Here are links to my Sunday series where I try to examine the myths and realities of urban legends and folklore:
The Vampire Meets the Academic
Buried Alive as a Voodoo Zombie
Terror on the Toilet
Who You Callin' Goatsucker?
Ouija--Child's Game or Devil's Playground?
The Tooth Fairy: Mouse or Menace?
The Crop Circle: Message, Music, or Marsupial?
Mermaids: A fishy tale.
The Bermuda Triangle: from fiction to flatulence
With This Ring
Stonehenge: a darn big calendar that doesn't look anything like lady parts
Unlucky Thirteen
Halloween: Behind the Mask
Splitting Hairs
They're Always after Me Lucky Charms!
Let's Talk Turkey
A Peace of My Mind: Investigating the Peace Symbol
Flipping Out: the Origins of Peace and the Bird
Away with the Fairies
Be My Druidess
Gargoyles: Gettin' out of the Gutter
Unicorns: Pooping Rainbows since the beginning of Time
Cutting the Devil's Chord
Pyrokinesis: All Smoke, no Fire?
I'm Burning For You: Spontaneous Human Combustion
I See Your Evil Eye and Raise You Ronnie James Dio's Grandma
The Phoenix from the Flame