local history

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• Random Christmas 2022

4# Jingle Bells or…The One Horse Open Sleigh? 🎶

1 hour ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

3# Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 🎶

1 day ago Nathan

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• Random Christmas 2022

2# Sleigh rides…in July 🎶

2 days ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

1# Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, had a very shiny nose…🎶

3 days ago Nathan

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of December: holidays, folklore and traditions

3 days ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

I bùr ad Sant’Andrè – The dark nights of Saint Andrew and other stories about November 30

4 days ago randomcollabs

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• Travel

The mysterious Gate of The Gods in Hayu Marca, Peru

6 days ago Ivan

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• Food

The long, controversy story of cheese on Apple Pie

1 week ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

November 22 (or 24) – Matrena’s and a legend of Winter’s arrival

1 week ago Danijel90

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• Travel

Hum, the world’s smallest town with only two streets and three rows of houses

2 weeks ago Danijel90

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• Travel

The Nykur of Sørvágsvatn, Faroe Islands

2 weeks ago Nathan

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• People, mysteries and stories

The black eyed child: the obscure story behind the legend that roams Cannock Chase

3 weeks ago Danijel90

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The truth behind ghost lights of Colorado’s Silver Cliff Cemetery

3 weeks ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Martinmas, St. Martin’s Summer, Indian Summer, Old Wives’ Summer…what is it?

3 weeks ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

November 10: it’s time for Mārtiņi!

3 weeks ago Leo S

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• Travel

Trøllkonufingur, “troll woman’s” finger of Faroe Islands

4 weeks ago Nathan

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Beaver’s Moon: November Full Moon

4 weeks ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Day: what is the story behind this British observance?

4 weeks ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

November 3: celebrate Sandwich Day and its history!

1 month ago randomcollabs

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Some fascinating facts you probably don’t know about the Day of the Dead

1 month ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of November: holidays, fun facts and folklore

1 month ago Leo S

5 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Bobbing for Apples: History and how to keep this ancient Halloween tradition alive

1 month ago Leo S

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• History

Necropants and other extraordinary tales of 17th-century Icelandic sorcery

1 month ago Nathan

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• People, mysteries and stories

The many mysteries (and the truth) of Kay’s Cross

1 month ago Leo S

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• Myths and Legends

Aluxes: the Goblins of the Mayan Folklore

1 month ago Ivan

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• Myths and Legends

Montana’s Shunka Warak’in, the Rocky Mountain Hyena

1 month ago Danijel90

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• History

Belle Isle has been an amusement park, a train station, and a mall…all of them haunted!

1 month ago Leo S

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• History

Bali: land of homes designed for harmony….and to keep demons at bay

1 month ago Leo S

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The Girl in the Shadow Box of Bellefontaine Cemetery: an 1890s love affair

2 months ago Leo S

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• Myths and Legends

The Story of ‘Syrenka Warszawska’ – the Warsaw Mermaid

2 months ago Leo S

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• Food

Kupi Khop – Indonesia’s Upside-Down Coffee

2 months ago Robin

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• People, mysteries and stories

Baba Anujka, the story of the world’s oldest serial killer

2 months ago Danijel90

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Lilly Gray, “the victim of the beast 666”

2 months ago Leo S

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• Abandoned Places

Bird Creek School: If you write your name on the board in this abandoned school, it will disappear

2 months ago Leo S

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• Travel

Eldon Hole, one of the Seven Wonders of the Peak

2 months ago Leo S

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Timbac Mummies of the Philippines: “fire mummies” housed in mountainside caves.

2 months ago Danijel90

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• History

The mystery of the 2,500-years-old Ballachulish Goddess

2 months ago Adam

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• Travel

Knucker Hole, the home of an ancient Sussex Dragon

2 months ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Mabon (?) and the Autumn Equinox

2 months ago Adam

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• Myths and Legends

Stikini, the owl witches of Seminole folklore

3 months ago Adam

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• Abandoned Places

Old Diplomat Hotel of Baguio: one of the most haunted places in the Philippines~

3 months ago Leo S

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• Lighthouses of the world

Telise Marker Towers: two strange cones that are actually a system of old nautical navigation beacons

3 months ago Ivan