The Psychology of THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR Third time's a charm?

by Clarissa Cole | Jul 7, 2016 | culture, media, movies | 0 comments

The third film in the Purge franchise, The Purge: Election Year, hit theaters, appropriately enough, over the July 4th holiday weekend. While straight-up horror isn’t really my genre (I’m more into psychological thrillers, naturally), there was something about The...

Pennsylvania’s Haunted Moonshine Church and the Blue Eyed Six Murder 19th century insurance killing yielded a half-dozen ghosts

by The Lineup | Jul 1, 2016 | culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, paranormal, weird/science | 0 comments

By ORRIN GREY In July 1878, four men met at a hotel in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, and hatched a sinister plot that yielded as many as six ghosts haunting Moonshine Church. They took out several life insurance policies totaling $8,000 on a neighbor named Joseph...

The Twisted Mind of Family Annihilator John List Death before dishonor

by Clarissa Cole | Jun 28, 2016 | culture, weird/science | 0 comments

There are many types of murderers out there, but John List broke the mold of what everyone thought they knew. In fact, before List, “Family Annihilator” wasn’t a term that many people had heard of or used, but afterward – after that day in 1971 when his entire family...

Are “Bad Seeds” a Thing? Nature vs nurture

by Clarissa Cole | Jun 22, 2016 | culture, weird/science | 0 comments

To answer the Bad Seed question, I’d have to say, “It depends.” There’s a lot of research and opinions out there, and I encourage you to take a look, but, what’s coming next is going to be based solely on my opinion and experience (you’ve been warned!). However,...

Traveling with the Ghosts and Elves in Iceland “It’s not that we believe in ghosts; it’s that we know they’re there.”

by Blogcritics | Jun 15, 2016 | culture, ghosts and spirits, paranormal, religion and belief, supernatural beings | 0 comments

By DIANE KRISTINE WILD “It’s not that we believe in ghosts; it’s that we know they’re there.” So said our Iceland guide Hlíf after we visited Höfði, the site of the Reykjavík summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that marked the beginning of the end of...

H.H. Holmes – Maniacally Efficient Master of Murder THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY plagued Chicago at the turn of the 20th century

by Clarissa Cole | Jun 13, 2016 | books, culture, media, weird/science | 0 comments

H.H. Holmes (born Herman W. Mudgett) was a master of disguise… well, of deception, really. He needed no fake beard or costume to convince anyone that he truly was what he wanted them to believe. In his life he would be a druggist, a doctor, a barber, a restaurateur, a...