I love that I'm not the most knowledgeable person in the Creepy Corner. I love that, over the years, our little community of Creeps has shared so many smart thoughts and ideas about things that are not usually discussed with such clarity and sensitivity. We are believers, skeptics, and ...Continue

The best part of writing Creepy Corner is hearing the stories people dare to tell me. Throughout the years, I've received dozens of emails telling me stories "I've never told anyone," or details of occurrences with the caveat "Please don't tell anyone." As someone who (believe it or not)

Ever since the Creepy Corner Road Trip, I've been thinking about the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri. Not just because it's a place that I really wish I could have revisited on the trip, but because it was one of the first famous haunted locations I ever visited in adulthood, and to ...Continue

The Creepy Corner really loves my neighbors. You know, the "Red Light Neighbors" who wave their arms and snap their wrists as if in the midst of some sort of trance-ritual, all by the glow of a mysterious red light? Yes, them. Almost every email I get asks me about them. Along with ...Continue

I've never been to a historic African-American cemetery. In my travels around the US to cemeteries large and small, I have never visited one that was at one time exclusively reserved for the burial of black people on American soil. This was not a conscious effort, it wasn't on ...Continue