Mike Jay, Author at The Daily Grail

Sir Walter Raleigh's first tobacco pipe in England

Hidden History Shamanism

·Thursday, July 22nd

Shaman’s Revenge: The birth, death, and afterlife of our romance with tobacco

The story of tobacco is the story of the modern age. On 12th October 1492, within hours of his first...

Hidden History Shamanism

·Friday, April 23rd

Secrets of the Club des Hachischins: The ‘Green Jam’ that connected the ancient order of assassins with 19th century scientists and artists

In a pivotal scene of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, the young adventurer Franz d’Epinay visits the apparently...

Gustav Dore illustration of spirits/angels/ghosts from Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Forteana Spirit World

·Wednesday, July 22nd

‘The Fruitful Matrix of Ghosts’: The psychic investigations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Depiction of San Pedro cactus in ancient Chavin art (CCSA4.0 licence, author Cbrescia)

Hidden History Shamanism

·Tuesday, May 28th

Enter the Jaguar: Psychedelics in Ancient Peru

Excerpted from Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction, available in Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon. The monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar, ten thousand...

Nias villagers moving a megalith, ca. 1915 (Courtesy Tropenmuseum, Creative Commons)

Hidden History Sacred Sites

·Monday, December 10th

Megaliths in South-East Asia: The Sacred Stones of Borneo

Be sure to follow The Daily Grail on Facebook and on Twitter for more fascinating stories on alternative history and weird science. Megalith cultures...