Apologies for the vague and general question—God knows we've had one too many of those recently. I am looking for a monster. Or a ghost, or weird happening, preferably specific to either American folklore, or Native American folklore and religion, located within the vicinity of the states of Arkan...

I forgot about the 2nd being Groundhog Day until I saw it in a few papers today. While I don’t think they say this as much anymore, when I was a kid the folklore was that if the groundhog emerges from its burrow, is scared by its own shadow and retreats back inside–more winter. I think n...

Yummy tumbleweed. (LesTout) - There are a lot of statistics flying around about how bad the economy is doing, but they all seem rather abstract. The old joke about a recession being when your neighbor loses his job and a depression is when you lose yours, seems a little more apt. My own definition s...

Director : Release Date : 2004 (USA) Genre : Horror, Thriller Cast : (Credited cast) , Margot Kidder as Madam Badeau (segment "The Psychic"), Alicia Goranson as Joyce (segment "The Psychic"), Tom Savini as Man (segment "The Psychic"), Harley Kaplan as Dan (segment "World&...

(Historynet) - When fabled bison hunter William “Buffalo Bill� Cody first staged his Wild West show in 1883, he needed more than heroic cowboys, villainous Indians, teeming horses and roaming buffalo to transform it from a circus into a sensation. He needed star power. And there was one man who ...

I've just finished watching "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and it just seems like another one of those conditioning movies. I watched "Cloverfield" a few days ago, it was the same way. Panic, taking away of rights, riots, quarantines, invasion of privacy, murder of civilians, authorities abusing th...

Lets stop with the debate of religion, all religions are pagan and man-made. Christianity as a religion is pagan. After Constantine got a hold of it in the 4th century, he integrated pagan worship into it. That's why you have Christians celebrating birthdays (no Israelite celebrated birth days), Chr...

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Game Republic, (in)famous for its work on Genji and Folklore, as well as its founder Yoshiki Okamoto, was working on a Tom and Jerry game tie-in with an upcoming movie, according to a new interview. That's an "incredible fantasy world"? Okamoto told 1UP at the Tokyo Game Show that his team was devel...

Are these anime characters rooted in Japanese folklore? I've recently been watching an anime series named Hell Girl. I've noticed that there are some striking similarities in some of characters in this series to another series that I've seen called Requiem from the Darkness. The characters Mataichi,...