The Top 10 Strange And Spooky Of 2013

Happy new year!

One of the things I enjoy doing on New Year’s Day is looking back at the stats for my blog. I really get a kick out of seeing not only what people were typing into search engines to end up here, but also which stories were the most popular. For the most part, stats for particular pages will be really high right out of the gate and then decline over time as it becomes “old news”. Same with the search terms. Still, for every random The Tokoloshe He Eat My Dog, there were several terms and phrases that kept popping up time and time again.

So here they are (in reverse order to build suspense): The Top 10 Search Terms for 2013:

10. Mothman

Over 1,000 people landed on my site searching for Mothman, which is interesting to me since apart from a couple of mentions of my appearing at various Mothman Festivals over the years and the Mothman Plush in my Museum, I don’t have that much stuff on my blog about Mothman.

9. Eggshelland

Still can’t believe that Eggshelland is gone.

8. Paul Is Dead

Since this conspiracy is well over 40 years old, it makes me smile to see that so many people are still intrigued with it!

7. Ghost Sightings

With all my strange and spooky stuff, good to know people still come to me for what started it all: ghosts.

6. Strange And Spooky World

There was a huge number of hits from this term in October, no doubt caused by my presentations and public appearances.

5. Amanda Berry

When the whole Amanda Berry/Sylvia Browne thing blew up, I couldn’t keep up with all the hits to my site. It died down shortly afterwards, only to spike again when Browne passed away later in November of 2013.

4. What Is A Tokoloshe

I’m still asking myself that very question!

3. Fiji Mermaid

I get at least 5 e-mails a month from people asking me if the mermaid I have in my museum is real. I simply tell them I can see it sitting on my shelf, so of course it’s real!

2. Tokoloshe

To be honest, I was a little surprised this wasn’t #1. And it wasn’t even close.

1. Big Butter Jesus

Guess it doesn’t matter if you call him Touchdown Jesus, Cream Cheese Jesus, Terminator Jesus, or even the 5-Dollar Footlong Jesus. Folks just can’t get enough of that giant weird statue alongside I-75 North.

So what were the top 10 stories/posts from 2013? Glad you asked! BTW, you can click on them if you need to do a little catchup reading.

10. The Final Eggshelland