Shudderton, Nevada — population 3,947 if you believe the sign, which I don’t — is one of those towns that clings to its ghost stories like they’re on the payroll. You can’t walk five feet without someone offering you a brochure for a haunted mine tour or a cursed saloon experience. So it’s no surprise … Read more
Cemetery ghost tours have a certain morbid charm, in theory. The promise of tragic love stories, unsolved mysteries, shadowy figures lurking just beyond the flicker of a lantern — it’s all very atmospheric if you squint hard enough and forget that ninety percent of cemetery ghost tours take place in cemeteries where the only spirits … Read more
The world, in its infinite descent into half-baked wishful thinking, has embraced energy healing like a drunk clings to the last stool at a bar at closing time. Somewhere along the line, we collectively decided that physics, biology, and chemistry—disciplines built painstakingly on centuries of blood, sweat, and Nobel prizes—were simply too stressful, and it … Read more
Tarot cards are beautiful. Gorgeously illustrated, richly symbolic, dripping with history. A deck of miniature works of art, each whispering vague, universal human experiences. And yet somewhere between admiring the artwork and flipping the final card, we decided that these painted rectangles could predict the future. Modern fortunetelling with tarot follows a simple formula: you … Read more
Once upon a time, you could call a 1-900 number, fork over five bucks a minute, and some stranger wearing pajama pants and fuzzy slippers would tell you that “great changes are coming” to your love life. Ah, the good old days, when hope was expensive and delivered in fifteen-minute increments by people who failed … Read more