News and Reviews

• Join Haunternet editor Timothy Haskell on Twitter

  submitted at Apr 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM by Tim Haskell

  So this Twitter thing…what the ef? People are going nuts for this, and everyone is using it for all sorts of reasons. And if an obscure talent like Oprah Winfrey starts Tweeting, then so shall I! So, Become one of my followers on Twitter! right now. Move it.

  In case you need a little introduction to Twitter and all the things it could do for you and your haunted attraction, I did a pretty decent podcast about this stuff with a social networking guru named Kevin Keating in NYC. I actually think you could get a lot out of it if …(read more)

• Area 51 UFO Sightings Debunked by Insiders

  submitted at Apr 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM by Marissa C.

  Area 51, the top-secret military post in Nevada has fueled many UFO rumors and conspiracy theories for decades. Workers at the installation are speaking out about what really went on there in a Los Angeles Times Magazine interview of five men who worked at the installation for decades. What they had to say in this interview may may debunk UFO sightings.

  

  In 2007 the CIA declassified information about a top-secret project — the A-12 Oxcart, a spy plane that was developed at Area 51. …(read more)

• Latest "How The Hell You Do That?" Podcast Posted

  submitted at Apr 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM by Tim Haskell

  Check out the latest How The Hell You Do That? webisode with professional scharacter Richard Jordan in our Podcast section entitled How The Hell You Scare People.(read more)

• Trailer for Orphan

  submitted at Apr 6, 2009 at 3:26 PM by Tim Haskell

  This trailer was brought to my attention this morning. I hadn’t really heard about this release, but after watching this preview, i am now eagerly anticipating it. I can be a sucker like that.

  I remember once a friend of mine who is a huge comic book nerd went and saw Godzilla (you know, the one set in New York) and was incredibly underwhelmed and disappointed. He was so looking forward to it and wanted it to be as amazing as the marketing campaign. Shortly after it came out on DVD he saw another preview for it and thought to himself, "that does look …(read more)

• Transworld Hauntshow 2009

  submitted at Apr 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM by Tim Haskell

  We put together a video of my little trip to the Transworld Haunt Show in St. Louis, MO March 27th-29th. If you were there, or even if you weren’t…enjoy!

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• My Top 10 Horror and/or Macabre and/or Odd/ Weird Books of All Time

  submitted at Mar 31, 2009 at 2:21 PM by Tim Haskell

  There are certainly no shortage of Top Ten Lists covering people’s Top Ten Horror Movies on the Intergoogle. In fact, it seems to be the genre that is ranked more than any other film genre. Or perhaps it is the only one I care about so I haven’t even noticed. You can correct me on this. And then you can go to Hell. So in my pathetic attempt to prove falsely that I am literate I am presenting my top ten books. I don’t want to just call it a “Horror” list because some of these aren’t necessarily scary but are either creepy, macabre, odd or fit the genre in some roundabout way. And I have also included some things that you may or may …(read more)