Ever since Americans started discovering other creepy Christmas traditions from around the world, we’ve been fascinated. But the one that seems to enthrall us the most is the legend of Krampus. Why? Is it because he’s the antithesis of Santa and confirms something we always secretly suspected: that Santa isContinue Reading
When I wrote about the Utah monolith and the appearance of a second one in Romania, I wondered where one might show up next. We didn’t have to wait long for the answer, did we? A California monolith was found on Wednesday, December 2, on a trail in Atascadero. Sadly,Continue Reading
Well, one mystery has been solved in regards to the mysterious Utah monolith: who removed it. The Utah Bureau of Land Management wasn’t lying when they denied doing it. It wasn’t them. KSL.com reported that “slackliner and climber Sylvan Christensen, along with BASE jumper Andy Lewis, took credit for dismantlingContinue Reading
Did you know Christmas and Halloween share ghost stories in common? Credit goes to their pagan roots. These days, everybody is familiar with the classic Christmas ghost story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which was published in 1843. But telling ghost stories at Christmas dates back even farther thanContinue Reading
Updated: June 20, 2024 No sooner was the mysterious Utah monolith discovered than it disappeared. What gives? Let’s break it down by what we know so far and see if we can detect any clues. Utah monolith: The discovery There it was, sitting all alone in the desert minding itsContinue Reading
Back in September, Jim from The Haunted Walk, a ghost tour company, reached out to paranormal podcasters with an invitation to try a virtual paranormal experience they had created: The Haunting at Home Paranormal Adventure. It sounded super interesting, but he made it even more enticing by offering a freeContinue Reading
Occult Day is observed on November 18. Which I guess answers the “When is it?” question, doesn’t it? But what about the rest? What is it, who created it, and why? Let’s find out. However, let’s first define what “occult” means. What does occult mean? The word “occult” derives fromContinue Reading
I don’t know if the Museum of the Weird also serves double duty as headquarters for the Keep Austin Weird movement, but it totally could. (And, yes, there is such a thing. Just check out #keepaustinweird on Insta. It’s very popular.) All I know is that when we jaunted toContinue Reading
November 13, 2020, marks the second Friday the 13th in 2020. The first one was on March 13. I had no idea when I updated the Weird Holidays & Observances page this year that Friday the 13ths in 2020 would be so memorable…or scary. Well, time will tell if thisContinue Reading
A couple of years ago we took a jaunt up to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. One of the places we visited was Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, which included exhibits about some famous shipwrecks. That’s where I learned about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Did Gordon Lightfoot’s song, “TheContinue Reading
As Stranger Things Day neared this year, I kept noticing questions that asked, “Is Stranger Things real?” What? How could anyone think Stranger Things was real? Of course it’s not. However, is it based on real-life events? Maybe. Bear with me for a sec. It’s going to seem like I’mContinue Reading
Have you ever heard of the Torso Murderer? I thought it sounded familiar when it first came up in “Phantom Hand,” the premiere episode for season 2 of The Holzer Files. However, when I looked into it more I realized I was probably confusing it with the Torso Killer. BothContinue Reading
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