Doctor of Biblical Studies Moonlights As Happy Haunt

A few days ago, I gave some hullabaloo to Jeff Baham, known in the afterlife as Chef Mayhem, about his peerless Disney fan site, Doombuggies. Having not heard back from the Chef, I feared that he might finally have been trapped in the Mansion he loves and so I began looking for clues to perhaps free his sorry spirit.

I had not far to look before finding Long-Forgotten, an equally eerie site devoted to the Haunted Mansion and run by the most unlikely of people, a Doctor of Biblical Studios who specializes in the Book of Enoch.

(Folks, if I could make this stuff up, I'd be telling Matt Lauer on my book tour how I did it.)

The good doctor, Dan Olson, has some genuinely spooky imagery on his site, and he debunks in detail the tricks used by charlatans for centuries to fool the foolish public. In his "ruminations and revelations" he also sheds light into the darker corners of the Haunted Mansion, most recently with a long article about the mechanics behind the creepy conveyance known as the Doombuggy.

And so we've come full circle: Doombuggies to Doombuggy but no closer to Chef Mayhem unless those screams in the dark, getting closer, suggest that Chef Mayhem is getting closer to us...