Forbidden Lore / Tag
Supernatural
Stories and accounts connected to supernatural.
Folklore & Legends
The Wendigo: The Insatiable Hunger in the Northern Woods
Long before the Wendigo became an antlered monster of modern horror, stories across several Algonquian-speaking cultures described something more disturbing: a cannibalistic being of winter, starvation, greed, and endless hunger. Humans could become Wendigos, communities feared them, and historical cases ended in real deaths. The legend has survived for centuries—but the creature most people picture today is not the one found in the oldest traditions.
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.
Paranormal Experiences
The Empty Passenger
A truck driver keeps seeing the same stranger along a deserted highway. Then one night, something invisible takes the passenger seat.
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.
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.
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.