Month: October 2018
The Hat Man is usually tall. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and a trench coat. And people across the world have reported sleeping encounters with him. For about as …
How did the Victorians’ opulent, affluent homes become an international shorthand for haunted house? As art historian Sarah Burns points out, in the 1870s, Victorian houses weren’t horror homes. …
Want to brie gouda at fontinella the future? Try Tyromancy, the practice of predicting the future with cheese. Holy of Holies Derived from the Greek (turos) (cheese) and manteia (divination), …
During the Middle Ages, bats (called “witches’ birds”) were associated with witches, devils, and other evil-doers. In 1332, Lady Jacaume of Bayonne in France was publicly burned because “crowds …
Before it was a pumpkin, Jack-o’-Lantern was a mythical Irishman who played tricks on the Devil. The original Jack-o’-Lantern was a blacksmith named Jack who was too evil to …
