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A witch bottle and a page from an old book about witch bottles

Creepy Wikipedia: Witch Bottles, Wards, And Protection Against The Unknown

March 30, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: The Collyer Brothers. It’s not uncommon for bottles, jugs, and other vessels to be among the artifacts unearthed at sites long associated with human history — but some of those vessels Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Witch Bottles, Wards, And Protection Against The Unknown

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Creepy Wikipedia, European history, history, North American history, weird history, Wikipedia, witch bottles, witchcraft, witches

The exterior of Pensacola's old Sacred Heart Hospital

Haunted Road Trip: The Historic Sacred Heart Hospital, O’Zone Pizza Pub, And The Ghosts Of Pensacola, Florida

March 23, 2020 by Lucia

Previously: The Blue Ghost Tunnel, Ontario, Canada. O’Zone Pizza Pub wasn’t always O’Zone Pizza Pub. The Pensacola, Fla. eatery might be lauded for its pies and extensive beer list now, but once Continue Reading > about Haunted Road Trip: The Historic Sacred Heart Hospital, O’Zone Pizza Pub, And The Ghosts Of Pensacola, Florida

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Florida, Florida ghosts, haunted hospitals, haunted locales, haunted places, Haunted Road Trip, Historic Sacred Heart Hospital, history, hospitals, O'Zone Pizza Pub, Old Time Pizza, Pensacola, weird history

A screenshot from My House Walk-Through

The Weird Part Of YouTube: Decoding The Ghost Story Of PiroPito’s “My House Walk-Through”

December 9, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: Blank Room Soup. On Oct. 16, 2016, a video tour of a house in Japan arrived on YouTube. This, in and of itself, is unremarkable; lots of video tours of houses, in Japan and elsewhere, Continue Reading > about The Weird Part Of YouTube: Decoding The Ghost Story Of PiroPito’s “My House Walk-Through”

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: ghosts, haunted house, history, Isewan Typhoon, Japan, Japanese ghosts, My house walk-through, nana825763, Piropito, The Weird Part Of YouTube, typhoon, Typhoon Vera, video, weird part of youtube, World War II, youtube

Kids in vintage Halloween costumes

The Uncanny Horror Of Vintage Halloween Costumes (Halloween 2019)

October 7, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: A Ghost Story. A True One. They make the rounds every year: Collections of black-and-white photos — typically depicting children, although the occasional teen or young adult also shows Continue Reading > about The Uncanny Horror Of Vintage Halloween Costumes (Halloween 2019)

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Freud, Halloween, Halloween 2019, Halloween costumes, history, photography, Samhain, the uncanny, trick or treat, vintage

Haunted Road Trip: Nina, The Mournful Ghost Of Portland, Oregon’s Old Town Pizza

July 29, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: Toyama Park, Tokyo, Japan. When you think of locations likely to be haunted, a pizzeria doesn’t typically top the list — or at least, it doesn’t if you haven’t been to Old Town Pizza in Continue Reading > about Haunted Road Trip: Nina, The Mournful Ghost Of Portland, Oregon’s Old Town Pizza

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: ghosts, haunted places, Haunted Road Trip, haunted travel, history, Nina, Old Time Pizza, Portland, Portland OR, Portland Oregon, Portland Underground, Shanghai Tunnels, Shanghai Tunnels haunted, Shanghai Tunnels Portland

A rosary

Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Headless Priest

July 3, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: Stull, Kansas. Type: CC (Corporeally Challenged). Period/location of origin: Unknown, the Philippines. (There are numerous possible events that may have led to subject's creation; it Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Headless Priest

Filed Under: Encyclopaedia Tagged With: CC, Encyclopaedia of the Impossible, ghosts, Headless Priest, history, Pugot, The Philippines, urban legends

Toyama Park, Japan

Haunted Globetrotting: Toyama Park, Hakone Yama, And The Ghosts Of Unit 731, Tokyo, Japan

May 13, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: The Hex Murder House, Pennsylvania. (CW: Unethical human experimentation.) In Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, there’s a park just north of the Shin-Okubo JR station. Called Toyama Park, it’s Continue Reading > about Haunted Globetrotting: Toyama Park, Hakone Yama, And The Ghosts Of Unit 731, Tokyo, Japan

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Hakone Yama, Haunted Globetrotting, haunted travel, history, Japan, Japanese ghosts, Shinjuku, Shiro Ishii, Tokyo, Toyama Park, unethical human experimentation, Unit 731, World War II

A woman silhouetted against a cloudy sky with a tree next to her

Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: La Llorona, The Weeping Woman

April 24, 2019 by Lucia

Previously: The Red Room Curse. Type: CC (Corporeally Challenged). Period/location of origin: Unknown, Latin America. Subject’s roots run so deeply that it is difficult to pinpoint precisely Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: La Llorona, The Weeping Woman

Filed Under: Encyclopaedia Tagged With: CC, Encyclopaedia of the Impossible, ghosts, history, la llorona, latin america, Mexico, urban legends, wailing woman, weeping woman

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