Between the Lanterns: The Living Ghosts and Yokai of Modern Japan There are places in Japan where the past does not stay buried. It seeps through the floorboards of ordinary […]
Unholy Hours: Four Priests, Four Mysteries, and the Year the Church Looked Away
Unholy Hours: Four Priests, Four Mysteries, and the Year the Church Looked Away At the dawn of the twentieth century, whispers of devil worship drifted through the finest drawing rooms […]
Collinwood Never Sleeps: The Pageants, Hauntings, and Buried Secrets of Dark Shadows
Collinwood Never Sleeps: The Pageants, Hauntings, and Buried Secrets of Dark Shadows Some stories drift out of the past like fog over a moonlit graveyard, half-forgotten but impossible to shake. […]
Horrors of a Victorian Dead House: A Morgue Keeper’s Nightmares
Horrors of a Victorian Dead House: A Morgue Keeper’s Nightmares In 1887, a morgue superintendent in St. Louis shared his stories anonymously. Historians believe the man was Herman Praedicow (1831-1891). […]
The Thinning Veil: Curses, Claws, and the Rites of Ruin
The Thinning Veil: Curses, Claws, and the Rites of Ruin by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Nearly seventy-five percent of Americans remain entirely oblivious to the distinct, shadowed identity of […]
Skullduggery at the Vatican: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and the Secrets Beneath the Holy See
Skullduggery at the Vatican: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and the Secrets Beneath the Holy See People disappear all the time. Sometimes they leave voluntarily. Sometimes they become victims of […]
The Sword of St. Michael: Seven Ancient Sanctuaries Aligned on a Mysterious Line of Power
The Sword of St. Michael: Seven Ancient Sanctuaries Aligned on a Mysterious Line of Power by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Journey along the ancient Sword of St. Michael, a […]
When Your Lover Wants Your Heart, Along with the Rest of Your Organs
When Your Lover Wants Your Heart, Along with the Rest of Your Organs An old warning gets recycled every time someone falls for a stranger online: if it sounds too […]
The Price of Disobedience at the Church of Sacrifice: Midnight Axe Murders
The Price of Disobedience at the Church of Sacrifice: Midnight Axe Murders In the winter dark of Cajun country, an axe moved from cabin to cabin along the railroad, as […]
The Ghost of Rudy Cranor: The Haunting of the Sober Duck
The Ghost of Rudy Cranor: The Haunting of the Sober Duck Long after the music stopped and the last patrons went home, something seemed to remain inside Springfield’s Sober Duck […]
The Fire and the Frost: How German Reformers Turned Witch Hunts into Spiritual Warfare
The Fire and the Frost: How German Reformers Turned Witch Hunts into Spiritual Warfare As the bitter chills of the Little Ice Age settled over the German-speaking heartland in the […]
The Chinese Ghost of Stewart’s Folly
The Chinese Ghost of Stewart’s Folly On the high ground of Dupont Circle, where Massachusetts Avenue once looked out over an unfinished city, a mansion rose that Washington could neither […]
When the Dead Work for the Living: Poltergeists, Curses, and the Black Magic Trail
When the Dead Work for the Living: Poltergeists, Curses, and the Black Magic Trail by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook For centuries, investigators have argued over what a poltergeist actually […]
Shadows of Bloody Pomfret: The Unholy Haunting of 30 East Drive
Shadows of Bloody Pomfret: The Unholy Haunting of 30 East Drive by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook At first glance, Number 30 East Drive on Yorkshire’s Chequerfields Estate appears utterly […]
Punishing the Dead: The Man With No Tongue and the Ancient Fear of the Restless Dead
Punishing the Dead: The Man With No Tongue and the Ancient Fear of the Restless Dead by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Death was supposed to end a person’s troubles. […]
A Fascination with Darkness: The Girl Who Said Satan Told Her to Pull the Trigger
A Fascination with Darkness: The Girl Who Said Satan Told Her to Pull the Trigger by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Some obsessions start small — a favorite movie, a […]
The Skull in the Sand: Secrets of the Lion-Attacked Courier
The Skull in the Sand: Secrets of the Lion-Attacked Courier by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Deep in the shadowed halls of a museum stood a frozen moment of desert […]
The Business of Stolen Body Parts: Inside America’s Black Market for Human Remains
The Business of Stolen Body Parts: Inside America’s Black Market for Human Remains by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Somewhere in Denver, a thief cracked open the back of a […]
Sacred Grounds Desecrated: How Murderers and Rapists Found Rest Among America’s Fallen Heroes
Sacred Grounds Desecrated: How Murderers and Rapists Found Rest Among America’s Fallen Heroes by M. P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Once, society refused to let killers and rapists share the […]
Anne Boleyn: Treachery, Intrigue & the Skulduggery of the Tudor Court
Anne Boleyn: Treachery, Intrigue & the Skulduggery of the Tudor Court by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Few women in English history left behind a legacy as complicated—or as haunted—as […]