Laura Wright
Their owners are documented. Their architecture is photographed. Their tragedies are repeated in books, television programs and...
Folklore and Legends
Folklore from around the world.
Wales has no shortage of creatures hiding in its folklore. There are spectral hounds, troublesome fairies, water...
The vampire did not begin with Dracula. It did not begin in Transylvania, and it certainly did...
Some ghost stories begin with murder. Others begin with love. The old Appalachian tale of Brahm and...
Sometimes a ghost story survives while almost everything that could explain it disappears. No photographs. No newspaper...
There are some Appalachian ghost stories that were never intended to be subtle. Old Tom is one...
Few houses in America have accumulated as much mythology as the Winchester Mystery House. There are staircases...
New Orleans possesses an unusual talent for turning history into legend. Sometimes the history is already strange...
A car is supposed to be a machine. Steel, glass, rubber, wiring and fuel. It has no...
Local history has a way of remembering people whom official history forgets. They may never have held...
