by Eric Olsen | Dec 9, 2015 | culture, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal, supernatural beings |
Most of us take the rituals and customs of Christmas at face value and don’t realize how weird and macabre some of them truly are. Over the last several years there has been a surge of awareness and interest in the various dark companions of the saintly, gift-giving...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 8, 2015 | art, culture, magick and occult, media, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal, supernatural beings |
Most of us take the rituals and customs of Christmas at face value and don’t realize how weird and ancient they truly are. Though many people know that our modern Santa Claus evolved from the real-life 4th century Bishop of Myra, St. Nicholas, very few of us...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 2, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, media, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal |
The winter holiday season is layer upon layer of tradition and symbol drawn from disparate cultures over thousands of years, pagan and Christian, natural and supernatural, Yule and Christmas, Winter Solstice and the birth of Christ, with common themes of rebirth,...
by Eric Olsen | Nov 27, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, media, movies, paranormal, seasonal |
by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - As with the inevitable appearance of Santa Claus at the end of Thanksgiving Day parades, so does conclusion of turkey feast signal the beginning of the Christmas holiday season. For those inclined toward the darker end of the holiday...
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 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...
