Jeff Provine loves to tell a tale. He’s usually out leading ghost tours in OKC and Norman, but these days, it’s writing at home. His works collecting local spooky stories include Haunted Norman, Campus Ghosts of Norman, Haunted Oklahoma City, and Haunted Guthrie, and he is co-host on the Tales Unveiled podcast. Freedom “Stay home!” […]
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Halloween Guide: Haunted haunts
From Edmond down to Norman, the metro area is full of opportunities to simultaneously get into the spooky holiday spirit and learn some history during various ghost tours. Author Jeff Provine has been helping lead ghost tours around Norman for a decade, but as his historical expertise has expanded after writing four books for Haunted […]
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Halloween Guide: Invisible guests
Dennis Spielman and Jeff Provine play fictional ghost hunters on their podcast Tales Unveiled, but the people who share their ghost stories are (mostly) real. Now in its second season, the podcast follows reporter Sam Saxton (voiced by Uncovering Oklahoma producer Spielman) and professor Geoff DeRoot (Haunted Oklahoma City author Provine) as they interview Oklahomans […]
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Cosmic science
SMO 21: Cosmic Con 6:30-10 p.m. Friday Science Museum Oklahoma 2020 Remington Place sciencemuseumok.org 405-602-3760 $21-$25 Clint Stone is the sort of person who will greet you outside a restroom with a tarantula named Sputnik. Stone is the sort of person who will drive through a rainstorm to tell you about finding an avocado he […]
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Funny books
Jerry Bennett’s boisterous and bellowing laugh is a whale song within the region’s comic book community, guiding fans through perilous mobs of cosplayers and pop culture completionists packed into sprawling convention spaces. Armed with a print wall of whimsical, referential mashups from movies, comics and cartoons as well as a silver, bushy beard of local […]
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COVER: Pop-culture portrayals of Oklahoma have improved over the past couple decades
Though the upcoming Steven Spielberg film won’t include OKC as a location, the novel version of Ready Player One is partially set in the city.
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Okie Comics Magazine launches as a free illustrated periodical with a strong local bent
Okie Comics Magazine hosts a free in-store signing event 3 p.m. Saturday at All-Star Comics.
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Haunted Oklahoma City book takes readers on a tour through paranormal history
The books’ authors looked to provide as much fact behind each story as possible.
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Ghoul school
Warning, Normanites: One University of Oklahoma instructor will be revealing all of the ghosts on campus, and they’re nowhere near as friendly as Casper. For the third year in a row, Jeff Provine (pictured), founder and leader of “OU’s Mysterious and Macabre Norman,” will lead a walking tour of the college’s spirits. More than seven […]