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The Haunted Luxor: Las Vegas’ Pyramid of Paranormal Legends
Beneath the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip, Luxor Las Vegas has earned a chilling reputation as one of the city’s most haunted resorts. Since opening in 1993, guests and employees have reported shadow figures, unexplained noises, cold spots, and ghostly apparitions throughout the massive pyramid-shaped hotel. Combined with tragic deaths tied to the property and its eerie Egyptian-inspired design, the Luxor continues to fuel paranormal legends that refuse to fade.
CL Thomas
2 days ago3 min read


Numen Inest: Animism at a Glance
My grandmother's house held a clock I knew from the inside before I knew it from the outside. It hung on a wall in a dining room furnished the way German immigrant homes of that generation were furnished, every surface holding something, every shelf carrying a purpose, the cuckoo clock above the sideboard in the quiet corner of the dining room ticking with the steady carved-and-painted patience of a piece of the Black Forest that had been mounted in an American room and never
Tillie Treadwell
4 days ago8 min read


The Darling Month of May
The cattle came up between the two fires at evening, and the druids who had built the fires spoke over them as they came, and the year reorganized itself around the agreement that the herd was now under the protection of whatever had been spoken over the heat between the flames. This is the picture Sanas Cormaic, the Irish glossary attributed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin and dated to roughly the early tenth century, gives of May 1, where the entry for Belltaine derives the name f
Tillie Treadwell
May 39 min read


Three Wards
In the last installment of this series, I followed the blood. I traced it from Bathory's bathtub through Roman gladiatorial arenas, through Aztec temples and Maasai cattle herds and the Christian Eucharist, through parabiosis laboratories at Stanford where old mice grew young again on borrowed plasma, and I ended up standing in front of three words that I have been circling for most of my life without fully understanding why they kept appearing together. Iron. Salt. Sunlight.
Tillie Treadwell
Apr 2816 min read


Blood, Worship, and Blood Worship
I left you standing over a bloodless cow in an Oregon field, ten gallons of blood missing from a thousand-pound animal, the ground beneath her dry. I said that blood is the most foyson-dense fluid in any living body, and that I believe what the mutilation data shows is extraction. I promised you this piece about blood, and I have been thinking about it for weeks, turning it over, because the more I look at the history and the science, the more I think blood is the thread that
Tillie Treadwell
Apr 197 min read


What They Take: Foyson and Cattle Mutilations
In the last three installments of this series, I have been building a case. I started with the foyson itself, that old Scots word for the essence or goodness of food, the quality that Robert Kirk described in 1691 as the substance that faerie peoples extract from offerings while leaving the physical matter behind. I moved into the biochemistry of freshness, showing that foyson has a measurable analog in the biogenic amines that accumulate as food ages, degrading precisely the
Tillie Treadwell
Apr 1211 min read


Sacred Cows
In the last installment of this series, I talked about the foyson diet- about freshness as a measurable biochemical state, about the biogenic amines that accumulate in food as it ages and how those compounds degrade the very essence that nonhuman peoples appear to seek, and about salt, that ancient ward, and the way it preserves cellular integrity at a level most of us never think about when we reach for the shaker. If you haven't read "The Foyson Diet" yet, I'd encourage you
Tillie Treadwell
Apr 516 min read


The Foyson Diet: Faeries, Essence, and My Findings...
I'd like to introduce some perhaps leading edge science, nutrition and folklore connections, and I think a gentle, relatable way to do that might be by explaining how and why I discovered them. So.. My body runs on a very short list. Fresh red beef, cooked as little as I can get away with. Fresh eggs, fresh butter, fresh whole milk. Every single day, without fail, or things go wrong quickly and measurably. The beef has to be red and it has to be recent, not aged, not cured, n
Tillie Treadwell
Mar 2911 min read


Faerie Well Then! Exploring the Energy Feeding Phenomenon
A lifetime of sensing unseen energies led to measurable proof: a body that pulls in the essence of others, nourishing or draining depending on what it encounters.
Tillie Treadwell
Mar 2210 min read


