Today is a special edition of Random Links of the day. Filled with creepy goodness! In this edition we take a look at everything from suspected real world Vampires, Jack of the Lanterns, King Charles being related to Vlad the Impaler, Real World Zombie Bunkers and more!
So let’s get to it!
Five Vampire Stories you have never heard of, and the Indian inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula
King Charles III is related to the Historical Dracula (somehow I’m not surprised I always knew the Monarchy were bloodsuckers)
A female Vampire Skeleton Found with a Sickle over its neck
The Lost History of the Jack-o’-Lantern
How the Jack-O’-Lantern came to be
Now the following Ghost Story Anthology comes from an amazing occult writer on here named Neptune’s Dolphins. Neptune’s Dolphins is the best at all the subjects he writes about. And I guarantee if you follow this writer you will not regret it!
A Mesopotamian Ghost Story Part 1
A Mesopotamian Ghost Story Part 2
A Mesopotamian Ghost Story Part 3 (Final)
How Homes in Bali Are Designed for Harmony—and to Keep Demons at Bay
Summoning Ghosts During Sukkoth
Casting Lots During Yom Kippur
October when the 3rd Dimension and Spirit World Meets
Dead Man’s Bones : A Sweet Spiritual Tradition to honor the dead
Haunted New Jersey School set to be Demolished
The Ghost Lights of Colorado’s Silver Cliff : What are they?
A Shark, an Aquarium, and a Human Arm : The Murder Mystery that has endured
10 Secure Places to Wait Out the Zombie Apocalypse
Watch Night of the Living Dead in Color here!
Zombie CSU:: The Forensic Science of the Living Dead by Jonathan Maberry is one of the best comprehensive books on what a real Zombie would be like. It goes deep into the Fringe Science of how such a creature could exist. From Folklorist, And Award Winning Novelist and Writer Jonathan Maberry
His novel on Zombies : The Dead of Night Series
Indigenous Australian Monsters
The Gas Station from Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a weekend Vacation Spot
New Zealand is going to Tax Cow Burps for Global Warming? Seriously? Why not do something that ACTUALLY works. Like banning tech that isn’t green?
The Pigeon Tower of Saudi Arabia
Peter Stumpp : The Werewolf of Bedburg
Peter Stumpp | Lycan Foundation
Germany’s brutal Werewolf Belt, and the gut wrenching execution of Peter Stumpp
Peter Stumpp : Werewolf or Political Scapegoat?
Sing for your Halloween Candy in Scotland
The 9,000 year old Jericho Skull
Living with the Dead in Madagascar
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Strange Light Formations in the Sky
12 Forests That Offer Chills and Thrills
Why do we Bob for Apples on Halloween?
Why are Black and Orange the colors of Halloween?
Alaska’s Windwalker or Wendigo
The Wendigo: The Cannibalistic Beast of Native American Folklore
The Wendigo : It’s origin and Legend
The Wendigo a story by Algernon Blackwood. Here I have two different audio readings which I like very much because of the sound effects.
From Nightshade and from Weird Darkness
Have a great October and Hallowmastide everyone!
– M
Adventures of A Mage In Miami 