STRANGE HISTORY

6 Haunted Cemeteries in the USA
Halloween conjures up images of gravestones and ghostly ghouls. People often choose to take a drive or a stroll if they're more daring through a creepy old graveyard on Halloween night in anticipation of experiencing a few eerie chills up their spine. However, there...

5 Haunted Ghost Towns in the USA
Are you brave enough to stay in these haunted ghost towns? Ghost towns have an appeal that draws you into another time period like a fictional time machine. Some ghost towns are said to be haunted and some are not. However, they all have a unique mystery that brings...

Secrets of the Ouroboros
Throughout history, symbolism has played an important part in architecture, myth, and folklore. Many symbols have had widespread cultural influence, but the meaning varies as much as the geographical location. The Ouroboros is one of those symbols. What is the...

The Bath Township Massacre
Even the most recent school shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland pale by comparison. On a beautiful Michigan spring morning in 1927, while lilacs were blooming and children were playing, a sometimes benevolent, sometimes charming yet often angry Andrew...

What Is It with Dragons?
What is it with Dragon’s? From hit television shows, books to video games, cartoons and Chinese Astrological signs, it seems dragons are popular and have been for a long time. Known to many cultures they were described by Ancient Greeks as Draconta, meaning “to watch”...

Why Boys Have Cooties and Other Myths of Xenophobia
In a Calvin and Hobbes comic, six-year-old Calvin finds himself the only boy on a playground full of girls and declares: “Oh no! I’m in cootie central! I haven’t had my shots!” Thousands of kids on playgrounds all over the world continue to be infected with—that most...

New Religions | Omnism and Nihilism | It’s All Or Nothing
Everyone is brought up to believe in something. Some of us are Christian, Jewish, Buddhists, or even Atheists. For some our beliefs are sacrosanct and others not so much. You could say that as humans we are prone to believe in something, unless you are a Nihilist; but...

5 Mythical Christmas Creatures
How do you get children to behave during the exciting days before Christmas? Many people in older times achieved this by scaring the living daylights out of them. They used the threat of terrible creatures to encourage children to behave. These beings would come and...

The Deadly History of Waverly Hills Sanitarium
May be far more sinister than we can imagine Waverly Hills is one of the most renowned and supposedly haunted buildings in the World. The legend of this creepy facility in Kentucky has inspired numerous books and movies. There is even a full line of comic books in...

The Real Revenant
With the release of the Leonard DeCaprio movie I thought it might be a good idea to explore and explain exactly what a Revenant is. I am sure you are all wondering, and didn’t want to wait for the movie to explain it to you right? Well, to put it bluntly a Revenant is...