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Covering Cobh: Irish Ghosts and Legends
Pillar's Bar in Cobh began life as a 19th century bank before arriving at its current abandoned state. Over the years, witnesses have reported doors that bang, phantom footsteps, the sound of chairs...
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Legends of Llangollen
Nestled within the beautiful Dee Valley, the Welsh town of Llangollen is a living postcard bisected by a raging river and laced with Victorian charm. Towering above it all, on a craggy hillock, lay the...
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Myths and Mysteries of Blarney Castle
Towering roughly 90 feet above its eponymous village, Blarney Castle is quintessential postcard Ireland: A large crenelated stone cuboid skirted by a landscape of velvet green, punctuated by white...
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Dublin: A Darker Shade of Green
Baile Átha Cliath, or Dublin, as it is more commonly known, is the capital and largest city in Ireland. The earliest habitation dates to prehistoric times, but Ptolemy wrote about a settlement at...
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Ireland's Antrim Coast
Dating to the 1200s, Dunluce Castle on the craggy Antrim coast is an evocative ruin straight from the best novels of Irish Gothic literature. And for good reason. Its crumbling form perches quite...
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All That Goes Bump In Belfast
Titanic’s Dock & Pump-House are rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of workers long passed. At the Grand Opera House, two stage hands named George and Harry haunt behind the scenes and actors have...
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Ghouls and Ghosts of Greenock, Scotland
READ ABOUT THE GREENOCK CATMANTHE GREENOCK POLTERGEISTMichelle Kane and her family, of Greenock, endured violent episodes of poltergeist-like activity at their council house on Auchendarroch Street in...
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The Myth of the Cape Ann Garrison?
John Greenleaf Whittier's peculiar 1892 poem "The Garrison of Cape Ann" tells briefly the tale of a garrison of soldiers stationed at a fort in Cape Ann, Maine in 1692--at the same time as the Salem...
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The Mysterious Eltanin Antenna
On August 29, 1964, the USNS Eltanin was surveying the sea floor off Cape Horn when the crew photographed a strange object 12,808 feet down that has since caused much controversy. Is it a common but...
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THE DEVIL CAME TO FORT WORTH
If you've read Erik Larson's The Devil in The White City, then you need no introduction to the monster that was "Doctor" Henry Howard Holmes, an alias for Herman Webster Mudgett, who in the 1890s...
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GARGOYLES: PUERTO RICO'S LATEST CRYPTID.
Gárgolas--gargoyles to English speakers--are the new monster craze sweeping the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, home already to UFO sightings, the legendary Chupacabras, and the fearsome Moca Vampire....
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Farr Best Theater's Ghostly Import
The Farr Best Theater at 107 N. Main in Mansfield, TX had for most of its life been unencumbered by any rumors of spooky goings on. The movie house was built in 1917 by local magnate Milton Farr and...
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THE DARK WATCHERS
In the Santa Lucia Mountains of California dwells a nebulous, and obscure legend regarding the Dark Watchers. Seemingly arising from Chumash legend, these shadowy figures inhabit the mountains and are...
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AN ACCOUNT OF GREMLINS
ROYAL AIR FORCEJOURNALPublished FortnightlyApril 18, 1942Number 13The Gremlin QuestionBy HUBERT GRIFFITHIt is extraordinary to me to think that I had lived so long in the world without realizing the...
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THE DELPHOS ENIGMA
Delphos, Kansas is an innocuous farm settlement in the north central part of that state, hardly the place one expects a headlining bit of weirdness. But that's just what it's known for. And not just...
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Weird Street Bulge Indicated Monstrous Presence?
It was Friday the 13th one hot July day in 1984 when a 20-foot long, 2-foot tall bulge appeared on the surface of a Fort Worth city street. The weird eruption snaked sinuously for a few moments, as if...
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THE GOATMAN OF OLD ALTON BRIDGE
For some time now, the legend of Goatman's Bridge has drawn the adventurous and the curious to this abandoned steel trestle known officially as Old Alton bridge, which spans Hickory Creek in Argyle,...
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When the settlers of Roanoke Island seemed to have vanished, there were few clues left behind as to their fates. The most prominent and baffling of these has kept historians (armchair and otherwise)...
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The Haunted Castle of Lake Worth
If you're driving around Lake Worth in that eponymous North Texas city, and you find yourself following the sinuous, shadow-laced trail of Heron Drive, you'll see many lovely lake homes. Then suddenly...
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Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle
I've been rather remiss in chronicling my trip last year to the UK and Ireland. I've covered most of it, in previous posts, but there's yet more to share.While the current castle, which houses the...
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