Why does the Loch Ness Monster keep asking Chef's parents for tree fiddy? How the South Park running gag works, and the strange real history of Nessie sightings and hoaxes that the joke quietly mirrors.
From Raymond Moody's Life After Life to modern survivor memoirs and the skeptics who answer them, here is how the near-death experience shelf grew, what each kind of book offers, and how to read a dramatic account with a clear head.
Bunkers for the elite, lizard people, aliens and runways said to spell out a symbol. Here is where Denver airport's legends came from, what is actually under the terminal, and why the stories refuse to land.
The voice in your headphones asks you to feel a rope hanging above your chest and pull. A guide to astral projection guided meditation: where the idea came from, how sessions work, a sample script, and what the record actually shows.
Why do so many people remember 'Berenstein' Bears, a monocle on Mr. Monopoly and a line Darth Vader never said? Where the Mandela Effect got its name, the best-known examples, and what memory research suggests is going on.
A salt flat, a 12,000-foot runway and a fleet of unmarked jets out of Las Vegas. Here is what actually sits at Groom Lake, what the CIA declassified about it, and how the spy-plane base became the world's most famous UFO legend.
The Weeping Woman of Mexican folklore is more than a ghost story. Here is what her name means, how the legend is usually told, where she is said to appear, what her curse is, and why parents still warn children about her.
The Bermuda Triangle has no official border, yet almost anyone can point to it. This piece covers where the corners sit, how big the area is, who drew the first lines, and what the record says about the ships and planes lost there.
A real massacre, a family who fled within a month, and a bestselling book that turned a Long Island house into the most famous haunted address in America. Here is what is documented, what was claimed and what the films added.
Two sailors jump off a vanishing warship in 1943 and land in a 1984 desert. Here is the plot, cast, troubled production, ending and filming locations of the 1984 film, and what the record says about the legend behind it.