👻 The Axeman of New Orleans (1918-1919): An unidentified serial killer who targeted Italian-Americans. The paranormal twist? He claimed to be a "spirit from fieriest hell" in his chilling 1919 letter. Never caught. 😱 #TrueCrime #NewOrleansHistory
Baobhan sith, a vampire who seduces her victims with her beauty, before escaping in the form of a crow more in "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" by Stephen G. Rae art: Frances MacDonald
Baobhan sith, a vampire who seduces her victims with her beauty, before escaping in the form of a crow
more in "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #vampires #Scotland
art: Frances MacDonald
“I ask myself how this happened.”
Penfold's Menu of Magic and Malice by Valerie B. Williams - Women in horror collection
Today's #horror book recommendation #horrorbooks #ad
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A Ghostly Skeleton Trying to Strangle a Sick Child; Representing Diphtheria
A Ghostly Skeleton Trying to Strangle a Sick Child; Representing Diphtheria
#Art by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912
Hoia Baciu Forest: Romania's "Bermuda Triangle" is a mystery hot spot! Twisted trees, vanishing people, UFOs, and strange energy. Would you dare to visit? #HoiaBaciu #Paranormal
First appearance of Nessie this year. Not the greatest footage, but it's a beginning.🦕
👇👇👇
Webcam Watcher Captures First Virtual Nessie Sighting of 2026
www.coasttocoastam.com/article/vide...
#Cryptid #cryptids #cryptozoology #Scotland #paranormal #Monster #LochNess #LochNessMonster
A man wearing a bright green “Beast of Bray Road” cryptozoology field guide T-shirt stands smiling on a foggy rural road, while a tall shadowy cryptid figure resembling a dogman or werewolf looms indistinctly in the mist behind him among the trees.
Bray Road. Fog. Footsteps where there shouldn’t be any. Shirt made in USA!
monsterandmyth.com
#MonsterAndMyth #BeastOfBrayRoad #Cryptozoology #Cryptid #Dogman #Werewolf #Paranormal #MadeInUSA #UrbanLegend #Creepy #Horror #CryptidCore #Unexplained #WeirdWisconsin
🎿 Vanished on a ski trip.
🕵️♂️ No tracks. No clues.
⏳ Reappeared 15 months later — 700 miles away.
🧠 No memory. Just the feeling he’d been running.
Steven Kubacki’s case is one of the strangest disappearances in the Great Lakes Triangle.
Some mysteries return. Others never left.
#Unexplained
"He's so hungry, he's so thin If he'd come we'd let him in" Gunna is a Highland's Brownie living outdoors and caring for livestock and read more in: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin: An Encyclopedia of World Folklore" by Stephen G. Rae https://folklorepress.co.uk/
"He's so hungry, he's so thin
If he'd come we'd let him in"
Gunna is a Highland's Brownie living outdoors and caring for livestock
and read more in: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin: An Encyclopedia of World Folklore" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
Jeepers Creepers: is the Creeper fiction, or ripped from a real, chilling 1990 crime? Find the true story behind the film.
Read More -> http://rp.horl.uk/44ff2dd9
#JeepersCreepers #TrueCrime #HorrorHistory #CreepyOrigins
Hen do revellers spot something eerie in photograph and are left spooked
www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...
#ghost #ghosts #haunted #HauntingGround #Scotland #Spooky #paranormal #Spirit #haunting
In Scots lore, there are the Faerie Animals: Cait sìth - faerie cat Lucha sìth - faerie mouse Cu sìth - faerie dog Lacha shìth - faerie duck more in: 'Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror' by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk #folklore #Scotland
In Scots lore, there are the Faerie Animals:
Cait sìth - faerie cat
Lucha sìth - faerie mouse
Cu sìth - faerie dog
Lacha shìth - faerie duck
more in: 'Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror' by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #Scotland
Portlock remains one of the only towns in US history officially driven out by a "cryptid."
Would you visit a place with a history this heavy? Or is some land better left to the things in the woods? 🌲👹
#AlaskanKillerBigfoot #StrangeHistory #BlueskyHorror
By 1951, the post office closed. The 31 remaining residents moved en masse to nearby Nanwalek.
They didn't leave because the fishing was bad or the weather was cold. They left because they were being hunted. To this day, the rusted remains of the cannery still sit empty.
It started with hunters going missing. When bodies were found, they were... changed.
One logger, Andrew Kamluk, was found hit by a piece of heavy machinery that weighed over 1000 lbs. It had been swung like a club. No human could have lifted it.
#Paranormal #Unsolved
In 1950, the entire town of Portlock, Alaska, vanished. Not into the fog, but into a state of pure terror.
Residents fled their homes, leaving behind a thriving cannery and a post office because of a series of "mutilations."
