Stephen King to write a sequel to The Shining?
During a reading of his new book, Under the Dome, Stephen King made a comment about a new project he might pursue--nothing less than a sequel to The Shining. This story, tentatively titled Doctor Sleep, would follow Danny Torrance, the clairvoyant boy who survived his father's breakdown and murderous spree in the Overlook hotel. Danny would now be 40 years old and working at NYC hospice, using his psychic ability to tend to patients...


Amityville horror thrills again
If at first you don't succeed, we suppose…After a less than stellar remake launched in 2005, Hollywood is once again attempting to rework the classic supernatural thriller The Amityville Horror for a return to the big screen. This time around, Dimension Films and the Weinstein Company are rattling their chains through the classic haunted house...

Pope Pius The 10th vision in 1909 of Vatican's doom
The Roman Catholic Church is the most important branch of the Christian superstition. The headquarters of Catholicism is the Vatican in Rome. That is where the Pope, the spiritual head of Catholics, resides. Benedict XVI is the present Pope. The Vatican is one of the seven hills on which Rome is built. The river Tiber flows through the seven hills. Rome is traditionally believed to have been founded in 753 BC. It is also called the Eternal City, or the city which will never die. A hundred years ago, in 1909, the Pope was Pius X. One day when he was sitting in his Vatican palace, Pius X had a terrifying psychic vision...

James Whale, horror's invisible man
Often film lovers talk about the time, as a child, that the curtain was finally pushed aside and they realized that movies didn't just exist, but had to be directed into being - that there was a wizard behind everything they saw, pulling all the levers...

Uri Geller in Greece -- Part 1: Sting and the scorpion tail
Peter Fotis Kapnistos: The award-winning musician Sting once said that he could bend a spoon with the power of his thoughts, according to Uri Geller's website. I had spoken with Sting during a press conference years ago and asked him what he thought of the "Macedonia issue." He told me that the English are not taught very much about Alexander the Great...

The haunting of Shari's restaurant in Bay County
Shari Gourmet Dining in Beaver Township, is said to be haunted by several ghosts, including an old man in the kitchen named Horace, who is represented here by executive chef and general manager Aaron Gaertner. Over the past 20 years, Shari Smith, owner of Shari's restaurant in the Old Willard Hillton in Beaver Township, has been convinced. "I'm one of those people who doesn't want to believe in ghosts," Smith said. "But so many strange things have happened." Like several times when the alarm company has been called, only to find nothing - and no one - on arrival...

Is this house haunted or not?
Stephanie Walker: Ever since I first wrote about the possibility of this house being haunted in the post "Day 3 on the island: Is this house haunted?" I've been getting questions from readers, friends and family wanting to know.... well, is it?!..

Ghostly Kids In A Haunted Truck Shell