I have family living in Richmond, Virginia. I have visited them during the holidays. Richmond also houses the museum of my favorite author and hero, Edgar Allan Poe. The museum has been on my bucket list of places I want to see but haven’t yet. I wonder if Poe haunts the museum. With Richmond’s bloody ...

It has been an exhausting day, and you are ready for a good night’s sleep. Your tired body sinks into the soft mattress, and you drift into dreamland. However, something wakes you up out of a sound sleep. You jerk upwards. Well, you try to, but you cannot move.  You cannot scream or move, and ...

I researched North Dakota’s cryptids for this week’s article, and there are a couple of interesting ones. The one that is the most fascinating is the Miniwashitu. The Miniwashitu is a famous Native American legend passed down by the Dakota tribe. A river monster that terrorized the Missouri River, and Melvin Randolph Gilmore wrote a ...

When I first returned through the portal from the other world, everything seemed warped and so far away, as if I were viewing it through a terribly long and thin tube with a foggy lens. Sounds were also peculiar, a certain hollowness to them I’d never experienced before. I spent time in this ambiguous state ...

“Ana, come take care of me. I’m sick,” Dai texted his fiancée as he laid curled into a ball on his sapphire, satin sheets with a pillowcase to match. A few moments later a short, young girl with long, brown hair halfway down her back stood in the doorway wearing a pink, silk nightgown with her ...