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October 2025

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VII

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VII As the proverb goes: “The further into the forest,...

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VI

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VI A few more memories of the “inexplicable” facts of...

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. V

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. V I must now return to a very remarkable incident...

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. IV

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. IV Having begun this story right from my youth, from...

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. III

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. III Three years passed. I was again living in Tiflis...

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. II

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. II Voiskovitsy, the Gatchina estate of my husband’s uncle, was...

October 19, 2025

Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. I

[An English translation of Vera Petrovna Zhelihovskaya's "Inexplicable And Unexplained," which appeared in 15 issues...

October 17, 2025

Henry Steel Olcott’s “World Of Spirits”

~ In 1874, Henry Steel Olcott’s dispatches from the Eddy farmhouse first appeared in...

October 14, 2025

The Unknown Story Of “The Unknown Life Of Jesus Christ”

Was Jesus a student of Eastern wisdom? Did the teachings of Buddha and the Vedas...

March 2025

March 14, 2025

Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: Revue Spirite

REVUE SPIRITE 1858 [Previously] Like Germany, the foundation for Spiritualism in France began with...

February 2025

February 23, 2025

Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: The Shaman’s Secrets

The Shaman's Secrets. [Previously] Ever on the lookout for occult phenomena, and hungering after...

February 22, 2025

Greeley’s Gotham: The Man Bats On The Moon

THE MAT BATS ON THE MOON In 1833 Greeley found himself lodging at a...

February 22, 2025

Greeley’s Gotham: Phrenology, Graham Crackers, And Tariffs

UPRISING It was a time of great social change; earlier in 1831, for example,...

February 22, 2025

Greeley’s Gotham: New York Knickerbockers

GREELEY'S GOTHAM By 1820, New York was becoming something of a “colony of New...

February 21, 2025

Charles Johnston, Tolstoyans, And “Rambles In Russia.”

Charles Johnston, Tolstoyans, And "Rambles In Russia" In the late summer of 1888, just...

February 03, 2025

Tippecanoe And Shakers Too

In 1747 a Quaker offshoot known as New Lights began in Manchester, England. They held...

February 02, 2025

Oscar Wilde, Dracula, and the Occult Roots of Gothic Fiction

In January 1882 Oscar Wilde went to America to produce his first play, “Vera or,...

February 02, 2025

No. 22,542; Or, The Curse Of Amen Ra

The mummy case in question in the catalogue of the British Museum was No. 22,542....

January 2025

January 31, 2025

Andrew Jackson Vs. The Bell Witch

In 1819, Andrew Jackson, and a company of his soldiers, made their way from Nashville...

January 31, 2025

Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: “Inside This Sepulchral Chamber”

While still in America (receiving money at intervals from her father) Blavatsky tried her hand...

January 27, 2025

Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: La Belle De Nuit

LONDON 1851 [Previously] London was filled with expectant energy owing to the Great Exhibition...

January 26, 2025

Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: Egypt

EGYPT 1851 [Previously] “Forty years have I before me in which to build a...

January 26, 2025

Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: Carbonari

1851 For several months after leaving Erivan, Blavatsky lived in the Ottoman Capital of...

January 25, 2025

The Alchymical Mormonism Of The Widow’s Son

ANTI-MASON In the publisher’s office in the town of Batavia, New York, there were...

January 19, 2025

Al Aaraaf

On January 29, 1845, ten days after Edgar Allan Poe’s thirty-sixth birthday, The...

December 2024

December 29, 2024

Franz Hartmann: Vampire Hunter

Franz Hartmann, one of the most prolific occult writers of the nineteenth century, was born...

December 28, 2024

The “Sleeping Girl” Of Transylvania

The more than occasional bumps in the road reminded Blavatsky that her wounds were still...

December 28, 2024

How They Hung John Brown

In the last days of September 1859, Henry Steel Olcott, Associate Agricultural Editor of Horace...

December 12, 2024

The Mysterious “Cloud-Skimmers” Of 1896

THE MYSTERIOUS "CLOUD-SKIMMERS" OF 1896 Tales of “Sea Serpents” trickled into the ports of...

November 2024

November 30, 2024

The Ahkoond Of Swat

Blavatsky and Olcott were entertaining Olcott’s sister, Belle, in the Lamasery.[1] Also present was...