Category Archives: Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole — Tales from Haunted Disney World
PARANORMAL, POE, AND GHOSTS IN DISNEY ON THE INVISIBLE WORLD
In October, I was featured on Frank Todaro’s Paranormal Internet Radio Show The Invisible World.
Recently, people have been dropping me e-mails asking me where they can find it. I looked back through my posts and realized I’d never posted the re-play, so here it is!
The Invisible World explores paranormal news and features guests discussing all that’s happening in the paranormal—be it UFO sightings, cryptids, ghosts and hauntings, conspiracies, and much more. Frank features guests from all walks: writers, investigators, psychics, and paranormal celebrities. The hour-long show is always entertaining and features psychic Lady Fontaine as well.
Support Frank and head on over to The Invisible World at www.blogtalkradio.com/theinvisibleworld and check out Episode 33—you can play it right from his page. Extra bonus? Nathan is featured on Episode 31. Or…you can just click & listen below!
RHODES REVIEW NOTES SKELETONS
Rick at Rhodes Review gave Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole a nice blurb! You can check it out here: http://rhodesreview.com/?p=1971
WINNERS OF THE BLESS THEIR HEARTS MOM SKELETONS GIVEAWAY!
Congratulations to the winners of the Bless Their Hearts Mom Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole Giveaway:
Kayla Justice of Kansas
Wanda Bergmann of Canada
Each received a copy of Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole with limited-edition postcards.
To learn more about Bless Their Hearts Mom and check out her other giveaways, visit here:
ONE FAMILY TAKES MY BOOK SKELETONS IN THE SWIMMIN’ HOLE TO WALT DISNEY WORLD!
Adam Boneker and his daughter, Dakota, took Skeletons in the Swimmin' Hole to Walt Disney World
So, where are you headed in 2011? Right now, I’m sure some of you are saying nowhere because of all of these winter storms. But recently, Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole—Tales from Haunted Disney World got to travel to Disney World thanks to the Boneker Family of New Jersey!
This is the coolest series of pix I’ve ever seen! The Bonekers took the book and visiting the various attractions featured in its short stories—but spent the most time at The Swiss Family Treehouse, where “Charlotte’s Family Tree” is set. Since that’s hands-down one of my favorite attractions of all time, it was quite awesome to see my book become part of its unique settings (come on, who DIDN’T want to live in a tree house as a kid? I sooo wanted to sleep on one of those hammocks in the tippy-top room!)
Here we go! The Bonekers give Skeletons a tour…
Dakota Boneker underneath the sign for Big Thunder Mountain. Disneyland’s version of this attraction is featured in the Skeletons story “Romancing the Goat.”
Adam Boneker and his daughter, Dakota, at the entrance to Splash Mountain, where the story “Miss Reyna Gets Her Comeuppance on Flash Mountain” is set.
Dakota in front of It’s a Small World, which figures into two stories—one in the book called “All This Furniture and Nowhere to Sit,” and one that isn’t in the book but is available online, called “It’s a Good Life.” (You can read “It’s a Good Life”—and download and share the PDF with your friends—here: http://bit.ly/hngTTE)
Dakota in one of the It’s a Small World boats. The boats play a huge role in the story “All This Furniture and Nowhere to Sit,”—Lainee purchases a boat, has it delivered to her house, and converts it into seating for her playroom…with disastrous consequences.
Dakota and Skeletons about to climb The Swiss Family Treehouse, the centerpiece for “Charlotte’s Family Tree.”
The sideboard in the Swiss Family Treehouse Living Room, which is where the wonderful organ that pipes out that polka is kept. In “Charlotte’s Family Tree,” something important happens in this room, and the organ music is featured prominently in the piece.
Skeletons on the sideboard in the Swiss Family Treehouse Living Room!
The Swiss Family Treehouse Library.
Skeletons in the Swiss Family Treehouse Library.
The Swiss Family Treehouse Kitchen.
Skeletons seems ready to be served in The Swiss Family Treehouse Kitchen.
