Sam Aykroyd, great-grandfather of actor Dan Aykroyd, was a member of the Spiritualist movement and an active paranormal investigator. He allowed a medium named Walter Ashurst to live with him for over a decade, during which time he conducted countless séances. He was no sucker, though. Reading through Aykroyd’s personal journals, it seems fairly obvious…
War of the Ghostbusters
Filmation may be the coolest cartoon company ever, alongside Rankin/Bass and Hanna-Barbera. Filmation produced content like HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, BRAVESTARR, FLASH GORDON, FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS, and the live action SHAZAM!, ISIS, ARK II, and JASON OF STAR COMMAND programs; they created adaptations of Zorro, Batman, and the Lone…
Vampire or Ghost?
Having reported this week on a couple of sightings of the infamous “Highgate Vampire”, the entity said to haunt the environs of Highgate Cemetery in London, and one in particular where the witness states his belief, or rather disbelief, that what he encountered was a “vampire”, it got me to thinking. Where do we draw…
VAMPED vs. the Bishop
The war of pixels seems to be heating up again. It’ll cool off for a while then flare back up. On one side of the ring is Anthony Hogg, a proclaimed vampirologist (i.e. an expert on vampires) who doesn’t believe in vampires, Erin Chapman, his assistant, and some others, and on the other side of…
Another Sighting of the Highgate Vampire (or Ghost)?
Courtesy of the late David Farrant, one of the original investigators of the Highgate Vampire affair, comes this eyewitness account from a man named Martin Trent. “I have lived on the Holly Lodge Estate, adjacent to Swains Lane and Highgate for the last 11 years. In all that time of walking up and down the…
THE CHOSEN Part Six: THE LOTUS BLOOMS Chapter 3
Gale sat on the edge of a white table covered with white paper in a room the color of gauze. A square of fluorescent light occupied the center of a ceiling of white tiles. Even the air seemed somehow sterile. “Well, I guess congratulations are in order,” said an overweight nurse in a white uniform.…
A Sighting of the Highgate Vampire?
A chap named Declan Walsh, whom I encountered online, gave me his permission for me to recount a sighting he had at Highgate Cemetery in 1991. Take it, Declan! “I used to work at a community rehab unit near Parliament Hill Fields and I often walked to work from my flat just off the Archway…
HALLOWEEN COLORS
Thinking about the latest film in the franchise, HALLOWEEN KILLS, is the word “kills” supposed to be a noun or a verb? It makes more sense as a noun. These are the series of murders that takes place on Halloween. But it could also work as a verb, which is how I took it when…
In Appreciation of Slimer
After watching GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE and being disappointed (the only thing about the film that left me disappointed; check out my review over at our sister site WEREWOLVES.COM) that—SPOILER ALERT—Slimer wasn’t in it, I got it into my head to read up on the adorable green slimy spook. I even learned a couple’a things I didn’t…
What Comes After GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE?
That there will be a sequel would seem a given at this point, but that there would be a sequel was a given back in 1989, too, and, well, it took a while, didn’t it? Let’s hope we don’t have to wait another thirty-plus frikkin’ years for the next installment. I suspect we won’t. But…