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Wytchery: A Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries

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Gothic Travels

Haunted travelogues, where to visit, where to stay, the history and truth behind the legends

Long Island


An exploration of Long Island’s gothic history and sites. From the homes of the rich to the haunted landscapes.


Rosemary’s Farm: “Life’s But A Walking Shadow …”

Continue Reading Rosemary’s Farm: “Life’s But A Walking Shadow …”

Tales of Old Stony Brook I: The Haunting of the Stony Brook Grist Mill

Continue Reading Tales of Old Stony Brook I: The Haunting of the Stony Brook Grist Mill

Tales From Head of the Harbor and St. James I: New Thoughts on Mary Hatchet and Mary’s Grave

Continue Reading Tales From Head of the Harbor and St. James I: New Thoughts on Mary Hatchet and Mary’s Grave

The Ghosts of Fire Island Lighthouse

Continue Reading The Ghosts of Fire Island Lighthouse

More Long Island

New England


History, hauntings and the horrors of the witch trials.


From The History Trekker: A bedtime story for a forgetful country …

Continue Reading From The History Trekker: A bedtime story for a forgetful country …

House in Barnstable, MA, Barnstable ghosts

Halloween on Cape Cod, digging into the history for stories of Barnstable ghosts, witches and other curiosities

Continue Reading Halloween on Cape Cod, digging into the history for stories of Barnstable ghosts, witches and other curiosities

The Black Flash of Provincetown, MA: Folk horror and hysteria from New England echoes in the midwestern countryside

Continue Reading The Black Flash of Provincetown, MA: Folk horror and hysteria from New England echoes in the midwestern countryside

Haunted Plymouth: The macabre history of Plymouth, Mass., where Pilgrim and native American spirits haunt side by side

Continue Reading Haunted Plymouth: The macabre history of Plymouth, Mass., where Pilgrim and native American spirits haunt side by side

Running from the storm

Continue Reading Running from the storm

Is it really the House of the Seven Gables? Perhaps, perhaps not. Either way the Turner-Ingersoll mansion in Salem breathes New England history

Continue Reading Is it really the House of the Seven Gables? Perhaps, perhaps not. Either way the Turner-Ingersoll mansion in Salem breathes New England history

A historic home in Salem finds its way into Lovecraft’s fiction

Continue Reading A historic home in Salem finds its way into Lovecraft’s fiction

Prithee WGN’s Salem, forgive me, for I confess I was wrong

Continue Reading Prithee WGN’s Salem, forgive me, for I confess I was wrong

More New England

The Hudson River Valley


From Sleepy Hollow to the Catskills, with haunted destinations in between


A Christmas ghost story … how a memory and a dream led me to the enchantment of “The Curse of The Cat People”

Continue Reading A Christmas ghost story … how a memory and a dream led me to the enchantment of “The Curse of The Cat People”

Return to Sleepy Hollow, from an essay by Washington Irving

Continue Reading Return to Sleepy Hollow, from an essay by Washington Irving

True Confessions: In which the author relates his own encounters in the land of Sleepy Hollow

Continue Reading True Confessions: In which the author relates his own encounters in the land of Sleepy Hollow

Bastion Falls

Exploring the imagination of Washington Irving and early American folklore along the Rip Van Winkle Trail in the Catskills … a photo essay

Continue Reading Exploring the imagination of Washington Irving and early American folklore along the Rip Van Winkle Trail in the Catskills … a photo essay

Tip your hat to the Imp of Donder-Berg mountain, who still haunts the highlands of the Hudson River

Continue Reading Tip your hat to the Imp of Donder-Berg mountain, who still haunts the highlands of the Hudson River

Hiking Rockefeller State Park Preserve: Looking for Spook Rock, Hulda the witch and the non-headless horseman origins of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Continue Reading Hiking Rockefeller State Park Preserve: Looking for Spook Rock, Hulda the witch and the non-headless horseman origins of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Daily Life of the American Colonies: The Production of Flax, Linen and My Bloodline in the Colonies

Continue Reading Daily Life of the American Colonies: The Production of Flax, Linen and My Bloodline in the Colonies

Daily Life of the 19th Century: Patent Medications and Homeopathic cures at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside

Continue Reading Daily Life of the 19th Century: Patent Medications and Homeopathic cures at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside

More Hudson Valley

The Midwest


Mysteries and hauntings in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys


This Old Gothic House II: What are ghosts, what type of ghosts are there, and what types of ghosts do I live with?

