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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Haunted Houses

A Halloween Special: When the Dead Refuse to Leave, & Resident Evil

October 22, 2026

My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. Read Parts I and II here. True Ghost Stories, …

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True Ghost Stories: Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 26, 2020

Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …

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Living on the Edge of the Ghostly and Unexplained

October 28, 2015

There’s so much in this world that surrounds us that we can hardly fathom, let alone explain. We keep bumping …

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True Ghost Stories, Part II – Attack of the Poltergeist

October 10, 2013

It’s a blessing I think now that I never knew as a child that a woman whose blood still stained …

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True Ghost Stories, Part One – Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 7, 2013

As Halloween draws near, I will be posting a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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