I have an extremely wide range of taste in music, depending on my mood...Godsmack, the Stones, anything with Native American drumming in it, U2, bagpipe music, Dylan, Gershwin--hey, I told ya it's a wide range.

What is on my bookshelf right now: Ted Andrews' Animal Speak, road maps, cookbooks, Bartlett's Quotations, French dictionaries, travel guide to New Orleans (the pre-Katrina version), Hans Holzer books, anything about real-life hauntings.

Sixth Sense, Ghostbusters, Army of Darkness, anything written by Stephen King. Any movie with Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, or that guy who plays the dad in the American Pie movies--you know, with the bushy eyebrows. When I'm really depressed, I watch Three Stooges shorts or Burns and Allen. (If you're under 30 this will not make sense to you.)

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My love of writing and the paranormal have culminated into my first book, which is out on the bookshelves. It's called, Ann Arbor Area Ghosts. I am currently at work on my second book, Detroit Ghosts. Hey, you can contact me if you have a scary Detroit story! (michelleuptergrove@yahoo.com) I currently belong to a great new investigative group called Michigan Research and Investigations of the Paranormal, or MI-RIP).

Really, Really good coffee. I'm talking about the kind that will make you stay up all night so you can read ghost stories. Funny people. Big, goofy dogs that hang out of car windows. Ghost hunters, of course, as long as they don't get too caught up in the technical part of it and miss out on the haunt itself.

People who stare with their mouths open, at nothing in particular. Lazy people. Big fat possums near my trash cans(ugh). Whistlers in public (or those who sing along to the piped-in music). People who take credit for the work of others. Cell phone users who yak loudly in banks, grocery lines, and video stores.

Writing, hiking, paranormal investigations, history, travel.