Samhain was a time when the dead walked the earth, a pagan precursor to Halloween. Source: Erik den yngre / Public Domain.

Samhain, the Celtic Festival which Gave Us Halloween

‘Tis the season to be spooky! Grab your pumpkin and your best witch’s hat, break out the skeletons for your front lawn and hope nobody puts anything dodgy in your candy.  Halloween is indeed one of the most popular holidays in the American calendar, a playful time of pranks and ghostly scares built upon the

Unlike most cryptids the Wendigo actually existed, at least in terms of a terrifying psychosis brought on by the isolating wilderness. Source: Aden Kowalski / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Wendigo: Native American Stuff of Nightmares

(The following article contains spoilers for the 2022 movie Prey) In 2022 the seventh movie in the Predator franchise was released. The movie, Prey, was in many ways similar to the 1987 original, although trading the steaming jungles of Central America for the Oklahoma plains and the wisecracking mercenaries for stoic Comanche was a surprising,