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Balcó del Mediterrani in Tarragona, Spain

October 24, 2022

Tarragona is a city that’s proud of its numerous traditions and tocar ferro (“touching iron”) is one of the most popular. It simply means crossing the Rambla Nova until you reach the Balcó del Mediterrani and touch the iron railing which is on top of what was once the stone extraction quarry used by the Romans during their time in Tarraco. For many of the people of Tarragona, it is an everyday habit to walk along the Rambla and go...

Jekyll Island Amphitheater in Jekyll Island,...

October 24, 2022

When it was built in the early 1970s, this 1,700-seat amphitheater added another stage to Jekyll Island’s music and theater scene. Once a cultural hub on the island, the amphitheater has been unused since 2004, but the stage and bleachers are still intact. Between 1973 and 2004, the amphitheater hosted a number of plays and musical acts, including touring companies of Broadway shows. When budget cuts led to the end of the theater program, the large outdoor performing space was largely...

The Disappearing Philippine Tradition of 'Souling' for...

October 24, 2022

Eric Dedace remembers being awoken by his parents in the dead of night when he was a child. They told him to look out the window where a group of people pretending to be ghosts waved and sang to him. “So some prayers, Our Fathers, Hail Marys and one Glory Be,” says Dedace, who grew up on the Philippine island region of Quezon, where he still lives. “And then my parents gave them a few centavo...

What the Scent of a Witch Revealed...

October 24, 2022

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons licenses. Most perfume ads suggest that the right scent can make you sexy, alluring and successful. A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell like Hecate, the three-faced Greek goddess of witchcraft. As a classics scholar who studies both magic and the senses in the ancient world, this idea of a witch-inspired perfume fascinates me—and “Hecate” is just one...

Podcast: Cassadaga With Jamie Loftus

October 24, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we start our week of spooky Halloween stories with a special episode from Jamie Loftus’s newest podcast about Cassadaga, a small town in central Florida that is one of the last great bastions of a Victorian-era religion called Spiritualism. Check out some of Jamie’s work other work, too: Ghost Church, My Year in MENSA. Our podcast is an...

Puzzle Monday: The Art of Illumination

October 24, 2022

Among our crosswords and other puzzles, we’re featuring logic challenges from Puzzle Communication Nikoli, a cult-favorite puzzle publication from Japan. A PDF of the puzzle, as well as the solution, can be downloaded below. One of the biggest challenges of designing puzzles for Puzzle Communication Nikoli, Japan’s supremely influential puzzle magazine, is difficulty. All of Nikoli’s puzzles—most of which are designed and refined by the magazine’s dedicated readers—must scale well in difficulty. For a puzzle to gain popularity, a...

The Haunting True Story of Bridget Cleary’s...

October 21, 2022

On Thursday, March 14, 1895, Mary Kennedy bundled up to visit her ailing, 26-year-old niece, Bridget Cleary. It was a quick, half-mile walk over the bridge and up the hill to the Cleary’s cottage in Ballyvadlea of County Tipperary, Ireland. But as Kennedy approached the house that evening, she heard shouting and, when she opened the door, saw six men holding Bridget to her bed. “Are you Boland, the wife of Michael Cleary, in the name of God?”...

Vrbo Owner Login Strategies & Optimisation for...

October 21, 2022

VBRO owner login strategies are essential if you use the platform to let your holiday rental property effectively. Vrbo is a holiday rental company specialising in short-term accommodation. It connects property owners with renters looking for self-contained spaces. Unlike other OTAs (online travel agencies), Vrbo focuses on renting apartments and houses to holidaymakers. Quick Menu The post Vrbo Owner Login Strategies & Optimisation for More Bookings appeared first on Revfine.com.

How 20 Seconds of Film Changed Movie...

October 21, 2022

While looking through a box of unidentified film reels in 2017, Dino Everett, a film archivist from the University of Southern California, did not expect to unfurl a section of film showing a Black couple dressed in costumes typical of minstrel shows locked in a romantic embrace. The short, only 20 seconds long, showed the pair kissing, swaying, kissing again and just smiling at each other. Everett had rediscovered a lost moment in film history: William N. Selig’s 1898...

Real Zombies and Body Snatchers Live Among...

October 20, 2022

When Roberto García-Roa set off into the Peruvian jungle one morning, he was not expecting to come face to shriveled face with a zombie. García-Roa, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Valencia in Spain, was exploring Tambopata National Reserve, a slice of tropical rain forest in Peru’s southeast corner that’s famous for its biodiversity. He set off along the narrow trails that crisscross its dense vegetation in hopes of documenting some of its rarer residents, such as jaguars....

The Strange, Awful Truth Behind Utah's Eerie...

October 20, 2022

For decades a crudely constructed, 20-foot-tall cement and stone cross stood in a hollow on the northern outskirts of Kaysville, Utah. Marked with a large letter K in the center, the cross was known to locals as Kay’s Cross. It couldn’t be seen from any road and was on private property, undeveloped except for a few footpaths that meandered deep into the woods. Its secluded location, unknown origins, and proximity to the Kaysville Cemetery made Kay’s Cross a fixture...

National Coracle Centre in Cenarth, Wales

October 19, 2022

They might not be as iconic as leeks or dragons on the ‘Welshness’ scale (in fact, many people probably won’t know what they are), but coracles are entwined into the culture of Wales, and this little museum in Carmarthenshire acts as a perfect introduction to the history of these odd-looking, river-going crafts. Records of coracles being used in the United Kingdom date back to Roman times. The small, wooden boats, which appear like large baskets bobbing on the water’s...

Mammoth Spring in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

October 19, 2022

Arkansas and Missouri could be at odds with the true ownership of Mammoth Spring, the largest spring in Arkansas, and the seventh-largest in the world. The mouth of the spring is in Arkansas (only 500 feet from the MO/AR border), but the recharge area belongs to Missouri. For now, the states are in agreement, the second-largest spring in the Ozarks belongs to Arkansas. Almost ten million gallons of water pump out of Mammoth Spring every hour. A hydroelectric dam...

Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum in...

October 19, 2022

Walking around an artist’s studio can feel, at times, like taking a peek inside their brain. And if there’s anywhere to get a glimpse inside the incredible mind of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer, it’s at her home and garden at 1313 Pierce Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, now open to the public as a museum. Head behind the handsome brown home with green shutters and you’ll find Anne’s garden. It’s an oasis of lush green with bright pops of...

Beware Montana’s Shunka Warak’in, the 'Rocky Mountain...

October 19, 2022

Cryptids of all kinds have long moved in the shadows across what’s now the United States, their legends preserved in Native American traditions that stretch from the Southwest to the Great Lakes and beyond. Acclaimed writer J.W. Ocker introduces us to some of these ancient terrors. Excerpted with permission from The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters, by J. W. Ocker. Published by Quirk Books. All rights reserved. Something has been preying on domesticated...

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