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The area surrounding Maclean High School in Northern Australia is experiencing a population explosion of bats. Apart from being forced to deal with massive amounts of guano, the school must keep its windows closed and not use its bells to avoid causing the critters to panic and swarm.
French silent film actress Sarah Bernhardt was known to travel with a coffin; she would lie in it when learning her lines.
Despite the urban legends, human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death, they simply appears as if they do because the skin retracts during the process of decay.
Shock rockers GWAR have used as many as ten “barrels” of fake blood in a single show, to- talling over 60 gallons.
In the late 1880s, French physiologist Charles Brown-Séquard touted that injecting a con- coction created from the testicles of a newly dead dog would extend one’s life.
Friday the 13th actress Adrienne King, who played Alice in the original movie, recently re- leased her own wine called Crystal Lake, from Valley View Winery. It sells for $20 a bottle and includes her autograph.
A 44-year-old Brampton, Ontario man was recently charged with fraud and “pretending to practice witchcraft” after allegedly performing occult-related services out of his suburban home.
According to A Rough Guide to Cult Movies, the term “splatter cinema” first entered the hor- ror lexicon in 1978 when George A. Romero used it to describe Dawn of the Dead.
It took fifteen days to mummify a dead royal in ancient Egyptian society.
The vampire has been used to advertise many things over the years, including alarm systems, cat food and software. It was also used in a recruiting campaign for the Lutheran Church. (“With all due respect to Hollywood, there’s more to Christianity than stopping vampires.”)
Omaha police, who were responding to a report of trespassing at an abandoned house earlier this fall, made an unusual discovery: a garage full of tombstones, some dating back to the 1800s. Police have yet to determine how the headstones came to be there.
Val Lewton's Cat People (1941) features a Serbian shape-shifter legend about an enslaved village that turns to witchcraft. Screenwriter Jacques Tourneur invented the folklore for the film; it has no connection to actual Serbian folklore
Octopuses who are suffering extreme stress will occasionally begin to eat themselves. Compiled by MONICA S. KUEBLER
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