by Eric Olsen | Nov 24, 2015 | culture, media, movies, seasonal |
Thanksgiving is a modest holiday, a family-oriented time of reflection upon those things for which we are thankful. It’s a quiet, tryptophan-laden pause between the spooky revelry of Halloween and the one-two punch of religion and consumerism that is Christmas....
by Eric Olsen | Nov 20, 2015 | culture, media, movies |
Actress, fashion designer, artist, activist, and now first-time feature filmmaker Tara Subkoff’s #Horror dazzles with bravura visual panache; important ideas on selfie culture, gadget addiction, and bullying; riveting performances by Chloe Sevigny, Timothy...
by Shannon Byers | Nov 19, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, paranormal, weird/science |
Most people who are interested in hunting ghosts have heard of Lavinia Fisher, her alleged criminal exploits as an innkeeper near the city of Charleston, SC, her tumultuous execution, and her haunting of the Old Charleston Jail. But in case you haven’t, we will...
by Shannon Byers | Nov 16, 2015 | books, culture, haunted locations, media, paranormal, television, weird/science |
The last decade of the 1800s was a murderous one. Bloody Victorian crimes made sensational headlines and pumped up the coffers of newspaper owners. In 1896, coming on the heels of the Lizzy Borden family murders and the mind-boggling H.H. Holmes killing spree, another...
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...