Continue Reading This Old Gothic House II: What are ghosts, what type of ghosts are there, and what types of ghosts do I live with?

A Tale Told By A Tombstone: A real life Poison Ivy appears while searching for a ghost in a Carmi cemetery

Continue Reading A Tale Told By A Tombstone: A real life Poison Ivy appears while searching for a ghost in a Carmi cemetery

Monster hunting in southern Illinois at Alton, Murphysboro, Harrisburg, Enfield, Mt. Vernon and more … and why not Bigfoot while we’re at it?

Continue Reading Monster hunting in southern Illinois at Alton, Murphysboro, Harrisburg, Enfield, Mt. Vernon and more … and why not Bigfoot while we’re at it?

Stranger Things in the nighttime sky … In the sixties, a little boy sees a rocket in the sky over Carmi, Illinois that shouldn’t be there

Continue Reading Stranger Things in the nighttime sky … In the sixties, a little boy sees a rocket in the sky over Carmi, Illinois that shouldn’t be there

A strange account of the monster rattlesnake Big Jim, who from his lair on Rattlesnake Bluff terrorized the Skillet Fork and Wabash river valleys … (or Snakes on a Plain)

Continue Reading A strange account of the monster rattlesnake Big Jim, who from his lair on Rattlesnake Bluff terrorized the Skillet Fork and Wabash river valleys … (or Snakes on a Plain)

Lakey’s Ghost: On folklore and folk horror from the prairie, and how the legend of the headless horseman galloped westward across an ocean and a continent

Continue Reading Lakey’s Ghost: On folklore and folk horror from the prairie, and how the legend of the headless horseman galloped westward across an ocean and a continent

A return to Bardstown, Kentucky: Spending the night in a cell at the Jailer’s Inn, a haunted jail in a town known around the world for its ghosts

Continue Reading A return to Bardstown, Kentucky: Spending the night in a cell at the Jailer’s Inn, a haunted jail in a town known around the world for its ghosts

True witch legends from southern Illinois … giving Carmi’s Cato the witch the last laugh on her neighbors, and an insight into folklore and history

Continue Reading True witch legends from southern Illinois … giving Carmi’s Cato the witch the last laugh on her neighbors, and an insight into folklore and history

More Midwest

The South


Journeys worth making for the culinary (or liquid) delights alone.


Eating Poe, Part II: Edgar Allan Poe’s time on Sullivan’s Island and debunking a Charleston myth

Continue Reading Eating Poe, Part II: Edgar Allan Poe’s time on Sullivan’s Island and debunking a Charleston myth

Yorktown Ghost Stories: Colonial era ghosts still haunt the streets of this landmark village of the American Revolution

Continue Reading Yorktown Ghost Stories: Colonial era ghosts still haunt the streets of this landmark village of the American Revolution

Piracy in Charleston, S.C.: The adoption of the gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet

Continue Reading Piracy in Charleston, S.C.: The adoption of the gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet

In old Charleston, the historic and haunted are around every corner

Continue Reading In old Charleston, the historic and haunted are around every corner

Exploring ancient Greece in Nashville, TN: The Parthenon

Continue Reading Exploring ancient Greece in Nashville, TN: The Parthenon

Daily Life of the American Colonies: The Role of the Tavern in Society

Continue Reading Daily Life of the American Colonies: The Role of the Tavern in Society

Old Sheldon Church ruins: A quiet retreat in the South Carolina lowcountry

Continue Reading Old Sheldon Church ruins: A quiet retreat in the South Carolina lowcountry

Piracy in Charleston S.C, The Pirate House

Continue Reading Piracy in Charleston S.C, The Pirate House

More of the South

Appalachia


Hauntings from the Appalachian Mountains and beyond


Sunset, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

The death, resurrection and retribution of Zona Heaster Shue, The Greenbrier Ghost

Continue Reading The death, resurrection and retribution of Zona Heaster Shue, The Greenbrier Ghost

On fairy tales, American kitsch, Bullwinkle, Rock City and where I found enchantment

Continue Reading On fairy tales, American kitsch, Bullwinkle, Rock City and where I found enchantment

America’s Haunted Inns: Bardstown Kentucky’s chilling Old Talbott Tavern lives up to its reputation

Continue Reading America’s Haunted Inns: Bardstown Kentucky’s chilling Old Talbott Tavern lives up to its reputation

The Bell Witch Cave and Cabin: An American haunting in the hills of Tennessee turns up tales of Kate, Betsy and old John Bell

Continue Reading The Bell Witch Cave and Cabin: An American haunting in the hills of Tennessee turns up tales of Kate, Betsy and old John Bell

More Appalachia

Ireland


Saints, folklore and the evocative landscape of the emerald isle


Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny, Ireland: A poisoner? Quite likely. A witch? Perhaps. A fighter? Absolutely.

