Even before the pandemic forced us all into our Hobbit holes for six months, online psychic readings were already becoming the norm. Instead of finding a trustworthy psychic in your area, you can simply find someone online to do a tarot reading, examine your star chart, or other divination. The …
Read MoreAt Lurking Beyond, we love haunted dolls. Well, we love to be absolutely terrified of them. There’s something so creepy about dolls to begin with. It might be an Uncanny Valley thing–dolls look almost, but not quite, like real people and that’s unsettling. We examined the strange economy of selling …
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been a tween girl at a sleepover, then you’ve probably know about all about Bloody Mary. No, not that kind of Bloody Mary. Wait, is that a whole shrimp being used as garnish? I think we’ve discovered the real horror here. But we were talking about the …
Read MoreWhat does “life” mean to you? As we previously explored on Lurking Beyond, alien life might not look like anything we can recognize. Rather than the humanoid aliens offered by popular sci-fi imaginings, alien life could be deeply strange and unfamiliar. A New Form of Lyfe Researchers Stuart Bartlett and …
Read MoreDeep down, we’ve all dreamed about having a cryptid of our very own. But what about the practicalities of caring for a Sasquatch or the Jersey Devil? What would they eat? How would you keep them secret? With this very important question in mind, I’ve ranked 7 cryptids in order …
Read MoreIf you ever travel through southwest Iowa, stop over in Villisca–but don’t stay the night. At least not at the home where eight people were slaughtered in 1912… and where their ghosts are said to remain. With a name like “Villisca Ax Murder House,” you at least know what you’re …
Read MoreDo you think Elon Musk is a Lurking Beyond fan? We just wrote about alien conspiracy theories, and then the Tesla and SpaceX CEO went and tweeted that aliens built the pyramids. Late-Night Tweet Sparks International Incident If anybody has inside info on extraterrestrial life, you’d think it would be …
Read MoreBeyoncé operates on a totally different wavelength from the rest of us. I mean, we can all agree about that, right? Her latest artistic work is Black Is King, a “visual album” streaming on Disney+. If you watch the trailer below, you wouldn’t be alone in wondering what the heck …
Read MoreEverybody has heard of a Ouija board. You can probably picture one right now with a fair degree of accuracy–even if you can’t spell the name off the top of your head. That’s a lot of vowels. But where did the name come from, and why do some people think …
Read MoreIf you had to make a list of the celebrities most likely to be alien believers, who would you put on it? I mean, Nicolas Cage has to be up there, right? However, it’s Post Malone who is making headlines this week about his close encounters. In case you happen …
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