Mike Jay is perhaps my favourite writer on strange and obscure history: his excursions into rarely traveled back roads of conspiracy theory, mind control, drugs...
Whenever I'm watching a UFO/paranormal documentary --and it is not as often as you might think, as most of them tend to be pretty atrocious!-- there's always on...
What is it about Asian culture that intrigues the western world so? The romance, the mystery, the enchantment…all of it seems to come together to form somethin...
The Slender Man (or to some, just Slenderman): in the last few years, this modern monster legend has become a part of mainstream culture: there is a now a Slend...
We can’t stop it. We can’t bargain with it. Even if we don’t remember what the ritual is. The ritual has an infinite number of working parts, surrounding us. Mo...
In early June, the British found-footage documentary Arcadia was released. A film showing the folklorish customs of Britain with a soundtrack by Portishead’s Ad...
This essay by Martin Shough is excerpted from Darklore Volume 5, which is available in paperback format from Amazon US and Amazon UK. Feature image courtesy Ale...
Hag-Ridden by Adam's First Wife
Hag – meaning a wizened and aged women, most commonly used now in a derogatory, even misogynistic way – is actually a shorten...
In this episode of the Youtube series Religion in Life, Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka is invited to talk about her views on UFOs as a form of an emerging religion, on...
The enigmatic Georgia Guidestones have many mysteries surrounding them: who was the shadowy group that asked for them to be built; what is the true meaning of t...
