I have KG Michelli back with me today and we
are going to touch base and find out because
she has a lot going on since the last time she
was here. You, there's like, what, eight books
now? Nine. Nine total. Oh my gosh. The last time
KG was here she was still writing. Tales of Texas
Road. I had a hard time getting this book. It
was you had to get it for me because it was all
we sold out. Yeah, I found any time I would bring
them to the bookstores within like within a week
they'd be gone and I'd be bringing you know stacks
and stacks into these stores and they just they
couldn't keep it for the longest time. It's starting
to hold now in most of the locations so that's
uh that's I mean a good thing and a bad thing
sort of I guess. Oh no, no, actually last week
somebody asked me on YouTube there was a question
on where people can find your books. Yeah, so
pretty much anywhere that you can get books locally
you can find most of my titles. There's a storyteller's
bookstore on Ottawa, of course, River Book Shop
in Amisburg, Bibly Oasis has a few copies, and
then you've got, there's actually one company
called Love Local, they're out of Chatham, so
this is a newer company where they actually,
you can order right through their site, so I
have my own webpage on their website, and you
can go on there and you can order a book, and
they'll actually deliver it to you for free.
So it's like the way Amazon works, sort of, but
it's all local stuff. So a lot of these people,
they make like handmade items, art, things like
that. And you can just... order it straight to
your home and it's free shipping so that's awesome
too. That's really nice. Now is it also on say
Amazon or Indigo? Yep, Amazon, Indigo, Barnes
and Noble's website also has copies of Tales
of Texas Road. I don't know if they have any
other ones yet but they have the the Texas Road
copies there. Well for people that didn't see
the first podcast can you tell us what Tales
of Texas Road is about? So for a brief rundown,
Texas Road, as many of you know, it is a place
where for hundreds of years people have been
saying that it's haunted, you know, they would
go there and still to this day when they go there
they see things that they can't really explain.
They talk about the woman in white. you know
sometimes missing her head and then you know
there's the of course the headless horseman just
fog that acts in weird ways and just things that
don't make sense. Another thing that's happened
to a lot of people who go there is it's almost
like Texas Road itself is like this anomaly where
when you go there like things that just I guess
they're like explainable things but it's just
so strange how all of these coincidences happen
there, more so. Like, for example, some people
would go there and they would say, you know,
the one that saw the deer right at the bridge
and then it kind of left. It's like you kind
of think to yourself, of course, OK, you're going
to see a deer in a trail. That's not too weird.
But just the fact that it showed up when it did,
where it did. There's a lot of different examples
of this, too, when you look into these stories
from different locals. I know it's creepy. I
just. Read it as like even growing up here and
going down there. There's just this even though
nothing happened to me You just have this weird
feeling like it's just not right Yeah, that's
something that a lot of people talk about too
Like you'll even have paranormal investigators
go down there and they don't really experience
anything But then they'll tell you like the air
just feels heavy Or you always feel like someone's
watching you or just like something's gonna happen
at any given moment It just seems to be a trademark
of Texas Road itself. And that book's been getting
a lot of attention because you're now doing a
series for Bell 5? Yes, so we are filming the
Tales of Texas Road TV show. I'm doing that with
Riggy Media International. We kind of partnered
up and I'm actually the director, so I've been
directing the TV show. I did act in it a little
bit too. You'll see me on the show and then as
well as there was a lot of locals who just came
in to play a role and people from the book Tales
of Texas Road that had come on as well to speak
in person about their stories. So it's very interesting
to see the stories from the book kind of come
out in full force where you can see everything
that they were talking about and it's just a
totally different feel to it. and be kind of
creepy to watch. But I'm excited. How would you
like directing? It's a lot of work, obviously.
