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Leading a ghost tour in Havre de Grace.

This is my second year of working for Havre de Haunts Tours & Paranormal Research Group.  The group has explored and investigated strange as well as historic happenings in Havre de Grace, Maryland from which a tour has been formed.  The town's tales of history, prominent visitors, and hauntings makes for an amiable walk though the picturesque water front location.  Each October chilly winds rustle the leaves as the moon peers down for added atmosphere.

The Friday night tour I led was additionally interesting as several tour customers brought along their own emf detectors - which were very active during the walk.  It is believed that the presence of ghosts can cause a disturbance in electromagnetic fields, which is what the detector reads.  Of course myriad things can trigger a reaction and at certain points when the detectors were very active there were telephone poles with numerous transformers or such attached.  Hardly an ideal scenario for ghost hunting.  Interestingly at one point in the tour the detectors became very active at my every mention of the word 'gangsters'.  Not proof, but oh so curious.



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I've had odd experiences at haunted places before.  Doors opening on their own seem a popular occurrence for me - I've had similar experiences at the Hollingsworth house in Cecil County and The Whistling Oyster in Fell's Point.  I decided to jot down these experiences for my new book - Midnight Writings.  Other articles included in the book concern my zombie make over for a day on the set of Trailer Park of the Living Dead (filmed in Cecil County, Maryland), my musings about horror conventions, films, and Edgar Allan Poe.  For these segments I must thank all those who have agreed to be interviewed by me in the past, such as actress Tanya Erin Paoli.

And there are a baker's dozen of fictional offerings as well, including The Customer in which a bothersome bar patron has an unfortunate occurrence after last call and Midnight Encounter in which a pair of grave robbers with a body on their hands get an unusual offer.  Why not take time to take advantage of the offer of buying Midnight Writings at http://lulu.com/spotlight/wrigler ?

Happy Reading & Ghost Hunting!



A murder occurred at Havre de Grace's State Theater, which once showed silent films and although long closed might not be totally abandoned.

  



April No Fool's Deal

    
The 1st of April has finally arrived and here in Maryland after a brutal winter there's a tantalizing taste of spring from a sunny sky.

Here's my attempt to tantalize you with an April deal.  Use the code FOOLSGOLD to get 10% off your order of either of my books or both from www.lulu.com/spotlight/wrigler

I've always been a big fan of sci-fi.  I logged countless hours in front of ye olde tv - the kind that was the living room floor's centerpiece with a big back behind the screen and an incapabbilty to switch channels unless the viewer actually rose to turn a knob on it - watching classic sci-fi shows.  My favs were from the 60's in which more imagination was put into the programs then dollars for special efects.  Sci-fi films were great too.  And books? 

I loved the wild romantisism found on the colorful covers of early sci-fi books.  Bug eyed aliens were cool - intergalactic views of or from space ships were fantastic.  I was introduced to Ray Bradbury in middle school when the reading assignment was The Martian Chronicles.  I found the ideas nifty, but it wasn't until I re-read the book on my own in my high school years that I was truly hooked by Bradbury's marvelous Martian landscape of adventure and introspection.  Other sci-fi novels quickly figured amongst my favorites as well, like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

My imagination has always been rather wide-ranging and it wasn't long until I was coming up with my own ideas for sci-fi adventures.  Horror and fantasy tales also spewed from my mind.  Finally a couple years ago I decided to go ahead and bring those ideas to the printed page in a book called Summoned Secrets.  In Summoned Secrets you'll learn the secrets of...

An alien world where hunters test their skills and dragons dwell.
A library whose biographies hold the key to life and death.
History's most infamous serial killer's gambling... More > habits. And more...
18 strange stories of science fiction, dark fantasy, suspense & horror.
12 poetic creations.
1 book.
"With a cast that includes dimension-hopping murderers,extraterrestrial monsters and even the shade of Poe himself, Rigler's dark imagination will help populate your nightmares for days to come." Nathan Rosen, editor at microhorror.com

And my second book, Masters of the Alpha Crystals, is a novel of intergalactic intrigue and 
adventure in which Earth finds itself under attack by alien invaders. They do not ask for surrender or terms, merely seek destruction. All seems hopeless and then another mysterious alien craft appears in Earth's... More > sky...

While lulu.com offers 10% savings of either or both books by using FOOLSGOLD code when ordering April 1st 2014 or April 2, 2014, I hope you will take adventure of the deal and check out my sci-fi ideas.  But even if you miss the sale, the books will still be there at my spotlight.  No fooling.