Just a girl who walks dogs and hangs out in cemeteries. Stay feral, y'all.
In the Romanian town of Câmpina stands a strange little castle built from grief. It has towers, hidden symbolism, rooms designed for séances and spaces that seem intended to blur the boundary between the physical and spiritual worlds. But perhaps the strangest thing about Iulia Hașdeu Castle is the reason it exists at all. Its... Continue Reading →
In October 1955, William Roe set out alone into the mountains of British Columbia. He had no idea that before the afternoon was over, he would find himself sitting only feet away from a creature he could neither comfortably call human nor animal and that the experience would remain with him strongly enough that he... Continue Reading →
In the spring of 1662, in the quiet Wiltshire countryside of England, John Mompesson could hardly have imagined that confiscating a wandering man's drum would lead to one of the most famous haunting stories of the seventeenth century. Mompesson was a landowner, magistrate and local official living with his family at Zouch Manor in Tedworth,... Continue Reading →
Across the vast Arctic landscape of Nunavut, the sea has always been a source of life - and a place deserving enormous respect. For generations, Inuit oral traditions have told of strange beings inhabiting the cold waters along the shoreline and beneath the sea ice. Among the most mysterious are the Qallupilluit. Stories about the... Continue Reading →
Borley Rectory stood in the quiet village of Borley in Essex, England, an imposing Victorian home that would eventually earn a chilling nickname: “the most haunted house in England.” Long before paranormal investigators arrived with notebooks and cameras, however, the people who lived within its walls were already telling strange stories. The rectory was built... Continue Reading →
In the early years of the 19th century, along the waterways near what is now Wallaceburg, Ontario, stood the farm of John T. McDonald and his family. It was an isolated place surrounded by woods, marshes and farmland, the sort of landscape where darkness could feel especially deep once the sun disappeared. Toward the end... Continue Reading →
For generations, Newfoundland fishermen have returned from the Atlantic with stories of things they couldn't explain - enormous shapes beneath their boats, serpentine bodies breaking the surface and creatures unlike anything they recognized from a lifetime spent on the water. But during the summer of 1953, something particularly strange happened. Over the course of just... Continue Reading →
Hidden among the forests of southwestern New Brunswick is a lake with a name that sounds almost too peaceful for the stories attached to it. Lake Utopia, located in Charlotte County near the town of St. George, stretches for roughly seven kilometres through the landscape. People swim there, fish there, paddle across its waters and... Continue Reading →
Old Yellow Top is one of Ontario’s strangest - and surprisingly old - Sasquatch legends. Unlike many cryptids that spring from a single dramatic encounter, reports of this creature around Cobalt in northeastern Ontario stretched across more than six decades. What supposedly distinguished it from an ordinary Sasquatch was a very noticeable patch or mane... Continue Reading →
There is a lonely hillside cemetery in rural Clay County, Indiana, where an old staircase has inspired generations of people to ask one unsettling question: if you could learn exactly how you were going to die, would you really want to know? Known as 100 Steps Cemetery, Carpenter Cemetery, and Cloverland Cemetery, the burial ground... Continue Reading →
