I’ll be away for approximately one week. You’ll all just have to do your own occult investigating for a little while. Let me know if you find anything juicy. See you soon.

Another interesting item from that page about culture-bound syndromes. Apparently the term “run amok” or “run amuck” originates with a Malaysian syndrome, wherein usually a male has a dissociative episode where they go on a rampage:
amok or mata elap: (Malaysia) a dissociative episode characterized by a period of brooding followed by an outburst of violent, […]

This article says that something like 14 million American adults have nightmares every night. Goddamn! That’s so much. I almost never have nightmares. I don’t remember the last one I did have actually. Maybe like a couple years ago when me and my fiancee were breaking up. But I was a miserable wreck anyway. So […]

A woman in Oklahoma set fire to her apartment to get rid of a ghost which she said was living in her bathtub.

In honor of Christmas, a pretty interesting article from Australia about the phenomenon of parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, which occurs in about 1 out of every thousand species of life on earth. Mostly, they say, it happens in extreme environments, but nobody is totally sure why.
The trouble with males, Professor Shine points out, is […]

I like this article from Norway about a museum housing Egyptian relics, which appear to be moving at night when no one is around. They are called shabti, and were figurines which were put into tombs and were believed to be invested with magical powers to do work for the deceased in the afterlife.
“They […]

This article’s pretty interesting, about a village in Nicaragua where some 60 people are suffering for a ‘collective madness’ known as ‘grisi siknis’ in the local Miskut language.
In all cases, the patients have the same symptoms: long periods of coma-like unconsciousness, interrupted by sudden bouts of frenzied behaviour.
During the attacks, sufferers attempt to […]

Found through About.com’s paranormal section, an article from India about a villager who has a three and a half inch horn growing out of the back of his head. He wears a turban to cover it up. No photo unfortunately.