If you find yourself walking through the Black Hills of South Dakota, make sure to avoid the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. You just might encounter Walking Sam.  Between December 2014 and March 2015, over one hundred teenagers tried to commit suicide on the reservation. Nine succeeded. Legend had it that they all saw Walking Sam…

Every night, the people of Frederick County, Maryland make sure their kids are in the house and their livestock is safely in the barn. They don’t want them to become dinner for the terrible Snallygaster…

A Manananggal is a kind of vampire. It’s part of a group of Filipino creatures called Aswang, which are shape-shifting vampires. Just like a vampire, a Manananggal has teeth that turn into fangs…

‘Tis the season to be…something. What you’re gonna be depends on where you live. Here in America, we’re supposed to be jolly. But I’m here to inject a little scary into your holiday…

“Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary”… I bet a lot of you have done this. Light a candle, shut the light, look in the mirror, and say her name three times. Look in the mirror and concentrate. Then wait. When I did it nothing happened, of course. Although according to the legend one of three things is supposed to happen…

Go to any place in the world and you’re apt to find out that they have little green men. Those little buggers seem to be everywhere! They do drive-bys, hang around and watch, annoy townspeople, and even kidnap. And apparently, they love the butt stuff!  (Maybe we should all carry around some lube – Just in case!) Did you know that the first reported sighting of aliens supposedly happened in 1955 in Hopkinsville-Kelly, Kentucky? Neither did I until recently…

What happened to all the vampires? How did they go from scary, soulless murdering demons to sappy, romance novel characters? People used to be terrified of them! They stayed in at night, hung garlic and crucifixes to keep them out, and stayed away from cemeteries and anyplace they thought one would be living. Now people fall in love with them. Where did vampires come from? Where did it all go wrong?

There’s a legend in Beaver County, Pennsylvania about a creature they call The Green Man. They say he’s got glowing eyes, green skin, and a horrible face….

Merry Christmas? Not always! Although we all wait for Santa to come down the chimney and shove all the crap we want under the tree, it isn’t  just Santa out and about in December…