Case files of the unexplained
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Latest haunted places
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. The first is Isabel Benjamin, wife of the second re...
Mount Nebo Cemetery is the burial ground of a Black Baptist congregation in the pine woods of southern Clarke County, Alabama, near the fork where ...
The Red Lion occupies No 55 High Street, on the east side of the street that Southampton's medieval walls enclosed. Historic England listed it Grad...
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 Çetingüleç published a column t...
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 näkki in nearly every deep water: a being that seized bathers, children and swimming horses and dragged them under. It is...
Under Kronborg Castle at Helsingør, in the galleries the garrison once used, a bearded man in armour sits with his beard grown into the table in fr...
Álfhóll, Elf Hill, is a glacially smoothed rock knoll about three metres high on the south side of Álfhólsvegur in Kópavogur, just outside Reykjaví...
Two different men have been called Peer Gynt, and they are easily run together. The first is a hunter from Kvam in Gudbrandsdalen, told to Peter Ch...
The Näcken 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...