HUCK FINN CONTROVERSY: WILL DISNEY CHANGE TOM SAWYER ISLAND?
The welcome sign on WDW's Tom Sawyer Island, 2005
My thoughts on this over at the Haunted Disney Tales Blog here:
QUIET DAY AT HOME? LISTEN TO HAUNTED DISNEY TALES ON DARKNESS RADIO HERE!
Recently I had the pleasure of discussing Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Disney ghosts and legends, Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole and more on The Darkness on the Edge of Town paranormal radio show! The episode’s hosts were Tim Dennis and Mallie Fox. I had a really great time, and their questions were nothing like I expected. It was fun!
If you’d like to give a listen, you can do it two ways. If you’d like to check it out and, in addition, have access to their pretty awesome past episodes that feature every paranormal topic you can imagine and more, visit the Darkness Radio archives on KTLK radio and scroll down to the 12/16 Haunted Disneyland show; you can click on ‘listen’ or download the MP3:
http://www.ktlkfm.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=darknessradio.xml
If you just want to hear the show that I was on, you can listen right from this post by clicking here:
Enjoy!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
For those of you who haven’t read it, the first story in Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole, “Doing Blue”, takes place on Christmas Eve and opens at a costume party thrown by a guy who’s convinced he’s Jesus.
Shortly after reading the book, my friend Kristina Hals Strobel dropped me a note on Facebook.
“I had the oddest ‘Doing Blue’ moment last night. Yes it had Jesus in it, it had costumes, it had a pilgrimage. It was 1 a.m. and the Goth Ball had just let out. There we were, standing on the sidewalk, with Jesus who was expounding on faith with a flask hidden in his Bible. My husband, in cassock and collar, was bowing to him, Goth girls behind him listening and giggling. He was very convinced he spoke the truth and that all should be listening to him. But, there was a nonbeliever who was stealing his thunder. Speaking of science, blood and the universe, and the realization that chaos is organized. We left for home, the rest left for Denny’s.”
I thought she was dreaming and wrote, “…your dream sounds kinda creepy.”
She responded, “Dude, that wasn’t a dream! That actually happened on Friday night!” and posted the following picture:
Is “Doing Blue” not fiction after all?
From our house to yours, Merry Christmas, and may all your dreams come true!
HEAVENLY SAVINGS SAYS SHE’LL HAVE A “LASTING IMPRESSION” OF SKELETONS
Krista Whisner of Heavenly Savings wrote that Skeletons is “unique and daring…It was neat to look at this whole new side of Disney World”—among other things! You can read the whole review here:
http://heavenlysavings.blogspot.com/2010/11/skeletons-in-swimmin-hole-book-review.html
PARANORMAL EH? BEST INTERVIEW IN END OF THE YEAR AWARDS
The paranormal Facebook Group Paranormal Eh?, a group about all things paranormal news and pop culture which features interviews, roundtable discussions, and weekly topics, has named the recipients of its “Best of the Year” Awards, and my October 16 interview and The Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show came out on top!
The winners are below. “Bests” and “Favorites” are chosen based on the number of votes of its members. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE and thanks to all who voted!
Favorite Paranormal Radio Show
(Tie)
The Ghostman and Demon Hunter Show
Encounters
Best Interview
Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Favorite Roundtable Discussion
Ouija vs. EVP
Favorite Topic
Amityville
Favorite TV Show
Psychic Kids
I’M ON THE DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN RADIO SHOW TONIGHT!
I’ll be on The Darkness on the Edge of Town Paranormal Radio Show tonight with Hosts David Schrader and Mallie Fox discussing Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole, Haunted Disney and I’m sure a few good ghostly things. The show airs live at Midnight ET/11 p.m. CST on KLTK (News Talk Fox News Radio 100.3 FM), but you can listen to it LIVE and CHAT right on your computer at www.darknessradio.com.
If you can’t catch it live, I’ll post it once it’s been archived.
Have a great night!
