Portals
I was going through some old files recently and came across a report about The Roycroft Inn in East Aurora that I have never published. An example of a type […]
Ghosts
AFTERWORD (to The Paranormal Almanac of Western New York)
I don’t believe in ghosts, although I’ve seen my share.Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen One of the unforgettable memories of my teaching career is of […]
CAPPY
[I think more people than you would expect have a supernatural story or two like this one floating around in family tradition. A recent book, The Rose Witch (2018), […]
The Moon-Eyed People
[Supernatural folklore and ancient monuments go hand in hand in Europe. In the Americas, the connection is not so well known.] When the first historic European cultures, the Celts, moved […]
This House is Haunted!
The title of this quick end-of-the-year article is inspired by Guy Lyon Playfair’s 1980 book on the shocking two-year episode of the Enfield poltergeist (North London, UK), which Playfair investigated […]
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 […]
“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) […]
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