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The Karadedeler Incident: Turkey’s Found-Footage Legend

A village in northwest Turkey says something was filming them back in January 1989. The Karadedeler Olayı (Karadedeler I...

Corrections & Editorial Transparency

Most ghost-story sites never correct anything. A legend gets written once, a few invented names get bolted onto a real l...

Seili: The Finnish Island Where Nobody Was Sent to Come Back

There's a small island in the Turku archipelago, in southwest Finland, where patients were once told to bring their own ...

Harastølen: Norway’s Abandoned Sanatorium Ghost Story

A window on the fourth floor of Harastølen still has a curtain in it. Nobody has lived in the building since 1991, and t...

Huize Ivicke: The Abandoned Manor Haunting Wassenaar

Behind a rusted gate in Wassenaar, a wealthy suburb wedged between Leiden and The Hague, sits a Danish-style hunting lod...

Aka Manto: The True Story Behind Japan’s Red Cloak Bathroom Spirit

Most Japanese ghost stories give you something to run from. Aka Manto gives you something to answer: a voice from the ne...

Nakagusuku Kogen Hotel: Okinawa’s Abandoned “Cursed” Resort

For nearly half a century, a skeleton of raw concrete stood on a hilltop in Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa, roughly fifty metre...

This Man: The Face Thousands Swore They Dreamed About

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Sker House and the Maid of Sker: Wales’s True Ghost Story

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La Befana: The Italian Witch Who Still Hasn’t Found Bethlehem

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