Evil in the Air
Two nights August 8 and 9, 1969 rocked Los Angeles. On the night of the August 8th at the rental home of Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife Sharon Tate a group of deranged hippies gruesomely killed Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Sharon Tate and Sharon Tate’s unborn child. Polanski was in [...]
May Day
May 1st is a holiday in many countries. One such holiday is International Workers’ Day (a name used interchangeably with May Day) a celebration of the achievements of the international labor movement. In the United States many view it as a socialist or communist celebration, although the day is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot [...]
Flowers – Myth or Fact
The leaves of a Poinsettia are poisonous. Myth. There has never been a death that has been proven to have occurred due to ingestion of the leaves or any other part of the flower. The myth began in 1919 when the child of an army officers died and the poinsettia was thought to have been [...]
Mysterious Disappearances
Since people have been keeping records there have been reports of mysterious vanishings. While some may never been fully explained many of them could have simple explanations. Here is the story of six unexplained vanishings. In 1587 a small company made up of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children colonized the island of Roanoke [...]
Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice occurs at the instant that the sun is the greatest distance away from the observer and their hemisphere. The word solstice derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). During the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter, the earth is actually closer to the sun than in June/July. It is because the Northern [...]
Pagans and Wiccans
Paganism is an umbrella term to describe pagan religions. Wicca is one of those, as is Hellensimos, Asatry and Kemeticism. It is a worship of deities. Wicca is a practice of witchcraft, but not all witches are Wiccans or even pagan. There are 8 holidays during the Wiccan, and generally Pagan, year. Those are Samhain [...]
A Third Friday the 13th
2009 is one of those rare years when there are three months that have a Friday the 13th. The first was February followed a month later in March. The third is today. Instead of repeating the Friday the 13th post from earlier in the year, just take a look at it: Friday the 13th
About Halloween
Halloween has many different names such as: All Hallows Eve, Samhain, All Hallowtide, The Feast of the Dead, Haloween and All Saints Eve. All Hallows Eve has its origins as a pagan celebration that dates back over 2000 years to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts believed that on the night before the [...]
Haunted Hotels
During this Halloween season I’m sure everyone will be creating a list of Hotels that are said to be haunted. Why shouldn’t I be any different? I’m not so I will do my list of 6 hotels that are considered to be haunted. Crescent Hotel When the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas was being [...]
The Druids
Druids were the priestly and learned class active in Gaul, present day France and Belgium. They were suppressed by the Roman Empire in the 1st Century. The Druids passed their culture and history along through oral tales. Little of these are known other than through the writings of the Romans. The core points of druidic [...]
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