Folktales

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

From an inn with secret cellars to a clown motel next to a graveyard, these 12 hotels don’t just have history — they have houseguests who never checked out.

Museums for Bigfoot, Mothman, and the Skunk Ape. Where to go, what you'll see, hours and admission—plus the legends behind America's favorite cryptids.

Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier teaches science through storytelling.

The terrifying teyollohcuani is a shape-shifter of ancient indigenous lore, dark colonial history, and pop culture.

Tales of strange, nocturnal people haunt the region—and so do theories about who they were, from a lost Welsh "tribe" to aliens.

First described in Texas in the mid-90s, what are these disturbing figures—and what do they want?

The classic creepy story—a driver offers a lift to a stranger who is not of this world—has deep roots and a long reach.

In Sardinian folktales, an older woman gives those at death's door a nudge. But was she real?