local history

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• Random Christmas 2022

14# The Twelve Days of Christmas

3 years ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

13# O Tannenbaum – here another song that has very little to do with Christmas!

3 years ago Leo S

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Legend of the Nisse and Tomte – Scandinavian domestic sprites and their modern counterparts that you don’t expect

3 years ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

11# The humble origins of Silent Night

3 years ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

9# The true story behind White Christmas

3 years ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

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

3 years ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

3# Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 🎶

3 years ago Nathan

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• Random Christmas 2022

2# Sleigh rides…in July 🎶

3 years ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2022

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

3 years ago Nathan

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• Travel

The mysterious Gate of The Gods in Hayu Marca, Peru

3 years ago Ivan

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• Food

The long, controversy story of cheese on Apple Pie

3 years ago Leo S

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• Travel

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

3 years ago Danijel90

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• Travel

The Nykur of Sørvágsvatn, Faroe Islands

3 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

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

3 years ago Danijel90

4 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

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

3 years ago Leo S

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• Travel

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

4 years ago Nathan

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

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

4 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• History

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

4 years ago Nathan

5 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

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

4 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Myths and Legends

Aluxes: the Goblins of the Mayan Folklore

4 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• Myths and Legends

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

4 years ago Danijel90

5 min read

• History

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

4 years ago Leo S

4 min read

• History

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

4 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

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

4 years ago Leo S

5 min read

• Myths and Legends

The Story of ‘Syrenka Warszawska’ – the Warsaw Mermaid

4 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Food

Kupi Khop – Indonesia’s Upside-Down Coffee

4 years ago Robin

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

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

4 years ago Danijel90

5 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Lilly Gray, “the victim of the beast 666”

4 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Abandoned Places

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

4 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

Eldon Hole, one of the Seven Wonders of the Peak

4 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

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

4 years ago Danijel90

3 min read

• History

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

4 years ago Adam

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• Travel

Knucker Hole, the home of an ancient Sussex Dragon

4 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Myths and Legends

Stikini, the owl witches of Seminole folklore

4 years ago Adam

3 min read

• Abandoned Places

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

4 years ago Leo S

1 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

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

4 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

The dramatic history of Bengtskär Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries

4 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Vormsi Cemetery: one of the most unique cemeteries in Estonia

4 years ago Ivan

7 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Yūrei: the Ghosts of Japan

4 years ago Pavel

3 min read

• Myths and Legends

Hodag: the outlandish story of Wisconsin’s mythical beast

4 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

Ungru Manor: the gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

4 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• Travel

Rynek Underground: following the traces of Kraków’s identity

4 years ago Adam