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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Baobhan Sith
The Scottish Blood-Sucking Ghost Women
The Baobhan Sith are the vampiric ghostly beings of Scottish folklore (Highlands). Beautiful women in green dresses who seduce men and drink their blood with iron claws.
Enfield Poltergeist
Britain's most documented poltergeist case
Knocks, moving furniture and a recorded voice at the Hodgson home in London, between 1977 and 1979.
Dullahan
Dullahan, the headless rider herald of death in Irish mythology
The Dullahan is a headless rider from Irish mythology who gallops on a black carriage announcing imminent death.
Cรน Sรฌth
Cรน Sรฌth, the green fairy hound of the Highlands whose howl announces death
Cรน Sรฌth is the green fairy hound of the Scottish Highlands whose spectral howl announces imminent death.
Black Monk of Pontefract
The most violent poltergeist in England
It dragged a twelve-year-old girl up the stairs; the monk was attributed to it afterwards.
White Lady of Glamis
White Lady of Glamis, vengeful castle specter foretelling death to the Bowes-Lyon
The White Lady of Glamis is the ghost of a woman in white appearing at Glamis Castle foretelling death and misfortune to the Bowes-Lyon family.
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
The lady of the portrait in brown satin and a ruff
Apparition of Houghton and Raynham Hall, and subject of the most famous ghost photograph in the world.
Wraith of Anne Boleyn
The Queen Who Returns to Blickling with Her Head
Beheaded in 1536. Each anniversary she returns to her childhood home in a coach of headless horses.
Greyfriars Poltergeist
The spirit of Bluidy Mackenzie in his mausoleum
The vengeful spirit of George Mackenzie, who prosecuted the Covenanters imprisoned in that same kirkyard.
Black Shuck
Black Shuck, the spectral black dog omen of death in English folklore
Black Shuck is the spectral black dog of English folklore with flaming eyes, an infallible omen of death.
Bean Nighe
Bean Nighe, the spectral washerwoman who predicts death in the Scottish Highlands
The Bean Nighe is the female spirit of the Scottish Highlands who washes the bloodied clothes of the doomed as an omen of imminent death.
Barghest
Barghest, the black spectral hound that foretells death in Northern English folklore
The Barghest is a black spectral hound from Northern English folklore that appears with flaming eyes and a terrifying howl to foretell death.
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