Hours after two firefighters were ambushed and fatally shot while responding to a blaze on Canfield Mountain, authorities announced that the suspected shooter was found dead on the burning mountain.
The suspect has not been publicly identified. His background and motives remain under investigation, police said. Authorities believe the suspect set the fire intentionally and acted alone.
“This was a total ambush,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said during a Sunday night news conference in Hayden. “These firefighters did not have a chance.”
There are media reports that a fire was intentionally set and when fire fighters arrived, they were ambushed! More reports indicate there is still some at large..
This is the strange part of summer.. not yet the midsummer nightmare.. bright enough and hot enough for your mind to be fooled that daylight is already starting to …wane.
Have you noticed.. the days are ALREADY getting shorter ? The best months of the year–at least for light and vitamin D–are April through June.. July begins that slow hot panic into autumn .. the nights are just increasingly inching towards dominance.. the darkness wins soon. Until then, enjoy these fleeting moments of light and bright..
On July 8th, around 11:15 UTC, approximately 99% of the Earth’s population experiences some form of sunlight, whether it’s direct daylight or indirect light like twilight. This phenomenon is due to the Earth’s rotation and the distribution of landmasses relative to the sun. The peak of this event occurs for a period of about 60 days surrounding the summer solstice. ..
The event featured a mix of horror legends and lesser-known gems from the genre, giving fans everything from nostalgia to fresh blood. Unfortunately, we found out about the convention a little too late this year to help promote it properly. But trust us, we’ll be ready next year. Count on The Horror Report to shine a bigger spotlight on it in 2026.
There were some really fun guests.
In the meantime, enjoy a few snapshots from our visit including some special moments we won’t soon forget.
I had the absolute pleasure of meeting the lovely Dee Wallace, and so did my son. She couldn’t have been more gracious. She is truly an amazing soul. My son even shared with her one of his earliest memories: when he was about 5 or 6, my late father (his grandfather) was babysitting him and, right before falling asleep, put on Cujo. Let’s just say that traumatizing a child with a rabid St. Bernard was not the best idea but Dee absolutely loved the story. She admitted she was pretty traumatized by it too. Instant connection. She told us an interesting story about the multiple dogs used in the film, and how she was really bloodied during filming when glass cut her arm.
I also got to meet Robert Longstreet, known for Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, Halloween Kills, and more. A genuinely down-to-earth guy. He was humble, kind, and a pleasure to talk with. Another great human being in the horror world. He loved Midnight Mass as much as me.. he also hopes that, if Michael Flanagan is reading, out Robert in your next project, ok!?
And last but not least of my favorites today, the great Harry Manfredini, the legendary composer behind the Friday the 13th films. What a riot. He was a laugh-a-minute, full of stories, sharp wit, and just an all-around blast to be around.
It’s nothing but praise from us here at The Horror Report for Horror on Main. Harrisburg, you hosted a great show. We will be back next time. I heard some great stories.. and after seeing the pictures, realized my 14-year-old is now taller than me…. How about that.
Something strange is going on from Georgia and Tennessee all the way down to South Carolina.
This afternoon, multiple reports began surfacing about a bright fireball streaking across the sky, with some witnesses claiming they saw it falling toward the ground. Even more bizarre—there are now videos circulating on social media showing what looks like a glowing object plummeting from the sky.
There’s no official word yet on what exactly this was. No confirmations from NASA, NOAA, or any other government agency. But local news outlets and affiliates in South Carolina have picked up the story, airing highway footage that clearly shows the mysterious object lighting up the sky before vanishing out of view.
Was it a meteor? Space debris? Something else entirely?
Also, some people are speculating that power outages in South Carolina today are a resulting..
Whatever it was, it has people talking—and watching the skies. We’ll continue following this one to see if we can find out what in the world (or out of the world) just came crashing down.
Vladimir Putin’s bizarre ‘Doomsday Radio’ has started broadcasting dozens of mysterious coded messages today as NATO leaders met in The Hague to discuss the war in Ukraine.
World leaders including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and US president Donald Trump gathered for a summit in The Hague today with the European conflict high up on the agenda – and it appears the meeting sparked a reaction from inside the Kremlin. Russia’s UVB-76 radio station, also known as ‘The Buzzer’, was first set up in the Cold War, and is typically activated at moments of high tension on the international stage.
Prosecutors in the Sean Combs sex trafficking and racketeering case informed the judge they will no longer pursue theories that the hip-hop mogul was involved in attempted arson and attempted kidnapping, according to a letter submitted to the court.
Those two alleged acts were included in the government’s racketeering conspiracy charge, which is count one in the indictment against Diddy…
The racketeering conspiracy still alleges Combs was involved in transportation for purposes of prostitution, witness tampering, bribery, and drug-related offenses.
