Augustus Knapp’s “Mysteries of Xibalba” from The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928

Reclaiming the Damned

Toward a new understanding of Bigfoot, flying saucers, leprechauns and other inconvenient realities

Mitch Horowitz
35 min readMar 28, 2020

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Several years ago a critic wrote about me, “Horowitz is an okay historian, but the guy believes in leprechauns for chrissakes. That is true — I plead guilty. In this paper, I will try to explain why my critic is right.

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China