legends

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The curious history behind some popular Halloween traditions

6 years ago Leo S

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• Lighthouses of the world

Ballycotton Lighthouse, one of only two black lighthouses in Ireland

6 years ago Nathan

5 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Some Halloween urban legends that refuse to die

6 years ago Leo S

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• Travel

Obake Kaidan: a flight of this “ghost staircase” has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down….

6 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Abandoned Places

Sanatorio Durán: one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica

6 years ago Ivan

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• People, mysteries and stories

New Jersey Devil’s Tree: an allegedly cursed tree that represents a town’s reckoning with a racist past.

6 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Music

Hellhound on my trail: the lost guitar of Robert Johnson

6 years ago Danijel90

7 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

Old Charleston Jail: criminal, pirates and war prisoners~

6 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

Saint Marcel, a castle haunted by hooded souls

6 years ago arthurodas

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The mystery of Brown Mountain Lights

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Buried Alive: the creepy true legend of Julia Legare

6 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Travel

England’s Bolton Strid: the most dangerous stretch of water in the world

6 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

Pozzo del Diavolo: was this cave created by Hercules’s wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?

6 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The bedside ghost of Edenton’s Cupola House~

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The ghosts of Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Roosevelt Island Lighthouse: a little lighthouse in New York surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction

6 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Travel

Anundshög – the Sweden’s largest burial mound, allegedly belonging to a mythical king

6 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• Myths and Legends

The Tar River Banshee~

6 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Elizabeth: the “Witch” of Union-Udell Cemetery, Ypsilanti – Michigan

6 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Food

George Crum: the man who invented the potato chip

6 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Abandoned Places

The legend of the haunted house known as Villa Clara

6 years ago Anya

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The curious folktale of Blowing Rock, North Carolina

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Stiff lighthouse: the oldest lighthouse in Brittany that is still working

6 years ago Anya

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The (real?) story of the Surrency ghosts – Georgia

6 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Souter Lighthouse | England

6 years ago Ivan

5 min read

• Myths and Legends

Bride-and-Seek: an urban legend and the origins of a Ghost Bride

6 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• Travel

Crater Lake: the deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in myth.

6 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

Kejonuma Leisure Land: a quaint amusement park that now lays rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

6 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The ghost of Alice Riley and the legend spanish moss

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Travel

The Aqueduct of Segovia, a glorious Roman heritage in Spain

6 years ago Nathan

7 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

432 Abercorn Street: one of Savannah’s most haunted houses between history and urban legends

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Kallur Lighthouse and the magnificent Kalsoy – Faroe Islands

6 years ago Ivan

2 min read

• History

Robert the Bruce: the never-say-die king (and the spider)

6 years ago Robin

3 min read

• Travel

Pidhirtsi Castle: one of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the Ukrainian’s eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted!

6 years ago Ivan

5 min read

• History

The colonial era ghosts that still haunt the streets of Yorktown, the landmark village of the American Revolution

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Myths and Legends

Vrykolakas: the greek bloodless Vampire.

6 years ago Leo S

5 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, the mysterious disappearance of Muriel Trevenard and its haunted history

6 years ago Nathan

5 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Everything you need to know about New Orleans’ Cities of the Dead~

6 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The witches of Benevento and their walnut tree Sabbats

6 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The haunted tales of Huguenot Cemetery | St. Augustine | Florida

6 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Travel

Holy Well of St. Madron – Cornwall

6 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The haunted Orphanage in Marquette – Michigan that is now an apartment building ~

6 years ago Leo S