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The waters southwest of Ireland were dangerous in the summer of 1915. Europe was consumed by the First World War, German submarines were hunting Allied shipping in the Atlantic, and sailors aboard merchant vessels knew that an unseen U-boat could be lurking beneath the waves at almost any moment. On July 30, 1915, one of... Continue Reading →
The story of Dragon Man begins more than ninety years ago, with an extraordinary discovery that almost disappeared forever. In 1933, in the city of Harbin in northeastern China, a Chinese labourer reportedly discovered an unusually large and remarkably well-preserved human skull. At the time, the region was under Japanese occupation, and according to the... Continue Reading →
Deep within the Amazon rainforest, there are places where the trees grow so densely that daylight struggles to reach the forest floor. Rivers twist through thousands of kilometres of wilderness, strange cries echo through the canopy, and animals can disappear into the vegetation only a few metres away. It is exactly the kind of place... Continue Reading →
In the summer of 1764, something began hunting people in the remote countryside of south-central France. The old province of Gévaudan was a rugged place of mountains, dense forests, isolated farms and scattered villages. Today, much of the region falls within Lozère and Haute-Loire. Wolves were hardly unknown there. Shepherds and farmers lived alongside them... Continue Reading →
It was early June 1993 when Desmond “Joe” Warren and his girlfriend found themselves parked along a quiet gravel road in Renfrew County, Ontario. They had been visiting friends at a party and eventually pulled their vehicle into the entrance of an old logging trail along McLeod Road, between the communities of Springtown and Burnstown.... Continue Reading →
The legend of the Waheela comes from the vast northern wilderness of Canada, particularly the Northwest Territories and the mysterious Nahanni region. It tells of an enormous wolf-like creature that supposedly roams remote forests and mountain valleys far from human settlements. According to the legend, the Waheela resembles a wolf at first glance, but anyone... Continue Reading →
Long before the roads and buildings of modern Leonardtown, Maryland, there were thick forests, scattered farms and small settlements where life could be difficult and uncertainty was often frightening. It was in this landscape, sometime around the late seventeenth century, that legend places a mysterious woman named Moll Dyer. She is remembered today as the... Continue Reading →
In the rolling countryside of sixteenth-century Ayrshire, Scotland, lived a woman named Bessie Dunlop. She wasn't wealthy or powerful, and there was nothing about her position in society that should have ensured anyone remembered her nearly 450 years later. She was the wife of a farmer or herdsman, living an ordinary rural life in a... Continue Reading →
Located within Petroglyphs Provincial Park in Woodview, Ontario, hold Canada’s largest known concentration of Indigenous rock carvings. Etched into a broad shelf of white crystalline limestone bedrock, the site features more than 900 ancient carvings depicting animals, humans, and sacred spiritual symbols. Known to the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people as Kinomagewapkong, or "The Teaching Rocks," this... Continue Reading →
In Navajo mythology, skin-walkers, also known as Yenaldooshi, are witches who wear coyote skins and travel at night. They appear naked, wearing only masks and jewelry, and tend to live in caves, storing recognizable human heads on shelves. Yenaldooshi gain power by killing a close relative, sometimes even a sibling. They are known to desecrate... Continue Reading →
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