Bowie, Blackstar and the Stories Still Untold, Part Two
Bowie’s farewell with Blackstar was so meticulously planned and executed, both musically and visually, both as a masterpiece of media …
mysterious things in nature
Haven’t You Heard? Bacchus is Dead.
I’m not nostalgic for the 80s, when I was in my teens and twenties. Actually, that’s not entirely true; my …
Childhood’s End and the Theater of Apocalypse
SyFy is finally getting around to adapting Arthur C. Clarke’s classic, Childhood’s End. It’s one of those books that feels …
The Mysterious Case of a Disappearing Town (and the mystery of it showing up in my inbox)
So, my mom was cleaning out her inbox (a Herculean task no doubt) and kept finding interesting little e-mails with …
An Assemblage of the Uncanny
“On November 21, 1987, Korrina Lynne Sagers Malinoski, a 26-year old woman from Mount Holly, South Carolina, mysteriously disappeared when …
HOMETOWN HORRORS
Nothing like a good frightening local legend to both titillate and traumatize. Let’s look at a few from around the …
Unmasking Internet Hoaxes
It never ceases to amaze me, in a digital age where facts are literally at your fingertips, how so many …
What Preys On The Predator?
As part of a project to better understand the elusive and mysterious lives of Great White Sharks, Australian scientists tagged …
Weirdness From The Web–But Is It To Be Believed?
The following stories were gleaned from posts on Pinterest. Amid a jumble of re-posted images bearing obviously faked iPhone ghosts …
New Orleans’ Elusive and Mysterious Grunch Road
Legend has it than an old, unpaved road courses through the remote environs east of New Orleans somewhere in St. …
