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UFOs, strange encounters, forgotten folklore.
A journal for minds that won’t stop wondering.
FolkloreFlight 19, the USS Cyclops and a sea of magazine legends: a clear look at what is documented about the Bermuda Triangle, what later writers added, and which popular 'facts' fail a check of the record.
Staircases into ceilings, doors onto empty air and a legend about a widow building for ghosts. A clear look at the Winchester Mystery House tour: what you see, what the record says, how to plan, and whether it is worth it.
Two names, one hairy giant. How Sasquatch and Bigfoot entered English decades apart, what witnesses describe, how carved wooden feet complicated the record, and why scientists remain unconvinced while the legend keeps walking.
From Joseph's dreams in Genesis to J. W. Dunne's volcano and the Lindbergh dream study, precognitive dreams have haunted sleepers for millennia. Here is the record, the experiments, the explanations and what still lingers.
A 1969 prom-night crime, a sleepover dare and a ghost in the mirror. How the 2005 Urban Legend sequel works, who made it, how it ends, and where the Bloody Mary mirror ritual it borrows really comes from.
A hut on chicken legs, a fence of glowing skulls and a witch who flies in a mortar. Here is the classic Baba Yaga story, how its tellings differ across the Slavic world, and why this witch refuses to be simply good or evil.
Many people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison decades before his actual death in 2013. Here is what they recall, what the record shows, how memory science explains it, and the stranger theories that keep the story alive.
In 2013 a horror film borrowed the name of a remote Utah ranch famous for cattle mutilations, glowing orbs and red-eyed creatures. Here is how the movie relates to the ranch's documented history, and what is still open.
From the Washington radar sightings of 1952 to the Condon Report that closed it, here is how the Air Force's long-running UFO investigation worked, what its 12,618 files show, and why 701 cases still carry the label unidentified.
A gaunt giant that grows with every meal and is never full. Here is where the wendigo comes from, how Cree and Ojibwe traditions describe it, the troubled history of 'wendigo psychosis', and how fiction rewrote the legend.
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