Interesting People

A New Year’s Parade of the Damned

Magical Folk and Munes Magical Folk has just been published and I contributed a chapter on American fairies. We also look at the “Munes” a brand new (in 1916) breed of American fairies.

National Ghost Hunting Day Celebrating National Ghost Hunting Day with profiles of famous ghost hunters and stories of spook seekers, amateur or professional.

The Fortean Bride Fortean tales of brides and wedding weirdness

Painting in the Dark with Raphael Painting in the dark was only part of the artistic talents of Mr. Abel Taylor, psychic artist, who worked under the influence of the painter Raphael.

The Fairy in the Box. A child, challenged by her skeptical sister to capture one of the little people she saw in her bedroom at night, catches a fairy in a box.

Mrs Stone and the Headless Ghost A headless ghost is seen by a woman in a Wiltshire lane.

A Color Doctor Dr. William Hotchkiss of St. Louis believed that different colors could heal illnesses. He was known as The Color Doctor.

Miss Neas’s Bones of Contention Doctors and other witnesses reported seeing hundreds of bones working their way through Sarah Neas’s skin