"Xander finds that some stories passed through the ages are not what they seem."
The flicker of the campfire illuminates our circle of rapt faces, the wood popping and crackling in the dark as Dexter brings his tale to a climax."Terror!" he yells with the gravitas of a Shakespearean understudy. "That's how it reigns."...
"letting yourself go and screaming your head off can have disastrous effects sometimes"
Sinead slammed the front door and ran upstairs to her bedroom. Her mother raised her eyes as the bedroom door slammed too.In her room, Sinead sat on the bed, rocking herself slowly backwards and forwards. Her long dark hair hung...
"How the Legend of The Lady in the Lake came to be."
It all began one Halloween night.We were best friends in high school. We played on the volleyball team together. Madison was shorter than me, but she could dig out the spikes from other teams. I was good at the net...
"The power of the amulet transforms the supplicant"
People who experience a mysterious event sometimes feel the need for a rational explanation. They seek to explain the unexplainable, and put it safely within a box of reality. Perhaps, they’ll suggest, what you experienced was just a delusion, nothing...
"This is a ghost story like no other."
The story of Resurrection Mary was told around Chicago for so many years that it became legendary. But, back in the thirties when a pretty young girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver, it was heartbreaking. Mary had been with...
"How friendly are the ghosts"
It was Halloween night in southwest Virginia. Katie and Tommy decided to go for a drive out to the old abandoned St Albans asylum.The legend of the ghosts of St Albans Sanatorium dated back to the beginning when it was a...
It was Halloween night and Gina Rogers was waiting for her cab. Her friends had all hooked-up with men and Gina was alone. It was not that she was ugly, but she lacked self esteem which made her awkward. She...
"Angharad was in the hands of the Gods before the hands were removed!"
The Welsh mountains are steeped in myths and legends and have captured the hearts of many locals and travellers and remain central to the myth of King Arthur. Surrounding lakes claim to hold the sword of Excalibur and the legendary...
"My soulmate isn't what I expected her to be."
A few years ago, I met my girlfriend at a friend’s Halloween party. It was on Devil’s Night, Halloween Eve. I wasn’t planning on going, but a couple of friends talked me into going. I didn’t wear a costume. It...
"There are the old gods and the new. Just how did the new gods capture their thrones?"
Dr. Eloise Vandenberg massaged her neck as she searched the scene below her top floor perch at the Citadel, one of the world’s foremost military colleges. Bumper to bumper in Charleston blocked a flashing ambulance as evening rainstorms erupted. If you were...
