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Paranormal Dispatch from The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum! 8 May, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Photo by Edan Cohen on Unsplash May is fairy time at the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum! Stop by our new, expanded Magic of Fairies exhibit, and be sure to grab your free download on Fairy Offerings HERE. And now, here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the week! 1) First up, there's fresh pushback on the old idea that infrasound explains away haunted houses. You know the one—low-frequency rumbles from

Kirsten Weiss
14 hours ago2 min read


Big Deal! A New Cozy Mystery!
--By Kirsten Weiss, cozy mystery author BIG DEAL, a new cozy mystery from Kirsten Weiss, launched today! It's Kind of a Big Deal Big Deal launched today! Here's what this book is about: A glamorous poker tournament, buried secrets...and one very dead player. Welcome to the glittering farce of Hot Springs, where the bluffs are epic, the tells are transparent, and murder is just another risky wager. All Alice wants is to resurrect her bodyguarding career and stop running survei

Kirsten Weiss
May 11 min read


Paranormal Dispatch from the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Musem! 1 May, 2026
Photo by Jay on Unsplash It's May 1st at the paranormal museum, and you know what that means! Our fairy exhibit is back, and it's bigger and better than ever thanks to our expanded collection, so be sure to stop on by! To celebrate, the paranormal museum is giving away a free downloadable guide to Fairy Offerings. It's filled with ideas that actually please the fae (plus what NOT to do). Download it free HERE. And now, here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the we

Kirsten Weiss
May 12 min read
Small Town Grit: How a Lodi Car Dealer Solved a Real-Life Mystery
--By Kirsten Weiss, mystery author I love cozy mystery settings because they make the strange feel familiar. But sometimes the real world gives you a twist that out-cozies any fictional tea party. This is one of those twists. The unlikely detective Lou Peters ran a Cadillac dealership in Lodi, a wine town that feels friendlier than Napa and far quirkier too. He was an ex-marine, a born salesman, and the kind of man who could smell a con from across the showroom. He also alway
Joe Stott
Apr 304 min read


The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Dispatch! 17 April, 2026
First official Nessie sighting of 2026 by an American tourist, Oklahoma cryptid attack speculation, Norway mound reinterpreted as ritual site after ancient landslide, remote viewing pioneer Ed Dames, and Celtic lore on the hag goddess Cailleach and daughter Bride. Weekly paranormal roundup from Maddie Kosloski at the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum. Cozy mysteries and oddities await.

Kirsten Weiss
Apr 173 min read


The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Dispatch April 9, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Hey folks, Maddie Kosloski here from our little paranormal museum in San Benedetto. Another week, another batch of odd stories floating around the internet that make you pause over your morning coffee and wonder what's really going on out there. I pulled together five that caught my eye, from old-school mediumship to ghosts that won't stay quiet. Let's dive in. 1) First up, is

Kirsten Weiss
Apr 103 min read


Paranormal News from the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum! 3 April, 2025
Happy April, everyone! This month, GD has begun reporting from his midnight patrol on our X feed. But that's the least mysterious of the happenings at the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum! So stop on by!
And now, here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the week!

Kirsten Weiss
Apr 32 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! 27 March, 2026
It's officially spring at the Paranormal Museum! I've been knee-deep in exhibit cleanup this week (turns out dust bunnies have cousins that look suspiciously like ectoplasm), so I'm keeping this one short and sweet. Just a handful of strange stories that crossed my desk lately—because apparently the world refuses to run out of weird.

Kirsten Weiss
Mar 272 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! 20 March, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum I’ve been knee-deep in exhibit cleanup this week (turns out dust bunnies have cousins that look suspiciously like ectoplasm), so I’m keeping this one short and sweet. Just a handful of strange stories that crossed my desk lately—because apparently the world refuses to run out of weird. 1) Nessie might get all the headlines, but England’s got a whole underwater menagerie. Think knuckers (basically water dragons lu

Kirsten Weiss
Mar 202 min read


Did 4 Million New Books Drop in 2025? What it Means for Writers (and Readers)
Publisher's Weekly reported that roughly four million new books were published in 2025--and that was just in the US.
Four million is a dramatic number.
I want to untangle what that number actually means and what it means for writers, especially those of us who write cozy mystery and mystery novel fiction.

