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Continue reading →: Apparently, Bigfoot Has Legal RepresentationBigfoot has legal protection, river monsters have refuges, and Massachusetts has a so-called “werewolf law.” I went looking for the paperwork behind America’s strangest cryptid laws—and found that sometimes the strangest thing in the story isn’t the monster. It’s us.
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Continue reading →: I Played With a Ouija Board Once. Once Was Enough.It started as a Ouija board at a teenage birthday sleepover in 1994. We laughed, asked questions, and accused each other of moving the planchette. Then the atmosphere changed—and before the night was over, I experienced something I’ve never forgotten.
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Continue reading →: Do You Know Where Your Practices Came From?Tarot, crystals, chakras, sage, Wicca, WitchTok—somewhere along the way, somebody will probably call it ancient. But ancient where, ancient when, and practiced by whom? I went digging into where these practices actually came from, and the history was far messier—and more interesting—than I expected.
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Continue reading →: It Started With a KnockBefore the Ouija board, there were knocks in the dark, moving tables, strange messages, grieving families, skeptics, scientists, and a whole lot of questions. So how did a nineteenth-century fascination with communicating with the dead end up in the toy department? I followed the history—and, of course, I brought the…
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Continue reading →: Consumption: A New England Vampire StoryWhen consumption swept through New England families, some people began to wonder if the dead were responsible for the living becoming sick. They opened graves, examined bodies, burned organs, and tried desperately to stop something they couldn’t yet see. The truth behind New England’s vampire stories may be more haunting…
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Continue reading →: How Does an Urban Legend Get Made?How does an urban legend get made? Sometimes it starts with something real—a rabbit costume, a hatchet and two strange incidents in 1970. Then people start talking, the details start changing, and somewhere along the way, a legend is born.
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Continue reading →: Some Stories Refuse to DieMore than twenty years ago, I packed a tent and went camping at the Devil’s Tramping Ground. I didn’t go because I believed the legend. I went because I didn’t. But some stories have a way of surviving—even when the skeptics are the ones keeping them alive.
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Continue reading →: Down the Rabbit Hole We GoSometimes I want to tell my stories. Sometimes I want to bring somebody else’s stories to light. One question leads to another, the rabbit holes get deeper, and the receipts start piling up. Come see why curiosity might just be my favorite place to get lost.
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Continue reading →: A Bad Romance With My EyebrowsLiving with alopecia has taught me that acceptance doesn’t mean I have to like everything about it. I can hate watching my hair fall out, miss my eyebrows, and still find reasons to laugh. Sometimes accepting what you can’t change means finding a little humor, putting on 24 inches of…
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Continue reading →: Interpretation Is Not EvidenceWe’re all guilty of filling in the blanks sometimes—but what we assume happened and what actually happened can be two very different things. Before we turn our interpretation into fact, maybe we should leave a little room for three simple words: I could be wrong.
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