John Dee’s Obsidian Mirror: The Artifact That Spoke to Angels
A looted Aztec relic became an Elizabethan magician's telephone to heaven, and its true origin stayed hidden for centuries.
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Alaska Triangle Disappearances: Vortexes, Geography, and the Unknown
Sorting the debunked conspiracies from the one explanation that actually fits the evidence
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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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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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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 the decades. Discover…
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The Phantom Cow of Goat Island: San Francisco’s Strangest Haunting
Before the Bay Bridge, before statehood, a butchered animal left a ghost that still moans beneath the traffic. Yerba Buena Island keeps its oldest secret…
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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 generations. The Vermo...
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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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Flathead Lake Monster: Montana’s Deep-Water Cryptid Legend
Flathead Lake sits in the Mission Valley of northwestern Montana, cradled between the Mission Mountains to the east and the Salish Mountains to the west.…
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