What constitutes a great American myth? Is it something where a Google search can’t help you find its origins? Maybe it’s something that permeates the minds of the inflicted and the communities that are built from them. …

Whether you are religious or not, you have likely discussed the idea of what happens to your pets when they day. Among religious people, there seems to be a divide between those who believe pets are completely different from humans and couldn’t possibly go to heaven, and those who believe…

It’s Valentine’s Day, and as such, our story takes place on Valentine’s Day. I’m sure we are familiar with the infamous Valentine’s Day massacre that took place in 1929 when seven members of Chicago’s North Side Gang were killed at a Lincoln Park garage. The four unknown assailants lined them…

San Diego is considered the birthplace of California. Father Junipero Serra established the mission of San Diego de Alcala on Presidio Hill on July 16, 1769. During the early 1820s, a small Mexican community was created that eventually became El Pueblo San Diego by 1835. Since it became the first…

The Bermuda Triangle, or Devi’s Triangle, covers around 500,000 square miles of the ocean located off the southeastern tip of Florida. One of the earliest suggestions of unusual disappearances taking place in this area appeared on September 17, 1950, in an article published in The Miami Herald by Edward Van…

The case of JonBenet Ramsey is another case that looks like it will remain unsolved, but we all desperately want to know who brutally murdered that young girl. As the decades pass, she would have been 30 this year, the answer looks less and less likely. The search for her…

Everybody has likely heard some variation of phantom hitchhiker story. It is likely one of the most well-known and most universal so-called urban legends. Here’s a recap to help set the mood for today’s episode. A salesman or some college student is driving down a lonely country road late one…

This story to kick off the last month of the year is a strange one. It’s both creepy, disturbing, and disgusting all at the same time. And you should be warned that this does deal with necrophilia. Not exactly a holiday story for the children, but here we are. This…

What is it about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald that continues to inspire the imagination of those in Asheville? Is it the stark contradictory love of money and rebellion, beauty and darkness, glamour and destitution that says something about the Asheville of the past and present? …