Every ghost story on Earth, checked against the record.
556 legends. For each one we separate what the documents actually say from what people tell each other after dark.
Bella Aurora: The Black Bull Legend of Casa 1028, Quito
In the record Bullfights were regularly held at what is now Plaza de la Independencia in colonial and 19th-century Quito. A colonial-era house known locally as…
Maria Labo: The Philippine Aswang Legend of the Cannibal Mother
Maria Labo doesn't lurk in a forest or wait under a bridge. She's a mother — an ordinary overseas worker who came home from Dubai, Canada,…
Khara-Khoto: The Black City’s Ghost Soldiers and Cursed Well
Ruins don't usually come with a warning label, but Khara-Khoto's has held for six centuries: don't dig in the wells, and don't stay after dark. Khara-Khoto…
Kalu Kumaraya: Sri Lanka’s Incubus Prince of Pathaha Pokuna
Villagers near Udugampola, Sri Lanka, still point to a stone-lined pond called Pathaha Pokuna and lower their voices. Kalu Kumaraya (කළු කුමාරයා), “the Black Prince,” is…
The Ghost of Uniondale: South Africa’s Vanishing Hitchhiker
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El Tunche: The Whistling Spirit of the Peruvian Amazon
A whistle cuts through the jungle darkness — high, thin, and closer than it should be. Whatever you do, the guides in Peru's Amazon will tell…
El Familiar: Argentina’s Devil-Pact Sugar Mill Legend
El Familiar is a legend from the sugar-producing provinces of northwestern Argentina — mainly Tucumán, Jujuy, Salta, and Catamarca — that says a sugar mill's fortune…
Zheztyrnak: Kazakh Folklore’s Copper-Clawed Demon
Zheztyrnak — жезтырнақ in Kazakh, literally “copper claw” — is the shapeshifting demon of the Kazakh steppe who appears to lone hunters as a beautiful woman…
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