Florida: Captain Tony’s
Since 1852, Captain Tony’s, the oldest saloon in Key West, has been known to be haunted: doors slam…
Since 1852, Captain Tony’s, the oldest saloon in Key West, has been known to be haunted: doors slam for no apparent reasons and there are inexplicable banging noises and frequent ghostly visitations. Perhaps that’s because it’s the site of the town’s original morgue and was built around a tree that the town once used for hanging pirates!
A prisoner camp during the Civil War, Fort Delaware in Delaware City was ultimately home to more 30,000 Confederate soldier inmates. The few thousand that died before they could leave the Union fort are said to still haunt the area.
The misfortunes that have occurred in Dudleytown are so terrible and numerous that its nickname is “the Village of the Damned.” The now completely deserted town is said to have been home to many suicides, disappearances, and even demonic activity. It is believed that the founders of the village—and by extension, the village itself—are forever cursed….
The Ridge Home Asylum was a real facility that opened in Arvada in 1912. It reportedly housed patients who were horribly mistreated—some of whom weren’t even mentally incapable, but had just been forsaken by their family. Though it was demolished in 2004, people say they can still hear the screams and see the apparitions of former…
On the afternoon of June 24, 1947, amateur aviator Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mt. Rainier, Washington, when he suddenly spotted nine unusual objects on the horizon. Arnold claimed the craft flitted from side to side and flipped in unison like “the tail of a Chinese kite,” and he estimated they were moving at around 1,700 miles…
Apparently, aliens are real, or at least their modes of transportation. According to the mainstream media, the US government is ready to admit they have been aware of and studying what they call “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” or UAP, for a while now. Since the 1960s, our culture has had an enduring interest in deep space…
In the Pacific and European theatres during World War II, round, glowing fireballs known as “foo fighters” were reported by Allied and Axis pilots. Some proposed Allied explanations at the time included St. Elmo’s fire, the planet Venus, hallucinations from oxygen deprivation, or German secret weapons. In 1946, more than 2,000 reports were collected, primarily by the Swedish military,…
Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the fourth century AD. The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis (Book of Prodigies), completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy; De prodigiis was constructed as an account of the wonders and portents that occurred in Rome between 249 and 12…
Per local lore, a father and son were trapped in a horrible fire. The father perished, then, before help could arrive, the traumatized son lost his mind. He skinned his father and then ran into the forest. Now, known forever as Char Man, his blackened, burnt body is said to attack motorists on Creek Road in…
In December 1980, U.S. Air Force members stationed at two British Royal Air Force bases, Woodbridge and Bentwaters, reported seeing strange, colorful lights above Rendlesham Forest, about 100 miles northeast of London. One man who entered the forest to investigate claimed to have discovered some sort of spacecraft there, and the next day, others confirmed…