I spent the first few months of this year living in a small residential treatment center for eating disorders. I’m grateful for the experience; I was suicidal at the time and going there quite literally saved my life. The treatment center was in an old Victorian house in a small mountain town. The kitchen, dining…

About 10 years ago I worked in a hotel that is famously believed to be haunted. One of my first roles at the hotel was working as a Night Auditor. As soon as anyone I knew heard I was working night shifts in that building they’d ask me if I had seen the ghosts and I’d always reply with “I wish”. I LOVE ghost stories…

My parents are currently selling our childhood home after 35 years, so my siblings and I have been thinking and talking about our many memories growing up there. Including the ghost that has always been around, from the beginning.

It was around three a.m. in our old apartment, which had two bedrooms on one floor, a bathroom at the landing, and the rest of the apartment on the other floor.

I was scared shitless one night when a white apparition hovered in the corner of my room, swaying side to side, then going perfectly still. It was probably 3:30 am and my roommate lived in the basement so there was no easy way to call for help. The apparition seemed to be human form but without any discernible…

I guess this is more creepy than scary or whatever.

The Voice from the Water

I am walking around my old school, which went from Pre-K through 12th grade. I hadn’t been there in years. I turn around and about ten feet away there’s a little white girl who wasn’t there before, with her head tilted to the side staring at me intently and completely silent. I stop abruptly and look around and…

Summer ‘97. I was nine and scared of my own shadow, so this experience only furthered my fear of the world.

When I was in 3^rd grade (about a billion years ago), I went to this little Catholic school in a very blue collar neighborhood. It wasn’t the best area, but it wasn’t the worst, either—narrow streets with dense rows of duplexes, tiny strips of lawn, and a bar on every corner (seriously). Our house was only five blocks…

Even her fans found 997 of those pages unenjoyable.

Dumbest take I’ve ever heard. Actually, we were marching for women’s rights and abortion right and gay rights and demonstrating and organizing for social causes (pre-internet!) before you were born with a phone in your hand.

That's just Ayn Rand.

I can’t wait to watch this. Because it will probably be very funny and I am one of those people who thinks everyone and everything should be made fun of now and then. Absurdity exists in every situation, even the most noble of them - they just satirize it.

Hot take: with the exception of “Say It Ain’t So,” nothing Weezer has ever recorded qualifies as a very good song. Or even a good song, honestly. I tend to think that if Rivers Cuomo hadn’t gone to Harvard and didn’t wear chunky glasses, nobody would have known who the heck they were.

The Man That Wasn’t or, Another Black Dog Story

I’ve written about the house I live in before  (https://jezebel.com/1849648358). It’s the family home, built just after WWII. It’s been haunted and had weird things happen in and around it my whole life.

Back in the early aughts, I had been dating my now-husband for a few months. We drove out to my parents’ house, where my sister and her three children were also visiting for the day. My sister’s youngest daughter was probably about 3 at the time. My boyfriend went outside to have a cigarette, and the kids were playing…

When I was 5 or 6, back in the early 80s, I lived in a small, relatively rural mill town. My cousins lived a block down from me and there was a neighborhood corner store at the end of their block called Cricket’s Corner.

Long ago, before everyone had dating apps on their phone, us gay boys would sit at our desktop computers and try and meet guys for sex on sites like Manhunt and DudesNude.