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Ghosts of the Mineral Springs Hotel, a Halloween tale

Kelly Kazek

Sweetums and I visited the Mineral Springs Hotel in Alton, Illinois, on our Route 66 honeymoon last October and it seems a fitting time to tell you about the ghosts that reportedly haunt it. We stopped in Alton specifically to see the statue of the World’s Tallest Man (click here to see if he or… Continue reading Ghosts of the Mineral Springs Hotel, a Halloween tale

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Hey, y’all, listen to my podcast interview about eels raining on Alabama

Kelly Kazek

Shannon Ballard with the Southern Mysteries podcast interviewed me recently about an incident in Coalburg, Ala., in 1892, in which eels rained from the sky. Listen to their research on the story. I also wrote about the day in 1954 when it rained fish on the town of Chilatchee, Ala., in my book "Forgotten Tales… Continue reading Hey, y’all, listen to my podcast interview about eels raining on Alabama

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A visit to the spooky abandoned Georgia State Lunatic Asylum

Kelly Kazek

A couple of years ago, Sweetums and I were wandering through Georgia when we just happened upon the campus of Central State Hospital in Milledgeville. The mostly abandoned facility was as creepy as the sound of its original name: the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot and Epileptic Asylum. At its height, it was the largest mental health… Continue reading A visit to the spooky abandoned Georgia State Lunatic Asylum

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This 1899 mansion we visited was used in ‘The Green Mile’

Kelly Kazek

At one point when Sweetums and I were in North Carolina, we were driving aimlessly, as we often do, with no immediate plans to stop anywhere. When I’d see a sign saying which towns were approaching, I’d look online to see if there were any interesting sites to see in each one. As we approached… Continue reading This 1899 mansion we visited was used in ‘The Green Mile’