What Is Sin-Eating? Sin-eating is a ritual in which the sin eater took on the sin of a dead person, thus ensuring said individual's untroubled passage into Heaven. Similar rituals can be found in ...

Just as we do today, people in ancient and medieval times worried about their health and what they might do to ward off sickness, or alleviate symptoms if they did fall ill. Here, we reveal some of ...

Since the dawn of time, mankind has always been afraid of evil and evil spirits. In all parts of the world, it is possible to come across rituals for keeping evil spirits away. The evil eye is ...

It sometimes seems the world is full of supernatural mysteries which may never be solved. Numerous tales of the strange and paranormal are often link to bodies of water, and especially lakes which by ...

There is widespread interest in geoglyphs, which are the huge designs produced upon the ground by a wide range of cultures in different times and places. After all, it can be difficult for modern ...

A bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper Journal of Parasitology in June 2012: a woman's mouth 'fell pregnant' with 12 baby squid after she bit into a parboiled portion of the cephalopod. ...

In the 1970s, a Welsh seaside village found itself at the heart of one of the biggest UFO media "flaps" of all time. Broad Haven, on the corner of St Bride's Bay in Pembrokeshire, was the scene of ...

The World Health Organization has listed a mysterious new pathogen, known only as 'Disease X', as one of the diseases that poses a threat to humanity in its latest list of blueprint priority ...

Russian researchers have analyzed tissue samples from one of the mysterious alien creatures uncovered in Peru last year. The mummy, with an elongated skull and only three fingers, has excited ...

The ancient Greek site known as "Gate to Hell," located in modern-day Turkey's western Denizli province, really did kill those who got too close – but instead of an angry god's breath, noxious gas ...

Can a painting possibly be the cause of paranormal activity? What first comes to your mind when you think of the word 'haunted'? Your mind probably automatically conjures up images of foggy, moonlit ...

At the Ganges — the holiest of places to be buried as a Hindu — life and death mingle freely on the river banks. The River Ganges has a special place for devout Hindus, who consider it sacred and ...

A lot of unexplained metal artifacts found all over the world, without being able to explain their origin the modern scientists feel thoroughly baffled. Are these unknown metal objects proof that ...

Artificial intelligence research has been going through a recent revolution and robots are becoming more like humans and emotionally involved with our lives, but we still haven't develop procedures ...

There is always something mystical and creepy about cemeteries. By definition a Cemetery (from the Greek koimeterion or Latin coemeterium, meaning sleeping place) is place or ground set aside for ...