Castle Perilous DND Encounters

10/27/2024

always ready for Halloween, the Witches Hat Train Depot.

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

10/22/2024

The residents did not want to let go of Haunted Lane.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

10/20/2024

Reportedly one of the most haunted hotels in the country, one room even comes with its own EMF reader

The Hotel Alex Johnson is one of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels.

10/19/2024

Curse of the Delhi Purple Sapphire

Is this gemstone responsible for more than a century of tragedy?

09/20/2024

Preventing the dead from coming back.

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent him from rising from the dead.

09/19/2024

The ghost lights of Colorado's Silver City Cemetery.

Tucked between rugged mountains, this lonely graveyard is home—allegedly—to ethereal, glowing orbs that dance among the headstones.

08/28/2024

One man's experience with D&D

As Dungeons & Dragons turns 50, critic Glen Weldon looks back on playing the game in its early years — and stumbling upon the fierce, shoulder-padded illusionist that would become his first character.

07/07/2024

WSIL News 3 story on the Castle Perilous Games annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. You can find the full reading by Jeffrey Punske William Lo Allegra Frazier Sydney Rather and me on the Castle Perilous Games page

Castle Perilous hopes this will get residents to keep the document in mind.

06/28/2024

If anyone would like to come read part of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th at 11 a.m. , please let me know. If there is a small turnout, we will hold the reading in the front room of the store, otherwise on the sidewalk in front.

[get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.

06/19/2024

Long time gamers and residents of southern Illinois and Indiana may remember Glathricon, an Evansville gaming convention that rant for about 2 decades. If anyone associated with the convention would like this, PM me and I will send it to you.

06/12/2024

Statue of Darth Vader (formerly a statue of Lenin) in Odessa Ukraine

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

06/04/2024

A brief look at Alien Big Cats. There were a spate of sightings reported in the St. Louis Metro East region in the 1980s and a few in southern Illinois in the 1990s

What sightings of lions in Illinois and pumas in Australia tell us about our relationship with the natural world.