Forbidden Lore / Tag
Paranormal
Stories and accounts connected to paranormal.
Folklore & Legends
Spring-Heeled Jack: The Leaping Terror of Victorian London
In 1837, stories spread through London of a bizarre figure attacking people on lonely roads. Witnesses described a tall man in a cloak who could leap extraordinary heights. Then two young women reported encounters with something far stranger: a clawed attacker with fiery eyes who appeared to breathe blue flame. Newspapers called him Spring-Heeled Jack. Nobody ever established who—or what—he was.
UFOs & Encounters
The Hopkinsville Goblins: The Night Something Surrounded a Kentucky Farmhouse
On August 21, 1955, a terrified Kentucky family arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small, strange creatures had surrounded their isolated farmhouse for hours. Police found bullet holes, frightened witnesses, and no creatures. Nearly seventy years later, the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter remains one of the strangest close-encounter cases in American UFO history.
Folklore & Legends
The Jersey Devil: The Monster That Haunted the Pine Barrens
For centuries, stories have described a winged creature stalking the forests of southern New Jersey: a horse-headed, bat-winged thing supposedly born as the cursed thirteenth child of Mother Leeds. But the history behind the Jersey Devil may be stranger than the legend. Religious feuds, colonial politics, Benjamin Franklin, newspaper hysteria, hoaxes, and a remarkable week in January 1909 all helped transform the Leeds Devil into one of America's most famous monsters.
Folklore & Legends
Mothman: The Winged Creature That Haunted Point Pleasant
In November 1966, two young couples near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported a towering winged figure with glowing red eyes beside an abandoned World War II munitions plant. Over the next thirteen months came more sightings, UFO reports, strange phone calls, Men in Black stories, and warnings of disaster. Then the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River, killing 46 people. The creature became known as Mothman.
Historical Mysteries
John Titor: The Man Who Claimed He Came From 2036
In 2000, an anonymous internet user claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036. He described his time machine, photographed its supposed components, predicted war and catastrophe, and said his mission involved a forgotten IBM computer from 1975. Then, in March 2001, John Titor disappeared.
Dark Folklore
Beneath Blackwater Lake
An old mountain warning tells locals never to enter Blackwater Lake after sunset. When a group of students ignores it, they discover something beneath the water.
Dark Folklore
The Children in the Cornfield
A farmer reports seeing three children standing at the edge of his cornfield every evening. They disappear whenever he approaches, but their footprints never do.
Occult
The Circle in the Basement
A group of college students find a chalk circle painted under the floorboards of their rental house. One of them, as a joke, stands inside it and says the words written around the edge.
Urban Legends
The Girl Who Answers
A middle school dare has circulated for decades: call the disconnected number scratched into the bathroom stall. Most kids just hear static. Some hear a voice answer back.
Ghost Stories
The Hollow Children
An abandoned rural school still echoes with children's laughter every evening. An urban explorer discovers that the school knows who will disappear next.
Haunted Places
The House That Changed Owners
A couple renovating an old Victorian house discovers photographs hidden inside the walls. The people in them are unmistakably themselves.
Ghost Stories
The House That Counts
A woman inherits her grandmother's farmhouse. The realtor mentions, almost as an afterthought, that the house has thirteen rooms. She only ever finds twelve.
Haunted Places
The House That Wasn't There
A couple searching for an address in rural Vermont found an old farmhouse waiting at the end of a dirt road. The problem was that the property had been empty for more than thirty years.
Wilderness Encounters
The Last Voice on Channel 9
A fire lookout begins receiving distress calls from people who disappeared decades ago. Then one night, the voice on the radio belongs to him.
UFO Encounters
The Lights Over Route 9
A trucker driving a night route through rural Ohio watches three lights descend over a cornfield. His dashcam catches something he still can't explain — or won't.
Dark Folklore
The Miller's Debt
In a small river town, an old story says the mill only turns because something was promised to the water in exchange. Locals say you can still hear the wheel some nights, long after the mill burned down.
Urban Legends
The Missing Floor
An overnight janitor discovers that the office building has a hidden fourteenth floor that isn't listed on any blueprint.
Creepypasta
The Motel Room at the End
A traveler checking into an almost-empty roadside motel is given Room 214. The clerk warns him never to open the door at the end of the hallway.
Unexplained
The Numbers Station
A shortwave radio hobbyist discovers a mysterious broadcast that repeats numbers every night. Then one evening, the transmission appears to be speaking directly to him.
Wilderness Encounters
The Trail That Loops
Three hikers take a shortcut off a marked trail in the Cascades. The shortcut brings them back to where they started. It does this four times.
Ghost Stories
The Woman at Mile Marker 17
For decades, drivers on a lonely stretch of Pennsylvania highway have reported seeing the same woman standing beside Mile Marker 17. Those who stop to help discover that she may not be waiting for a ride.
Paranormal
The Room Nobody Was Allowed to Enter
The family had one rule about the upstairs room. Nobody ever explained why.