Category: Culture

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Whether there are witches riding brooms across the sky or brooms being thrown after a husband, brooms have a long history in the superstitious world….

Don’t you hate it when you lose something and can’t for the life of you remember where it is? It drives me absolutely insane, especially…

Candles have long fascinated us. They are used in religious ceremonies all over the world and we buy them in bulk to light up our…