This is a house in rural Indiana. In back of the house is a family plot containing several of my ancestors.

No one from my family has owned the house for many many years now, but we visit the cemetery now and then just to see if it is being maintained. It isn’t, really. Some of the markers have mysteriously disappeared and the whole cemetery plot is overgrown with weeds. When we last visited the place, the man currently living in the house told us a strange thing. He said that three consecutive generations of women have hanged themselves in the house’s kitchen.

I find this pretty creepy. I am going to do some research to find out if this story is really true. I do know that none of the hanged women were related to me, so that’s a relief.

Yesterday I took a drive and discovered this old pet cemetery. It looks like it has been used for a very long time because there are a lot of markers and most of them seem to be sinking into the ground.

I wonder if anyone has tried to record EVP at a pet cemetery. Maybe that is something I will have to try.

“Is there anyone here? What’s your name?”

“Meoww.”

“Are you happy here at Mt. Hope Pet Cemetery?”

“Meoww.”

Henry Foister and Beth Brown

Yesterday I made it up to Dayton, Ohio for the first-ever Ohio Paranormal Convention.  I got to meet and talk to a lot of great people, including Henry Foister and Beth Brown, hosts of the radio program The Paranormal View.  I also got a chance to hear guest speakers like Keith Age, Rie Sadler, and John Kachuba.

I was disappointed that more people didn’t show up for this event. Given the huge number of people in Ohio who are interested in the paranormal, I was expecting a MUCH bigger crowd. Where were you people? I expect there will be a bigger crowd next year, once the word gets out that the paranormal community of Ohio finally has its own convention.

If you are attending the Ohio Paranormal Conference (Paracon) at Hara Arena on Saturday, August 15th, you may see me there. I won’t be one of the guest speakers but I will be somewhere in the crowd of people, hobnobbing. This should be a really good conference. Keith Age, producer of the Children of the Grave and Spooked documentaries, will be there and well as Dark Figure Productions, producer of some local documentaries. Author Beth Brown will also be there to present  her new book about haunted Virginia plantations.