Author: Emily Welker

Ghoul Morning: Finding The Killer’s Identity

The minds behind one of the most amazing, lifesaving Facebook groups you'll ever seen.

They are by turns delicious and deadly, innocent and intoxicating, remarkable and wholly ordinary. They are the plants and mushrooms spreading silently around us, and the wrong encounter with one could cost your child, your pet, your elderly loved one, even you,  your life. So now, a Facebook group 300-plus experts strong has sprung up, with members all around the…

Moorhead Police respond to disturbance involving Minnesota Senate candidate

Dan BohmerMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Republican state Senate candidate Dan Bohmer, who’s facing fallout from a controversial DFL caucus attack ad, was the subject of a police call in Moorhead Wednesday night. A police report obtained through an open records request by KVRR News shows police responded to a Moorhead home during a child exchange between Bohmer and his ex-wife,…

Dia De Los Muertos in Downtown Fargo

Park yourself for awhile tonight at Broadway Square with the Fargo Park District.

It’s a chance to connect with a culture you may not know about tonight — as well as to connect with your friends and loved ones, both living and not. It’s the Dia de los Muertos celebration in downtown Fargo’s Broadway Square, and it’s got something for everyone in your family. The holiday, which has indigenous roots from the Central…

Ghoul Morning: The Concordia Theatre Ghost

He might be one of the best-known Concordians who ever lived. Problem is, we have no idea if he was ever actually alive.

MOORHEAD — The name Al Gersbach is instantaneously familiar to generation after generation of Concordia college alums. Going back decades, you can find his name on program after program at the Comstock Theatre. He’s been billed as a spiritual adviser for “Godspell,” a hematologist on a slasher play, even once doing a turn as a feather boa. So who is…

Ghoul Morning: Rocky Horror Show At Concordia College

They're time-warping to a totally new decade -- 90s club kids, your moment is now.

MOORHEAD —  Fans of the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Show” are getting to “time warp” to a new decade in music, thanks to a new production of the stage show launching soon at Concordia College. The show is in rehearsals now and its run is set for early November at the Comstock Theatre in Moorhead. The show is the…

Ghoul Morning: Make A Dancing Broom

It's not witchcraft, but this broom really will dance by itself.

FARGO — By now you’ve probably been to a few Halloween parties, or maybe you’re throwing one and dreading cleaning the house before the guests come over. So this Ghoul Morning, Emily and Adam decided to help you out. They’re building a Halloween prop that cleans up for you. Of course, it does leave a lot of fairy dust along…

Pet Connection: Meet Scotch

He's handsome. He's sweet. He loves to snuggle and talk. Basically, he's the perfect guy.

There have been a lot of great pets who’ve come through the Morning Show studio for Pet Connection, but there have only been one or two it’s been hard for the anchor to let go of to go home to the shelter. Scotch is one of them. This beautiful 3-year-old tabby came to Homeward Animal Shelter from our local pound,…

LIVE: So Bad It’s Good

This Ghoul Morning we're delving into the best of the worst horror movies at Horrorfest in Fargo.

FARGO — Being bad never felt so good as it will this Friday at the Fargo Theatre. That’s when Grindflicks Horrorfest takes over the town and fans of the worst of cinema and the best of times are taking over the screen. Billed as “a double feature of schlock and shock,” this year’s festival features bad-movie icon Greg Sestero, who’s…

LIVE: The Monster of Devils Lake

The stories live on, even if the monster may be no more.

It’s one of the region’s longest-running scary stories. The murky depths of Devils Lake in North Dakota may be hiding a monster. And the source may surprise you. It’s been variously referred to as a sea serpent, or a sort of Loch Ness Monster of the Upper Midwest. But it turns out, according to the original legend, neither of those…

LIVE: Talking with the Dead

Okay, our guest is alive. But he has some pretty good dirt to spill, especially for someone who's above ground.

FARGO — Are you one of those people who thinks you can communicate with the dead? If you lived in the Fargo-Moorhead of the 1880s, you probably believed you could. That’s what records from that era show,  according to the Clay County Historical and Cultural Society’s Markus Krueger. A religion called “Spiritualism” was big here in those days, as it…