Halloween, Hallowe’en, or All Hallow’s Evening is speculated to have originated by the Celtic Samhain and pagans over 2,000 years ago on October 31. In celebration of the eve of the Western Christian’s feast of All Hallows, western Europeans honored the end of the harvest season and the dead with...
Image Source Black mist, the sound of distant footsteps, blood-curdling screams in the dark, and ghostly visions… For most of us, this is the fictitious world of horror movies. But some people have encountered such bone-chilling phenomena for real, in spooky locations around the world. These creepy...
Forget outer space; there are aliens far closer to home! These bizarre looking and strangely fascinating sharks look like they’re from another world.
The 90's were a golden age of cartoons. We had a blast putting together the 20 best, and we're sure this list will inspire some discussion. Our only criteria was that the cartoon had to start in the 90's, meaning a couple of very late in the decade entries were still eligible. We did make a small...
Nothing says summer like opening the windows and turning the radio up. To complement the sunshine or to pull you through a rainy day, we’ve created a list of the 10 Best Indie/Rock Albums Of Summer 2012. Great for a quick trip to the store or a cross country road trip or from an impromptu...
Bruce "The Boss" Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer and songwriter born on September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Springsteen was born to Douglas Frederick Springsteen, a bus driver of Irish and Dutch ancestry, and Adele Ann Serilli, a legal secretary of Italian descent....
The last hundred years have borne witness to humankind’s extraordinary technological advancements. Man has walked on the moon, ventured deeper into the oceans than ever before and even uncovered the building blocks of life: DNA. But even with our inexorable progress as a species there are still...
Necromancy is an ancient form of magic used to conjure the soul of a dead person in ghost or apparition form or to raise the spirit of a dead soul through a body, for the purpose of divination. Necromancy relies heavily on the belief that a person's soul survives well after death as the soul...
A doppelganger refers to the ghost of a person who is still living. It basically references a person’s physical double. Others think of a doppelganger as that of some type of an “evil twin” or a malevolent other. The word doppelganger originates from the German word Doppelgaenger. This word...
A sin-eater is a spiritual healer who is hired for the purpose of cleansing a dying person of his or her sins. A heavy and difficult job—usually taken by outcasts who had no other means of employment—it also carried the risk of excommunication. The Roman Catholic Church believed that sin-eaters...