What the Fluorescence?!: Nonhuman Encounters at the Grocery Store
My husband and I had just walked into Walmart, near the produce section, and I felt someone staring at me. Hard. I looked up, thinking I was imagining it, and locked eyes with a man I knew immediately was not human. Artemaeus was already gone. He was laser focused on getting his dinner ingredients, hellbent on alfredo, rushing towards dairy without a backward glance. The lights overhead were bright and cold. The A/C in Florida is legendary most of the year because of our
Tillie Treadwell
Mar 78 min read


Paranormal Peach Tea
I was standing at my kitchen counter several years ago with two mixing bowls, a notebook full of failed ratios, and a problem I could not solve. The problem was powder. Specifically, the fine, chalky film that coats most commercially flavored teas when natural flavoring agents - particularly cream and butter elements - are introduced to loose leaf blends. Anyone who has ever brewed a cup of something lovely from a grocery store shelf and noticed that faint, unpleasant residue
Tillie Treadwell
Mar 29 min read


Can't See The Forest For The Beings
Can't See the Forest for the Beings By Tillie Treadwell If you read my last post, you know I promised you a follow up. If you haven't read it yet, I'd encourage you to head back to "Leshy Forget..." before continuing here, because what I'm about to share is a direct continuation of that encounter, and it will make considerably more sense with the full context of who I met in that northern forest in September of 2016, and how that meeting changed the way I think about the wood
Tillie Treadwell
Feb 2011 min read


Leshy Forget...
As we move into the last phase of Autumn, I find myself in my annual, nostalgic state. Memories of months and years past fill my mind, and I'm grateful to have this online space, which allows me to write some of them down to share with you. Lately, I've been recalling fondly my experience with a person that research reveals would likely best be known in our society as the Leshy- have you heard of him? According to Russian, Appalachian and other folklore, the Leshy is a woodla
Tillie Treadwell
Nov 12, 20259 min read


Blood, Iron and Beyond: Bizarre Biology and the Paranormal
Hello, Eerie Expeditioners! You may have read some of my contributions to the pages of the magazine recently, and now that I've been...
Tillie Treadwell
Oct 4, 20256 min read


The Literal Ghost Town
My two favorites from this town were of Hank Williams, who played the opening of a hardware store in town, according to the plaque that accompanied the mural. I also learned on the spot that Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations was from Union Springs. While taking photos, someone emerged from my destination, funny enough.
Destination Spooky
Aug 18, 20255 min read


Confessions of a Spooky Traveler: Chasing Shadows
I became a spooky traveler not through some childhood fascination with ghosts or a late-night horror binge, but through an uneasy encounter at a roadside motel in Pennsylvania.
CL Thomas
Jul 23, 20254 min read


The Legend of the Black Powder Tavern
The Black Powder Tavern is named in homage to the building's origins, dating back to 1746, as indicated by a plaque outside the restaurant. According to the plaque, former owner Friedrich Wilhelm von Stueben stored black powder in the basement during the Revolutionary War.
Destination Spooky
Jul 9, 20253 min read


Vote for Your Favorite Paranormal Location and Get Rewarded by Eerie Expeditions!
Eerie Expeditions Magazine is more than just a publication—we’re passionate about preserving the haunted heritage that fuels paranormal tourism. Through investigative features, historical storytelling, and collaborations with the caretakers of legendary sites, we help amplify the voices and legacies of these extraordinary locations.
CL Thomas
Jun 25, 20252 min read


A Bottle of Red, A Bottle of Fright
In April, I had a dilemma, Traveler. I drove back from an incredible road trip to West Virginia that was nearly perfect. While in almost...
Destination Spooky
Jun 17, 20254 min read


The Haunted Cajun Restaurant in St. Augustine
According to hauntedrooms.com, St. Augustine ranks third on their list of the 13 most haunted cities in the United States, due to its age and the poor life expectancy that came from being such an old port town.
Destination Spooky
Apr 26, 20253 min read
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