Among the sites associated with New Orleans voodoo is the tomb of its greatest figure, Marie Laveau. For several decades this ‘voodoo queen’ held New Orleans spellbound-figuratively, of course, but some would say literally, as legends of her occult powers continue to captivate. She staged ceremonies in which participants became possessed by loas (voodoo spirits) and danced naked around bonfires;
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Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.
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Togos Akodessewa Fetish Market is recognized as the largest fetish market in the world, a place where Voodoo practitioner can find anything they need for their rituals.
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Vlado Taneski was a Macedonian crime reporter and serial killer. A career journalist for over 20 years, Taneski was arrested in June 2008 for the murder of two women on whose death he had also written articles. These articles on the murders had aroused the suspicion of the police, since they contained information which was not released to the public.
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A vimana is a Sanskrit word with several meanings ranging from temple or palace to mythological flying machines described in Sanskrit epics.
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Actual Video Of Flight MH 17 Getting Hit By The Missile. As the details emerge about the crash of MH17, Ukraine has released a video, claiming it proves that rebels shot down the flight, with 290 people abroad. An true act of terror or something far more sinister? The video shows a conversation taking place and tells of how the plane was shot down.
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An extensive collection of 105 letters and documents from the Vatican’s secret archives have been published for the first time
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In 1937, Doc Nosspart-adventurer, part-conmanand his wife Babe discovered fabulous treasure inside the caverns of New Mexicos Victorio Peak. They dynamited the tunnel to hide the treasure from other treasure hunters. At least thats what they said happened.
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Vera Renczi was a Romanian serial killer who poisoned 35 individuals including her husbands, lovers, and one son with arsenic during the 1920s. Although Vera Renczi was a stunningly beautiful woman, she was also one of the most prolific female serial killers in history, driven by a pathological need for devotion from men.
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Is it possible a person can be here one minute and then totally disappear the next, never to be seen or heard from again? There are those who would say yes for they claim to be witnesses to just such a phenomenon.
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Three soldiers were witnesses to the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915. The three said they watched from a clear vantage point as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was shrouded in a low-lying cloud that the soldiers marched straight into. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, it slowly lifted. The entire battalion was gone.
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Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants, who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living.
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And while there are many stories of vampires and vampire hunts all over Europe and the Caribbean one of the best documented vampire stories ever occurred over about a year period in and around Dillsboro N.C. from 1788-1789.
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Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants, who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living.
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A bizarre legend and unsolved mystery which has haunted a small Iowa town for more than 100 years. A True and Mysterious Encounter with the Unknown For several nights in 1903, the small town of Van Meter, Iowa was terrorized by a giant bat-like creature that emerged from an old abandoned mine. The identity of this mysterious visitor was never discovered.
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