Imagine walking in a cemetery. The grass perfectly trimmed, the stairs swept, and the grave markers and tombstones are clean.
Your loved ones resting place is in good hands. This above is the job of a cemetery caretaker. Continue reading Memoirs of a Cemetery Caretaker
The number 13 is at the center of many superstitious beliefs and fears. Then again, when paired alongside Friday it only becomes worst. Continue reading Lucky Number 13
It is also common to wonder if they’ll come back or go to heaven or the switch as merely turned off. Either way, ghosts are part of our history.
The idea of a spirit coming to back to haunt the living is not new to human history. Humankind believed in this theory since the beginning of ancient civilizations. It might be because we don’t know what goes beyond death or that our beliefs in it lack facts.
Continue reading “Ghostly Origins Of Entities Remaining Behind”
The Skeleton Key brings out the best Louisiana has to offer… mystery but only if you believe.
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Death is a delicate subject for many. It is not a word we like to use or talk about. Sometimes it causes trauma, brings the worst in people and causes sadness…
but what if I told you L.A. Maciel, our new writer, has another view on death? Continue reading Death Anxiety or Positivity
Let’s dig in Elizabeth Báthory the Blood Countess. Elizabeth Báthory, born on August 7th, 1560, was a noble Hungarian woman. She reigned over the Kingdom of Hungary that now is part of Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania.
When young, the countess suffered from many seizures that led historians to understand those were probably from epilepsy and possibly transmitted from inbreeding from her direct parents.
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The odd origin of vampires in history, let’s dig in. In the early seventeenth hundreds, the process of decomposition remained something people did not know about.
The black plague or bubonic plague was now part of their past, but most corpses went through incineration, thus spreading diseases through the air, but that’s another topic. Those considered to be regular people had a coffin for their burial.
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Happy Holidays Biters! With 2018 marking the 25th anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas I wanted to give you a small look into my music library and introduce you to a cover artist by the name of Jonathan Young. Continue reading Jonathan Young and The Nightmare Before Christmas
I am originally from Essex in England. In the 1990’s I immigrated to Detroit, USA, eventually settling in South West Florida. I then returned to England after a fifteen-year absence, to spend six years in the South West of England living on Exmoor.
Continue reading “Jane Jordan”
Kill Shelter has brought together a host of underground talent from around the globe to feature on his debut album Damage on Unknown Pleasures Records.
I was born in Tampere, Finland, in 1971, but have been living in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, for most of my adult life.
The interview, conducted by Jackie Chin brought me much pleasure and a chance to talk about GBM, Merry Krampus and novels to come.
My husband and I had to go to the United States, in the beautiful town of Burlington, Vermont to pick up an order at the University Mall. So, early in the morning we headed for the borders.
I might have reached out to artists, authors, editors and readers out there to answer a series of questions to expose their amazing work but those were done digitally.
I did the World Building Workshop, a duration of ten weeks where people either authors or game designers and LARP designers would enroll to learn how to build believable worlds, but it isn’t comparable. I was a coach.
Continue reading “Zombiepalooza Radio Live has Arielle Lyon on their show!”
Hello, again Biters this is James GBM’s skeleton in the closet retuning for our November creature of the month the zombie. Continue reading iZombie for Review
Ghost stories, ghost hunting, and paranormal investigations are on many channels on television. We see it on tv, read about it and now it is slowly expanding.
It is not about the ghosts only anymore. If you do a little research now, you can either close your eyes or meet with the paranormal encounters.
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However, I believe he was the first to take West African zombies seriously. Wade Davis might be the zombie anthropologist!
E. Wade Davis is a Canadian man born in British-Columbia on December 14th 1953. Mr. Davis studied at Harvard University and became an anthropologist and ethnobotanist. Wade Davis’ lifetime work included the study of psychoactive plants – which means he studied Botanics that changes human behavior, mood, consciousness, and perception. He focused is work mostly in North and South America.
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The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi and zumbi. — Wikipedia… Zombie a reanimated corpse.
Making its entrance in the historical records in the year 1819 from a historical event happening in the country of Brazil through the poet Robert Southey, the word zombi surfaces for the first time.
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The term zombie has been part of our lives for centuries, but most recently, gained in popularity. However, research proved that zombies are a fact.
Zombies, Living Dead, Revenants, those terms all refer to a reanimated corpse without consciousness. Either from TWD or a Thriller video, they have common traits of decaying bodies, often their arms reaching forward and eyes without a reason to live.
Continue reading “Zombies Are A Fact”
The Exorcist shocked people when it released. It still takes people by surprise today. The Exorcist review is now overdue at GBM!
Demonic possession is believed by some to be the process by which malevolent preternatural beings possess individuals, commonly referred to as demons or devils.
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