Figures that recur across mythologies — and the archaeology, hoaxes and folklore around them.
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Claims of unusually large human skeletons found in North American mounds are not inventions of the internet.
Read full entryStories of giants, cannibals and unusually powerful earlier peoples occur in the traditions of several Indigenous nations across North America.
Read full entryGiants appear across an extraordinary range of world traditions. Greek Gigantes and Titans, Norse jötnar, biblical Nephilim, South Asian rākṣasas and daityas, Celtic and insular beings,…
Read full entryThe Nephilim appear in one of the Hebrew Bible's briefest and most debated passages. Genesis 6:1–4 describes the “sons of God,” human women, the Nephilim, and ancient “mighty men” or…
Read full entryGigantopithecus blacki and Bigfoot are often placed side by side because both evoke a very large ape, but the evidence for them is fundamentally different.
Read full entryJinn are not simply “Islamic ghosts” or an old name for extraterrestrials. In the Qur'an they are a class of morally responsible beings, distinct from humans and angels, created from a…
Read full entryThe faeries of Irish, Scottish and wider Celtic-language traditions are not simply tiny winged figures from children's illustration.
Read full entrySkinwalker Ranch is a roughly 512-acre property in Utah's Uintah Basin that has become one of the best-known modern locations associated with “high strangeness”—a mixture of alleged unusual…
Read full entryMothman began not as a prophecy but as a frightening encounter. On the night of November 15, 1966, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette told police that they had seen a…
Read full entrySerpents occupy an extraordinary range of roles in human traditions. They can represent wisdom and danger, healing and poison, rain and fertility, death and renewal, the earth below and the…
Read full entryThe ocean has repeatedly rewarded caution toward the phrase “that animal cannot exist.” Giant squid were known for centuries through carcasses, beaks, scars on whales and sailors' accounts…
Read full entryAcross the world, ridges, mesas, islands and cliffs resemble reclining people, faces or enormous bodies. Ontario’s Sleeping Giant, Poland’s Giewont, Alaska’s Mount Susitna and Brazil’s…
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Practices at the edge of accepted medicine — what has been studied, what has not, and where the record ends.
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Techniques and instruments that were once in use and later abandoned, misplaced or superseded.
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Suppressed records, contested chronologies and the politics of what gets written down.
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Cosmologies, rites and symbol systems recorded across the ancient world.
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