Old stories. Long shadows.
A woman in white weeps by the water at night, calling for the children she drowned. Follow the Weeping Woman from an Aztec omen of conquest through colonial Mexico to the many versions told across the Americas today.
From the ghost in the school bathroom to a train station that appears on no map, Japan's modern legends are vivid, strange and full of rules. Here is what each story says, where it came from and what the record shows.
A grey-cloaked woman combing her hair, a cry in the night, a death in the house by morning. Follow the banshee myth from Irish keening traditions and medieval texts to Victorian collectors and modern retellings.
Foolish fire, corpse candle, hinkypunk, luz mala: the wandering marsh light has many names. Where the will-o'-the-wisp legend comes from, how it changes around the world, and what science has proposed to explain it.
