The oceans cover over 70 percent of our planet, so it’s little wonder that their seemingly impenetrable depths have provided a series of fascinating mysteries, from missing ships to eerie monsters. Below are six mysteries…
Read More 6 Strange Maritime MysteriesFor the first time since ghost-hunting became an organised science, Britain’s spooks and apparitions have made a motorway their favourite road to haunt. After years of weird goings-on in lonely lanes or moorland crossings, the…
Read More M6, EnglandCutting through the north part of England, stretching from Newark to Huddersfield, is the road called A616, and one area in Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, holds a section of the highway called the Stocksbridge Bypass. This…
Read More Stocksbridge Bypass, EnglandThe Wild Hunt is a folklore motif (ATU E501) that historically occurs in European folklore. Wild Hunts typically involve a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be either…
Read More Wild HuntThe Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first…
Read More Cottingley FairiesIn English folklore, the Apple Tree Man is the name given to the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. Tales…
Read More Apple Tree ManAnglo-Saxon metrical charms were sets of instructions generally written to magically resolve a situation or disease. Usually, these charms involve some sort of physical action, including making a medical potion, repeating a certain set of…
Read More Anglo-Saxon metrical charms“Æcerbot” (Old English “Field-Remedy”) is an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm recorded in the 11th century, intended to remedy fields that yielded poorly.
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