Oh, Those Summer Nights

My Dearest Cold Spot Dwellers: HEY Y’ALL! I hope you had a fantastic summer. I spent the past two months traveling all around and visiting everyone I could. We missed out on so much family time during the lockdowns, I really just needed to SEE EVERYONE’S FACE. I’m...

Goth Travel Bucket List

My dearest phantom cold spots: Happy Summer! I’m writing to you guys in between road trips all over California, spending time with family that we didn’t get to see during the pandemic. Travel is happening again, which is awesome but also kind of overwhelming? I am...

News Roundup

My dearest spectral anomalies: HAPPY SUMMER!!! It’s ALMOST ACTUALLY fucking SUMMER because my kids ARE FINALLY OUT OF SCHOOL and this has been A YEAR. I am desperately ready for a vacation and TBH sleeping in for one extra hour and letting them play X-Box and eat...

The MOVE Bombing

My dearest planchette pushers: As you know, I traffic in the macabre. I write about mayhem and death and how those things haunt us. This week’s story is one that I’ve been turning over in my head for a month, trying to make sense of and wanting to tell in the right...

Mary Ellen Pleasant

My dearest full bodied apparitions, I finally finished my Mary Ellen Pleasant series! Part 1 and Part 2 are now live on the blog. DAMN that one took awhile but it was worth it! I have been researching Pleasant for months now – I read academic texts, ghost...

Roundup of the Weird

My dearest basement dwelling monsters: Happy Wednesday! I am deep in writing and editing mode for my upcoming series on historic badass and current Pacific Heights ghost MARY ELLEN PLEASANT. There’s a lot to untangle about her life, especially since she kept things...