The Halloween hype is muted this year, with trick-or-treating an uncertainty and costume parties postponed. It’s especially disappointing because the stars aligned this year for an epic Halloween. Not only does October 31st fall on a Saturday this year, but it’s a full moon! And not just any full moon, …
Read MoreWith Halloween rapidly approaching, our fancy turns to ghosts, goblins, witches, demons, and all the other beasties that go bump in the night. I love reading about this kind of stuff–but stick me in a haunted house and I’m not going to be happy. If you think your house might …
Read MoreAt this point in human history, the appeal of finding a new habitable planet is greater than ever. Unfortunately, Venus ain’t it. At least not for us puny carbon-based lifeforms. However, scientists claim that they detected a potential sign of life on the second rock from the sun. What Would …
Read MoreWe’ve all got to go someday… but hopefully not today. Every culture has its own lore about death omens, such as the Bean Sídhe, or banshee, of Irish folklore. However, some of those omens are a lot more likely to pop up in everyday life. Black Butterflies Although butterflies are …
Read MoreYesterday, we delved into the dark world of tarot cards that foretell doom and gloom. But the entire deck isn’t like that. There are just as many cards that signal happy, positive events or feelings in your life. These are the best, luckiest cards to see in your tarot reading! …
Read MoreWhen you’re new to tarot, whether you’re reading it for yourself or visiting a pro, there are certain cards that seem really bad. The Death card, for example, can be frightening. However, Death is far from the most ominous card in the deck. Sadly, there isn’t a Happy Squirrel card …
Read MoreToday on Lurking Beyond, we’re talking about brownies. No, not those brownies! Although they look really good right now… The brownies we’re talking about come from the English folklore tradition. They’re the reason that old wives’ tales say to leave milk or cream, along with a little fresh bread, on …
Read MoreEarlier this week, while appearing on Hot Ones, Drew Barrymore confirmed the Old Hollywood rumor that Errol Flynn stole the body of her grandfather for a night on the town. The legend goes that when actor John Barrymore died in 1942, his friends Errol Flynn, W.C. Fields, and Sadakichi Hartmann …
Read MoreThe scariest thing about playing Dungeons & Dragons these days is that someone will think you’re a geek. (They’d be wrong; D&D is awesome and fun, especially if you need something to do with your friends over Zoom.) But in the 1980s, the tabletop role-playing game was widely considered to …
Read MoreDeuteronomy 7:26 reads “Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” So: no cursed items in the house. But what if it was …
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