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On Wings of Thunder: Thunderbirds In Illinois

January 13, 2023 Rick Hale 0

Learn about modern sightings of Thunderbirds in the American Midwest in this new article about a very old cryptid. […]

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Gloomy Sunday: Song With A Body Count

November 25, 2022 Rick Hale 0

The song “The End of the World” by Rezso Seress was written during the Great Depression and may be have at least twenty suicides attached to it. […]

American Leprechaun and Other Little People

November 25, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Author Rick Hale retells a story past down from his grandfather about an encounter with a Leprechaun, and then explores other legends of little people. […]

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Haunts at the Lincoln Park Zoo

October 20, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Lincoln Park Zoo is one of the United States is a treasured animal sanctuary, and not only animals and staff walk its grounds. […]

America’s New Age Mecca: Sedona, Arizona

September 8, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Sedona is a place filled with beauty and spirituality. Learn about some of the places and what to look for on your next visit to one of nature’s miracles. […]

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The Monster of Salt Creek

June 21, 2022 Rick Hale 0

In 1970, the people of Farmer City witnessed a large bipedal hairy beast that has become known as the Monster of Salt Creek. […]

The Taking Of Betty: An Alien Abduction Case

May 13, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Abduction lore is pretty rote and predictable. But not in the case of Betty Andreasson-Luca because she met a divine being during an abduction. […]

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Hell Hounds On The Prowl: Black Dogs in England

May 4, 2022 Rick Hale 0

The lore of giant black dogs have been a part of England for centuries, but did you know that there is physical evidence of their encounters? […]

Windy City Spooks: The Neighborhood of Terror

April 28, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Dunning, on Chicago’s NW side, has been the sight of a poor house, a mental asylum, a mass unmarked grave and many ghosts. […]

Windy City Spooks: Steak and Spirits

April 25, 2022 Rick Hale 0

That Steak Joint, formerly located at 1610 N Wells St, was a place where spirits were behind the bar in more ways than one […]

The Screaming Skulls

July 29, 2020 0

When I was a kid growing up in Chicago, the only place to be on a rainy Saturday was in front of the television for Son of Svengoolie. It was there I had my introduction [...]
America’s Spiritual Renaissance 170th Anniversary

March 31, 2018 0

The Fox Sisters helped create the spiritualist renaissance that caught on worldwide. Learn more about them in this brief article. […]
Professor Senkowski’s Statement on the Fascinating Issues of EVP/ITC

November 12, 2018 0

This is republished via the work of Anabela Cardoso and Gesa Dröge. The original PDF is available through Cardoso’s ITC Journal. For those who are not aware, it is the eminent physicist Ernst Senkowski who [...]
4 Scary American Hauntings

July 24, 2021 0

Four of the more notoriously haunted locations in the United States are profiled by author Rick Hale in this article […]
Nina Kulagina: Tank Driver, Housewife and Psychic Spy

August 24, 2020 1

Down through the ages there have been people endowed with abilities that allowed them to do extraordinary things. The Oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece had an impressive precognitive record. In the Victorian era, Daniel [...]