Weird Valentine’s Day – Goat’s Blood, Poetry, Martyred Saints, and a Box of Chocolate Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it

by Eric Olsen | Feb 9, 2016 | culture, religion and belief, seasonal | 2 comments

You just finish putting away all the Christmas and winter decorations and Valentine’s Day rolls around, a time for the showy expression of love, especially romantic love, in the form of mushy cards, a box of chocolate, flowers, a romantic meal, maybe jewelry...

Talking Modern Witchcraft with “Lady Owl,” Laura Jones on After Hours Am/America’s Most Haunted Radio Paganism, Wicca, Tarot, Asatru - we've got it all!

by Eric Olsen | Feb 5, 2016 | culture, magick and occult, paranormal, radio, religion and belief, witches | 0 comments

Tonight on a bewitching episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we talk witchcraft with genuine Wicca/Asatru priestess, medium, Tarot reader, Laura Jones, aka Lady Owl. Opening the show at 9pE, Joel and Eric...

Florida Sheriff Department Joins Hunt for Towering Bigfoot Tampa Bay area subject to sightings of every stripe

by Eric Olsen | Feb 4, 2016 | bigfoot, cryptozoology, culture, weird/science | 0 comments

The Marion County, Florida, sheriff’s office has entered the hunt for a towering but strangely flat Bigfoot. The missing Bigfoot is 9-feet tall but best seen in silhouette. According to a message on the good-natured department’s Facebook page, “At...

Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory Killed Again This time by math

by Eric Olsen | Jan 29, 2016 | culture, religion and belief, weird/science | 2 comments

The Moon landing conspiracy theory has been killed again – this time by math. But it won’t stay dead this time either. A 2013 poll indicated 7% of Americans still believed the Moon landings had been faked. Conspiracy theorists are so paranoid about not...

The Bride of Frankenstein and Her Many Moods The Bride has become a female archetype throughout popular culture

by Eric Olsen | Jan 28, 2016 | art, culture, frankenstein, media, monsters, movies | 0 comments

The Bride of Frankenstein, as all classic horror and monster fans know, is the 1935 sequel to Frankenstein, directed by James Whale and starring an ethereal Elsa Lanchester in dual roles as the Bride and Mary Shelley, and Boris Karloff as the Monster. Why? Because the...