The green children of Woolpit. One day, out of the woods, two children walked into the English town of Woolpit. This was back in the 1200s, so children mysteriously appearing wasn’t as odd back then—due to, you know, parents having a much higher rate of death because of diseases and the whole living-in-the-1200s thing. But…
Telepathic dogmen (werewolves) stalk man in Pennsylvania. For sure, Pennsylvania is known for the weird and strange, but this latest eye-witness report serves up a tale with a different flavor. This time one of our favorite werewolves, the dogman, has learned a new trick – telepathy. The witness, named Zay, grew up hearing dogmen stories and recalls…
The first vampires. Many people wrongly believe that vampires were first discovered in Romania when in fact, vampires records date back as far as well over a thousands years. This wrong perception is understandable given the popularity of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. However, a surgeon from Austria in the 1700’s was the first person to actually…
Try terrifying Japanese ghosts for size! If you know all about ghost stories or haunted house movies then there’s a good chance that you might feel like you’ve seen it all. A floating candelabra? Boring. A long-dead governess unjustly killed who yearns for a proper burial? Pass. Focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm? Class-five full-roaming vapor?…
The Bell witch. It all happened in a farm house that stood on the Red River trail near Adams, Tennessee in Robertson County, which in the mid-1800’s was the site of many horrific encounters with a spirit that terrorized the Bell family. The ‘Bell Witch’ as it came to be known soon became the de-facto…
OBE or Out of Body Experience is a term that was first used in 1943 by author George N. M. Tyrell. Tyrell was looking for a broader scientific term to replace more supernatural or mystical terms such as “Spirit Walking” or the more common “Astral Projection”. The concept of the Out Of Body Experience, simply…
The ten vampire curses most commonly believed. Dating back thousands of years, vampires have both terrified us and captured our imaginations. Vampire lore has been cobbled together from the fragments of whispers and dark tales. Hard to verify but equally hard to dismiss, their lore is based on those written or spoken accounts of events…
The Slender Man Phenomenon It was the summer of 2009 when the ‘Something Awful’ forum member Eric Knudsen, going by the alias Victor Surge, first introduced web users to the frightening world of Slender Man. The Slender Man was created by Knudsen as part of the Something Awful photo contest by which users took ordinary…
Vampires in history. While there are many strange and mysterious creatures in the darkest corners of the world, there are also humans with a whole range of psychological problems and some of these can manifest to appear like creatures such as vampires. The key to understanding vampires in history is identifying the real deal from…
The Ouija Board also known as ‘spirit boards’ or ‘talking boards’ are a flat panel of glossed wood, cardboard, or other smooth surface adorned with the letters of the alphabet, numbers ranging from zero to nine, the words ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ and typically ‘Goodbye’. There is a ‘planchette’ along with the board. It is typically a…
[caption id="attachment_32316" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Ghostly Floating City Over Dalian China[/caption] A ghostly floating city sparks fear of an inter-dimensional portal to a parallel universe. New footage showing yet another ghostly floating city over China has gone viral online. The latest sighting occurred on Friday, 18 March 2016, in the major seaport city of Dalian, located…
Breaking a mirror. If a small mirror accidently breaks (like the hand-held or self-standing kind) it usually produces no more thought in most people than that they must get a new mirror. The breaking of a large wall-mounted or floor mirror, however, may still often elicit the exclamation, ‘That’s seven years of bad luck’. But…
The 300 year old werewolf. In 2006 in the town of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, a 23-year-old man named Jeremy Steinke convinced a 12-year-old girl, whom he was “dating”, to kill her entire family. The reason for the murderous rampage is believed to be because the girl’s family didn’t approve of the relationship between Steinke…
