by Eric Olsen | Dec 17, 2015 | culture, media, monsters, movies, religion and belief, seasonal, weird/science, werewolves and shifters |
Of all the odd customs, traditions, and legends associated with Christmas around the world, none seems odder than the werewolves of Yule. Werewolves and Halloween? Obviously. Christmas and a baby, a manger, a magical gift giver in red and white? Clearly. But why...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 16, 2015 | culture, religion and belief, seasonal, weird/science |
Mari Lwyd (Gray Mare) is a mischievous, rhyme spouting, party animal Christmastide figure in Wales consisting of a horse’s skull with a hinged jaw — all the better to nip you with, my dear — perched atop a pole, and carted around by a man inside a...
by The Lineup | Dec 15, 2015 | culture, magick and occult, paranormal, religion and belief, weird/science |
By ORRIN GREY Anyone who’s heard of the Hand of Glory raise your, um, hand. Perhaps you’re familiar with these ghastly magic items—the severed hands of fiendish men that are pickled and dried and turned into talismans. Such objects frequently appear in role-playing...
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...
