Recent Chilling Tales
Interview with EMILY DICKINSON: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR Playwright Todd Brian Backus Emily Dickinson, teamed with Edgar Allan Poe, is last line of defense between the everyday and world of magic, ghosts, vampires
Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Investigator, the new play by Todd Brian Backus, is having its world premiere this month as part of the 2016 FRIGID New York Festival. A founder and Artistic Producer of the PowerOut theater company and a stage director, illustrator, and photographer, Backus was kind enough to answer some of our questions about the show’s “spooky scary literary” premise.
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Talking Modern Witchcraft with “Lady Owl,” Laura Jones on After Hours Am/America’s Most Haunted Radio Paganism, Wicca, Tarot, Asatru - we've got it all!
Twenty-five years ago, after feeling left dry by mainstream paths of faith, Laura Jones came upon the path of Paganism through Wicca and has never looked back. Wicca and Paganism are life-affirming paths that are greatly misunderstood. Wanting to right these misunderstandings, she educated herself in comparative religious studies at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and became the High Priestess of two covens of Wicca, and an Ordained Pagan Minister.
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Florida Sheriff Department Joins Hunt for Towering Bigfoot Tampa Bay area subject to sightings of every stripe
In that area of the country, large, hairy, bi-pedal primates are generally called “Skunk Apes,” and not without olfactory cause. Maybe it’s the heat and humidity. In this particular instance, the sheriffs “do not believe that Bigfoot is a danger to the community but the owner of Bigfoot genuinely would like it back home.”
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GOODNIGHT MOMMY on Blu-Ray – Creepiest horror film of 2015 German film lives up to the hype
Writing/directing team Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz manage to pull out the stops in what will go down as the year’s creepiest film. Armed with a more than game cast in Susanne Wuest and twin boys Lukas and Elias Schwarz, they set out to make you squirm more and more as the film makes its way to its final reveal.
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Clinton Road – America’s Most Haunted Roadway Eerie northern New Jersey byway is haunted by ghostly creatures, phantom headlights, and rumors of Satanic worship in abandoned mansions
At midnight throw a coin over the bridge on Clinton Road, just past Dead Man’s Curve. Listen to it splash into Clinton Brook below. Then, slowly, quietly, take a few steps back. Legend has it that the ghost of a young boy who drowned while swimming in the waters will toss the coin back to you. Or worse. He may grab you by the legs and drag you down to the depths of his watery grave.
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Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory Killed Again This time by math
The Moon landing conspiracy theory has been killed again – this time by math. But it won’t stay dead this time either. A 2013 poll indicated 7% of Americans still believed the Moon landings had been faked. Conspiracy theorists are so paranoid about not having the wool pulled over their eyes that they pull the wool over their own eyes, and seem to take perverse, defiant pleasure in doing so. “Ha ha face, I have cut off my own nose to spite you!”
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The Bride of Frankenstein and Her Many Moods The Bride has become a female archetype throughout popular culture
The Bride of Frankenstein is literally a blank slate, albeit one that is fully grown and sexually mature. She is an Eve-like archetypal female figure who has been taken in every imaginable direction by artists and wags. She seems particularly amenable to femme fatale imagery, driving men insane with feminine wiles that she didn’t ask for, doesn’t necessarily understand, but is willing to use in a world where women need every advantage they can muster.
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THE X-FILES Is Back – Favorite Memories of the Original Series Will new mini-series revive the magic?
The X-Files will always be one of my fondest television memories; it introduced me to the world of online fans through countless “usenet” groups. And it introduced me to fanfiction by writers who would compare favorably to many published authors out there. And it was through writing X-Files fanfiction that I explored my own fiction-writing muse.
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Robert the Haunted Doll If you're headed to Key West, build in time to pay your respects to Robert
Robert the haunted doll was given to Eugene in 1906—some accounts claim that Robert was actually made in the likeness of his new owner. Almost instantly the two became inseparable. Eugene grew up in an affluent and artistic household, and went on to become a prominent artist and author in Key West. He’s the principal designer behind the gallery at the city’s Fort East Martello Museum in Key West—where Robert now resides.
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Talking THE X-FILES and Horror Films with Author John Kenneth Muir on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio New THE X-FILES FAQ book arrives just in time for series return
On tonight’s ripping and slashing episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — this and every Thursday from 9-11pE — with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we chat about the exciting return of The X-Files to television, and horror film and TV history with expert and renowned author John Kenneth Muir
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