Soapy Smith’s Ghost: The Gold Rush Con Man Who Never Left Skagway
He ran the town for barely three months, yet the legend, and maybe the ghost, refuses to check out
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Bear Creek Swamp: The Alabama Legend a Sheriff’s Report Couldn’t Kill
Twenty-one dolls, a Halloween prank, and a legend that grew anyway.
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Akhlut Legend: The Wolf-Orca Hybrid That Hunts the Bering Sea
The popular hybrid image is a modern invention. The original tradition was subtler, and stranger.
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Qalupalik Myth: The Sea-Ice Monster of Arctic Inuit Folklore
A green-skinned child-snatcher that is really a lesson about thin ice, now being reclaimed by Inuit storytellers
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Red Onion Saloon: The Haunted Gold Rush Brothel of Skagway
Behind the famous ghost named Lydia are the real lives of the women the Gold Rush used and forgot
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The Dead Children’s Playground: Huntsville’s Swing Set That Moves Itself
Two very different tragedies compete to explain the same haunted swing set. Neither one is comforting.
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The Alabama White Thang: How a Small “Thang” Grew Into an Eight-Foot Monster
The Alabama White Thang is a legendary cryptid whose story has grown from a small, four-legged animal to an eight-foot monster over…
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The Boyington Oak: The Tree a Dying Man Promised Would Prove Him Innocent
Two other people confessed to the murder on their deathbeds. The man Alabama hanged for it never got to hear either one.
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Sturdivant Hall: The Banker Who Vowed Never to Leave Selma
He swore he would clear his name or never leave the house. He never cleared his name.
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Cry Baby Hollow: The Alabama Bridge With Three Ghost Stories and No Answers
Investigators brought cameras and microphones to this Hartselle bridge. They left with nothing they could prove and nothing they could explain away…
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