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Ali: The Shapeshifting Forest Demon of Georgian Folklore

Deep in the beech forests of the Georgian highlands, herders still warn each other not to answer if something calls thei...

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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