The Boggart: The Spirit That Follows You Even When You Flee Your Own Home
George Cheetham had finally had enough. The disturbances in his house had gone on for months, and now his family’s […]
The Gorgons: The Three Sisters Whose Stare Could Turn You to Stone
A severed head, eyes still open, snakes still moving where hair should be. Carry it the wrong way and it
The Minotaur: The Bull-Headed Beast of Crete and the Real Labyrinth Beneath Knossos
Every nine years, seven young men and seven young women were sent from Athens to Crete. They were never meant
The Owlman of Cornwall: The Night Two Sisters Screamed and Ran From Mawnan Church
On the evening of 17 April 1976, two sisters on a family holiday ran screaming from the churchyard of St
The Upyr: The Forgotten Slavic Vampire That Came Centuries Before Dracula
In 1370, a cleric in Moscow recorded the case of a merchant who had died during a famine. Villagers had
The Strigoi: Romania’s Original Vampire and the Ancient Terror That Still Walks Its Villages
In 2004, in the Romanian village of Marotinu de Sus, a family dug up their recently buried uncle. They cut
The Gwiber: Wales’ Deadly Winged Serpent and the Legends That Still Echo Through Its Valleys
A shepherd is walking through a valley in North Wales when he notices the livestock have stopped grazing. The river
The Redcap: The Blood-Soaked Goblin of the Anglo-Scottish Borders
Somewhere in the ruins of a castle on the Anglo-Scottish border, something small and ancient crouches in the dark. It
The Cyclops: The One-Eyed Giant of Ancient Greece and the Eerie Truth Behind the Legend
Something was in the cave on the coast of Sicily. Something enormous. And when Odysseus and his men crept inside
The Gorbals Vampire: The Night Glasgow’s Children Marched Into a Cemetery to Hunt a Monster
September 23rd, 1954. Glasgow’s Southern Necropolis. The steelworks are burning at the far end of the cemetery, throwing tongues of