Dive bars are nothing if not resilient. While cities and towns ebb & flow with economic boons & busts, the old relics remain. Photographs fade, generations slip away, but those grandfathered liquor licenses… they will keep a place in business. Within these ancient bars are old bones and those old bones have the greasy marrow of history. Often a dark history. And history does not like to be forgotten.
Uncharted Dives has uncovered many spooky stories in haunted taverns, ghost ships and doomed pubs. These are our favorite of those stories…
An Investigation at Portland’s Notorious, “Bucket of Blood”
Over a century ago, the White Eagle was a tavern known for cheap booze, prostitutes and shanghaiing wayward travelers. Today, those Shanghai tunnels are bricked off. The North Oregon Paranormal Investigators focus their tools & energy on an upstairs closet known to be a gateway to hell. Their lead investigator might just be sacrificed in the process…
Boos Cruise: a Week Aboard the Queen Mary
There is no easy way to sleep aboard a ship known as one of the most haunted places in America. But the whiskey helps. Vic braves the hotel lounge aboard the Queen Mary to properly prepare him for the night of terrors ahead.
Something Wicked in the Florida Scrub
“Hello 9-11, we were just communing with dead children spirits in the woods when we were attacked by pagan deer people and our favorite psychic medium was absconded with, perhaps by a Native American spirit. Please send a helicopter and K-9s.”
A ghost hunt goes wrong in Cassadaga: the Psychic Capital of the World.
The Halloween Origins of Uncharted Dives
The authors of Uncharted Dives met, how else?, but a halloween party at a dive bar. This is the oral history of that night of destiny at the Morrison Hotel.
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