Halloween Countdown 2018, Day 24

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First, breaking news from one of my favorite authors, Peadar Ó Guilín!

Here is his new announcement:

I have just launched CreepyCast — my new PodCast. It will be a short series of 6 or 8 episodes, where I’ll be reading some of my own short-stories.

I have only now submitted it to iTunes and other Podcasting sites for distribution, so it may be another week or so before it’s available on general release, but in the meantime, if anybody is curious, you can listen to the first three episodes here.

Just in time for Halloween!

Yay! Check out CreepyCast!

(Photo by the brilliant Elizabeth.)

Now I’d like to recommend a fascinating website, one of my favorite places to go to disappear down rabbit holes: Strange Company: A Walk on the Weird Side of History.

The website’s mission is literally straight from Edgar Allan Poe: “…we should pass over all biographies of ‘the good and the great,’ while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows.”

Here is an excerpt from one of the site’s recent posts, “The Ghosts of Chateau des Noyers”:

Considering Normandy’s very long and colorful history, you figure it would take a lot for a residence to get the reputation as its “most haunted chateau,” but judging by what one family said it experienced for two straight years, the title may be justified.

Château des Noyers was located in the Calvados village of Le Tourneur. It was built in 1835, largely from the stones of an earlier medieval castle. The site had long had a reputation for anomalous activity–a spectral woman in white here, a werewolf there–but no solid evidence of High Strangeness was recorded until a couple by the name of de Manville inherited the chateau in 1867. The de Manvilles brought with them their son Maurice, the boy’s tutor, a gardener, a cook, and a maid.

Soon after they moved in, they noticed a few odd disturbances–strange noises in the night, doors slamming for no reason, objects inexplicably being moved–but those soon ceased. Life at the chateau was quiet until October of 1875, when the family found themselves plunged into an eerie and terrifying experience, one which, luckily for ghost researchers, was minutely chronicled by M. de Manville in his diary….

Read the complete post here.