MOSCOW -- Russian investigators say they are probing the possibility that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered in a "ritual killing," appearing to give new life to an old conspiracy theory ...

Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...

These theories are a little tone-deaf. As those in attendance at Travis Scott’s Astroworld disclose personal accounts of events leading up to the tragedy, theories are circulating about possible ...

The aim of my presentation at the AMME Seminar was to give an overview of anthropological theory on ritual practice. I presented different approaches of ritual and pointed out which of them had and ...

KISS guitarist Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley promoted a baseless conspiracy theory that the Astroworld tragedy was a satanic ritual after the claim spread on social media. 10 people have died after ...

A senior adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development spread a false conspiracy theory that claimed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman took part in a Satanic ritual, a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Attorneys for the suspect charged with murdering two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017 believe the state has reopened an investigation into a theory that they were ...

Police investigating an horrific attack on a horse that was mutilated and killed have not ruled out the theory that its slaughter was part of a satanic ritual. A two-year-old stallion named Eric was ...