What a Night. What a Year.
Saturday night was National Ghost Hunting Day, and we celebrated in exactly the way you'd expect from In the Shadows Paranormal—inside the Pueblo Heritage Museum, after dark, surrounded by history, questions, equipment, laughter, and a group of people willing to follow their curiosity wherever it led.
And what a night it was.
We had people investigating throughout the museum, learning to use equipment, asking questions, comparing experiences and occasionally looking at one another with that expression we know very well:
“Did you just hear that?”
There are things from the night we're still reviewing. There are moments we'll probably be talking about for quite a while.
But sitting here a few days later, what strikes me most isn't any single piece of possible evidence.
It's how far this little idea has traveled in one year.
In the Shadows Paranormal began with a simple philosophy: be curious. Respect the history. Verify what we can. Admit what we can't. And don't forget to have some fun along the way.
Since then, we've investigated hotels, museums, cemeteries, historic buildings, private homes and some wonderfully unexpected places. We've met extraordinary people. We've heard stories that deserve to be remembered. And we've learned, again and again, that sometimes the investigation begins with the paranormal—but leads somewhere else entirely.
Which brings me, inevitably, to a hearse.
A beautiful horse-drawn hearse at the Pueblo Heritage Museum caught our attention. Then we found a maker's plate.
That little plate led us more than 5,000 miles away to Linz, Austria, and to a carriage maker named Ignaz Nisslmüller. It led to old newspapers, church records, city archives, a wonderful archivist in Linz, and questions we haven't answered yet.
Somewhere along the way, the hearse became affectionately known to us as Iggy.
And then Iggy made the news.
Watching this piece of Pueblo history—and the man who created it more than a century ago—capture people's imaginations far beyond Pueblo has been one of the strangest and most wonderful turns in this entire adventure.
Saturday night brought so many of those threads together under one roof.
Our team. Our guests. The museum. The history. The unanswered questions. And yes, our International Man of Mystery.
So today, mostly, I'm grateful.
To everyone at the Pueblo Heritage Museum who has trusted us with their building and its stories. To the people who have invited us into their homes and historic spaces. To everyone who has bought a ticket, followed an investigation, shared a post, asked a question or simply said, “That's interesting—tell me more.”
And especially to the people beside me who have turned this strange little idea into something I could never have created alone.
We're already talking about what comes next.
Of course we are.
Because if this first year has taught us anything, it's this:
Curiosity really is a gateway to learning.
And sometimes, you have absolutely no idea where it's going to take you.
Stay curious.
In the Shadows ParanormalGhosts. Gatherings. The Unexplained.
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