Random Links of the Day : Halloween & Friday the 13th Edition

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I have another post full of random stuff for all of you! I never got to make this post on Friday the 13th. So I’m making up for lost time.

13 Unlucky Places to avoid on Friday the 13th

(☝️ From a “killing stone” to a town too cursed to speak its name, superstition surrounds these places)

The Jewish Werewolves of London

Vampires, Estries, Aluka, and Lilith the Dark Mother

Samhain Explained: The Celtic Origins of All Your Favorite Halloween Traditions (Video)

A Weird Space Cloud that looks like the Millennium Falcon

A wind Phone to talk to the Dead?

Walt Disney’s Haunted Lamp

The Chernobyl Ghost Town of Pripyat

Stone Age Bone Rituals and Cannibalism

Cults, Religion, and Food

A Tale of Murder and Mutiny

A Sarcophagus in Italy with three testicles as part of the family seal

Abandoned Places Around the United States

Honoring the Thousands of Forgotten Souls Buried Beneath San Francisco

(Experts estimate some 50,000 people are buried beneath the sprawling metropolis).

A nifty guide to the Egyptian Afterlife

The Changeling Murder of Bridget Cleary

The Dying Man of Barre, Vermont

10 Locations from Horror Films of the 70’s and 80’s

The Best Halloween articles on Atlast Obscura

The Ghosts of the Marx Brothers at the Haunted Cobb Estate

The “Devil’s Tower” Rock Formation

The Giant Vampire (Pontianak) Ghost Statue of Indonesia that started a national uproar

The Ghosts of Eastern State Penitentiary

The Bathroom Ghosts of Japan

Can you see the Spirit in this Rock?

Séance Room at Muriel’s Jackson Square

The Ancient Greek River that leads to the Underworld is now in a Metro Station

The Story of the Lady in the Tree (Was she really absorbed?)

The Bone Collector of Taiwan

The Voodoo Priestess of Frenier Cemetery

Why are Ghosts usually female?

The Abandoned Valley of the Mills in Italy

The Witch House of Salem

What was this Megalithic Sun Gate intended to keep out?

Sleep Paralysis Demons

The Haunted Stanley Hotel

The Modern Resurrection of the Dybbuk

Robert the Doll

Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

A medieval aerial battle over Nuremberg? (UFO?)

Well that’s all for now! I hope you like this edition. Stay safe,

– M