Recent Chilling Tales
Blasting Off with “Mars Experience VR” at SXSW Virtual reality creates highly detailed and accurate simulation of the surface of Mars
Listening to the Mars Experience VR panel, I thought at first this was a lot of effort to go through for a VR experience, but along the way I began to appreciate and discover the more serious purpose of this effort. The Mars Experience VR panel consisted of five heavyweights in technology and space flight.
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THE WALKING DEAD Season 6 Finale – Negan Finally Arrives An entire nation of The Walking Dead watchers is feeling very twitchy and jumpy
An entire nation of The Walking Dead watchers is feeling very twitchy and jumpy right about now as the hours tick down to what is arguably the most anticipated episode ever of AMC’s unlikely smash hit. Why so edgy? Since it was announced last November that Jeffrey Dean Morgan would play Negan, the dreaded leader of the villainous Saviors, and make his appearance in the final episode of Season 6, there has been constant speculation as to the consequences of that freighted debut.
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Peg Entwistle – Haunting the Hollywood Sign When Hollywood dreams turn to nightmares
Born Millicent Lilian Entwistle in 1908 Wales, Peg Entwistle came to Hollywood by way of Broadway in New York. After a number of successful roles on stage, and capturing the attention of a then-unknown Bette Davis, she moved to Los Angeles with high hopes of breaking into pictures. Soon Entwistle nabbed a small role in Thirteen Women, a film that starred Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne. But reviews weren’t good, and most of Entwistle’s scenes were cut—leaving the aspiring starlet heartbroken.
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Talking The Science Behind The X-Files with Dr. Anne Simon on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio
Dr. Anne Simon was science adviser for the The X-Files television series and the X-Files movie Fight the Future, and is author of The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites and Mutants (Simon & Schuster, 1999). She has given talks throughout the country on the science of the X-Files including two recent sold-out appearances at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in early March, and was one of 50 scientists profiled for the New York Times book Scientists at Work. She recently provided science advice for the 2016 The X-Files revival and received story credit for the season finale, “My Struggle 2.”
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Weird Easter – What’s Up with the Easter Bunny? The big goofy rabbit hops around the world delivering baskets full of colored eggs and candy to the kiddies
The bunny-egg-spring combo can be neatly traced to an ancient Teutonic myth. The goddess of fertility, dawn, and spring Ostara (aka Eostre or Eastre) is passing through a forest one snowy winter day and finds a bird expiring from cold and hunger. The goddess turns the bird into a hare because they have warm coats and can find food more easily than birds in winter. The bunny handily survives the winter and when spring came begins laying eggs — much to the surprise of its fellow hares — because it still had some bird plumbing.
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PHANTASM Remastered – J.J. Abrams Presents Restored Horror Classic at SXSW
Phantasm qualifies in that category and I guess I’m terminally curious because I found myself standing in line with fans of the 1979 cult classic. The “debut” aspect of this screening was that the film was remastered to 4K by J.J. Abrams’ company, Bad Robot. Abrams introduced the film and, after the screening, Coscarelli and cast members answered questions from the audience.
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Tales of Ohio’s Ghostly and Ghastly Mudhouse Mansion On a hill in Lancaster stood a stately brick mansion with a sinister reputation
By ELISABETH TILSTRA Almost every detail about the Mudhouse Mansion is riddled with mystery, which is perhaps what made the building so attractive to ghost hunters and thrill-seekers. It was built sometime in the late 1800s on a little hill in Lancaster, Ohio, and...
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AMC’s PREACHER Pilot Debuts at SXSW Creatures from space, heaven, hell, and places yet to be determined.
Based on the comic created by Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon with covers by Glenn Fabry, Preacher starts in space and then visits Africa, Russia, and Texas. Along the way, people explode. Its focus is on Jesse Custer, played by Dominic Cooper. Custer, the bad boy son of a West Texas preacher, returns to his hometown to become its preacher and to keep a promise to his father. His past and a variety of bad things, including a mysterious cosmic force, an ex-girlfriend, and a psychopathic vampire complicate this for him.
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Washington Poltergeist Case and Psychic Attorney Mark Anthony on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Exclusive evidence review!
Tune in for a shocking and amazing paranormal double header on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio, 9-11pE tonight with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen. In hour one we dig deeply into the notorious Washington poltergeist case, aka the Seattle Demon House as seen on Ghost Adventures, with the man who has lived through it all, Keith Linder, as well as famous UK paranormal investigators Steve Mera and Don Philips, who conducted an investigation of the house for nearly a week. Find out the truth tonight behind this infamous and terrifying story! In hour two we are joined by Mark Anthony, the Psychic Lawyer.
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The Strange Life of St. Patrick Who was the man behind the worldwide celebration of Irishness?
Originally a solemn feast day to commemorate the life of the saint, St. Patrick’s Day picked up its party image in Ireland fairly early. After the church service, celebrants were granted special dispensation to eat meat and drink alcohol, the lone break for such festivities during Lent. While most of the religious connotations associated with the holiday have fallen by the wayside, the party aspect has exploded into the worldwide celebration of Irishness we know and love today in honor of the Irish saint who was Irish only in spirit.
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