
