The Airborne Frogman was a strange humanoid creature reportedly sighted by many residents of New York City in 1880. Appearance It was described as having a man’s body attached to a bat’s wings and “improved frog’s legs”. The creature was said to wear a “cruel expression”, despite the fact that it also supposedly flew 1,000 feet in…
The floors creaked and groaned as we walked; the last of the day’s sunlight pierced the sheer curtains, illuminating the particles of dust we raised as we stepped. Long shadows wrapped around the vintage furniture, across the faded faces in picture frames and over the frilly dresses of antique dolls like slithering black snakes; everywhere…
The Riverside Monster, also known as the Riverside Bridge Monster and the Brain Tickler of Riverside, is a bizarre lanky cryptid that was first encountered by Charles Wetzel on November 8, 1958. The creature was described as tall and lanky, with a “protuberant mouth” and glowing green eyes. It is very similar to the Landsborough Gangle. Appearance The creature was…
Harvey Glatman was an American serial killer. He exhibited his antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early age. Media quickly nicknamed him “The Lonely Hearts Killer”. Glatman started when he moved to Los Angeles, where he posed as a professional photographer to lure girls into his hotel room with the promise of easy money…
In the hills of Iceland there lives a giant troll with hooves for feet and thirteen tails named Gryla. Every Christmas, Gryla comes down from her mountain cave to hunt for naughty children. Once she brings her bounty back to the cave, she boils the children alive in a stew and eats them for supper….
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas. BENEATH WASHINGTON, D.C., A DIMLY lit web of passages weaves throughout row after row of eerie wall graves, recalling early Christian burials in the catacombs of ancient Rome. The subterranean complex is located underneath the Franciscan Monastery…
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil. Griffith Park Observatory is the Tesla coil. Its lightning discharges thrill crowds of locals and tourists alike, usually every hour on the hour. The Tesla coil is enclosed in a newly designed alcove for maximum wow factor, and its…
With the addition of a few numbers and Greek letters, the name “Zzyzx” (pronounced zeye-zix) might be a complicated equation to orbit rockets around Mars, but the site has a colorful history that stretches back almost two centuries. A rare and bountiful desert spring situated at the base of chocolate-colored mountains attracted the first Spanish…
Folktales from the Indonesian island of Flores tell of a mysterious race of little people called the “Ebu Gogo,” who abducted children and spoke in murmurs. Scientists began to take the myths more seriously when in 2003, the remains of a new humanoid species called Homo floresiensis was discovered in caves on the island. Fossil dating suggests…
Also known as the Tasmanian tiger or wolf, the thylacine was a large meat-eating marsupial that lived in Australia. It had a long, stiff tail, dark stripes on its back and rump, and a pouch similar to other marsupials like the koala and kangaroo. It was driven to extinction by human activity and the introduction…