Some people may think that it's a very easy,
simple job. It's a lot of work. But I mean, it
is rewarding. It is fun in the same way. You
always get a lot of laughs doing things like
that. And just, you know, things happen. It's
entertaining, for sure. I don't know if it would
be hard to direct your own work. because you
tend to be really particular well not you in
general but I know if it was me I'd be really
particular you know I feel like that would definitely
be a thing in if we were to direct one of my
fictional stories let's say like one of my psychological
thrillers but with it being where we had these
people come and sit into a room and they're telling
us what happened it's more like at that point
you're going off of what they're saying so you
can kind of take these things and add them in
where they need to be. So in reality the book's
not going to change because that person is still
telling you the same story. So it's much easier
for it not to go a different route. Whereas like
I said if it was like a fictional book that may
be a completely different story and I could see
myself pulling my hair out. Kudos to you because
there's no way in heck I could ever do something
like that. Now do we know when that's going to
be airing yet? So the TV show will be on Bell
5 in March of 2026. Now I don't know if they'd
be airing it like right at the beginning of the
month or what time but if they do follow me like
if people want to follow me on my socials or
anything like that they'd be able to kind of
keep tabs on when it's going to come out but
it will be March of 2026. But she also wrote
another book in between now we have Tales of
Sandwich Town, which I started reading again
about halfway through and I got scared. It has
some really, really good stories in it. Oh my
gosh. That's the one thing that a lot of people
have said about it too. So whereas Texas Road,
it's more about these eerie stories out in the
middle of... Guess a trail where you'd have to
you'd have to actually be searching for something
to end up in a place like that Whereas with sandwich
town, it's these stories are just happening in
people's places of work. It's happening in their
homes It's happening on the streets while they're
walking by so to me it almost adds this Realistic
aspect to the stories where you could walk into
your kitchen and see something in in the kitchen
so I guess like where I'm going with that. It's
just the stories are more realistic themselves
Yeah more relatable and for anybody that isn't
in the Windsor Essex County area Sandwich town
is historical town and a lot of the homes and
the buildings are old So there's a lot of history
to a lot of them The Duff Baby House. Yeah, the
Duff Baby House is a big one. Then you've got,
of course, the Windsor Jail, which has been closed
down for quite a few years. And then Mackenzie
Hall, of course. You've got the cemetery right
across the street where there's... a lot of weird
stuff that happens there as well. It felt weird.
I had, I was out on the other night and I was
parked right at Mackenzie Hall and it was dark
and there's Mackenzie Hall. There's the graveyard.
And I had literally just read this book the night
before. I'm like, okay, hurry up, get to the
car, get to the car. Cause it was dark out. I'm
like, I'm not looking. That's great. I'm sorry.
Now how long has this been out for? So this book
just came out on October 11th. I had the launch
so that was the very first place that you could
buy it was at the book launch over at Storytellers.
The following day on October 12th it became available
on Amazon as well as river bookshop now carries
it. So far those are the only three places that
have access to it right now so if you are looking
for a copy I will be broadening the reach for
people to be able to get them as well. Now do
you have a reading for us today? I definitely
can. Let's see. I know I couldn't even... Pick
out one, because the one that scares me the most
is a really long one. Were you there when I did
the reading at the launch? I had missed it, because
it was still so busy. So many people came in.
It was insane. I'm going to read that one, I
think. So some people may have heard this one.
If you grew up around Sandwich Town, you may
be familiar with the local folklore. The locals
would speak about the woman in white who was
killed on her wedding day. They say she haunts
the grounds of Brock Public School and the surrounding
areas. A wartime bride who lived back in the
early 1800s. They speak about the bowl of the
cemetery that is said to guard the area. If you
ask anyone familiar to the area, they'll tell
you not to go through the cemetery at night.
They'll tell you to stay far away from the grounds.
The bowl doesn't take too kindly to visitors
after dark. And I can attest to this. since I've
stared this creature right in the eyes. I used
to go to Brock Public School. This was quite
a few years ago, before they changed a good amount
of the building. My friends and I used to shortcut
through the cemetery on our way to and from school
each day. It made the walk much faster. There
were quite a few times that I could count that
we had run into the groundskeeper of the graveyard.
He seemed to be there almost every time we'd
go through. Watch out for the bull, he would
tell us. We always just assumed that he was trying
to keep kids out of the area. Don't come here
at night, he would warn. One specific night,
sometime around Halloween, my friends and I had
planned to go down there. We always cut through
during the day, but never really experienced
what the place would feel like in the dark. I
wasn't expecting to see anything that night,
but had decided to go along with it. My friends
wanted to see if the lore were true, and I'd
be lying if I said I wasn't a bit intrigued myself.
