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Creatures, legends and historical hauntings, with sources named and open questions marked as open. Use the tags on each card to browse by series, region or creature.
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The Fire Burns — But the Witch Is Lying | The Invented Tradition From the Alps
Every year on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday, thirty-metre wooden towers are erected across Vorarlberg, Austria — and set ablaze along with a…
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The Bruxa – The Monster With a Thousand Names (The Witcher: 4 monsters and their origin, part 4/4)
The grand finale of our four-part series on the real myths behind the monsters of “The Witcher” takes us away from the Slavic forests…
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Guardian, Devil, Monster: The Leszy’s Lost Face (The Witcher: 4 monsters and their origin, part 2/4)
He’s one of the most iconic creatures in “The Witcher 3”: the Leshen, a towering forest terror with a deer skull and antlers. But…
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Strzyga: From Roman Owl-Demon to Cursed Princess (The Witcher: 4 monsters and their origin, part 3/4)
It’s the very first monster of the Witcher saga – and the moment Geralt became a hero: the striga, a cursed princess who rises…
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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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This German Vampire Doesn’t Bite. It Chews. From Inside the Grave: The Nachzehrer
In 1576, a gravedigger on a plague island in the Venetian lagoon reopened a mass grave. One of the corpses — a woman —…
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Elizabeth Báthory Was Walled In Alive. The Reason Will Disturb You. All about the Blood Countess.
Imagine a bathtub. Stone, or maybe copper. In a cold chamber of a castle high in the Carpathians. Filled not with water — but…
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Why Dracula Was Never About Vlad the Impaler: Vlad Țepeș: Hero, Monster, or Both?
Nuremberg, 1488. A printing press spits out a pamphlet with a woodcut on the cover: a crowned prince dining at a table, surrounded by…
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The Strigoi: Dracula Was Never About Vlad the Impaler.
In January 2004, six men in a Romanian village dug up a dead man. He had been in the ground for six weeks. They…