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Picture generated with AI Location: Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1926 to Present Category: Disappearances, Haunting, Nice Spirits, Odd People, Strange Crimes Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424K-00080 Summery:   The story of the Dog-faced Boy, who is said to haunts the streets around Lithia Park. In Depth: When it was first opened in 1908, Lithia Park was only a small patch of land, but eventually grew inside to a nearly 100 acre park with duck ponds and streams, walking paths, a Japanese garden, a playground, and a bandshell. It even had a zoo and campgrounds at one time, but those days have long since passed. However, the park is also home to a few dark secrets, including stories of numerous ghosts haunting the grounds. One such ghost is that of the "Dog-Faced Boy," who was supposedly a real person who lived in Ashland in the 1920s. Little is known about him other than had hypertrichosis, or "werewolf syndrome...

Picture generated with AI Location: Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1908 to Present Category: Haunting, Mysterious Sounds, Nice Spirits, Omens Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424J-00079 Summery:   Another spirit said to haunt Lithia Park, this one being that of a cheerful logger who warns people of danger. In Depth: When it was first opened in 1908, Lithia Park was only a small patch of land, but eventually grew inside to a nearly 100 acre park with duck ponds and streams, walking paths, a Japanese garden, a playground, and a bandshell. It even had a zoo and campgrounds at one time, but those days have long since passed. However, the park is also home to a few dark secrets, including stories of numerous ghosts haunting the grounds. One such ghost is that of the 'Whistling Logger,' the spirit of a lumberjack that was supposedly killed on the job. While this tragedy cannot be backed up with news reports from the time, suppose...

Picture generated with AI Location: Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1875 to Present Category: Ghost Light, Haunting, Mysterious Sounds, Technology Cause: Unknown, possible murder Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424I-00078 Summery:   Lithia Park has had a long history of supernatural experiences. In Depth: When it was first opened in 1908, Lithia Park was only a small patch of land, but eventually grew inside to a nearly 100 acre park with duck ponds and streams, walking paths, a Japanese garden, a playground, and a bandshell. It even had a zoo and campgrounds at one time, but those days have long since passed. However, the park is also home to a few dark secrets, including stories of numerous ghosts haunting the grounds. One such ghost appears to roam about the entirety of the park, supposedly belonging to a young woman or girl who was murdered in the area sometime in the late 1800s (some fingering the exact year being 1875.) This young woman...

Picture generated with AI Location: Hawaii, United States of America Dates Active: Unknown Category: Mysterious Sounds, Omens, Wandering Ghosts Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424H-00077 Summery:   This procession of ancestral ghosts has remained a cultural phenomenon on the Hawaiian islands. In Depth: Stemming from the oral traditions of native Hawaiian residents passed down from generation to generation, the nightmarchers are a large group of ghosts made up of ancestral warriors that march along the islands at night. They are known by many names, such as 'Oi'o or Na huaka‘i o ka Pō in Hawaiian, or Nightmarchers and Spirit Ranks in English. Such marches are traditionally claimed to happen on nights that honor Hawaiian gods Kane, Kanaloak, Ku, or Lono, where the spirits of the dead rise from their burial sites and march to sacred places all over the islands. There have been hundreds of witnesses to this strange spiritual procession over the years, with locals ...

Picture generated with AI Location: Lacul Vinderel, Maramures Mountains Natural Park, Romania Dates Active: Unknown Category: Cryptids, Curses, Monsters, Peculiar Natural Formations, Unexplained Deaths, Witchcraft Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424G-00076 Summery:   This lake is said to drown even the strongest and most skillful of swimmers, and that human body parts can sometimes be found floating on its surface from time to time. In Depth: Lacul Vinderel is a glacial lake in northern Romania in the Maramures Mountains. It is fed by snow melt and rainwater, making it extremely cold, and is on a nature preserve meant to protect rare plant species. It's high elevation, remote location and limited access make it perfect for local legends to spring up. Some of the more benign stories about the lake is that it is supposedly bottomless,or that on St. Elijah's Day young women could walk into the lake and wash in its waters while whispering magical spells in order t...

