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Picture generated with AI Location: Marfa, Texas, United States of America Dates Active: 1840 to Present Category: Ghost Lights Cause: Unknown; Atmospheric Phenomena, Car Headlights, Ghosts/Spirits, UFOs, Witchcraft Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 010724H-00013 Summery:   Usually attributed to car lights traveling along US Route 67, these strange lights supposedly have been showing up in the area since around 1840, long before the first cars showed up in Texas. In Depth: The Marfa lights are actually some of the more famous of the ghost light in the US. They're so famous, in fact, that a viewing area was built along the road for people to stop and watch the lights if the so desired. Just 9 miles east from the city of Marfa, Texas down US Route 90, it's easily accessible for when one wants to head out and see some weird lights for themselves. The Marfa Lights are described as hovering just above the desert brush, ranging in brightness from dim or blindingly brilliant. The...

Picture generated with AI Location: Millersburg, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1959 Category: Cryptids, Extraterrestrials, Monsters Cause: Unknown, possibly extraterrestrial Status: Closed Entry ID: 010724G-00012 Summery:   The sighting of large white-haired creature starts a local monster hunt around Albany, Oregon; a psychic claims to have spoken to the creature telepathically. In Depth: In 1959 several local boys heading out into the woods encounter a large, white, hairy, ape-like creature near Conser Lake, with cat-like ears and webbed feet. The boys immediately report their story to their parents, who in turn report the sighting to local authorities. The story breaks out into national news, and monster hunters begin showing up in droves in order to capture and/or kill the supposed monster. For months people had brief encounters with the creature, including a man who claimed that the creature was able to keep up with his pickup truck at 35 miles per hour ...

Picture generated with AI Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1960s to Present Category: Evil Spirits, Monsters Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 010724F-00011 Summery:   A local legend involving a man adorned in bandages attacking necking teenagers in parked cars, hitching rides on the backs of pickup trucks, and eating pets. In Depth: This local legend involves a man adorned from head to toe in bandages that likes to attack teenagers in the act of 'parking', hitching rides in the back of trucks, and eating pet dogs and cats. The reason for this behavior is unknown. He always appears along the same stretch of road along Highway 101, just north of the town Cannon Beach, supposedly hiding out in an abandoned garbage dump in the area. According to some versions of the story, the so-called "Bandage Man" used to be a lumberjack killed in a horrific logging accident sometime in the 1950s or 60s, but returned as some sort of v...

Picture generated with AI Location: Pacific Coastline, United States of America/Canada/Mexico Dates Active: Before 1800s to Present Category: Cryptids Cause: Natural Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 010724E-00010 Summery:   This sea monster has supposedly been spotted (and captured) in various locations over the last 200+ years, yet remains classified as a cryptid. In Depth: Numerous sightings of a sea serpent-like creature off the Pacific Coastline have happened over the last several hundred years, with the earliest being from early native American peoples. Named the Cadborosaurus by settlers to the area in the 1800s, it became known simply as "Cabby." Supposedly several people have seen (or misidentified) Cabby, and several instances of people catching the creature have been spread around in newspapers over the years. While some scientists doubt the existence of Cabby, some people still cling to the idea, with sightings happening as recent as the 1991. The Cadborosaurus in M...

Picture generated with AI Location: Tacoma, Washington, United States of America Dates Active: May 9, 2017 Category: Haunting, Poltergeist, Serial Killers Cause: Unknown Status: Closed Entry ID: 010724D-00009 Summery:   A house flipper experiences some disturbing paranormal activity at a recently purchased residence, and then finds out it used to be the childhood home of one of the nations most famous serial killers. In Depth: House flipper David Truong purchased a house in Tacoma, Washington with the intent to fix it up and sell it for a profit, hiring a contractor named Casey Clopton to do most of the major work. While working on the home Clopton began experiencing odd things happening: cellphones suddenly dying despite having a full battery upon arrival, equipment would mysteriously become unplugged and items would go missing. A heavy dresser that was set into the wall upstairs was violently ripped from its place and hit the floor on its face while Clopton was downstairs a...

Picture generated with AI Location: Russia Dates Active: Before 1755 to Present Category: Monsters, Witchcraft Cause: Folk Stories Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 010724C-00008 Summery:   A monstrous witch that eats children and lives in a mobile house with large chicken legs... or is sometimes a nice, grandmotherly force for good. In Depth: First mentioned in righting in 1755, Baba Yaga is thought to have originated in Slavic folktales and oral traditions long before that. Having been a part of Slavic culture for centuries, the witch has influenced other stories in East Asia and even Western cultures. Known as the "grandmother witch", Baba Yaga depicted as an ugly old woman, and as the ability to fly around in a mortar while wielding a pestle. She has many different magical abilities thanks to her supremely knowledgeable mind, but also solitary in nature. Depictions of Baba Yaga can vary from mothering and helpful to horrible monstrous hag. Even when she's depicted as go...

Picture generated with AI Location: Columbia River, Oregon/Washington, United States of America Dates Active: 1934 to Present Category: Cryptids Cause: Natural Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 010724B-00007 Summery:   A large sea serpent with a horse-like head has been spotted multiple times over the years, which locals have nicknamed "Colossal Claude." In Depth: Sightings of this creature began in 1934, when crew members on the Columbia River lightship spotted a 40-foot creature with a horse-like head, barnacled ridges and a long tail swimming in the waters at the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria. They reportedly watched the creature for hours through binoculars. Other sightings were reported over the years, mostly by fishermen near the mouth to the Columbia River. Sightings of Claude supposedly ceased some time in the mid-1950s. However, in 1963 the Shell Oil Company had sent an oil-drilling expedition off the Oregon Coast. Crew of the expedition supposedly filmed a ...