El Silbón: the Venezuelan ghost whose whistle lies about distance, and why the protections hurt him
In the cattle-ranching plains of Venezuela and Colombia, a ghost has been walking since the 1850s.
Black Shuck: the phantom dog of East Anglia, and the 1577 church attacks that left scorch marks you can still touch today
On 4 August 1577, during a violent thunderstorm, a black dog burst into St. Mary's Church in Bungay, Suffolk, and killed two parishioners on their knees...
The Adze: the firefly vampire of the Ewe people, and why witchcraft accusation is scarier than any monster
The Adze is a legend where the real horror is not the creature.
The Gashadokuro: what happens when hundreds starve and nobody buries them
In Japanese folklore, when too many people die without proper burial rites, the bones accumulate.
El Caleuche: the ghost ship of Chiloé, and why the sorcerers who crewed it were put on trial in 1880
In the Chiloé Archipelago off southern Chile, a ghost ship surfaces on certain nights, blazing with music and light.
The old stories were warnings.