Goats’ Head at Wrigley Field: A Century-Long Curse Gets Macabre

Was a goat's head sent to the Chicago Cubs' owner a threat? A macabre ritual? Or an attempt to lift the decades-old "Billy Goat Curse"?

Gastrodamus Speaks! The Future of Food in America, Revealed!

Pink slime shall rise, horned bulls shall wane and other culinary predictions for the 22nd century

The Hunger Games Trilogy Climbs on List of Most-Challenged Books

Teens murdering each other, the government cutting people’s tongues off, a little kissing here and there — just a couple of themes that probably made the Hunger...

Bali High

People get weird ideas about Bali. The Eat, Pray, Love brigade likes to see it as a crazy occult isle, its sarong-clad populace in thrall to wraiths and...

In Thailand, A Little Black Magic Is Politics as Usual

The images were shocking — and strange. On Tuesday, thousands of Thai protesters splattered buckets of their own blood outside the Prime Minister's office in...

Japan's First Lady: Introducing 'Mrs. Occult'

With hair that sometimes reveals a shock of white, sometimes goes all black, Miyuki Hatoyama, 66, is striking enough in person. That she is visible at all is a...

Letting Witches Be Witches in Salem

Should you find your way up to Salem, Mass., this Halloween season, your chances of encountering a psychic are up — and the odds that that he or she has a felony...

Verbatim

"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists." PORTER GOSS, in his first U.S. Congressional testimony as CIA director,...

Satan's School For Girls

Trying to manufacture camp on purpose is as fruitless as trying to make primitive art in a factory. But that's the blatant aim of this remake of a 1973 occult...

The Occult: A Substitute Faith

It is Saturday night. A young Army officer and his wife welcome a small group of people to their comfortable split-level home, which stands amid the tidy...