Laura Wright
There is nothing particularly ominous about the name Jane. It is simple, traditional and has been carried...
History
Historical facts, figures, and oddities.
Old books are filled with wonderfully peculiar things. Folklore, mythology, superstition and occult literature preserve thousands of...
The modern vampire is an alluring creature. He is immortal, beautiful and eternally young. He lives in...
Few women in the history of colonial South America acquired a reputation as terrible as that of...
A stone is an ordinary thing. We walk across them, build houses from them and toss them...
Werewolves have been hunted almost as long as they have been feared. Long before Hollywood gave the...
Imagine waking in the middle of the night to the unmistakable sound of someone chopping down a...
In 1828, newspapers began reporting an extraordinary discovery near Sparta, Tennessee. Several ancient burial grounds had reportedly...
Ciupipiltin, as the name appears in older sources, belongs to a group of supernatural female figures in...
Coal mining developed a language all its own. For generations of Appalachian miners, words such as firedamp,...
