Skeptophilia

Ready for a strange story, that has a curious connection to yesterday's post, about doorways and liminal spaces? Let's start with H....

In H. P. Lovecraft's terrifying and atmospheric 1927 short story " The Colour Out of Space ," a meteorite strikes near a farmh...

Today's post is brought to you by the Department of One Thing Leads to Another. Philip Lutley Sclater  (1829-1913) was a distinguished B...

Sometimes, you can mislead people not only by what you say, but by what you leave out. Take, for example, the " Moodus noises ," t...

It's hard to imagine Antarctica as anything but a frozen wasteland.  Bitterly cold even in summer, barely any precipitation (if it were ...

Between research for Skeptophilia , my choice of reading material, and natural curiosity, I go down some deep rabbit holes sometimes. This l...

For today's Fiction Friday, I'm asking a question not because I'm trying to lead you in any particular direction, but because I ...

The advent of the internet gave a whole new life to the phenomenon of urban legends.  When I was a kid (back in the good ol' Ancient Bab...

Because the universe has a peculiar sense of humor sometimes, my comment to a friend yesterday that it'd been a good long while since I...