King Number One
Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call’d Robin Goodfellow… William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Halloween for most of […]
Thirteen Ghosts of the Western Door: The Niagara All-Stars
The Halloween season is here, and for most of a month the imagery of things and beings supernatural and paranormal will besiege us in every medium. It shows us that […]
The Hill of Dead Witches
To some extent we English speakers are raised on Aristotelian – Greek – thinking. Our whole conceptual system is based on absolutes and zero-sum games. (“Indeed, you have persuaded me, […]
Magnus and the Hidden People
Traditions about races of magical, more-or-less human beings – fairies, leprechauns, Little People – exist in the folklore of many parts of the world. If the average person has an […]
My Night at the Dale
Every single spot of air or earth at Lily Dale is potentially haunted, at least according to its residents and devotees. Almost no reports of psychic phenomena are considered either […]
“A Night on Witches’ Walk”: A Seneca Supernatural Tale
[The grandmothers were the ultimate keepers of much of the supernatural tradition, it seems, among the Allegany Seneca. In his childhood the late author and storyteller DuWayne “Duce” Bowen (1946-2006) […]
Goodleberg Strikes Again: The Damning of Goodleberg, Part 5
[Author’s Note: The small country burying-ground in the Town of Wales, Erie County, NY, known as Goodleberg is one of New York State’s most mythologized “haunted” cemeteries. It is also […]
“This Hungry Churchyard”: The Damning of Goodleberg, Part 4
But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry… By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. Romeo, Act V, Romeo and […]
The Damning of Goodleberg, Part 3: The Dreaded Doctor Speaker
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The summer months are on us and here come the ghost-hunters. It’s sure to get hot at the top of that hill holding […]
The Damning of Goodleberg, Part 2: Dogs in Black and Ladies in White
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The summer months are on us and here come the ghost-hunters. It’s sure to get hot at the top of that hill holding […]