Jan 16, 2025 | Mysterious Places
What is it about the circles of standing stones that dot the landscape of Great Britain, Ireland and beyond? A Guest Post by the Incomparable Catherine Cavendish Most famous has to be Stonehenge and, yes, it’s magnificent and if you’re lucky enough to actually walk...
Jun 29, 2023 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories
In honour of my upcoming release, Forest of Ghosts, which is set in Romania, including a pivotal scene in Hoia Baciu, I thought it would be worth sharing my real-life experiences in the world’s most haunted forest. If I believed in omens, I would have been...
Apr 13, 2023 | Mysterious Places
Going live on Instagram at 8 pm CDT tonight–April 14th, 2023–to talk about my experiences on Poveglia. Please join us at https://www.instagram.com/jh_moncrieff/ for The Witching Hour! “You realize you are alone on this island.” Those were the...
Jul 7, 2021 | Mysterious Places, The Life Less Ordinary
With the global pandemic capturing most of the world’s attention, some interesting news has dropped without causing much of a stir. Everything from the US Pentagon releasing videos of UFOs to another ship disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle with twenty people...
Sep 29, 2020 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories
In Rockland County, NY, straddling the border between the towns of Stony Point and Haverstraw, and only three miles from where I live, lies one of the most tragic places in all of New York State. And likely one of the most haunted. It is Letchworth Village, and its...
Aug 11, 2020 | Mysterious Places
Before Covid, one of the places I was excited to visit in Edinburgh, Scotland was the Real Mary King’s Close. Located under the Royal Mile, in the historic Old Town area, the Close (a Scottish term that means “alleyway”) is Edinburgh’s only...
