Apr 27, 2023 | Unsolved Mysteries
I read a lot of true crime. No matter how upsetting the story, I can usually put it aside after I’ve finished reading. Not so with the sad, strange case of Elisa Lam. Lam, a 21-year-old Vancouver woman, went missing during a solo trip to Los Angeles in 2013....
Apr 20, 2023 | 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...
Apr 6, 2023 | Scary True Stories, Unsolved Mysteries
Nine experienced campers set up their tents in the Ural Mountains, in an area known as Dead Mountain. Something, or someone, awakens them in the night, terrifying them to the point that they cut open their tent with knives and flee into the snow. Some are in their...
May 3, 2021 | Unsolved Mysteries
As some of you know, I was fortunate enough to be the writer-expert for a true crime documentary show called Cruise Ship Killers, which tells the stories of twenty-six people who vanished, died mysteriously, or were the victims of other crimes while on board a cruise....
Aug 19, 2020 | Murder at the Movies, Scary True Stories, Unsolved Mysteries
It will come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I love to travel. Traveling is the best source of inspiration and rejuvenation for me–I couldn’t have written the GhostWriters series without it. This great love of traveling made the...
Feb 12, 2019 | Unsolved Mysteries
The statistics are horrifying. One million people go missing in the United States each year. Over eight million children go missing worldwide. Many are never seen again. This post is about some of the missing person cases that trouble me. If you have any information...
