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Featured on Travel Channel's The Dead Files (2022). Weekly columnist for the Arizona Daily Sun. Two-time Viola Awards finalist. The full record, with sources, lives on this page.
Travel Channel’s The Dead Files
Featured on Travel Channel's The Dead Files (2022). Susan Johnson brought the 1937 Walkup family case to the two-hour season finale, Special Investigation: The Haunting of Flagstaff, which aired April 2, 2022. The Arizona Daily Sun previewed the broadcast in its Flag Live section that March.
Ghost Adventures
Interviewed on Ghost Adventures (2023). Susan Johnson was interviewed for Fear in Flagstaff, Season 26 Episode 3, the investigation of the mountain town’s hauntings that aired June 21, 2023 on Discovery.
Awards
Two-time Viola Awards finalist
2025 Viola Awards finalist, Excellence in Storytelling
Finalist. Official listing: Susan Johnson, Wicked Flagstaff.
2023 Viola Awards finalist, Written Storytelling
Finalist. Official listing: Susan Johnson, Haunted Flagstaff.
The Press Record
Every citation, with sources
Travel Channel
The Dead Files: Special Investigation, The Haunting of Flagstaff
Featured. Susan Johnson brought the 1937 Walkup family case to the two-hour season finale.
Ghost Adventures (Discovery)
Interviewed. Susan Johnson was interviewed for the Season 26 investigation of Flagstaff hauntings.
Arizona Daily Sun
Flagstaff History, the weekly column
Columnist. Byline runs Susan Johnson, Special to the Daily Sun.
Navajo-Hopi Observer
Flagstaff History column syndication
Columnist; the author bio there independently confirms the books and Freaky Foot Tours.
History Goes Bump podcast
Episode 275: Haunted Flagstaff
Guest for a long-form hour: the Weatherford, the Hotel Monte Vista, the public library, and the Walkup case.
Arizona Daily Sun
Local author explores Flagstaff’s haunted history in new book
Featured subject (Haunted Flagstaff). Byline Bree Burkitt.
Arizona Daily Sun, Flag Live
Flagstaff haunts to be featured on upcoming episode of The Dead Files
Featured. Susan Johnson shared the Walkup story for the episode. Byline Bree Burkitt.
Arizona Daily Sun, Flag Live
Walkup Family Murders recounts forgotten story
Featured subject and quoted (Walkup book).
The Lumberjack (NAU)
Freaky Foot Tours’ haunted Flagstaff
Quoted co-founder; the origin-story interview. Byline Zachary Markewicz.
Jack Central (NAU)
Freaky Foot Tours hosts Ghost Walk around Downtown Flagstaff
Photographed guiding the tour.
Downtown Flagstaff (Business Alliance)
Haunted Flagstaff, a reading and Q&A at Bright Side Bookshop
Featured author, reading and Q&A.
Discover Flagstaff (official DMO)
Haunted History Tour of Downtown Flagstaff
Named author-founder: credits Susan Johnson with all three History Press books.
Inside Tucson Business
Moved by the Spirits: new ghost tour company comes to Tucson
Covered as half of the mother and son founding team. Byline Karen Schaffner.
GetYourGuide
Freaky Foot Tours supplier profile
Credited: stories originally researched by co-founder and local author Susan Johnson.
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