🧵 A thread on the monster that broke a town. #GhostTown #History
Most haunted village in Britain where 15 ghosts roam and screams heard after dark
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
#ghost #ghosts #haunted #HauntingGround #GreatBritain #Spooky #paranormal #Spirit #Ghosthunting #haunting
An old shipwreck at Loch Ness, the home of my favorite cryptid 'Nessie', seen from the northern shore, not far from Fort Augustus.
#scotland #nessie #lochnessmonster #lochness #fortaugustus #cryptid #cryptozoology #uk #hdr #photography #aleistercrowley #paranormal #fortaugustusscotland
The Scots Gaelic for red deer is 'fiadh ruadh'. In the Highlands people once called them ‘faerie cattle’ as they believed fairies milked them from my upcoming: "Folklore of Scotland" https://folklorepress.co.uk/ #bookwormsat #folklore #Scotland art: Echoes from the Golden Grove by Annie Stegg
The Scots Gaelic for red deer is 'fiadh ruadh'. In the Highlands people once called them ‘faerie cattle’ as they believed fairies milked them
from my upcoming: "Folklore of Scotland"
folklorepress.co.uk
#bookwormsat #folklore #Scotland
art: Echoes from the Golden Grove by Annie Stegg
Griffin, the legendary creature with the body, back legs and tail of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. Lion was traditionally the 'king of the beasts' and Eagle the 'king of the birds', so Griffin became a powerful and majestic creature. #bookwormsat #mythology art: Stephen G. Rae
Griffin was a legendary creature with the body, back legs and tail of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle.
Lion was traditionally the 'king of the beasts' and Eagle the 'king of the birds', so Griffin became a powerful and majestic creature.
#bookwormsat #mythology
art: Stephen G. Rae
Vanished: In 1900, 3 keepers vanished from the Eilean Mòr lighthouse. Food on the table, coats hung up, logbook cut short, and one overturned chair. No bodies, no answers. A perfect mystery on a remote rock. #UnsolvedMystery #paranormal
#Werewolf gargoyle at the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Moulins in Moulins, France #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
Muki, the 'pale goblin' from the high mountains of Peru, known for kidnapping unbaptised children and read more in: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin: An Encyclopedia of World Folklore" by Stephen G. Rae
Muki, the 'pale goblin' from the high mountains of Peru, known for kidnapping unbaptised children
and read more in: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin: An Encyclopedia of World Folklore" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
Beithir is a dragon that lives in mountainous caves, venturing out on the summer nights when lightning strikes occur more in the upcoming: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" by Stephen G. Rae https://folklorepress.co.uk/ #dragons #folklore #Scotland art: Blue Dragon by Stephen G. Rae
Beithir is a dragon that lives in mountainous caves, venturing out on summer nights when lightning strikes occur
more in the upcoming: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#dragons #folklore #Scotland
art: Stephen G. Rae
#FaerieFriday Ghilli Dhu is a male faerie living in forests, camouflaging himself in leaves and moss. He comes to the aid of lost children. from the upcoming: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk
#FaerieFriday Ghilli Dhu is a male faerie living in forests, camouflaging himself in leaves and moss. He comes to the aid of lost children.
from the upcoming: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#folklore #folkhorror #Scotland
The winding wheel of Newdigate colliery. It's now on display as the colliery closed in 1982
An explosion took place in one of the shafts of Newdigate colliery in 1931 killing 8 miners. Years later those who worked in that area of the mine reported seeing strange mists and shadows and, in some cases, the figure of a miner dressed in the workwear of a previous era
#PhantomsFriday
The Bell Witch (1800s, TN) wasn't just a haunting. The invisible entity allegedly poisoned the family patriarch, John Bell, and boasted about it. She's one of the few entities credited in US history with a documented killing. #HauntedHistory
RAAF UFO Files Reveal Object Racing 3,600mph Over Nuclear Test Range Before Vanishing Into Upper Atmosphere
www.ibtimes.co.uk/1954-woomera...
#UFO #UFOs #ufosky #UFOSightings #UAPs #UAP #Aliens
Miramont Castle is a home you can get lost in! But if you do get lost, a ghost may point you in the right direction. 👻
The Colorado castle is purportedly haunted by many phantoms, including a lady in black and a little girl.
Read more on Haunted US: hauntedus.com/colorado/mir...
Illustration of a man huddled up in a dressing gown. The caption reads: 'Seen anything spooky?'
"Seen anything spooky?" Well, you will tomorrow for lo, tis #PhantomsFriday - the feed for all things ghostly. #Ghost posts on #folklore, art, literature, popular culture, #haunted locations... all contributions using the hashtag will be welcome.
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