One of the earliest appearances of ghouls is in The Arabian Nights, or One Thousand and One Nights, portrayed as dangerous, flesh-eating demons. But how have they changed over time?
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The Haunting of Hannath Hall
On a stormy night in 1957, newspaper journalist Mr A. Wilmot from Peterborough had his car break down close to Hannath Hall in the fens of Cambridgeshire. Unfortunately the couple in the building were suffering from a ghostly infestation…
Maxwell Cade and the Signals of the Mind and Body
From meditation and martial arts to inventing methods of scanning the body for inflammation, studying electrical skin resistance, and hypnosis to teaching people to train their brainwaves, (all while dealing with two broken necks, diabetes, and a stroke) Maxwell Cade was quite the character.
The Sleep Demon, part 2
Yesterday we took a look at what sleep paralysis is, its possible causes, and how to cope with it. Now let’s see how sleep paralysis was viewed in history and folklore, and its influence on literature. Because why not?
The Voices of Joan of Arc
A young French girl claimed to hear messages from God and angels telling her to lead her country to victory over the English. But where did these voices originate from?
The Versailles Incident
A supernatural journey through time by two Edwardian headmistresses
Nightwalks 