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If ghosts suffered with autocorrect
High concept from the Hairpin's Mallory Ortberg: "Text-messages from a ghost:" hey im gaunting you ok Do you mean haunting yeah sorry i don’t have any fingers so im poltergeisting a stick to help me...
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The natural history of the European werewolf
Where did the European werewolf come from and why did this particular mythology become so powerful that we're still telling stories about it today? In a fascinating talk recorded at Skepticon 5 last...
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Shambling Guide to New York City
Mur Lafferty is one of the worst-kept secrets in science fiction and fantasy publishing. "Secret" in that her fiction has not been widely published (until now). "Worst-kept" in that she has been such...
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Dead Set: a supernatural punk YA novel from Richard "Sandman Slim" Kadrey
Just in time for Hallowe'en, Richard "Sandman Slim" Kadrey's publishers have released Dead Set, a young adult novel about a San Francisco teenager who ventures into the Egyptian underworld to rescue...
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The Getaway God: latest Sandman Slim is a hard-boiled, supernatural treasure
I remember reading the first Sandman Slim book -- I snuck out onto onto the balcony on a Saturday morning, put up the hammock and sat down to read for an hour. Four hours later, I had finished it, and...
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Mur Lafferty's "Shambling Guide to NYC" is coming to Netflix!
Mur Lafferty, an amazing author and podcaster, had her mainstream publishing debt in 2013 with the wonderful Shambling Guide to New York City, about a travel writer who gets tapped to write a...
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The Exorcist director's new documentary about a "real" exorcism
William Friedkin, director of the classic 1973 film The Exorcist, just screened his new documentary about a "real" exorcism conducted by Father Gabriele Amorth on behest of the Vatican’s Rome Diocese....
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Young man's PhD research focuses on the historical secrets of summoning fairies
New PhD student Samuel Gillis Hogan and colleagues at the University of Exeter are launching a deep study of 15-17th century spell books to understand how people attempted to summon fairies throughout...
View ArticleAuthor Peter Bebergal discusses his latest book, Strange Frequencies: The...
Boing Boing pal, Peter Bebergal, has a new book coming out later this month called Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural. In 2015's Season of the...
View ArticleFear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies
I posted some pre-release interviews with Peter Bebergal about his latest book, Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural. The book examines the...
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Jeff "Sweet Tooth" Lemire's new horror comic Gideon Falls is spooky af
Jeff Lemire can do weird-spooky (see, e.g., his Twilight Zonish graphic novel Underwater Welder) and he can do gripping (see his amazing, post-apocalyptic Sweet Tooth), but in his newest graphic novel...
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The Babysitter's Coven
Esme Pearl has a shitty life: she's seventeen, has only one real friend in the world, lives in a small Kansas town (and hates it), goes to high school, and is being raised by her traumatized father...
View ArticleCelebrate Friday the 13th with "The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural"...
Throw some salt over your shoulder and enjoy this 1977 Encyclopedia Britannica short documentary, The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural, hosted by Christopher Lee who famously starred as Dracula...
View ArticleHome security camera captures weird tiny humanoid creatures frolicking on the...
This startling footage was recently captured by a security camera outside a Dallas, Texas home. While some might think that the video simply depicts extraterrestrial visitors or even birds, we all...
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Supernatural water-skipping golf shot
Pro golfer Jon Rahm apparently summoned divine spirits to compel a golf shot to walk on water and bend across a green to roll in for a hole-in-one at The Masters during a practice round. From pond to...
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Astonishing photos of huge ships mysteriously floating in the air above UK seas
A second 'floating ship' has been spotted! Remember to always stop, check, question before deciding whether something that you see online is real! ✋🤔🕵️♀️👍 @guardianhave explained how a superior mirage...
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Thief seeks witch doctor's assistance after TV set he swiped got stuck on his...
Weird drama ensued in Kakamega, Kenya after thieves allegedly robbed someone of money and a TV set, leading the victim to seek aid from a "witch doctor." Shortly after the magical intervention, one of...
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That time the US military tried to make foxes glow in the dark to freak out...
The US military has been known for hare-brained hoaxes to try to scare enemies by exploiting what they think are the opposing group's cultural beliefs and superstitions. For example, in the early...
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Home with freaky black hole in the bedroom and other "strange energy" up for...
For around US$1 million, you can purchase a three bedroom, two bath home in Bangkok, Thailand that includes a "black hole" in the bedroom, future-telling features, and other "strange energy." The...
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Mysterious massive figure emerges from forest fire (video)
As a series of wildfires devastate Chile, viewers of fire footage from the city of Valparaíso spotted something strange. A massive shadowy figure appears to emerge from the flames! Video below. There's...
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Chilling to the core: AI-generated "Screams of Hell"
Art Bell fans may remember the fantastic 1998 episode of Coast to Coast about a Siberian oil company that lowered a microphone into a nine-mile hole and recorded the sound of people screaming in Hell....
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Shadowy humanoid with a tail caught on video
In Tolosa, Philippines, a CCTV camera captured the below video of a shadowy humanoid figure with a tail scurrying around outside his home. Dennis Godfrey Zacaias Colasito posted the video to Facebook...
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Accused murderer credits "diabolical goblin" in his possession with helping...
Columbian police arrested Kevin Orlando Arias Forero for allegedly murdering two people in April 2024. Forero had been on the wanted list for months. Why did it take authorities so long to nab him?...
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