The Far Country
Oct 14, 2026
The Bone Lord of Mictlan
An account of Mictlantecuhtli, the skeletal Mexica lord who receives the dead in Mictlan, and the Día de Muertos customs that keep a version of his old welcome alive.
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Sleepy Hollow's Halloween Rider
A look at the Hessian ghost who rides the Hudson Valley seeking his lost head, and how a literary ghost story became one of America's defining Halloween tales.
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Oct 5, 2026
When the Tecolotl Sings
A field account of the tecolotl, the horned owl long held in Nahua and Mesoamerican belief to be a messenger of Mictlantecuhtli, lord of the dead, and still read as a death omen across much of Mexico and Central America.
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