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Waking the Dead: The Mummies of Saint Michan’s Church, Dublin
Once again the Blather team lead their readers into a dark corner to show them disturbing things. This...
Waking the Dead: Charles Fort’s Grave – Albany, New York
You just can't keep us out of graveyards here on blather.net. This season sees us dashing around the...
Waking the Dead: Burke and Hare
178 years ago today, an Irishman named William Burke was executed in Edinburgh, Scotland. You may never have...
Blast from the past: Cannonballs from the sky
In October 1997, a mystery cannonball tore through the walls of a Missouri mobile home. Nobody knew where...
To Hell or Howth: The Hostel of the Red God
Halloween Special: This is an expanded version of an article I had published recently, as part of the...
Waking the Dead: Bitton Train Graveyard
Bitton Train Graveyard can be found just outside Bristol city. The rusted remains found there are a fragmentary...
The Pyramids of Güímar, Tenerife
(Canary Islands, Spain) Dave finally gets his arse in gear, and posts photographs from his visit to the...
Diggin’ in the Dirt: Niall (sausage the third)
Continuing with Blather.net's in-depth investigation of the infamous fifth-century thug and womaniser, our grave-robber in residence Ender digs...
The Return of the Dalkey Baby
For several weeks in the summer of 2005, the Irish media indulged itself in a feeding frenzy of...
Fortean Times Uncon 2006
Black magic theatre, 1920's horror movies, pony-tails, waistcoats, murdered Prime ministers, ghost hunting gear, drummers of the Damned...