So get this. Last night I wanted to look up the GoFundMe that got set up for Joe and me when we got hit with calamity in August 2023, so I Googled for it. Imagine my surprise when I found us on a site listing "Couples 'Dying Suddenly.'" What the fuck? I sent the link to Joe asking, "Are we ghosts?" He found it to be both shocking and hilarious, so he posted it on Facebook. He posted the link with: "But I'm not…
When I was sixteen, we lived in the middle of the woods in a super tiny town in an 1860s house. The whole town was haunted, if you ask me. One day, my girlfriend Renee rode her bike over with her Oujia Board. Dead serious, we were meeting after school for this dead serious ghost session and we were both like, totally dead serious about it...that is how we sounded. Well, it was serious in the sense that we weren't merely fooling around with …
Today I got back from a long weekend visiting friends and family, and my mom reminded me of the time she startled a ghost in her room. - md Tales From Connecticut
When I was sixteen, my mom woke up one morning and announced that our house was haunted. There was little doubt. For one thing, my mother is not the sort of woman given to flights of fancy, hallucination or anything of that nature. She's a rock. In addition, the house was built in …
When my aunt Sharon and her boyfriend Greg pulled up to our house one summer day, my little brother and I became enthralled by the beat-up camper they had hitched to their beat up Volvo. They had quit their jobs, and were relocating from Connecticut to Florida to start a new life. Everything they owned was in that camper. We were mesmerized. That day stands out in my memory, serving as a sort of prequel to what I found out years later, long aft…
These are essays from the Diaryland Archive. Each opens in new window. 2007 Ghostbustahs 2001 Who Ya Gonna Call?