I was around 13 or 14 years old the first time
I stepped onto those grounds during the night.
Something felt different about it. It definitely
didn't feel like the same place that we would
walk through to get to school. As we stepped
in, my friends began asking questions aloud.
I can't remember exactly what they had asked,
but I knew it was somewhere along the lines of,
who are you? Or, what is your name? They were
really working themselves up. I could hear them
talking amongst themselves, all of them on edge.
They kept thinking that they were seeing things
move within the trees above or that they were
seeing shadows moving by. I personally was not
very convinced. To me, it seemed like they were
spooking themselves out, becoming so nervous
that their eyes were playing tricks on them.
I remained quiet, despite the chatter happening
around me. It was around 15 to 20 minutes into
our little expedition that my friends all started
to get really scared. They decided that they
wanted to leave. Okay, let's go, I had agreed.
I took the rounded path that led back out to
the road as to not step on any graves. I was
always extremely respectful of the dead. As I
made my way, I noticed that my friends were all
too spooked to do the same. They had made their
way out to Peter Street before I had even had
much time to take note of which way they had
gone. I assumed that they had ran straight across
the grass, forcing their way through in an attempt
to get out faster. I made my way through the
fenced area, my eyes scanning shadowed tombstones.
I wasn't even sure exactly what I was looking
for, but I had the sense that I wasn't alone.
That was when I felt it. Hot, steamy breath poured
down the back of my neck and into the collar
of my t -shirt. As I turned my head, only slightly
to the left, A putrid smell filled my nostrils.
It was sour. Like rotten eggs. Sulfur. The warmness
didn't dissipate as I froze. That mist of heat
every few seconds. It's difficult even now to
forget. It wasn't long before I began to hear
the angry exhaling of a large mouth directly
behind me. It was like whatever was there wanted
me to turn around. It wanted me to know that
it was present. I began to walk. Slowly, toward
the exit. As I moved, I could still feel and
hear this thing breathing down my neck. It was
hovering over my shoulders, following me very
closely. My footsteps on the cement echoed throughout
the cemetery as I made a run for the gate. I
stopped and spun around, just as I had made my
way out, and for a split second I saw it. I was
almost expecting to see a bull -like creature,
but that was not that. Sure, the size was similar
to a bowl, but that was about it. No, it looked
much more like a gargoyle, like a monster. It
walked on four legs, its face unnaturally wrinkled.
It had extremely long limbs, filled with muscle.
And just as quickly as I had seen it, it disappeared.
My friends never did see it. They were much further
down Peter Street and almost completely out of
sight. Oh, gosh. That was so scary. Oh my god.
I ate ball. Graveyards at night. Forget it. It
was really hard for me to... I ended up going
to the cemetery a couple days after writing that
story. And I couldn't walk through. Like, okay,
partially it was because there was... Before
we had gone in, we saw skunks like all over the
place. So I was kind of like... I don't know
if that noise I'm hearing is like something paranormal
or is it like something that's gonna spray me
and I'm gonna stink for a week. I don't know.
So we didn't bother going through too far. So
the stories that people bring you, they do kind
of freak you out too. They do sometimes, yeah.
Sometimes like I feel like at first I was able
with Texas Road because I had been there so many
times. Like I had had these paranormal experiences.
It takes a lot to freak me out. So I mean, I
could hear stories of, okay, I saw fog, I heard
a noise, I saw shadow. Those kind of things don't
really freak me out. But when you're seeing something
that's physically there that doesn't... quite
makes sense especially when the person that I'm
getting the story from is just like there's there's
no doubt that either they're a hundred percent
telling the truth or they a hundred a hundred
percent believe that they're telling you the
truth well yeah you know and that just adds like
this spook factor to it because it's okay you're
not just saying this for a thrill or whatever
you're you saw this I smelled it exactly and
and felt it like it's So people are just they
come willingly. You get a lot of stories from
people. This this one was harder to get stories
from. So with Texas Road, as soon as I posted
it, like there's so many so many stories there
that they were coming out of the woodwork with
telling me what happened. This one definitely.
