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Picture generated with AI Location: Kholat Syakhl, Northern Urals, Russian SFSR, Russia Dates Active: February 1 - February 2, 1959 Category: Conspiracies, Mass Deaths, Unexplained Deaths Cause: Various possible Status: Closed Entry ID: 010624D-00005 Summery:   Russian hikers die under mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains. In Depth: Ten hikers set out on an extreme, several week hike in the Ural Mountains. One of the hikers comes down with a sickness, leading him to return home while the remaining nine continue on without him. They are never heard from again. Investigators were sent up to the mountain when the hikers did not report back, finding their tent in a state of disarray with holes cut out of the side of the tent from the inside. Inside the tent they found that the hikers had left significant portions of their clothing, which could be lethal in the severe winter cold. Over the next month the bodies of the hikers are found. All nine had died, six from what ap...

Picture generated by AI Location: Oakville, Washington, United States of America Dates Active: August 7 - August 28, 1994 Category: Conspiracies, Human Testing, Strange Weather Cause: Unknown; Possible Government Test or Biological Agent. Status: Closed Entry ID: 010624C-00004 Summery:   Billions of tiny white blobs rain down over a Washington town, making locals who come into contact with them sick and killing several small animals. Scientists who studied the blobs, but all samples were mysteriously lost. In Depth: The strange rain began at approximately 3:00 AM. Oakville residents began noticing what at first looked like hail covering the ground, but when touched the tiny clear grains they squished like gelatin. The small squishy grains covered about 20 square miles in and around Oakville. Several residents became sick after coming in contact with the blobs, with symptoms like nausea, vertigo, blurred vision, and difficulty breathing. In some reports this illness last...

Picture generated by AI Location: Lincoln City, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1864 to Present Categories: Ghost Ship Cause: Unknown Status: Possibly Ongoing Entry ID: 010624B-00003 Summery:   A ship named the Blanco supposedly capsized here in 1864, and still haunts the waters here. In Depth: A brig named the Blanco set sail for Coos Bay from San Francisco in 1894, but ended up lost at sea. Supposedly, the ship wrecked far north of its destination near Siletz Bay, and remnants of a ship were able to seen in the bay until the 1960s. The remains of the ship got stuck in the sand and mud for a month before it was reported in the newspapers in the area, and by the time that news had circulated very little was known about what had happened as the crew and ship's cargo was long gone. Whether or not that ship is the Blanco is up for debate, but according to legend the ghost whatever ship that was occasionally returns to visit the bay on foggy days. Related Entries a...

Picture generated by AI Location: Odon, Indiana, United States of America Dates Active: June 21, 1940 Category: Curse, Haunting, Poltergeist, Spontaneous Combustion Cause: Unknown Status: Closed Entry ID: 010624A-00002 Summery:   Hundreds of witnesses watch spontaneous fires sprout all over a family's home with no explanation as to the cause. In Depth: The Hackler family home has 28 individual fires break out in their home, all of them within a single 24 hour period. Many of these fires occurred in separate rooms at different times, sometimes igniting right in front of witnesses ranging from curious neighbors to firefighters. Every fire only burned a single item, with no visible damage to surrounding objects or the rest of the house. The first fire started sometime after 8:00am on June 21, 1940, when a strip of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom suddenly caught fire. There was no damage to the wall or surrounding furniture, and no source of the fire was immediately found. The f...

Picture generated with AI Location: Porthcurno, Penzance, United Kingdom Dates Active: 1600s to Present Categories: Ghost Ship, Omens Cause: Unknown Status: Possibly Ongoing Entry ID: 010524A-00001 Summery:   A ghost ship has been spotted several times over the centuries heading straight for - and over - the beach in Porthcurno. In Depth: With sightings dating back to the 17th century, this ghost ship has been spotted numerous times sailing into and through the beach near Porthcurno, over the land. It was said that some sort of tragedy would befall anyone who saw it. It is described as a black ship, with anywhere from 1 to 4 masts, always appearing at nightfall, and no crew has ever been spotted aboard despite sailing across the ground near accessible areas. Some believe that it is the specter of a pirate ship that had wrecked somewhere off the beach in a storm, and was said to have something to do with a man and his servant that would keep a boat at Porthcurno Cove. Rumors s...

The Ectolog is a pet project of mine to help better keep track of different stories of the paranormal, from aliens to cryptids to ghosts, while at the same time look for similarities between the stories and find links between them. While the plan is to operate in more of an informative capacity than an opinion page, it will likely evolve over time as more and more entries are added. This site includes a number of different strange entries, which will be updated as often as possible as more information becomes available. In addition, if entries are found on popular websites, books, podcasts, TV shows I will do my best to link every available source on the subject to allow for you to learn more! If you come across any featured page that you want to know more about, or you have any information you think might be useful, go ahead and leave a comment! Oh, and if you find information that is erroneous, please let me know! I will do my best to keep everything up to date as much as possible, a...