Gear up for a night of legends and folklore. Chad Lewis, who has been featured on the Discovery Channel’s “A Haunting” and William Shatner’s “Weird or What,” will host a presentation at the Austin Public Library on Nov. 13, titled “Winter Legends and Folklore” The program, starting at 6 p.m., will include the history of Santa Claus, Christmas monsters, holiday superstitions, New Year’s Eve rituals, and school snow day customs, and is guaranteed to change how you view the winter months. The cost is free and open to all ages. “Winter may seem like a quiet time, but it is actually filled with bizarre tales and stories of weird spirits, odd tales of Santa Claus, bizarre winter superstitions, strange weather predictions, Krampus the Christmas Monster, stories of little people, New Year’s Eve rituals, the deadly wendigo,  and numerous other holiday traditions for the darkest days of the year,” Lewis stated in press release. For three decades Lewis has traveled the back roads of the world in search of the strange and unusual. From tracking vampires in Transylvania and searching for the elusive monster of Loch Ness to trailing the dangerous Tata Duende through remote villages of Belize and searching for ghosts in Ireland’s haunted castles, Lewis has scoured the earth in search of the paranormal. With a Master’s Degree in psychology, Chad has authored over 35 books on the supernatural, and extensively lectures on his fascinating findings. The more bizarre the legend, the more likely it is that you will find Lewis there. The post Author to present winter legends and history at Austin Public Library appeared first on Austin Daily Herald.