Kirsten Weiss
Mar 193 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! Friday the 13th, March, 2026
Two Friday the 13ths in a row seems... strangely lucky. Especially if you run a paranormal museum! Stop by our superstition busting workshop tonight. We'll have stations around the museum where guests can "test" classic bad-luck superstitions: walk under a ladder, open an umbrella indoors, break a mirror (safely, with a prop!), or spill salt.

Kirsten Weiss
Mar 132 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum: 6 March, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Ah, spring in San Benedetto! The hills are that perfect shade of green, the temperature hovers in the delightful seventies, and the Paranormal Museum is buzzing with the best kind of energy—curious visitors, fresh exhibits, and just enough mysterious happenings to keep things interesting. If you're feeling the good vibes too, pull up a chair (or a spectral one) and let's catch up on the latest from the weird world

Kirsten Weiss
Mar 63 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! February 20, 2026
Welcome, paranormal museum lovers! It's been a busy week, what with that murder at the nearby museum and my sister being in town. But the paranormal museum goes on (and so does some very interesting research into a haunted painting).
But now, on to this week's news round up!

Kirsten Weiss
Feb 203 min read


Happiness is a Free Cozy Mystery
--By Kirsten Weiss, cozy mystery author First, I’m participating in another cozy mystery giveaway! (And I’m giving away book 1 in my Big Murder Mystery series, BIG SHOT). Click HERE for links to all the free cozy mysteries.

Kirsten Weiss
Feb 191 min read


Blog Tour - A Deathly Display, A Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery
Guest post and interview list for the A Deathly Display blog tour.

Kirsten Weiss
Feb 171 min read


A Deathly Display, a new Cozy Mystery from the Paranormal Museum, Launches Today!
Big things are happening in the world of the Paranormal Museum. Maddie and Herb are stepping up their curation game, she's navigating her sister's return to town, and figuring some important things out along the way. I got to use more material from the curation class I took a couple years back and expand the world to some nearby museums (and more vineyards).

Kirsten Weiss
Feb 171 min read


A Deathly Display - Chapter 1
Matricide is one of humanity’s darkest crimes. At least, that seems to be the consensus.
I was starting to have my doubts.
“What is my mother doing here?” I hissed.

Kirsten Weiss
Feb 1413 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! 6 February, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Photo by Mo Gabrail on Unsplash Herb and I are about to start a new curation seminar series , and we're looking forward to learning new tricks to make the exhibits here at the paranormal museum even more exciting! TMI? Never mind. Here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the week! 1) Trail cam pics of the Loch Ness monster? 2) Ancient Egyptian scroll as evidence for giants? 3) Paranormal tourism - it's

Kirsten Weiss
Feb 61 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! 20 January, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Photo by Artem Kovalev on Unsplash Have a case of the Januaries? Have your resolutions fallen apart? Cheer up and visit the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum! Can't make it to the museum? Then stop by our online shop for awesome paranormal museum swag! (Or at least follow us on Twitter/X ). And now, here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the week! 1) What accounts for ghost encounters? 2) Poltergeist at

Kirsten Weiss
Jan 301 min read


Paranormal News from the Paranormal Museum! 23 January, 2026
--By Maddie Kosloski of the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Photo by Jon Sailer on Unsplash Welcome, lovers of all things paranormal! We are soon skidding into Valentine's season and the paranormal museum's exhibit of cursed romances through the ages. So stop on by and bring a romantic interest! Can't stop by? Stop by our paranormal museum shop! And now, here are my top five picks for paranormal news of the week. Perhaps because we're in the 12 Days of Cryptids, it's all

Kirsten Weiss
Jan 231 min read
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