Category: Folklore
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Mermaids and Mermen: Are Ancient Legends of Sea Goddesses in Alaska True?
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Are legends of mermaids and mermen based on something real? If so, stories dating back to the first writings are nothing like the Little Mermaid. Sinde 1988, more than 16,000 people have vanished in a triangular area, the “Bermuda Triangle of Alaska.” The missing person rate is twice the national average, with…
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True Stories of Monsters and Cryptids
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Real people see cryptids, monsters, and other strange creatures The number and variety of strange creatures that people report seeing is astonishing. Of course, it’s possible that they are misidentifying known creatures, but what if only some of these sightings are accurate? Here are real reports of cryptids, monsters, and…
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How AI Sees The Paranormal (And The Stories It Tells)
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There’s been a lot of talk recently about AI recommending that we try to catch Bigfoot with a net, and it got me thinking about what else Large Language Models might have to say about the paranormal. So what did I do? I fired up my own AI assistant once…
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Five English Witch-Haunts: Witches & English Mythology
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English myth is a curious being. Compared to, say, that of Ancient Greece, which gives origin stories to real-life flora and fauna from across the world, our tales often involve more local variations. Nowhere is this clearer than in a huge sub-part of English myth: folklore, the traditional beliefs and…
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The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612
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At the assizes at Lancaster in the autumn of 1612, twenty persons, of whom sixteen were women of various ages, were committed for trial, and most of them tried for witchcraft. Their names were: Margaret Pearson was tried 1st for murder by witchcraft; 2nd for bewitching a neighbour; 3rd for bewitching…
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A comprehensive survey of Poltergeist cases by Alan Gauld & Tony Cornell
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with its findings of special relevance to the Dalby Spook case by Christopher Josiffe arapsychologists Alan Gauld and Tony Cornell undertook a scientific study of 460 poltergeist cases from around the world, and they published the results in their 1979 book Poltergeists. They found that in 61% of cases, the poltergeist…
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The Story of the Bell Witch
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“America’s Greatest Ghost Story” The Bell family homestead, the alleged “ground zero” of the Bell Witch haunting. Strange Occurrences Commence One day in 1817, John Bell was inspecting his corn field when he encountered a strange-looking animal sitting in the middle of a corn row. Shocked by the appearance of this…
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Whitewater Witches – Local Folklore and Legends
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Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay Whitewater Wisconsin has a full list of creepy legends and folklore. The one that you hear first is about the Witches of Whitewater, but there was also a man named Morris Pratt who made an institute all about spiritualism and psychic subjects that may…
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History student tells the story of the Mothman
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In mid-November, 1966, in the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, two young couples fled the local woods, claiming they’d seen a terrifying creature. They recounted their story to the sheriff and reported that the entity looked human in most respects – except for its 10-foot wings and glowing…
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The Mothman Revisited
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Who — or what — is the Mothman, and what does it want with the citizens of Chicago? CASE DETAILS In 1967, locals from all over the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported bizarre sightings of a terrifying, black, winged humanoid creature with red, glowing eyes. This creature…