More…
“The Government is no longer planning to proceed on these theories of liability, so instructions are no longer necessary,” prosecutors wrote in the letter to Judge Arun Subramanian.
Last night, the world watched with bated breath as both Israel and Iran entered into a fragile ceasefire—announced, of course, by President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account. Some said it wouldn’t hold. Others held out hope.
Almost immediately after the ceasefire began, both sides accused each other of violating the terms. Reports claim Israel dropped a large series of bombs in parts of Iran. President Trump was not pleased.
But while Israel and Iran teeter on the edge of peace and chaos, Trump may have dropped the real bomb—live on television.
In a moment that stunned cable news outlets, Trump went where no President has gone before: he dropped the F-bomb—unbleeped, uncensored, and unapologetic.
And yes, it aired. On your friendly cable networks..
If you look back in the history books, June 23, 1989 wasn’t particularly Earth-shattering. Politically, the world didn’t tilt off its axis. No massive global shift. No historic peace deal. No grand disaster. But… maybe there was something. Something quieter. Something louder. Something bigger than anyone could’ve realized in the moment.
Batman was released in theaters.
This post is a bit self-serving, I’ll admit. It’s nostalgic and maybe even overly sentimental. But I hope some of you reading this remember it too. And if you do—if you lived through that summer—I’d love to hear what it meant to you.
Because for me that summer was magic.
Let me start with a little personal backstory. I was 8 years old when my mom’s friend Janet brought me a few packs of Topps trading cards.
You remember the kind—with the cardboard-flavored gum that could break your teeth. But inside these packs were strange characters. A white-faced, clown-like man. A figure with giant horns and black armor. I didn’t know what I was looking at. (PS I still have all of the full sets of them today)
I had been raised on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Superheroes weren’t quite in my bloodstream yet but those cards sparked something. And eventually, I saw the name.
BATMAN.
Now remember, this was before social media. Before YouTube trailers. Before spoilers and breakdowns and frame-by-frame analysis videos. We had to wait until we saw the trailer on TV. And when we finally did? We were hooked enough to know we needed to be in that movie theater.
There was something electric about the anticipation. The air-conditioned mall theater. The smell of popcorn and the stickiness of the floor under your sneakers. The massive drinks from the concession stand. That hush when the lights dimmed. And then it began…
BATMAN took over the nation. More so here than other countries since places like Great Britain, as documented in this August 1989 article, didn’t let anyone under 11 see the movie due to the ‘extreme violence,’ even with a parent accompanying them:
I honestly can’t tell you how many times I saw Batman that summer. Twice? Three times? More? I’ve probably watched it over a 200 times since. And when I got the VHS that Christmas, I wore it out by the time the following summer rolled around. The video game was also heavily used.. I blew on that Nintendo cartridge with power and prowess..
But Batman wasn’t just a movie—it was a movement.
There was Batman everything. T-shirts. Toys. Posters. Ads. Happy Meals. Prince’s album. Commercials. Crossovers. Batman on cereal boxes. Batman on cups. Batman in every corner of pop culture. Halloween that year? A sea of purple and painted Joker faces. Every kid was trying to out-Joker the other.
It changed movies and the way that movies portrayed superheroes.
Tim Burton’s Batman introduced an entire generation to a version of Gotham that was dark, gritty, and real. That grimy city looked like 1980s New York. The mayor even felt like a caricature of Ed Koch. There were layers—politics, corruption, empathy for villains. And a hero who operated in the shadows because the system couldn’t be trusted.
It was a massive departure from the 1960s Batman TV show, which at that time was mostly remembered for its camp and color. Cesar Romero’s mustache under white clown makeup and shark repellent in the utility belt. Burton’s Batman brought the character home to his darker origins.
Funny enough, the success of the movie brought renewed interest in that old show, and the Family Channel began airing reruns. So, for a kid like me, 1989 didn’t just give me the new Batman—it introduced me to all the past ones too. Campy, creepy, heroic, and weird—it was all part of the package.
And maybe no movie since then has captured that same feeling.
There was one little issue, Adam West, the campy Batdude, told the Associated Press in the summer of 1989 that Tim Burton’s version was “too violent” …Of course that was before he even saw the film:
We talk about Jaws reshaping the movie industry—and that’s true. But Batman did too. It redefined superhero films and gave comics a new life. Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, to this day, are described as their characters from the film.
And here we are, in 2025, still talking about it. Fans are still dissecting every new Batman movie and debating if Robert Pattinson can pull it off again. (We’ll skip over the Ben Affleck years for everyone’s sanity.)
If you were between 5 and 15 in the summer of 1989, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You remember that feeling and rush of excitement. It was pretty special.. And if you close your eyes and think about that summer, maybe you can feel a little of it still buzzing in the air.
So here’s to Batman. June 23, 1989. A day that didn’t change the world—but it definitely changed mine.
