Alton, Illinois: Smallpox Island and the Tragedies of the Mississippi
The death toll here depends entirely on which sign you happen to read.
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Champ of Lake Champlain: The Monster Legend of New York and Vermont
Lake Champlain is a working lake. Ferries cross it. Sailboats race it. Commercial fishing boats have worked its cold, dark water for…
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St. Elmo, Colorado: Annie Stark’s Eternal Vigil
A reclusive shopkeeper who chased children away with a shotgun still watches over the town she refused to leave.
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Calico, California: The Mojave Mine Guard and Lucy Bell’s Stroll
A dead silver town got a second life from a cereal executive, and its ghosts never got the memo.
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Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia: Pirate Executioners and the Randolph Mansion
One of America's most haunted houses shares its street with the country's first psychiatric hospital.
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Adams, Tennessee: Frontier Violence and the Wrath of the Bell Witch
America’s most famous haunting rests on a single book, and its source manuscript has never surfaced.
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Wood Booger Folklore: Virginia’s Strange Name for a Bigfoot Legend
The name alone tells you something important about the creature's cultural position. In the Virginia and West Virginia highlands, the Bigfoot-type creature...
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The Elephant Killer’s Missing Frill: Rethinking the Emela-Ntouka
A single footprint from 1966 complicates every theory about the Congo's horned swamp beast
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Jerome, Arizona: Cleopatra Hill and the Living Tomb of Cleopatra’s Gold
The hotel’s death toll keeps climbing in retellings, but the math never quite adds up.
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Creepypasta Urban Legends Explained: How Internet Ghost Stories Spread
In 2001, a man named Ted started a blog about a cave near his home. Post after post, he and his friends…
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