A deep dive into the darker side of The Exorcist‘s production, with scary facts from The Exorcist’s production, from the director’s tendency to shot blanks from a gun at random on set to scare people,…
A look at the Catholic rite of exorcism and the connections that the 1973 film The Exorcist has to New York City, in particular to Fordham University. New York City’s Fordham University wasn’t just a…
In the 1690s, a Transylvania-born mystic, occultist, musician, and writer named Johannes Kelpius led a group of 40 Rosicrucian monks to colonial Philadelphia to wait for the end of the world. Though Kelpius and his…
It only took 15 minutes for the New York Crystal Palace, a beautiful building made of iron and glass, to be destroyed. Financially insolvent and falling apart, the building had seen better days. New management…