Case files of the unexplained
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π» Latest haunted places
Rimsky-Korsakoffee House is a classical-music-themed coffeehouse in the Buckman neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, opened by Goody Cable i...
The Ottawa Jail Hostel occupies the former Carleton County Gaol, a jail on Nicholas Street in Ottawa, Ontario, that operated until its closure in 1...
Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 as Houston, Texas's first centralized municipal hospital for indigent patients, in the city's H...
Theatre in the Park is a community theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina, long led by executive director Ira David Wood III, known for playing Ebeneze...
The E. H. Harrison House is an 1857 residence in Keokuk, Iowa, built for banker and businessman Enos H. Harrison by local architect Frederick H. Mo...
Abbey House, also called Old Abbey House, is a 17th-century building on the corner of Beche Road and Abbey Road in the Abbey district of Cambridge,...
π¦Ά Latest cryptid sightings
Aboriginal storytellers across eastern Australia, particularly Queensland's fig-forest country, describe the Yara-ma-yha-who as a small, red-skinne...
In the remote sandstone escarpments of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Aboriginal oral tradition and later station-worker testimony from the 1970s...
Among Xhosa and Zulu communities of South Africa's Eastern Cape, the Impundulu, or lightning bird, is described as a black-and-white bird able to t...
In Zulu tradition across KwaZulu-Natal, families still raise their beds on bricks, a practice documented by anthropologists since at least the 1930...
Along the swamps and mangrove creeks that flank the Gambia River, elders in Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau warn children away from the water af...
On Zanzibar's Pemba Island, a wave of terror in 1995 saw entire villages sleeping outdoors in groups after residents reported nighttime visits from...
π Latest legends
The Hope Diamond, a magnificent deep-blue gem now resting in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., is said to carry one of the most famous curses in...
Long before the lamp-bound genie of storybooks, the djinn haunted the deserts and imagination of Arabia. In pre-Islamic belief and later in Islamic...
Among the most beloved tales associated with the One Thousand and One Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves unfolds in the storied landscape of th...
The Queen of Sheba is one of the great enigmatic figures of the ancient world, a ruler of dazzling wealth and wisdom whose legend spans the Bible, ...
Mami Wata is the powerful water spirit venerated across West and Central Africa and carried by the diaspora to the Caribbean and the Americas. Usua...
In the folklore of the Zulu and Xhosa peoples of southern Africa, the Tokoloshe is a small, hairy, mischievous water sprite that can turn its malic...