Continue Reading Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny, Ireland: A poisoner? Quite likely. A witch? Perhaps. A fighter? Absolutely.

On the abandoned village of Port, in Donegal Ireland … wind swept, wet and wild, the folklore of Irish music and the ideal place to go drowning

Continue Reading On the abandoned village of Port, in Donegal Ireland … wind swept, wet and wild, the folklore of Irish music and the ideal place to go drowning

View from the interior of Dunbeg Fort, with Mount Eagle in the background

Dunbeg Fort on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula: Saved for centuries by local folklore, slowly being reclaimed by the Atlantic Ocean

Continue Reading Dunbeg Fort on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula: Saved for centuries by local folklore, slowly being reclaimed by the Atlantic Ocean

An Irish folk tale, Maid of Mullaghmore and memories of Muckross Head, county Donegal

Continue Reading An Irish folk tale, Maid of Mullaghmore and memories of Muckross Head, county Donegal

Praying for mercy from the sea and finding none in the abandoned village of Port, in Ireland

Continue Reading Praying for mercy from the sea and finding none in the abandoned village of Port, in Ireland

Today’s Marginalia: Station Two of the Glencolumcille Tura, a pilgrimage on the edge of the world

Continue Reading Today’s Marginalia: Station Two of the Glencolumcille Tura, a pilgrimage on the edge of the world

A brief history of St. Patrick: Who was Patrick and what does he have to do with green beer?

Continue Reading A brief history of St. Patrick: Who was Patrick and what does he have to do with green beer?

Harvest Moon: The Magic of the Home, Hearth and Hard Work

Continue Reading Harvest Moon: The Magic of the Home, Hearth and Hard Work

More Ireland

Great Britain


Medieval hauntings, ancient standing stones and circles, the gothic homeland


Pagan holidays: Litha … On summer solstice celebrations, and the dangerous similarities between modern paganism and evangelical Christianity

Continue Reading Pagan holidays: Litha … On summer solstice celebrations, and the dangerous similarities between modern paganism and evangelical Christianity

Uffington Castle Iron Age Hillfort, White Horse Hill, home of the Uffington White Horse, Ashbury, Oxfordshire

Pondering why landscapes become sacred and the mysteries of the Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle and White Horse Hill

Continue Reading Pondering why landscapes become sacred and the mysteries of the Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle and White Horse Hill

The hammer of the gods still ring out at Wayland’s Smithy, a long barrow chamber tomb nestled in a secluded grove in Oxfordshire

Continue Reading The hammer of the gods still ring out at Wayland’s Smithy, a long barrow chamber tomb nestled in a secluded grove in Oxfordshire

Folk horror from Wiltshire: The Blood Stone at Luccombe Spring, starving out the Vikings at Bratton Camp, the White Horse of Westbury and the nature of folklore

Continue Reading Folk horror from Wiltshire: The Blood Stone at Luccombe Spring, starving out the Vikings at Bratton Camp, the White Horse of Westbury and the nature of folklore

The White Horse of Westbury viewed from the top of Salisbury Plain

On the mystery of a white horse carved into the slopes of Bratton Downs … the White Horse of Westbury

Continue Reading On the mystery of a white horse carved into the slopes of Bratton Downs … the White Horse of Westbury

Old Wardour Castle … a splendidly haunted ruin in the British countryside

Continue Reading Old Wardour Castle … a splendidly haunted ruin in the British countryside

Traveling back in time to explore the hauntings in Parsonage Woods, and the ghosts of Castle Combe

Continue Reading Traveling back in time to explore the hauntings in Parsonage Woods, and the ghosts of Castle Combe

Sunrise through the trees and the Southwest entrance stones to Avebury Circle and Henge

Continue Reading Sunrise through the trees and the Southwest entrance stones to Avebury Circle and Henge

More Britain

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