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Parchment-style illustration of the Mothman with red eyes flying over Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA.

Mothman: The Harbinger in the Fog

October 20, 2025
In the misty hollers of West Virginia, where the Ohio River runs dark and deep between wooded hills, where morning fog clings to the valleys like a living thing and the shadows seem to hold secrets older than memory, folks still whisper of a creature that once spread its shadow
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Parchment-style illustration of Jonas Pike in a misty boat facing a serpent-like lake creature in Maine, USA.

Nessie of the Deepwater Lake

October 20, 2025
Long ago, in the quiet northern hills of Maine, where pine forests stretched endlessly toward the Canadian border and winter winds sang haunting songs through the valleys, there lay a deep, still lake that the locals called Deepwater. It was a place of mystery and beauty, its waters dark as
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Parchment-style artwork of Nanabozho and animals during the Great Flood, Ojibwe Native American folktale.

The Great Flood and the Creation of the Earth: An American (Ojibwe) Folktale that Teaches Lesson on Humility and Renewal

October 20, 2025
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When the world was young, the skies stretched endlessly over shimmering waters. The land had vanished beneath a vast flood that swallowed mountains, forests, and plains. The only living beings left adrift upon the endless waves were Nanabozho, the Great Hare and powerful culture hero of the Ojibwe people, and
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The Lucky Penny by the Tracks

October 17, 2025
They used to say in the old rail towns that luck was as thin as a coin and twice as hard to hold.When the morning train blew through Claremont, Missouri, its whistle rolled over the fields like a promise—one that never quite came true for everyone who heard it. But
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The Mothman of Point Pleasant

October 17, 2025
It began, as these things often do, on a lonely road. In November of 1966, two young couples were driving near the old TNT area—a stretch of abandoned munitions bunkers outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where the trees grew too quiet and the moonlight seemed to hold its breath. They’d
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The Lantern Man of the Bayou

October 17, 2025
The Louisiana bayou breathes differently at night. Cypress roots twist like sleeping serpents, the air hums with frogs, and fireflies drift above the water like lost souls looking for home. Folks who’ve lived there long enough know which lights to trust—and which to run from. There’s one in particular, the
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The Bell at Widow’s Bridge

October 17, 2025
On the edge of a forgotten New England town, a narrow bridge once spanned the Merrin River—a place travelers crossed in haste. No one lingered there after dark, for it was said the wind beneath the planks could speak a person’s name before they reached the other side. The locals
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Molly Pitcher and the Cannon Smoke

October 17, 2025
The sun over Monmouth was a white-hot coin, hammered flat against the sky. It was the kind of heat that baked gunpowder into clumps and cooked courage right out of a man’s bones. Soldiers staggered. Horses foamed. Even the shadows seemed to pant. Down the rutted path from a farmhouse
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