Jul 29, 2020 | Scary True Stories
This story is as strange as it is sad. It was 2016 in Brooklyn, New York. Josette Buchman’s estranged sister-in-law was in the hospital, so Buchman agreed to drop by the woman’s home and pack a few of her belongings. Her widowed sister-in-law, Rita...
Oct 23, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
Please welcome my multi-talented author friend, Damyanti Biswas, as she shares this chilling true story of one of India’s mysterious places. Delhi is a sprawling modern metropolis, and its urban jungle of steel and glass looks unlikely to be haunted, but as I...
Sep 17, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, The Writing Life
When the Winnipeg International Writers Festival selected me as one of four dark-fiction authors to stay overnight at a haunted house, I was excited, but I didn’t have any expectations–at least not on the haunted side of things. Still, it was an amazing...
Aug 14, 2019 | Scary True Stories, Unsolved Mysteries
I was at a rural farmer’s market on a sunny day when something caught my eye. Amid stalls of questionable antiques was a treasure trove of old horror books that were in sad shape. Amid these gems was Murder in Amityville, written by Hans Holzer and published in...
May 28, 2019 | Scary True Stories
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sick of zombies in general–at least, the undead, stumbling, murderous variety. The real thing is much scarier. In the early 1980’s, a Canadian ethnobotanist by the name of Wade Davis traveled to Haiti to...
May 21, 2019 | Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
The sad fate of the RMS Titanic continues to haunt us. On April 14, 1912, over 1500 people lost their lives due to a tragic combination of human errors. Oddly enough, the disaster could have been avoided if Captain Edward Smith had only read Futility, a work of...