I mean, I had to kind of pry like I had to go
to places and actually search for these people
that had seen things like Texas Road. They're
scary stuff, but also there's a bunch of it's
you know kids out there They've been drinking
there together, but these ones sandwich town
a lot of them are very personal like happened
in their house or in their workplace and They
probably are still feeling that. That was the
other thing I was going to bring up was a lot
of these stories actually came from people who
worked inside like Mackenzie Hall. There's people
in here that are in city council. Like there's
people in this book in higher I want to say like
higher positions than a lot of the other stories
from the previous book. So to me if someone's
going to come out and start explaining like this
is what I saw and and obviously people with like
jobs of that statute, they don't want people
to think that they're crazy. They don't want
to have that hanging over them. So the fact that
they actually shared these stories with me, like
to me that almost adds just an extra, that extra
ounce of credibility to what they're saying.
Like why would someone who's like this big famous
doctor... The chiropractor. Exactly, the chiropractor
story. Now she was left anonymous, but in a way
she kind of named herself without naming herself.
this one a haunting on South Street this person
was 12 years old like it sounds like it's still
with them a little bit like yeah and when I talked
to her actually the girl who had given me she
was the one who had talked to me about that and
she was like almost in tears for part of that
So again, it's not yeah that one like that story
itself just just like as soon as she was telling
me I'm like it sounds like you were living in
the conjuring house. That's what I was thinking
too I'm like, oh my goodness like kudos to them
for staying as long as what they did there because
I would have been caught the first time Yeah,
and it almost makes me wonder so now that I mean,
I don't think the address was in there but no
even so it's Was looking for it. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, just so that way, you know, I'm never gonna
go there, but it almost adds like this Almost
like a warning to the public or like just information
that like hey, this is what happened in this
building there are people from like some of them
do have the addresses some of the apartments
on sandwich and they had weird things happening
in their little apartments. And it's like you
could be living in, someone else could be living
in one of those apartment buildings, having things
move around on them and they think they're crazy.
Maybe they're gonna read this book and see that
someone else in the apartment next to them had
weird, they're not gonna feel so alone. It reminds
me when I was young and my mom would go to work
and I was terrified of being by myself in the
morning and I always have my dog in the bedroom
and I swear the house was settling at the time
so it sounded like somebody was walking the dog
would start barking and I was like almost in
tears I'd go to a friend's house early in the
morning but I couldn't imagine it being more
than a house just settling. I see it like I've
seen some weird things growing up. I've experienced
some really weird things that still to this day
I just it doesn't make sense So I guess like
some people it's just it's more condition isn't
don't get me wrong. I still sleep with the lights
on but I feel like some people are like they
they become conditioned when Creepy things are
happening like now. I mean it was a last week.
I was laying in bed and my fiance saw like there
was a slipper in the middle of the floor okay
and the slipper there's nothing in the room and
it just does a 360 it just twists and he's freaking
out he's like oh my god it's not move i'm like
whatever and it's not that i didn't believe him
like i was even saying i'm like i'm like is that
all he's got like and then i'm sitting here like
trying to figure out okay how does this how does
it work in the mind of a spirit right Are they
just like, oh, there's some humans over there.
I'm going to go move this slipper just to scare
it. Like, it's just weird, in my opinion. Sometimes
it's like, really, bro? Did you see it move,
too? I kind of caught like the tail end of it.
Like, I saw it at the corner of my eye. I believed
him based on the way he was acting. He was looking
right at it. Plus, I've seen... You're both awake,
so it couldn't have been him sleeping. I've seen
weird stuff happen. Like, the one time me and
him were both sitting there and the door, like,
the door just slammed shut. And he's like, did
you see that? I'm like, yeah. Do you live in
City and Rich Town? No, I don't. I actually live
in East Windsor. Are we starting a book on East
Windsor stuff next? Maybe. Do you have an idea
of a book? Yeah, I was going to say, so I can't
give it out yet because I did promise that I
was going to reveal the book on, I think it was
November 2nd, that I'm going to reveal it on
Facebook and Instagram. But I will give a hint
that the next haunted place that I'm going to
be going to is in Niagara Falls. So you may be
able to figure out where it could be based on
that. It is one of the most well -known haunted
places in Niagara Falls itself. I'm actually
going there next week. I had never heard of haunting
in Niagara Falls, but unfortunately through social
media I did happen to see something there, so
I'm not going to give anything away either whatever
social media I saw it on. But I never heard of
it, so I'm really excited to see this. I think
it's going to be a similar thing to Texas Road.
