Category: Culture
5 Halloween Charms and Divination From Long Ago
What do you plan on doing Halloween night? Why not try out one of these old charms and divinations? Personally, I like the dry bread…
Halloween Night Cat Divination
People once believed that cats could tell the future on Halloween night. What is your cat trying to tell you? Watch and find out!
Who Were the Berserkers?
The berserkers were fierce Viking warriors who dressed in either bear or wolf skins to strike fear in their enemies. It was not just their…
German Mine Gnomes
Called Tommyknockers in the U.S., the German miners claimed that gnomes infested metal mines and could cause all sorts of trouble and even death. The…
Rainmakers in 1912
Rain making used to be a fairly profitable industry back in the day. Men and a few women would claim that they could make the…
Theory on the Origin of Music
How did music evolve and what got it all started? This newspaper article from 1914 explains how music probably evolved from simple clapping and finger…
Child Wishes To See Mother In Heaven
Heartbreaking stories, such as this one where the child wishes to visit her mother in heaven, always bring a knot to my throat and make…
The Ghost Ship of Cape Horn
This newspaper article explains how some ghost ship sighting were just rocks jutting out of the water combined with fog or strange weather events. It…
Haunted Mummies Nod Their Heads
You can’t make this shit up, folks. People in the early 1900s would scare themselves silly over the idea of haunted mummies, sort of like…
Strangeness at the Chateau du Grand Clos
What happened to the occupants of Chateau du Grand Clos? Is the place haunted? This old report was published in a U.S. newspaper back in…









