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As fate would have it, I had just finished the most recent podcast I’d been listening to and was wondering what to listen to next when I got an email about The Chilling. In part, it read: I wanted to reach out because I think my story might be ofContinue Reading

The Pope's Exorcist Clip from Fandango

“And the other two percent?” a priest asks in an exclusive clip from The Pope’s Exorcist that Rotten Tomatoes shared on its YouTube channel. Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe) had just told a panel of five holy men seated behind a table that exorcism is his job. However, the majorityContinue Reading

Pan tries to talk Lyra (Dafne Keene) out of going to the Land of the Dead. | Photograph by Courtesy HBO

In both Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and the HBO Max series based on it, many of the characters have daemons. (Which is actually spelled with a ligature to form “dæmons.”) In fact, as Will (Amir Wilson) finds out, everybody has dæmons. However, in some of the worlds (likeContinue Reading

Hereditary Movie Poster

In a previous post, Victoria Jaye analyzed how accurately the Conjuring universe portrays demons. But now she’s joining us to examine the accuracy —or perhaps inaccuracy?— of how demons are portrayed in another film. Specifically, the demon in the Hereditary movie. And this may become a series Victoria does. (IContinue Reading

Mass Shooting And Demons Ahead Sign

In this guest post, supernatural folklorist Victoria Jaye examines the fallacy of demons having anything to do with mass shootings. Which you might think goes without saying, but there are people out there who believe that’s why we have so many in the U.S. Victoria helps us understand why that’sContinue Reading

Man-eater of Mfuwe

It was impossible not to think of “The Ghost” and “The Darkness,” the man-eating lions that inspired the movie of the same name, when I spotted “The Man-Eater of Mfuwe” on display in Chicago’s Field Museum. I’d never heard of the beast before then. Nor did I realize at theContinue Reading

Demons devils and angels

After I accepted Victoria Jaye’s pitch for an article examining whether Amityville and the Bell Witch were demonic or not, she also mentioned letting her know if I had any topics on demons I wanted someone to cover. As a matter of fact, I did, so I pitched it toContinue Reading

Archjive81 poster

Have you started watching —or binging as the case may be— Archive 81 on Netflix yet? It started streaming on Jan. 14, 2022, and has been in Netflix’s Top 10 TV Shows in the U.S. Today ever since. For good reason. As I explained when I compared it with StrangerContinue Reading

Demon in the White House Shock Docs cover

Updated November 5, 2021: I mistakenly said the demon cat lives in the basement of the White House when it’s rumored he really dwells in the basement of the Capitol Building. The text has been changed to reflect the correction. Some say a demon cat that foretells disaster lives inContinue Reading

Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader and a team of paranormal experts hold a seance at the Lizzie Borden house

The Curse of Lizzie Borden, the next installment in the Shock Docs series, premieres on discovery+ on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader assembles a team of paranormal experts to investigate whether a dark entity helped facilitate one of the most infamous ax murders of all time. TheContinue Reading

The Holzer Files season 2 cast Cindy Kaza, Dave Dave Schrader and Shane Pittman

The Holzer Files season 2 returns Halloween week as part of Travel Channel’s Ghostober lineup. I had a chance to talk with the show’s stars, Dave Schrader, Cindy Kaza, and Shane Pittman ahead of their season premier on Thursday, October 29. Like I do before calls with other Travel ChannelContinue Reading

There's No Such Thing as Ghost poster

There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts? is a new paranormal documentary now streaming on Amazon Prime, and it’s absolutely worth renting for $4.99 or, better yet, spending the extra $1 to buy for $5.99. Psst. The link(s) above lead(s) to our Amazon affiliate. As noted in our affiliate policy, ifContinue Reading