What Dreams May Come from Herr Wesermann?
“New roads; new ruts” – Gilbert K. Chesterton Sigmund Freud once referred to dreams as the “royal road to the …
Tag Archives: Ghosts
Fear No Evil When You Walk through Oberlin’s Valley of Death
“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted” – Percy Bysshe Shelley …
Haunted House Hunting with Mrs. Butler
“It is curious to think that what to one of us means so much to another is without any signification. …
The Bottle Smashing Ghost of Via Bava No. 6
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine” – Eduardo Galeano The problem with …
Tempting Fate at Ticonderoga: Major Duncan Campbell and The Black Watch
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality” – Edgar Allan Poe Names …
Outsourced Morality: The Conscience-Formed Phantom Drums for You
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not …
Eternal Love and Other Supernatural Phenomena
“We have a love affair with the idea of the ‘natural,’ even though we, as a species, are about as …
Perish, then Publish: Jacopo Alighieri and the 13 Missing Cantos
“Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live anymore” – Carlos …
No One Suspected the Hantu Batu: Sumatran Poltergeists Throwing Stones
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself …
The Danmar Experiments: Chasing Ghosts to the Tail of the Earth
“Empiricism and idealism alike are faced with a problem to which, so far, philosophy has found no satisfactory solution. This …
Ghost Morality and Celestial Bureaucracy: What Would Casper Do?
“By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a …
Smellie and Greenlaw: Heaven Ain’t All Harps and Hosannas
“From recollecting our dreams …we may learn to correct many improprieties in our conduct…to resist, in due time, evil habits …
The Anomalistic Condition of Possibility: Visibility without Tangibility
“Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed” – Robert Angell I …
Loving and Leaving with Caisho Burroughs and his Phantom Mistress
“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us” ― Jim Carroll In the days of yore, handsome young …
Mother Knows Best: The Apparition of Lady Lee
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. …
Mesopotamian Ghosts: The Oldest Excuse for Haunting
“If the beer mash is sour, how can the beer be sweet?” – Sumerian Proverb There are a few interesting …
The Monster of Glamis Castle: Stay Safe, Don’t be an Earl
“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets” ― Jacques …
Plutarch’s Haunted Bathhouse: A 1st Century B.C. Ghost Story
“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, …
The Next to Last Will and Testament: How to Sue the Living
“Law is born from despair of human nature” – Jose Ortega Y Gasset Thomas Harris of Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, …
The Real Ghost Theory of Religion
“I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable, than one …
Political Ghosts: The Severed Hand of Count Stambuloff
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship” – George Bernard Shaw As the 2016 U.S. presidential campaigns grind on, they …
If the Ghost Doesn’t Fit, You Must Acquit: The Murder of Sergeant Arthur Davies
“Nature keeps herself whole, and…. suffers no seat to be vacant in her college. It is the secret of the …
Where the Rubber Hits the Road: The Intersection of Anomalies and Beliefs
“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests” – John Stuart Mill Listening closely to …
The Poetry of Anomalies: Haunting Verses with Alice and Phoebe Cary
“A poet’s work…to name the un-namable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop …
Viking Ghostbusters: The Icelandic Style of Exorcising Spirits
Betra er einn að vera, en illan stallbróður hafa (“Better to be alone than in bad company”) – Icelandic Proverb …
Afterlife Accounting: Haunted by Debt?
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart” – e.e. cummings …
Haunted Homewrecking with Scotland’s Pearlin’ Jean
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord …
The Angry Spirit of Castle Slawensik: An Open Letter to Poltergeists
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” – George Bernard Shaw Hey, poltergeists. …
Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach
“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions” – Anais …
The Goblin Jesuit of Lopatcong: Ghosts Believe in You
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck” – George …
The Curse of the Charles Haskell: Strange Attractors, Creep Factors, and the Advantages of Asymmetry
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats” – Voltaire Life is uncertain, or …
The Ghost of Alaska’s Baranoff Castle: Love’s Labor Lost
“The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz Until 1867, the only …
An Afterlife Buddy System: The Preternatural Pact of Bezuel and Desfontaines
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance” – Henry David Thoreau Halloween approaches, …
Causality Bites: Athenodorus and the Archetypal Haunted House
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck” ― Paul Virilio We take a lot of …
Scapeghosting: Don’t Blame the Dead Guy
“The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one” ― Warren Eyster It’s traditional, and no doubt …
Blob Genealogy: Absolute Negation with Old Boneless, The Grey Man, Brollachan, and Caointech
The classic monster generally at least has the common courtesy to maintain a discernible shape. Otherwise the frightened villagers would …
