Michael Bauch
Bio
I am a writer with a wide range of interests. Don't see anything that sparks your fancy? Check back again later, you might be surprised by what's up my sleeve.
You can follow me on Twitter @MichaelBauch7
Stories (40/0)
- Top Story - January 2018
Dark Night
I get letters and emails all the time, it comes with the territory when you do freelance journalism in a field where people desperately want to be believed. It’s why I have a post office box; if I had all this stuff, it would bury the door to my apartment. Most of it is crap from businesses looking for an endorsement saying they are "haunted" to drum up business and I don't do that. I have it on my website that I don't do that. It’s in the disclaimer at the end of every article I write that I don't do that. Yet here I am, loading a box of letters into my bag, and most of them ask me to look into their haunted business. Mind you, if I did I could afford a nicer apartment and car, but that would torpedo any integrity I held as a journalist.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror
Can You Be "Coming of Age" In Your Late 30's?
So there's this show called "This is Us". You may have heard of it. 92% on Rotton Tomatoes, 76% on Metacritic, and one of the most talked about shows from last year. We are now entrenched in its second season and if you haven't seen it, let me break it down for you;
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Humans
Haunting Me Part 7
Part 7 What followed was a trip between Washington, Joyce, and myself to a storage unit her father kept in town. Opening it up, I found a time capsule to everything Joyce’s mother was. Favorite pieces of furniture, art work, clothing, and boxes of records. “My mom was a nurse…” she said.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror
Haunting Me Part 6
“I thought you said they couldn’t touch us.” Simmons asked as we rushed down the hallway, the file tucked neatly under his arm as his legs pumped hard. Behind us the charred bodies clamored after us, knocking over filing cabinets and boxes as they pursued.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror
Haunting Me Part 5
I held my breath for a moment. Here it was again, the apparition that had stalked me for nearly a decade and it was less than six feet from me. This ghost, demon, whatever it was, loomed over Joyce’s shoulder, threatening to tear my soul apart and suck me into the madness of it’s black, soulless eyes.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror
Haunting Me Part 4
Four rapid pounds rocked the house. Four more came, thundering through the door and vibrating the walls. I heard the racking of a shotgun to my right; it was Joe, taking aim at the door. I looked at the window and didn’t see the black-eyed inmate anymore. Joe raised the gun to his shoulder, lined up the sights and put his finger on the trigger, beginning to squeeze. “WAIT!” I yelled. Another rapid fire of four knocks came, but softer, not as earth shattering as the first two. “CITY POLICE!” a voice yelled from the other side.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror
Haunting Me Part 3
What followed had to be the longest inquisition I’d ever been a part of, and to remind you, I once went to jail. My previous time as an inmate of this very county didn’t help my situation, or the situation of Officer Simmons, because now a former inmate and an off duty police officer were in spitting distance of a recently deceased body, and all of us were tied together because of that damned cell. Our saving grace was CCTV. The garage had a closed circuit camera system running through their junk lot to keep intruders out. Those weren’t beat up old vehicles, after all. Those were investments. That was their stock room. Rolling back the footage, the detectives responding could clearly see we didn’t put a finger on the guy and he clearly killed himself.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror
Pennywise Wasn't Created by IT
Pennywise was a real person… At least that’s the theory I’m starting with. In Stephen King’s IT the titular, unnamed entity takes on a multitude of physical identities, but something occurred to me. None of these identities are “original.” I specifically highlight when IT takes on the form of the teenage werewolf or the mummy. These are creations of from the psyches of the children. IT probably didn’t sit through a showing of I Was a Teenage Werewolf or The Mummy. Rather, IT took these forms because IT knew the kids were scared by them.
By Michael Bauch6 years ago in Horror