Dowsing (water divining or water witching) doesn’t work any better than chance or through use of surface clues. So why does it still spark heated arguments and create once-skeptical converts even today? Does it still

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I’m researching the history of the Stone Tape “theory” of haunting for Spooky Geology. It’s something I’ve been working on in bits and pieces for several years now. I’ve watched the teleplay/movie The Stone Tape

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A common twinning habit of the mineral staurolite results in cross-like crystal formations and guarantees it will be perceived as magical. It's common in Fairy Stone State Park in Virginia.

Beyond Boggy Creek: In Search of the Southern Sasquatch, by Lyle Blackburn (2017) This is Blackburn's third book in a semi-series of volumes on southern bipedal creatures. I reviewed the other two books as well:

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