Fearful

In the fall of 1903, the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, was gripped by fear as a winged creature with glowing light pouring from its forehead terrorized the community for five consecutive nights. Wit…

In 1971, two boys digging in their garden in Hexham, England, unearthed a pair of crudely carved stone heads that were small, unsettling, and unlike anything they'd seen before. What followed was a w…

In 2003, researchers tracking a nine foot great white shark off the coast of Bremer Bay, Australia made a chilling discovery when the shark’s tracking device washed ashore without the shark. The data…

Tucked away in the quiet town of Cayuga, Indiana, stands a house that has earned a reputation darker than its peeling walls reveal. Known as Willows Weep, it has been called the most haunted and poss…

Hidden in the shadows of global folklore, the Duende is a small, humanlike creature often described as no taller than two feet, covered in wild hair, sometimes bearded, and frequently seen wearing a …

In 1920, a baby was given something no child should ever receive, fear, delivered by design. What began as a scientific curiosity would become one of the most disturbing experiments in psychological …

Deep in the forests of the Czech Republic stands Houska Castle, a brooding stone fortress with no defensive purpose, no strategic location, and no clear reason for existing. Beneath its crumbling cha…

In 2012, a mysterious entity calling itself Cicada 3301 launched a series of cryptographic puzzles that spanned the internet, the dark web, and even physical locations across the globe. The puzzles, …

Thirteen-year-old Omayra Sánchez spent sixty hours trapped in rising, filthy water. Her legs were pinned by rubble, her voice calm, her death slow and public. When the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted…

On a quiet Sunday night in 1987, Chicago’s airwaves were suddenly hijacked by a masked figure who spoke in static and riddles. Two major TV stations were overtaken without warning, their signals repl…

Tucked away in the Quesnel District Museum in British Columbia sits Mandy, a nearly 100 year old porcelain doll believed by many to be one of Canada’s most haunted objects. Donated in 1991 under unse…

The Falcon Lake Incident is one of Canada’s most well-documented and mysterious UFO encounters, occurring on May 20, 1967, near Falcon Lake in Manitoba. Amateur geologist Stefan Michalak claimed he e…

Beneath a sunless sky in the restless waters of the Strait of Malacca, the ghost ship SS Ourang Medan drifted silently, its crew frozen in death with expressions twisted in unspeakable terror. No dis…

First reported in 1887, the Michigan Dogman is said to be a seven foot tall creature with the body of a man and the head of a dog, haunting the forests and backroads of northern Michigan. Witnesses a…

Deep within the coastal caves of Scotland, Alexander Sawney Bean is said to have led a clan of over forty people who survived for decades by ambushing travelers and feasting on their flesh. The Bean …

In the early 20th century, young women working in watch factories were told to paint luminous numbers using radium based paint, often licking their brushes to keep the tips fine. Unaware of the dange…

In 1702, convicted murderer Thomas Busby was hanged for killing his father in law, but not before cursing the chair he once sat in at a local inn, declaring death to anyone who dared sit in it. Over …

On a clear March morning in 1876, chunks of raw meat rained from the sky over Bath County, Kentucky, startling locals and covering the Crouch family farm in what appeared to be beef, lamb, or even hu…

In the late 1800s, the lifeless body of a young woman was pulled from the Seine River in Paris, her identity never discovered, but her peaceful expression so hauntingly beautiful that a pathologist m…

In the 1980s, a series of mysterious fires swept across England, leaving homes and businesses in ruins, yet inexplicably, one item often remained untouched: a mass produced painting of a tearful chil…