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Saturday, November 9, 2019

A Ghost Investigation in an Athonite Monastery

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On November 9th the Orthodox Church commemorates a miracle connected with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Mount Athos, an ancient Gree...
Monday, November 4, 2019

How to Explain Spirituality To A Faithless Generation According to Guillermo del Toro

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When dogma and religion are rejected, it is often the case that fantasy and art replace them to fulfill the human need for something that i...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Orthodoxy and Halloween: Ten Years Later (2009-2019)

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By John Sanidopoulos On October 31, 2009 I wrote a post on johnsanidopoulos.com that when I woke up that morning I had no intention to wr...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

"The Vroucolacas: A Tale" by James K. Paulding (full text)

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James Kirke Paulding (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. He ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

A Useful Tip for Organizers of Haunted Attractions

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Here’s a useful tip for haunted house organizers from Michael Ward of Theatronics Engineering: “As a theatrical consultant I have spent ov...
Monday, October 21, 2019

On the Belief in Vampires in Greece During the Ottoman Occupation (An Essay From 1844)

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The Vroucalaca (Published in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction   on Saturday, February 24, 1844) The Vampire, of which...
Friday, October 18, 2019

The Exhumation of a Vampire on the Island of Mykonos in 1700: An Eye-Witness Account

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for ...