Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Mother’s Ghost: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May 6, 2011 by  
Filed under Holidays, Paranormal, The Unexplained

I wanted to do something special on Extraordinary Intelligence for Mother’s Day.  I tried to think of ways to celebrate moms, grandmas, aunties, etc… but no one can do it like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow did with The Mother’s Ghost. This poem is part of a larger Longfellow compilation called Tales of a Wayside Inn.  The [...]

Winchester Mystery House

April 18, 2009 by  
Filed under Paranormal, The Unexplained

The Winchester Mystery House is a monument to one woman’s sorrow, ingenuity, and madness.  The only thing more peculiar than the house itself, is the story of its construction. Sarah Winchester, wife of William Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, is the mad genius behind this amazing house.  In her youth she was greatly [...]