Tag: Christmas traditions
Real Paranormal Incidents That Took Place at Christmastime
Charles Dickens didn’t invent the Christmas ghost story — he was continuing a tradition that stretched back centuries. These true tales of holiday hauntings show why the longest nights of winter were once considered the most dangerous.
Krampus Chased Me: This European Tradition Would Be Illegal in America
In Austria, naughty children don’t get coal — they get beaten by a goat-horned demon who might drown them in a river.
She Had to Have That Doll With The Purple Fingernails for Christmas
She got exactly what she wanted for Christmas—a beautiful doll with purple fingernails—but what the doll wanted was something far more sinister.
Black Peter: The Christmas Demon That Makes Krampus Look Friendly
While Santa delivers presents to good children in Belgium and Holland, his demonic helper Black Peter stuffs the naughty ones into a sack full of hungry rats, drags them back to his coal mine on a cart pulled by plague-ridden undead rams, and forces them to dig coal forever — or until he gets hungry enough to eat them.
He Thought Bigfoot Was a Hoax Until He Came Face to Face With Him One Christmas
When twelve-year-old Nick signed up to be a “Bigfoot Buster” on Christmas Eve, he never expected to come face-to-face with the real creature at his front door — wearing the park ranger’s coat and picking flesh from its teeth.
Forget Coal — These Christmas Creatures Will Eat Naughty Children
While children in America might fear getting coal in their stockings, kids in other parts of the world are warned about demons who beat them bloody, a giant cat that devours the lazy, and an ogress who cooks and eats disobedient children for her Christmas dinner.
What If Everything We Believe About The Krampus Is Wrong?
Hollywood says Krampus is an ancient Christmas demon with roots in pagan mythology — but there’s no evidence any of that is true. The real story of how this monster came to be is stranger than any legend. #HolidayHorrors