Case files of the unexplained
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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...
Number 50 Berkeley Square is a townhouse on the Mayfair square of the same name, in central London. By the end of the 19th century it had acquired ...
Between 1977 and 1979, a council house in Brimsdown, in the London Borough of Enfield, became the setting for one of Britain's most discussed polte...
Robbins Pond Road, a gravel dead end in the Ottawa National Forest of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is not a forest track: it is the stretch of US-45...
On a rise beside the road into Campanillas, on the outskirts of MΓ‘laga, stands Cortijo Jurado, a mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois agricultural esta...
Hessdalen is a valley some 12 km long in the municipality of HoltΓ₯len, in TrΓΈndelag county in central Norway, where unexplained lights began to be ...
π¦Ά Latest cryptid sightings
Kuchisake-onna, the "slit-mouthed woman", is not old folklore but a rumour with a traceable start date. A woman in a face mask stops a passer-by, u...
Gef the Talking Mongoose was reportedly a small, weasel-like animal, invisible to almost everyone, that spoke in a high voice and claimed to live i...
Krampus, the horned, chain-rattling companion of Saint Nicholas in Alpine folklore, punishes misbehaving children while Nicholas rewards the well-b...
Black Shuck is the spectral black dog of East Anglian folklore, said to roam the coastline, churchyards and lonely lanes of Norfolk and Suffolk as ...
Spring-heeled Jack is the demonic, athletic figure who terrorized Victorian London and its suburbs beginning in 1837, described in newspaper report...
The Aswang is a broad and shape-shifting figure from Philippine folklore, most strongly associated with the Visayas region, particularly Capiz prov...
π Latest legends
Warsaw's coat of arms shows a mermaid, Syrenka, holding a sword and shield, and the legend behind it has been told since at least the 14th century....
In the mountains of La Vera, in the province of CΓ‘ceres, an old romance and local legend tell of La Serrana de la Vera, a beautiful woman who lived...
On the wild Galician coast near Cedeira, in A CoruΓ±a, the tiny sanctuary of San AndrΓ©s de Teixido has drawn pilgrims for centuries, wrapped in one ...
Beneath the vanished church of San CebriΓ‘n in Salamanca lies a crypt that popular legend transformed, from the Middle Ages onward, into a secret sc...
This grim legend from 12th-century AragΓ³n is tied to King Ramiro II, called 'the Monk' because he left a monastery to take the crown after his brot...
Teruel, in AragΓ³n, preserves the tomb of Diego de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura, whose story of thwarted love is traditionally dated to the early 1...