Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

Do you know why it is considered unlucky to meet a barefooted man?  Start a journey on the tenth of November?  Get married on a Saturday?   Irish...

Journey through Lancashire, England, to visit 155 places where strange history meets creepy modern times. Arranged alphabetically by town and place...

Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore. Yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty Count of Bram Stoker's imag...

Journey through Connecticut using this unconventional guidebook containing 82 odd locations to visit on your next outing. Travel to the far-reachin...

From the clouds with ghostly faces in the Chisos Mountains to the spirits of the Alamo, follow in the footsteps of a spirit magnet as she takes a w...

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the anim...

The mountains of the Appalachia abound with tales of ghosts and mysterious places. Covering 16 counties, 40 spine-tingling stories will have you tr...

An enchanting treasury of fairy lore!Around the corner, behind the bushes, and just out of sight...fairies have spent hundreds of years weaving the...

Discover the myths, legends, and lore behind everyones favorite sea creaturemermaids.The allure and mystery of mermaids has taken hold of our psych...

Legend has it that Scotland's most heinous crimes were committed by Sawney Bean and his murderous clan of cannibals-an incestuous cave dwelling tri...

Atlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity from ancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and...