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Five English Witch-Haunts: Witches & English Mythology
English myth is a curious being. Compared to, say, that of Ancient Greece, which gives origin stories to real-life flora and fauna from across the world, our tales often involve more local variations. Nowhere is this clearer than in a huge sub-part of English myth: folklore, the traditional beliefs and legends of a particular people. […]
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The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612
At the assizes at Lancaster in the autumn of 1612, twenty persons, of whom sixteen were women of various ages, were committed for trial, and most of them tried for witchcraft. Their names were: Margaret Pearson was tried 1st for murder by witchcraft; 2nd for bewitching a neighbour; 3rd for bewitching a horse; and, being acquitted […]
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How Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre
Their account, recovered with the help of hypnosis, detailed extensive medical exams, including a crude pregnancy test. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Is it chasing us? That thought coursed through Betty and Barney Hill’s minds as they drove down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. It was a September night in 1961, they hadn’t […]
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Travis Walton – An Ordinary Day
By Travis Walton Condensed from the book Fire in the Sky It was the morning of Wednesday, November 5, 1975. To us, the seven men working in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, it was an ordinary workday. There was nothing in that sunny fall morning to foreshadow the tremendous fear, shock, and confusion we would be feeling as […]
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The Phoenix Lights, 1997, Arizona
The Evidence UFO researchers and writers today are tantalized by the increasing reports of alien abduction, possible photographs of alien beings, physical trace cases, and implant removals. In a way we have become spoiled-expecting the sensational. This desire for ultimate proof has caused us to overlook the seemingly mundane, everyday reports of night lights, which […]
