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
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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
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The Ghost of Rudy Cranor: The Haunting of the Sober Duck
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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
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When the Dead Work for the Living: Poltergeists, Curses, and the Black Magic Trail
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