To me it just seems like the stories will be
somewhat similar but I won't know until I talk
to more people. I do have already two stories
for that book so it's already coming along a
little bit. It's nice that you're the go -to
person for these different events and to be able
to make books like maybe throughout Ontario.
I have different things. Yeah, I'm actually looking
to branch into the United States eventually as
well. So this is looking to be something that's
going to be like North America wide. Obviously,
that's that's big dreams for someone who's only
written two of them so far. But eventually that's
where I would love to go. I mean, you went to
Hollywood for an award. Come on. Yeah. Unfortunately,
I didn't win. It doesn't matter. You were nominated.
It was. Yeah, it was the nomination for the author
of the year award. and you know when I went there
of course I'm sitting there I'm like I'm in over
my head this isn't what I think it is and then
I go there and it's this big event red carpets
and there's actors there like I met Sean Cannon
from he's from Karate Kid and he's also a producer
as well and yeah he he played in a bunch of other
movies and he's still he's making movies right
now so I mean that was cool I got to meet him
and I mean even just a lot of the other people
there they're really like, you know, big authors
and people as well. That's pretty cool. And I
mean, it's well worth it because you definitely
gotta find these books because they are really
scary. Now, were there scary books that you did
before these two? The only books that I had out
before that, they were the fiction. So I do have
my psychological thriller. I'm still here as
well. That was the one that won the award in
Arizona before I had ever even had the idea of
Texas Road. And then I do have the series of
short stories that are dark romance based. It's
called Unspoken. And then... There's another
one. Into the Nothing, which is an apocalyptic
thriller. Another book that's come out since
I've been on the show, The Cursed Rock. I don't
know if you've heard about that one. So my daughter,
who she's 11 right now, she wrote a story for
school last year. And what we did was she gave
me the story. It was about two pages. And the
storyline was so good. and she wanted to turn
it into a book. So it's actually a children's
chapter book. It's like young adults, I'd say
from like ages 10 to 14. But it's, yeah, it's
about a little girl who goes to Hawaii and she
finds a rock that, you know, it just looks different
than all the other ones. And then weird things
start happening. So it is a thriller for kids.
Yeah, a lot of people are interested in that
one as well. And that's pretty cool that you
were able to do that with your daughter and collaborate.
Yeah, she was very, like we've had people approach
us about speaking to students at schools and
stuff like that too. Like they want to hear from
her because she's, you know, she's a kid and
her story ended up in this book, so. And what
did she think of all the... I think she's scared
of it, to be honest. She's... She's outgoing
but not at the same time. She is really anxious
of like public speaking and especially in front
of other kids like her peers and... It's overwhelming,
yeah. It is. At her age I don't blame her at
all but she she's definitely going places for
sure. It sounds it. I mean like even you saying
that she wrote a two page essay for... Eleven?
It was, yeah, she was in grade five at the time.
That's a lot for a kid that age. And even the,
so the story, when she had submitted it into
her teacher, her teacher said, this is like your
stood out, like she told her that it stood out
of any of the kids in the class. Hers was like,
caught her attention. She got talent from her
mom. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for being
on here. I really do appreciate it. And make
sure that you follow K .G. Michelli on social
media and get The Tales of Texas Road and The
Tales of Sandwich Town. She will be having that
new book announced sometime in the near future.
And next year we will have the TV series on Bell
5. There's also going to be a ton of events that
she will be having, as well as story readings.
I mean, you're just always busy. I feel like
it never stops sometimes. I need a break. That's
okay. You do need a break, but you're going to
Niagara Falls. Yes. Again, my name is Tracy Martins
and thank you so much for joining me for another
episode of YQGN Bloom. You guys all have a great
day and make sure to get these books.