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The Day I Saw Bigfoot

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The Day I Saw Bigfoot

The Bradshaw Ranch Encounter

Alan Megargle
Community Contributor, Trails to the Unknown
October 19, 2026
Historic Park Theatre to have a one time showing of award winning paranormal film

story

Historic Park Theatre to have a one time showing of award winning paranormal film

A Haunting in Blue Hill: A Paranormal Mystery

Alan Megargle
Community Contributor, Trails to the Unknown
October 19, 2026
Klara Gerken and Ignace Nerinckx look over a block beside the excavator.

story

The Castle in Silves Is Built From a 230-Million-Year-Old World

This October, the same red stone is giving up what appear to be sea reptiles, and you can follow the dig as it happens.

David Isserman
Community Contributor, The Explorers Club
October 19, 2026
Porto Palermo Submarine Tunnel: Albania’s Secret Cold War Naval Base

story

Porto Palermo Submarine Tunnel: Albania’s Secret Cold War Naval Base

archlayman
Community Contributor
October 18, 2026
It is exactly what is looks like, zombies doing burlesque.

story

The Las Vegas Zombie Show Keeping the Variety Revue Alive

Monica Sanders
Community Contributor, Adventurers Program
October 16, 2026
This young girl was embalmed in arsenic in the 1940s.

grotesques

Where to See the World’s Most Famous Preserved Body Parts

From Galileo’s middle finger to Chopin’s heart, these body parts have long outlived the rest of their owners.

Holyn Thigpen
Atlas Obscura
October 16, 2026
The Haunted Jail Trail:

story

The Haunted Jail Trail:

A Road Trip Through Texas’s Spookiest Cells

Annette King
Community Contributor, Ghosts & Getaways
October 10, 2026
The Ghosts of Old South Pittsburg Hospital

story

The Ghosts of Old South Pittsburg Hospital

Annette King
Community Contributor, Ghosts & Getaways
October 10, 2026
A fossil bone exposed in Algarve rock.

story

The Algarve’s Oldest Secret May Be Smaller Than a Grain of Rice

Inland from the beaches, a team sieves 230 million years of red rock for the first relatives of mammals.

David Isserman
Community Contributor, The Explorers Club
October 10, 2026
Class Dismissed:

story

Class Dismissed:

A Road Trip to Texas’s Haunted Schools

Annette King
Community Contributor, Ghosts & Getaways
October 10, 2026
Stone Walls and Restless Souls:

story

Stone Walls and Restless Souls:

The Hauntings of Fort McKavett

Annette King
Community Contributor, Ghosts & Getaways
October 9, 2026
Old Tonopah Cemetery.

eerie feeling

Atlas Obscura’s Guide to America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries

Not all the dead rest easy. These 13 American cemeteries have the ghost stories to prove it.

Holyn Thigpen
Atlas Obscura
October 9, 2026
Detention Never Ends:

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Detention Never Ends:

The Haunted Halls of Farrar School

Annette King
Community Contributor, Ghosts & Getaways
October 8, 2026
It All Comes Together in Chattanooga

folk music

It All Comes Together in Chattanooga

More than once, this musical mecca has reinvented itself around shared spaces.

Sponsored By Chattanooga Tourism
The Sweet From Geroskipou That Became Cyprus's First EU-Protected Product

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The Sweet From Geroskipou That Became Cyprus's First EU-Protected Product

A visit to Aphrodite Delights, and the story of how loukoumi reached Cyprus in 1895.

Auriane Rezé-Duclos
Community Contributor
October 8, 2026
Wild Boar in Sutton Place Park. Now I have been.

story

Double Vision

Meandering thoughts following the recent sighting of a wild boar.

Anna Minster
Community Contributor
October 6, 2026
Dinner for a crowd

story

Alcatra do Terceira (Azorean Beef and Pork Pot Roast)

Inspired by a 15th-century Portuguese goat stew, Alcatra evolved into the Azores' iconic slow-roasted feast, traditionally baked in clay pots and shared during life's biggest celebrations.

Ricky Webster
Community Contributor, Adventurers Program
October 5, 2026
Inside The Ingram Distillery's floating rickhouse

story

A Bourbon Distillery That Ages Its Whiskey on Floating Barrelhouses

A Bourbon Distillery That Ages Its Whiskey on a Floating Barrelhouse on the Mississippi River

Aria Faith
Community Contributor
October 5, 2026
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