by mike | Sep 21, 2015 | Death, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Spirituality, Uncategorized |
Imagine this: you’re in Minneapolis—don’cha know—and you go to see a play at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater. An usher—a quiet young man—guides you to your seat. But before sitting down you realize that he hasn’t handed you a program. You turn to ask him for one, but he’s...
by mike | Mar 9, 2015 | Mystery Novels, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
The Coyote myth is well known in many Native American cultures, especially out here in the western U.S. In the Creation stories of some tribes he represents the Creator himself, but for the most part Coyote is known as a messenger, a trickster, or a clown. In the...
by mike | Dec 15, 2014 | Books, California, Historical Novels, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
The Modoc People, like all Native American tribes, have their own folklore—myths and legends handed down through time. In my historical novel, Stone Woman: Winema and the Modocs, I insert one of these legends at an emotionally charged moment in the (true) story. It is...
by mike | Aug 4, 2014 | California, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Years ago, when I set my ghost story, Fire Dance, in the Anza Borrego Desert east of San Diego, I had no idea just how haunted this bleak landscape actually was. Well, I do now. The following stories are courtesy of the Paranormalistics, a highly trained team of...
by mike | May 27, 2014 | Ghosts, Holocaust, Horror Movies, Movies, Myths & Legends, Paranormal, Spirituality, Uncategorized |
A Jewish demon? Who knew! Yes, according to Jewish mythology a dybbuk is a ghostly, troubled spirit—most often the wandering soul of a deceased person—that possesses the body of a living person. (Though any living entity works, even a bug or a beagle, their host of...
by mike | Feb 13, 2014 | Ghosts, Horror Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Few folks know that Chucky had a real-life role model called Robert the Doll. Chucky, of course, is the murdering Good Guy doll—possessed via voodoo by the spirit of serial killer Charles Lee Ray—who “stars” in the Child’s Play franchise, at last count six...
