Laura Wright
Few supernatural figures possess a voice as recognizable as the banshee. She comes in the night. Sometimes...
Folklore and Legends
Folklore from around the world.
There are punishments worse than death. In Greek mythology, Erysichthon of Thessaly discovered one of them. He...
In 1598, a French tailor was condemned for crimes so horrifying that authorities attempted to erase him...
Deep in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, near the community of Pocahontas in Tazewell County, there once...
A wealthy Virginia landowner named McKim seemed to possess almost everything a man of his time could...
True crime is not a modern obsession. Long before television documentaries reconstructed murders in painstaking detail, long...
According to an old Irish belief, some people entered the world possessing a strange and frightening gift....
Among the old ghost stories of Scotland, few were once as famous as the tale of Pearlin’...
In the Covent Garden portion of London, a tavern once stood that gained a reputation for causing...
Somewhere beneath a mountain, a king is sleeping. His sword remains beside him. His warriors sleep nearby....
