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UFOs, strange encounters, forgotten folklore.
A journal for minds that won’t stop wondering.
CryptidsLoch Ness is deep, cold and dark with peat, the perfect stage for a legend. Here is the lake behind Nessie: its size and depth, how the monster story grew from a saint's tale to a 1933 sensation, and what sonar has really found.
A black dog with fiery eyes, a thunderstorm in 1577, two dead worshippers and a scorched church door. How East Anglia's Black Shuck legend began, how it changes from village to village, and what might explain it.
Three points on a chart, one enduring legend. Where the Bermuda Triangle sits in the North Atlantic, what lies inside its lines, why no two maps agree, and how the mystery holds up against the record.
Millions remember a horn of plenty spilling fruit behind the Fruit of the Loom logo. The record says it was never there. Here is what the logo shows, why the false memory is so shared, and what still makes it strange.
A woman in white weeps by the water, calling for children she will never find. Here is what the record shows about La Llorona, where the legend came from, and why so many people across the Americas still say they have heard her.
Baba means grandmother. Yaga is still argued over. Here is what the name of the Slavic forest witch really carries, how her tales vary from Russia to Komi country, and why a hitman in John Wick borrowed it.
Skinwalker Ranch sits in Utah's Uintah Basin, southeast of the small town of Ballard. Here is where it is on a map, who has owned it, what was reported there, how it ended up in a Pentagon budget, and why visitors can't get in.
One is a starving giant of the northern winter. The other is a human witch of the desert Southwest who wears animal skins. Here is where each legend comes from, how they differ, and why pop culture keeps confusing the two.
Many people clearly remember a horn of plenty behind the Fruit of the Loom fruit. The record says it was never there. This piece covers the logo's real history, how memory fills gaps, and the stranger theories that keep the cornucopia alive.
A masked woman asks if she is pretty. A girl haunts the school bathroom. A train stops at a station that appears on no map. Here are Japan's modern legends, where each one came from, and what the record actually shows.
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