On a bright African morning, a strange craft was descending beyond the playground. Sixty children and many adults witnessed the encounter. Over three decades later, the children—now adults—continue to tell remarkably similar stories. Whether interpreted as evidence of extraterrestrial contact, a psychological phenomenon, or something else entirely,...
I've mostely been writing about cryptids, folklore tales and conspiracy theories. Today however, I'll be writing about my still ongoing-journey back to Earth, with a dash of conspiracy theory.
For more than a century, people along the Pacific Northwest coast have reported encounters with something large, serpentine, and unexplained moving beneath the water. Scientists remain skeptical. Locals remain convinced: there is something in the waters.
In Japan, there are lenty of legends of "living dolls", dolls that "acquire independent spirits as children play with them and talk to them." If a so-called living doll is mistreated or discarded by its owner, it is said that it may seek revenge against them, driving the human into madness.
There are certain stories on the Internet that feel temporary. Creepy-pastas and hoaxes for example. They are short lived mysteries that spread for a few weeks, and then they disappear into the digital noise.
It was supposed to be a quiet drive home. On the night of September 19, 1961, Betty Hill and Barney Hill were making their way back to Portsmouth after a short vacation in Montreal. They had chosen the scenic route, a long, winding stretch through the White Mountains. It was late. The road was nearly empty. The sky above them...
Sometime in the 12th century, two children where found close to the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England. The children, a brother and sister, looked, at first glance, like any other children lost in the woods; thin, frightened, disoriented. But something about them was unmistakably wrong. Their skin was green.
You don't see them directly. Not at first. They appear in the corner of your vision. A movement where nothing should move. A shape where there should only be darkness. And when you turn your head to look… They're gone.
There are stories that fade with time. And then there are stories that linger in the minds of humans to the end of time. The legend of the Headless Horseman belongs to the latter.