The Navajo Skinwalker: Fearsome Sorcerers and Shapeshifters.
Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast relates a short history of the Navajo legend of the skinwalker. While he covers a lot of ground in his piece, it seems remiss that he... The post The Navajo...
View ArticleDid Jesus Flee To Japan And Become A Rice Farmer?
This monumental twist seems as plausible and satisfactory of a possible end to Jesus’s life as any. The BBC investigates: A Japanese legend claims that Jesus escaped Jerusalem and made his way... The...
View ArticleDid Ancient Hairy Hobbits Once Inhabit A Japanese Island?
Cryptomundo discusses evidence, including tiny tools and bizarre pit dwellings, that supports legends of tiny elfin people living on the island of Hokkaido: A commonly occurring phenomenon seen in the...
View ArticleLegendary Monsters Of Africa
Mental Floss has a nice rundown of supernatural monstrosities of traditional African folklore, including ghost apes, flying reptiles, and, at right, the one-eyed Popobawa bat and airborne vampiric pest...
View ArticleHumboldt Museum: Native American Tale of “Red-Haired Giants” Slain by Tribe
Atlas Obscura travels to Nevada’s Humboldt Museum and hears what is purported to be a legend of the Paiute tribe concerning a race of warlike, cave-dwelling, red-haired giants who were slain by... The...
View ArticleSwiss Santa Claus’s Terrifying Alter-Ego Schmutzli
The harsh Germanic Santa Claus equivalent known as Krampus has seen his celebrity rise in recent years, but he’s not Northern Europe’s only the only psychologically scarring Christmas figure....
View ArticleWas Santa Claus A Stoned Magic Mushroom Shaman?
This theory may seem far-fetched but explains all; he is garbed in red and white to match the toadstool mushroom. Mother Nature Network reveals: According to one theory, the story of Santa and... The...
View ArticleA Classic Prank From Edgar Allan Poe And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Regardless of whether or not this actually happened, it would be great to attempt to device a 2013-appropriate version. io9 writes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was supposedly the orchestrator of a cruel......
View ArticleYeti Theme Park Planned In Siberian Mountains
Your plans for next Christmas vacation? How does cryptozoology-themed family fun on a remote Russian mountain sound? Via TwoCrowsParanormal: Sunny Siberia is adding a new attraction: a theme park...
View ArticleMythic Viking Navigation Crystal May Have Been Found In Shipwreck
The first ever found remnant of a sunstone, a crystal which legend says was behind the Vikings’ incredible feats of oceanic navigation? Via CBS News: A rough, whitish block recovered from an... The...
View ArticleDid Giants Once Live In Underground Cities Across America?
Mysterious Universe notes that a string of news stories around the turn of the twentieth century reported archaeological discoveries of hidden subterranean habitats and strangely large human remains:...
View ArticleMask Associated With Sasquatch Legend Returned to Native Tribe After 75 Years
J.W. Burns is accused of having stolen the mask. Hunting for an elusive sasquatch mask revered by a British Columbia First Nation has been a 16-year journey for James Leon, taking him... The post Mask...
View ArticleVoodoo Village of Memphis, TN
Welcome to Memphis, Tennessee! Home of… Graceland, Beale Street, Wolfchase Galleria… and Voodoo Village This one is for Matt Staggs. When you live in the Memphis area eventually you hear about...
View ArticleOur World’s Hidden Creatures
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