Weird Wednesday
In which, on some Wednesdays, I talk about weird stuff and give writing prompts
Got a favorite flavor of weird? Creature Features * Disasters * Folklore & Fairy Tales * Ghosts & Hauntings * Otherworldly Visions * The Sea * True Crime * Unsolved Mysteries * Vanishings
Coming up:
March 2026: The Crying Boy: The UK’s Most Famous Haunted Painting
April 2026: Graveyard Guardians
SS Waratah
The Titanic That Disappeared
The Brocken Spectre
Angel in the Clouds
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Corpse Roads and Coffin Stones
Wandering Weird Roads That go to Graveyards
Marvin Clark
The Missing Man Everyone Thought Was Found
Superstitions About Death
Mirrors, Bees, and Open Windows
The Gytrash
World’s Scariest Cow
The Kraken
Surprisingly Sort-of Real Sea Monster
Ghost on the Road
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
The Essex Whaleship
The True Story Behind Moby Dick
Old Green Eyes
The U.S. Civil War’s Strangest Ghost
Benjamin Bathurst
How to Become an Enduring Mystery in Just 10 Seconds
Borley Rectory
Haunting or Hoax?
Rogue Waves
Oceanic Monsters
Omens of Death
From Broken Clocks to Butterflies
The Disappearance of Flight 19
The Bermuda Triangle’s Most Bizarre Mystery (Even Without Aliens)
Why the Nederlander Theatre is Haunted
Chicago’s Little-Known 1903 Disaster
The Mystery of the Moving Coffins
A Locked Tomb Whodunit
Lizzie Borden
An Imperfect Crime
Disappearance in the Desert
Everett Ruess
Roopkund
Skeleton Lake
50 Berkeley Square
The Scariest House in London
The Donner Party
Wagon Train Tragedy
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Ghost Light
The Devil Whale
Island or Sea Monster?
The Greenbrier Ghost
Testimony from Beyond the Grave
Superstition and the Sea
Don’t Rock the Boat
The Villisca Axe Murders
1912 Tragedy
The Haunted Rail
Ghost Trains
The Secret of Loch Ness
What Lies Beneath?
What Next?
Methods of Divination
Fetches
Apparitions of the Living
The Mary Celeste
Famous Mystery of the Sea
The Third Man Phenomenon
It’s Dangerous to Go Alone
Poltergeists
Noisy Ghosts
The Beast of Gevaudan
18th Century Werewolf
The Amityville Horror
Infamous American Haunted House
Monday's Child is Fair of Face
Divination Rhymes
The Crossroads
Metaphysical Meeting Place
Vanished Planes
The Star Tiger and Star Ariel in the Bermuda Triangle
The Mysterious Ouija Board
Who Are You Talking To?
The Transformation Chase
Shapeshift Your Way Out of Danger
Outwit the Undead with this One Weird Trick
Escaping Vampires With Seeds, Salt, and Sand
Mirrors
For now we see through a glass, darkly
Room For One More?
A Deadly Invitation
The Black Shuck
English Hell Hound
A Forest of Superstitions
Folklore About Trees
The Obstacle Flight
Evading Ogres with Everyday Objects
Crisis Apparitions
On the Border of Life and Death
Dearg-Due
Irish Vampire
Phantom Islands
The Isle of Demons, Fata Morgana Land, and of course, Atlantis
The Wild Hunt
Ghost Riders in the Sky
The Flannan Isles Vanishing
The Mysterious Disappearance of Three Lighthouse Keepers
Megalodon
Monster Shark
The Deadly Dyatlov Pass
What happened to nine hikers on a snowy night in 1959?
The Mystery of the Female Stranger
This stone is placed here by her disconsolate
Husband in whose arms she sighed out her latest breath
A Peak in Darien
Visions from a Deathbed
Spring-Heeled Jack
Dastardly Victorian Cryptid
Carroll A. Deering
1920’s Ghost Ship
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