Scottish Folklore: The Brollachan
One of the creepier creatures in Scottish folklore, and certainly not something you want to meet on a dark night, is the brollachan. Said to linger around lo...
Mystery Monuments of Ancient Egypt
For literally thousands of years, the mysterious monuments of Ancient Egypt have haunted the imaginations of the legions of bedazzled foreigners who have com...
The Mystery of the Tarot
Throughout recorded history, human beings have used special techniques and rituals in an attempt to divine the future. Some prophetic arts, such as the pract...
All About Spontaneous Human Combustion
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is one of the spookiest phenomena we know of. It seems utterly bizarre, almost unbelievable, yet it does appear to exist....
The Song That Drove People to Suicide
Kate Bush’s song Experiment IV told the story of a British military program designed to create music which could kill. The accompanying cinematic video sho...
Sir Edmund Hillary and the Abominable Snowman
Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand explorer and first conqueror of Everest, died in 2008 to be greeted with unusual displays of affectionate remembran...
The Power of Prayer
For millennia, people have prayed to the heavens for help in fending off some calamity, often health problems afflicting a loved one. But, this being the sci...
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is considered by critics to be one of the finest British films of all time. It tells the story of Sergeant Neil Howie who travels to the myste...
2012 : Mayan End Date
When scholars first began to study the ancient Mayan culture, which flourished in Latin America during the first millennium, they were surprised to discover...
Rennes-le-Chateau
Although, more often than not, the sun shines brightly in an azure sky above the small French town of Rennes-Le-Chateau, it is a place wrapped in mystery lik...