Case files of the unexplained
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Ghost Alley Espresso is a tiny coffee shop at 1499 Post Alley, in the southwest corner of Seattle's Pike Place Market, a few steps from the famous ...
The Holcomb Creek Trestle, also known as the Dick Road Trestle, is a 1,168-foot wooden railroad bridge spanning Holcomb Creek in Helvetia, Oregon, ...
The Terrence Building is a psychiatric high-rise on Elmwood Avenue, on the southern edge of Rochester, New York. It opened in 1959 as the Medical-S...
Two ghosts are reported at this Episcopal church above the Hudson, and both of them have names that our own catalogue had lost. The first is Isabel...
The A229 road crosses Kent from north to south, linking Rochester with Hawkhurst via Maidstone. Its best-known stretch is Blue Bell Hill, where the...
Mary King's Close is a warren of old streets and dwellings buried beneath the City Chambers on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, in the heart of the Old Town...
π¦Ά Latest cryptid sightings
The Yara-ma-yha-who is a spirit of the wild fig tree, not an animal waiting to be found, and it reaches us through one traceable line: the Ngarrind...
The burrunjor is described as a giant bipedal reptile roaming the remote country of Arnhem Land, in Australia's Northern Territory, and it is usual...
The impundulu is a Xhosa witch's familiar, and everyone who wrote it down was told so. The colonial doctor Matthew Hewat listed it in 1906 among th...
Ninki Nanka is not a missing species; in its own tradition it is a genie. A colonial report of 1906 on Mandinka custom, quoted by the Gambian histo...
Popobawa is filed in cryptid catalogues, including this one, and it does not belong there. It is a collective panic that anthropologists documented...
The Lake Van Monster has something almost no cryptid has: a signed confession. On 8 June 2025 the journalist Mehmet ΓetingΓΌleΓ§ published a column t...
π Latest legends
Melon heads are said to be small, pale, big-headed humanoids living in the woods of three American states: around Wisner Road in Kirtland and Chard...
Finnish folk belief put a nΓ€kki in nearly every deep water: a being that seized bathers, children and swimming horses and dragged them under. It is...
Under Kronborg Castle at HelsingΓΈr, in the galleries the garrison once used, a bearded man in armour sits with his beard grown into the table in fr...
ΓlfhΓ³ll, Elf Hill, is a glacially smoothed rock knoll about three metres high on the south side of ΓlfhΓ³lsvegur in KΓ³pavogur, just outside ReykjavΓ...
Two different men have been called Peer Gynt, and this page used to run them together. The first is a hunter from Kvam in Gudbrandsdalen, told to P...
The NΓ€cken is famous as a naked fiddler in a Swedish waterfall, and that is the newest thing about him. The oldest complete Swedish sentence the Sw...