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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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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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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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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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 documented what they…
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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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The Bela Lugosi Mirror: Hollywood History or Cursed Object?
A Las Vegas museum draws crowds to Dracula's haunted mirror, but the paper trail tells a very different story.
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Sailing to the Indefinite Shore: The Dreams That Foretold Lincoln’s Fate
How a melancholy president read his own nightmares as maps of what was coming, and why history still argues about them
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Friend-of-a-Friend Urban Legends: Why Scary Stories Sound True
Someone at work told you a story last week. A colleague's neighbor found a stranger hiding under her car in a parking garage, reaching up…
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