Why are there no bear ghosts? Death is everywhere, but religious beliefs surrounding this inevitable phenomenon vary more than you might think--and nearly everybody believes in ghosts.... What about near-death experiences?

Angels are a mysterious bunch of creatures, regardless of your religious tradition--and they are everywhere. Interpreting Colossians 1:16 to contain a list of angels is ridiculous, and nobody should be that bad at reading.

Katherine Spallino is the author of The Bad Cadet, a memoir of her days as a child-slave to the secretive Scientologist "Sea Org."