Blog - Dan Baines

In the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, most attention has understandably focused on press sensationalism and the identity of Jack the Ripper.

Oscar is one lucky boy.

Halloween and Remembrance Day are a mere eleven days apart so it seems only fitting that I post this story regarding two of the most terrifying things a person should never have to encounter during their life – war and ventriloquist dolls.

Baking for my kids is fun and I’ve come to realise that it draws many parallels with my work as a prop designer.

In 1854, an experiment far stranger than anything in Mary Shelley’s novel took place when a New England clergyman married science and spiritualism in an attempt to build nothing less than a god.

Could this be the location for The Fairy Podcast's very first field report?

Other than the legendary Doomsday Voodoo Dance, I've surprisingly had very little experience of Haitian Vodou.

This curious tale by Victoria Martinez highlights what could be the downside of being an ambassador for the wee folk.

For me, the list of things that people get wrong about fairies is vast, but the one thing that tops it is fairy doors.

This article taken from The Devon News has all the hallmarks of a classic H.P.

From the private collection of Octavius Rookwood (August 16, 1853 – July 17, 1936), American British pharmaceutical entrepreneur, explorer and occult researcher.

British and Irish fairies have been around since 500 AD.

The client brief for this commission was to incorporate elements of the Dark Rituals box, specifically the fetish, and the Emerald Tablet box.

Just over a year ago I launched my Patreon page to drum up some support for the book I am writing which covers the Derbyshire Mummified Fairy Hoax.

A week on and the story of the Pixie skeleton is still doing the rounds in the US.

Almost 2 years after The Mystic Menagerie Podcast ran the Cornish Pixie Remains story, it has reemerged in the USA.

Here's an interesting article from OZY which discusses various scientific attempts to prove the existence of fairies and similar creatures.

The 2007 Mummified Fairy makes her first movie appearance!

It seems that Hollywood is hellbent on rebooting nearly every classic they can get their greedy hands on.

It's been a while since I last completed a Box of Astaroth and the first five months of the year seem to have passed by without me seemingly doing much as all.