Beginning in early April 1986 the people in and around the little known Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began to experience a series of strange events revolving around sightings of a mysterious creature described as a large, dark, and headless man…
In 1858, a 138-foot long, 385-ton wooden brig called the Black Hawk, built by Stevens and Presley of Ohio City, sailed from Detroit, Michigan to Liverpool, England, laden with very strange cargo. Down in the hold, stowed away among the…
The highland mountain ranges in Scotland are wild and magnificent places that attract many international visitors, but their slopes have a darker side that has terrified many people throughout the years. It is claimed that the mountains are haunted. With…
This Jersey Devil, also known as the Leeds Devil, is said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States. This cryptid is often described as a kangaroo-like creature, with the head of a goat, horns, large wings,…
The tale of the Mothman begins back in the 1960s in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where over the course of 13 months it allegedly appeared to multiple people and even heralded the fatal collapse of the city’s Silver Bridge in…
Legends of large hairy humanoid creatures lurking in the backwoods of the world isn’t a modern phenomena by any means. Our ancestors have documented encounters in their stories and oral traditions for hundreds of years with some beliefs orientating thousands…
The legend of Bigfoot is a famous one, as is that of the yeti that supposedly lives in the Himalayas, but far fewer people have heard of a similar figure spotted many times in the area around the Joshua Tree…
One of the most curious and persistent of all paranormal creatures is Spring Heeled Jack. The figure’s presence was first noted in September 1837 when he assaulted four separate persons, three of them women, at locations in and around London…
The Melon Heads are a group of small cannibals with unusually large heads who are said to roam certain forests in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. According to the most common legend, the Melon Heads were once children who suffered from hydrocephalus,…
The beast The Devil Monkey is a cryptozoological giant monkey reported on June 26, 1997 in Dunkinsville, Ohio. It was reportedly around 5 ft tall and had long, pointed ears. It appeared to be grey, had large, dark eyes, long…