Folklore and Legends
Cryptids, ghost towns and the stories Americans keep telling, checked against the evidence.
- File 015Folklore
American Cryptids by State
Ten states, ten monsters, and what the evidence actually shows.
- File 016Folklore
American Ghost Towns
Abandoned boomtowns, their real histories, and the stories that outlived the residents.
- File 021Folklore
Cursed Objects
A blue diamond, a hanging chair, a sailor-suit doll, and other alleged hexes.
- File 022Folklore
Sports Curses
A goat, a sold slugger, a drowned Colonel, and the droughts fans blamed on them.
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- Unsolved MysteriesDisappearances, uncracked codes and vanished ships: cases that are still open, with what investigators actually know.
- Conspiracy Theories, Fact-CheckedThe ones that turned out to be true, the ones that didn't, and the documents that settle it.
- Strange HistoryRidiculous wars, accidental inventions and odd laws, with the myths separated from the record.
- Lost and FoundMissing treasure, lost cities and long-lost wrecks: what's still out there and what finally turned up.
- Hoaxes and ConsThe fakes that fooled millions and the swindlers who pulled off the impossible, and how they were caught.
- Relics and ArtifactsSacred relics, out-of-place artifacts and ancient finds: what the objects are, how old they really are, and what the evidence says.
- Weird ScienceReal phenomena that sound invented, strange sounds from the deep, and which mysteries science has cracked.
- Disasters and Close CallsNear-misses that almost changed history, and the disasters someone saw coming.