Halloween is my favorite and October is one of my favorite times of year. One year, I was getting really excited for the holiday and wanted to decorate in September because it was getting close. A friend said, “Let’s face it. Isn’t it always kind of Halloween in your head anyway?” Yes. Yes it is.…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Enjoy this vintage Mickey Mouse cartoon. It’s rather reminiscent of the Buster Keaton film The Electric House. [iframe]<iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/LNuq5v7INeo” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>[/iframe]
So, I am a certified cryptozoologist. Yep. That’s a thing. A thing that is completely illegitimate unless you pay someone a few dollars to send you a fill-in-the-blank diploma. Which my awesome husband did for me last Christmas. And though we joke about it, I am fascinated with the idea of creatures that shouldn’t exist,…
In 1922, King Tut’s tomb was found. It was still sealed, meaning it had not been plundered as ad most of the ancient Egyptian tombs. While it is generally considered taboo to disturb the sleep of the dead, archaeologists deemed this find too important to history and science to leave as was found — despite…
There have been funerary rites for centuries. Across the cultures, one thing that is constant is that it is disrespectful to disturb a tomb. When medicine began to study human anatomy in earnest there was a surge in grave robbing. How else could a student learn? And as various plagues killed massive swathes of the…