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Ghosts and Legends Meets My Ghost Story

Call this the blog entry that should have been. More than two and a half years ago we filmed for My Ghost Story, covering our haunted experiences at Black Bear church and cemetery in Oklahoma. This came on the heels of our episode on The Haunted, so there was a lot to talk about and I had promised to blog about it. Well, life kind of blew up at the same time and the blog was never written. Now that the Ghosts and Legends episodes are being released under Haunted Road Media, it’s giving me a c...

Encounters With The Paranormal

Encounters With The Paranormal

It’s finally here! Haunted Road Media has been live for a couple months now re-releasing my older video blogs and YouTube shows, but it hadn’t been until this past week that the newly founded publisher and video production company released its first print publication, Encounters With the Paranormal: Personal Tales of the Supernatural!

This collection of 19 true ghost tales was a collaborative effort from people of all walks of life, including Amelia Cotter, Rob Gu...

New Venture With Haunted Road Media: Does It Matter?

It’s a new venture for me, and it’s a new venture for Haunted Road Media. From the placeholder they have on their site until they officially launch, “Haunted Road Mediais a multimedia publishing and production company that specializes in the paranormal, mysterious events, and historic curiosities.” They are reaching out and forming partnerships, and I am really looking forward to being a part of this. For me, it means new revamped releases of all my videos, this first being “Paranormal Roads:...

Beyond The First 40 Years

About a month and a half before I began the final year of my 30′s.

It was my 40thbirthday this past Monday on July 21. It went by quietly. Not exactly my intention, but it is what it is. On YouTube I posted an hour long video reflection on the first 40 years of my life with a specific focus on the odd decisions I’ve made over that time. The way I’ve done things over the years has been rather unconventional, and while, admittedly, the video kind of drags on, there are plenty of life details abo...

Author Interview: Rob Gutro

Author and medium Rob Gutro.

Continuing with my author interview series, here is psychic medium Rob Gutro.Rob is a scientist who happens to hear, feel, sense and communicate with Earth-bound ghosts and spirits who have passed on. Rob worked as a radio broadcast meteorologist at the Weather Channel and worked for various other science and related organizations and has almost 20 years of on-air radio broadcasting experience.He’s a member of Inspired Ghost Tracking and helps cross ghosts over. He...

Happy 10th Anniversary, Deadly Heirs!

Ten years ago today was a major milestone in my writing career with the official release of my first mystery novel, Deadly Heirs. The fantastic crew that I worked with at the time at Howard County Library in Columbia, Maryland, arranged a nice little release party that morning, decorating the office as private investigator Chase Michael DeBarlo’s office, and a new phase of my life as a published author began. However, it was a long and colorful journey for DeBarlo to make it to those pages.

Ch...

Author Interview: Robbie Thomas

Psychic profiler and author, Robbie Thomas.

I’m going to start running some periodic interviews of my fellow authors to introduce followers of my blog to some other great talent that is out there. There’s a lot of fantastic things going on out there aside from my own little writing world. First up is renowned psychic profile and paranormal author, Robbie Thomas. (Maybe I can get my buddy, Rob Gutro, to agree to do the next one).

Robbie Thomasis a Psychic Medium/Spiritual Councillorhelping inter...

Behind the Video: Lynette’s Law Exposing Therapist Abuse

You know it’s a passion when you feel absolutely drained after you’ve completed it. This happens a lot with my writing, but this time around it happened in creating a video, the most recent Lynette’s Law video (below), specifically. I’ve been helping Heather Sinclair with her Lynette’s Law movement (http://www.lynetteslaw4maryland.com) since about the time of its inception and this time she asked for a video underscoring how rampant sexual exploitation by mental health professionals and thera...

Introducing the Ghostorian Case Files!

The Inscription of Evil Times

Back in October I introduced a new series of books that I’ve started writing: The Ghostorian Case Files. This is a series that I’m really excited about and really enjoyed putting together the first one,The Inscription of Evil Times. This first case file from the vault of yours truly begins with the unearthing of a ancient stone tablet in the middle of America’s heartland — Iowa, of all places. What in the world is this thing that is thousands of years old doing th...

Shadow People Highlights Video Blog Debut

If you’ve been a fan of my Ghosts and Legends video documentary series then you’re aware that I made an announcement on the last episode, “Concerning Videos”, that I will be producing a new video blog that will less formal in structure than the current Ghosts and Legends format and will air more frequently. To debut this new video blog my topic will cover shadow people.

Admittedly, I was inspired to talk about this from a recent viewing of the movie Shadow People, starring Dallas Roberts (Walk...