• The largest gathering of Weird Writers occurred February 17, 2007 at Troy Taylor’s Weird Winter event held at the historic Lincoln Theater in Decatur, Illinois. In attendance were Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman, Troy Taylor, Charlie Carlson, Linda Godfrey, Joanne Austin, Jim Willis, and Weird U.S. graphic artist, Ryan Doan

• In Jim Miles’ Weird Georgia, on page 71, is a photograph of a plaster cast of a Bigfoot footprint. To compare size, there is also a casting of a human foot. The human foot casting was made from the foot of Charlie Carlson, author of Weird Florida. One weird writer’s foot is in the other weird writer’s book.

• On page 54 of Weird Hauntings, there’s a mysterious woman sitting in a truck cab. She’s Joanne Austin, editor of Weird Hauntings.

• A large portion of Weird Ohio was written while author Jim Willis was recovering from emergency gall bladder surgery.

• Weird Carolinas was completed while its author, Roger Manley, was living in France, where he was still living when the book was released in June 2007.

• Loren Coleman, author of Weird Ohio, Weird Virginia has crossed paths with more of his colleagues than any other Weird Writer. He was invited to speak at one of Weird Illinois author, Troy Taylor’s paranormal conferences in Illinois. In August 2006, Joseph Citro, author of Weird New England, photographed Coleman with his Bigfoot. Coleman wrote the introduction to the Beast of Bray Road by Linda Godfrey, author of Weird Michigan and Weird Wisconsin. Coleman was credited in the book, Mysterious California, by Mike Marinacci, author of Weird California. Rob Riggs, of Weird Texas, got his first book published when Coleman recommended it to a publisher. Coleman was a contributor to the Anomalist Newsline when Richard Hendricks, Weird Wisconsin, was the editor. Coleman’s persona in character appears in an episode of the Crypto-Man radio show, in which one of the character’s voices is really that of Weird Florida’s Charlie Carlson. Strangely, Coleman has only met two of his above mentioned fellow writers in person.

• Jim Miles, Weird Georgia, avoids the woods because at 6' 6", 250 pounds, and longish hair and beard, he is likely to be mistaken for Bigfoot and shot and autopsied on FOX television or captured and displayed at state fairs. Jim, aside from writing weird stuff, is among the South’s finest writers of Civil War history.

• For those who want to try it, if you search the internet for any mention of the books in the weird series more than ten million websites will pop up. Proving again, that weird and wacky books have a big following.

• In Weird Ohio, by Jim Willis, on page 241, the young woman listening at the door of the Baker Mausoleum in Cedar Hill Cemetery is the author’s fiancé, Stephanie.

• While writing Weird Ohio, Jim Willis had personal encounters with two ghosts: the ghost of Gretchen’s Lock, pages 222-223, and the Oxford Motorcycle Ghost, pages 20-21.

• The only Weird Writer to have owned and operated a traveling circus-style sideshow is Charlie Carlson, author of Weird Florida. He also claims to be the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum.

• In May 2007, the Interstate-4 Dead Zone article that appears in both Weird Florida and Weird Hauntings prompted a local television station to broadcast a story about the infamous section of highway. The next day, the story was discussed between skeptics and believers on nine Orlando radio talk shows. By the third day, the story had reached the international level going out to 1,151 radio stations across the U.S., Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom, including on the popular Coast-to-Coast show with George Noorey. Not so strange is that the story was first aired during sweeps week to grab ratings. Needless to say, the station that first aired the story reaped the highest viewer ratings in their market for the period. This proves once again, folks like weird stuff!

• In Weird Wisconsin, page 233, you’ll find the Haunted Soap Store story. Although the story doesn't say so, author Linda Godfrey actually saw the soap store ghost! She described her sighting as, “the size and shape of a human torso in the hallway between the store and basement.” Linda failed to get a picture of the apparition even though it was broad daylight. She explained, “I was too shocked to snap a picture.”

• On page 231, in Weird Wisconsin, the Pagliaroni's in the story, "House for Sale - Exorcism Tools Included," not only moved into a haunted house, they saw Bigfoot while on their way home to that house one night, and almost hit it crossing a bridge. They watched it place one hand on a railing and hurdle into the water. Their Bigfoot encounter is described in the book titled, "Hunting the American Werewolf."

• In Weird Michigan, Don Crossman's fascinating Sculpture Garden is a self-taught artist's humorous haven in Benzie County, but sadly, Mr. Crossman passed away only weeks before Weird Michigan hit the shelves, so he was never able to see the print documentation of his labor.

• In August 2007, weird writer, Linda Godfrey, in a high risk adventure, actually snorkeled in the Bermuda Triangle but did not encounter anything unusual, nor did she locate any of the vanished ships or airplanes.

• The Dinosaur Gardens story in Ossineke, in Weird Michigan, has a strange error says, author, Linda Godfrey. For some unexplainable reason the error stubbornly refuses to be stamped out even with meticulous editing. Linda says you’ll find the persistent error where it reads that Ossineke is on Michigan's northwest shore. It's definitely on the northeast shore. The author blames book gremlins.

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