Picture generated with AI Location: Woolpit, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Dates Active: 1100s Category: Extraterrestrials, Lost Lands and Ruins, Odd People Cause: Unknown Status: Closed Entry ID: 022424F-00075 Summery:   An odd story of a pair of green siblings arriving from an unknown land in 1100s England. In Depth: This tale is about a pair of children, a brother and sister, who were found at the bottom of a wolf pit near the village of Woolpit (which was coincidentally named after the wolf pits the children fell in.) The children were rescued from the pit and brought back to the village, where the townsfolk marveled at the children because their skin was an unusual shade of green. The children were otherwise normal looking, but were unable to speak the local language and would only eat 'broad beans' (also known as 'fava' or 'faba' beans) when they were first encountered. According to the legend no one ever came to claim the children, and the villag...

Picture generated with AI Location: Germany Dates Active: 856 AD Category: Haunting, Poltergeist Cause: Unknown Status: Closed Entry ID: 022424E-00074 Summery:   The first recorded case of a poltergeist haunting. In Depth: The first rewritten account of a poltergeist haunting occurred in what is now Germany in 856. Very little information is currently available about this particular case other than the year in which it took place and that it happened in a farmhouse in the country. According to some sources the entity involved threw objects, made loud noises and started fires. It also tossed stones at people, terrorizing the residence of the farmhouse. Related Entries and Connections : Connections: Haunting   Connections: Poltergeist Last Update: March 16, 2024

Picture generated with AI Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon Dates Active: 1900s to Present Category: Cryptids Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424D-00073 Summery:   Explorers encounter a local legend of a giant creature that is large enough to block rivers. In Depth: Mokèlé-mbèmbé is the name given to a cryptid that supposedly resides in the Congo River Basin, which closely resembles the popular depictions of ancient sauropods, but could be another animal altogether. Descriptions of the creature mainly come from German explorers who wrote down the descriptions given by locals in 1907. It was said to be approximately the size of a large elephant with brownish-gray, smooth skin, with a long flexible neck, a single large tooth or horn, and a large tail like an alligator. The creature was further described as liking to live in the water and said to have an entirely vegetable diet, such as leaves and fruits. It was also easily...

Picture generated with AI Location: Roseburg, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: August 2016 to July 5, 2017 Category: Extraterrestrials, UFOs Cause: Unknown Status: Closed Entry ID: 022424C-00072 Summery:   Local Roseburg resident captures pictures of strange objects in the sky and crop circles. In Depth: Roseburg resident Tyler Goodwin spots a number of strange objects over the town on at least three occasions in less than a year period. The first event happened in August of 2016, which was a hot month for UFO activity based on information from the National UFO Reporting Center website. This sighting resulted in Goodwin calling 911, but little else happened during the event. It was on July 2 of the next year that Goodwin would spot another set of strange objects in the sky, and this time he started taking pictures. He was able to capture the picture of a craft with several red lights along the bottom in a "V" shape, which was "hauling balls" acros...

Picture generated with AI Location: Somewhere off the coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom Dates Active: 1089 or 1099 Category: Lost Lands and Ruins, Mysterious Sounds Cause: Arthurian Legend; Tsunami or Earthquake Status: Closed Entry ID: 022424B-00071 Summery:   At the supposed location of an island nation that was destroyed in a great catastrophe the sound of church bells can sometimes be heard. In Depth: The lost island known as Lyonesse was supposedly located just off the coast of Cornwall, England, and was home of Tristan of Arthurian legend. It suddenly sunk underneath the water in a great catastrophe, either an earthquake or tidal wave,  with the sole survivor of the disaster escaping on a horse that had thrown a horseshoe. Legend has it that if you sail near the location of where Lyonesse used to reside, you can hear the sound of church bells ringing. Related Entries and Connections : Connections: Lost Lands and Ruins Connections: Mysterious Sounds   ...

Picture generated with AI Location: Pine Barrens, New Jersey, United States of America Dates Active: 1600s to Present Category: Cryptids, Curses, Demons, Evil Spirits, Monsters Cause: Possible cryptid, cursed child or demon Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424A-00070 Summery:   A legendary creature has been haunting the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey for the past 300 years... or perhaps longer. In Depth: Ask anyone who lives around the Pine Barrens if there is anything strange living in those woods, and you'd probably get the answer of the Jersey Devil. This winged creature is described as having cloven hooves, bat wings, a horse-like head, horns, a forked tail, small forearms with claws and red eyes. There are some that claim the creature cannot be killed. It is sometimes referred to as the Leeds Devil, thanks in part to its association with the Leeds family in local folklore. That folklore states that sometime in 1735 a woman named Jane Leeds, who is usually referred to as ...