Category: Culture
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…
10 Witchy Superstitions About Brooms
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….
10 Strange Things People Do to Find Something Lost
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…
10 Fascinating Candle Superstitions
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…
10 Weird Superstitions About Doors
Doors are such a common place item that we hardly take notice of them. The old timers, however, do remember the mysteries and symbolism of…
10 Unsettling Superstitions About Your Bed
Your bed is your comfort zone. It is where you sleep, relax, get inspirations for fantastical ideas, and where you snuggle up to someone close….
