Everyone and their mother knows all about Krampus, the half-goat, half-demon, kid-hating Christmas asshole. He’s been the featured of folklore legends, horror movies, and city-wide...
I don’t know about you, but if I can wedge Halloween into any other holiday, I absolutely will. Sure, everyone is already familiar with the...
After years of pop-culture conditioning to lycanthropes with rippling abs and typical teenage problems, it’s easy to forget that at one time, the threat of...
Is Mother Nature the real root of all evil? Are natural disasters the origins of some alleged curses? Can witchcraft be caused by weather? Occasionally,...
So, fellow Coppertops! Here's another of the latest developments in silly superstition, media hype, and so much more.
Whether you’re a passionate admirer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or a fan of BBC’s hit series Sherlock, it’s difficult not to let your mind...
Every guido and guidette knows the story of the Jersey Devil. Mother Leeds was a promiscuous lady, pumping out twelve kids and finding herself heavy...
Oregon is famous for few things—namely rain and being north of California. It hasn’t really caught the eye of the world at large, perhaps...
If you look at pictures for the hammerhead bat that is native to Africa, you will see that its face does resemble traditional depictions of...
Much like the living, the dead have their own problems. If you subscribe to the philosophy of many paranormal hobbyists, you might believe that the...
It’s dark, disturbing, and greasy. No, not boiled eel. Not Severus Snape either. Meet Malaysia’s least popular legend: Orang Minyak, better known as “Oily Man”....
A fat man squeezing down chimneys and traveling faster than the speed of light to deliver presents in one night? A half-human, half-diety born from...
In the past decade, as ghost hunters traded their film cameras for instant digital ones, the phenomenon of orbs (which most of us have grown...
There’s plain-looking concrete and steel bridge near where I live that’s supposed to be haunted. It replaced a covered bridge that once crossed the Cuyahoga...