Home

On:

JP was raised a pagan. His mother is a powerful witch who performs exorcisms on haunted houses. He has spent his life in high strangeness, often invoking it as opposed to having it happen to him. In this talk, we go down the list of some entity types we’ve talked about on the show to see if he has experienced them, too. If he has, and he’s not an "abductee," what does this tell us about the nature of–and the closeness of–these phenomena our culture has deemed alien?
read more

On:

As Halloween is winding down and the decorations are being put away until next year, visitors to the witch capital of Salem, Massachusetts might be surprised to discover that there were never any witches executed there at all.

Michelle Delio writes in wired.com that 300 years ago, those witches were actually tried 5 miles away. Despite this, Salem has built an entire tourist industry around the incident, which occurred in 1692, when a group of young women claimed they were being bewitched by their neighbors.
read more