by The Lineup | Nov 16, 2015 | ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, paranormal |
By STEPHANIE ALMAZAN The Bell Witch legend of Adams, Tennessee is one of America’s most haunting ghost stories. Well-known horror films like The Blair Witch Project, The Bell Witch Haunting, and An American Haunting are all based on her story—and the family she...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 12, 2015 | media, paranormal, supernatural beings, television |
by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - Parenting is hard, even for the King of Hell, in the real world and on The CW’s Supernatural. Crowley, out of boredom, curiosity, and some sense of self-interest, has taken on foster care of Amara, the powerful and fast-growing...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 12, 2015 | art, culture, media, religion and belief, Uncategorized, weird/science |
Pareidolia — “the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist.” Much, if not most, paranormal “evidence” simply comes down to misidentification. A key element in misidentification is pareidolia, the tendency of...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 10, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal |
by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - Americans are notoriously uncomfortable with death, passing on the processing, display, and final disposition of our loved ones to professionals to the tune of $16.3 billion annually in 2012. Maybe it’s the finality of death...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 9, 2015 | media, monsters, television, zombies |
by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - In the arc of a season, especially on a show so fraught with peril and existential uncertainty, sometimes everyone needs a breather, an episode where nothing much happens, a pause to regroup and ponder, and this was that episode with...
by The Lineup | Nov 7, 2015 | ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, paranormal |
By DEANNA JANES Costumed madmen wielding fake chainsaws are fun, but sometimes you want the real deal—An authentic, hair-raising, spine-chilling walk through a place where bad things actually happened. Herewith, eight real haunted houses fit for real thrill seekers....
by Eric Olsen | Nov 6, 2015 | media, monsters, television, vampires |
by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - Creator Ryan Murphy’s hangups with women notwithstanding (they are ultimately alien, inscrutable and have icky body parts), he has struck perhaps his deepest chord of horror yet with murderous children in this week’s...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 5, 2015 | culture, media, radio, television, weird/science |
On tonight’s creepy episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted (10pE/9c) with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we survey the latest paranormal news from the @AMHaunted Twitter account and AMH site, then discuss Investigation Discovery’s...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 4, 2015 | culture, halloween, media, monsters, movies, seasonal, television, witches |
We have a family holiday viewing routine, and by “holiday” I mean Halloween and Christmas. Yes, we make a point of watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, mostly for the sobering, astringent, historically accurate The Mayflower Voyagers feature that’s...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 2, 2015 | culture, halloween, seasonal |
Now’s the bittersweet time when overtly Halloweenish decorations all come down (autumnal items get a reprieve until Thanksgiving), and we think about all those Halloween movies, TV specials, books, and the like that we ran out of time for this year. Ah well,...
