Topic
Ghosts & Apparitions
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Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt is a ghostly host that storms across the sky on winter nights. Depending on the region, it is led by Wotan,…
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Jiko Bukken
In Japan, jiko bukken are apartments and houses where someone died violently or alone. They rent for less, are hard to fill, and reflect…
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Angels of Mons
In August 1914, angels or phantom archers were said to have protected British soldiers during the retreat from Mons. The legend began with a…
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Ankou
In Brittany, the Ankou is Death’s servant: a dead man who spends a year driving a creaking cart through the night, collecting the souls…
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White Lady
White Ladies are ghostly figures of German tradition, often omens of death. The newest is said to haunt the Ebersberg Forest near Munich, a…
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The Drummer of Tedworth – Haunting or Hoax? An analysis of England’s first poltergeist.
Wiltshire, 1662: a magistrate takes a travelling beggar’s drum away — and afterwards his house drums for two years. Out of nowhere. The “Drummer…
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Europe’s Oldest Recorded Haunting — And the Man It Destroyed (Bingen, 858)
In the year 858, the Annals of Fulda — one of the most important historical sources for the East Frankish kingdom — record an…
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Lady Midday – The Deadliest Ghost Appears in the Brightest Light | The Real Myth Behind THE WITCHER: 4 Monsters explained
Geralt calls her a “Noonwraith.” The Poles call her Południca. And in Lusatia she was feared as the Noon Woman — sickle in hand.…
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Hitchhiking Ghost: The White Lady of the Ebersberg Forest, Bavaria, Germany
Forty minutes east of Munich lies one of the largest unbroken forests in Germany — ninety square kilometres, with not a single settlement to…
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The Lake That Bleeds: The Dark Truth Behind Scandinavia’s Drowning Spirit (Part 1)
For more than a thousand years, the lakes, rivers, and millponds of Scandinavia have been haunted by a creature that has no fixed shape.…