There has been a modern revival of vampirism in recent years. Although AIDS has put a dampener on sucking your girlfriend’s blood, no one can deny there is a growing subculture which embracing everything vampish, and its popularity has spilled over into mainstream pop-culture.
What is modern-day vampirism? Simply, the party by night, sleep by day mentality. Dressing in [...]
A comment on yesterday’s post reminded me of an old urban legend about another hell hole in Russia, but one which is rather more disturbing. The story goes like this…
Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. The project’s manager was quoted as saying [...]
About this time last year, I wrote of the time when my parents had a close encounter with the urban legend known as ‘The Mair Park Ghost. The original post created quite a stir, and you can read the subsequent shenanigans here:
The Mair Park Ghost
Haunted houses, ghosts and demons
Ghost mystery solved… or is it?
Symon Drake… Ghostbuster (heh)
Revenge of the Mair [...]
I had never ever heard of the name Tunguska before… until I bought a PC game (for the kids) called Secret files: Tunguska. Then I became enlightened to an extremely fascinating and equally mysterious event which occurred 101 years ago in Central Siberia.
In the Tunguska region at 7:17am on 30 June 1908 something of apocalyptic proportions occurred. This ‘happening’ flattened [...]
It was a fateful night in 1997 when the Aetherius Society came to town to promote their religion. For those who don’t know what the Aetherius Society is (I’m guessing about 99.9% of the people reading this post), it is a UFO cult.
I was a zealous (and somewhat tactless) Bible College student at the time, and had just finished writing [...]
My sons reckoned they saw a UFO today (I was quick to remind my eldest that the last UFO he saw turned out to be a seagull). Like father like son.
Ever since I watched ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ as a kid, I’ve been fascinated by UFO phenomena. As a Christian, I definitely believe there is something out [...]
Before that fateful day when I decided to write about the Mair Park Ghost, I Googled the same three words, just to see if there was any other information about it. As I suspected, nothing came up. Absolutely zero.
A couple of months have passed, the mystery has been solved (actually there is an extremely surprising twist to the tale, but [...]
Hilarious if you ask me.
My ‘Mair Park Ghost’ post was spied by the Whangarei Leader (another local newspaper) a few weeks back, and I was interviewed the other day. I’m actually a bit over the whole ghost thing now, and was not looking foward to reading stuff which had been taken a little out of context as reporters do.
The article [...]
I posted a story the other week about ‘The Mair Park Ghost’. In 1961, someone dressed up in an ornate costume scared ‘courters’ witless who visited the park at night, including my mum and dad.
Read the post here: The Mair Park Ghost.
DW and I thought it would be an entertaining read for the local paper, and emailed them a copy.
To [...]
It seems that a recent post on Whangarei’s ‘Mair Park Ghost’ has created a little publicity. A newspaper reporter was somewhat surprised by my personal opinion as to what ghosts really are. A couple of years ago I wrote a paper on the huge subject of haunted houses, ghosts and demons because most people realise that there is a [...]
