by Maledicta | Dec 9, 2018 | Halloween 365
For the last hundred years, Americans have kept ghosts in their place, letting them out only in October, in the run-up to our only real haunted holiday, Halloween. But it wasn’t always this way, and it’s no coincidence that the most famous ghost story is a...
by Maledicta | Jun 24, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities
When a loved one died in parts of England, Scotland, or Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries, the family grieved, placed bread on the chest of the deceased, and called for a man to sit in front of the body. The family of the deceased watched as this man, the...
by Maledicta | May 28, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism
An unassuming three-bedroom home where a little girl was allegedly dragged upstairs and almost strangled by curtains has been named as England’s most haunted home. Ghost hunters claim 30 East Drive in Yorkshire is home to one of the world’s most...
by Maledicta | Feb 26, 2018 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities
Apotropaic marks were simple patterns with a serious purpose: to keep evil and mischief out. Daisy chains and “V” carvings hidden in the nooks and crannies of historic homes and properties across the United Kingdom, once thought to be carpenter’s symbols, hint...
