As the winter nights got longer, people always huddled next to the fireplace and entertained one another with ghost stories during the yuletide season. Over time, that tradition disappeared here in the United States and the ghosts were confined to October. That would change with the first publishing of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in…

Within Ohio, Michigan and Connecticut, there are sightings of strange creatures that were once human but have devolved into something more monstrous. People have seen them during the late hours within the woods, chewing on the bones of their prey and have been chased, causing them to flee for their very lives. These beings are…

Salem has a long history with witches and witchcraft as the site of the infamous trials of the late 1600s. Since those dark times, the town has grown to embrace people of all walks of life and is a popular tourist location, especially during the Halloween season. In fact, the town can be quite crowded…

The town of Bedburg, Germany during the 16th century was threatened by an demonic monster that slaughtered its livestock, leaving them mauled in the fields. Even the townsfolk were in danger as women and children were being attacked and killed in terrifying savagery. Evidence pointed to the fact that the townspeople were being hunted by…

With the government agencies of the United States taking steps to declassify UFO records, Doc Side Media has gone out to interview the experts of former intelligence officers, Air Force, MUFON, authors, and paranormal researchers to bring their experiences. Join Gary as he takes a walk Within the Mist with Doc Side Media’s Tyler Transue…

It started on a sunny afternoon in March of 1962 when five Florida teens went on a 7ft Air Force raft to skin-dive. They planned to explore the semi-submerged shipwreck, the USS Massachusetts, which sits on a sandbar about two miles from shore in the Gulf of Mexico. Tragically, four teenaged skindivers: Bradford Rice, 14,…

A young woman named Ella M. Cropsey, called “Nell” by her family and friends, was spending the evening with family, friends, and her suitor. It was the night of November 20, 1901, and before it was over, she would disappear. Over a month later, her body would be found floating in the Pasquotank River. Despite…

West Virginia, known as the Mountain State, was a hotbed for cryptid sightings in the 1950s and ‘60s such as the Flatwoods Monster of Braxton County and Point Pleasant’s Mothman. On June 16, 1964, hell broke loose in Grafton, West Virginia, a sleepy town on the Tygart Valley River. Excitement here normally came by railroad…

Deaths of entire families was occurring at an epidemic rate in New England during the beginning of the 19th century. Though much of the deaths were blamed on consumption, there were cases strangely bizarre enough that the community believed there was more going on. Newspapers of the time used the phrase ‘vampire’ for these deaths,…

Bladenboro is a small community surrounded by pine forests and swamps at the southeastern edge of the North Carolina piedmont. A lot of the county is made up of large forests and swampland, a perfect environment for bears, deer, bobcats and just about any other type of beast. It was also the setting for the…