Mysteries & Folklore

Learn how true darkness surrounded the cast and crew of the first-ever vampire film, "Nosferatu".

Host Sapphire Sandalo traces the Jersey Devil’s origins, revealing how colonial anxiety and moral panic forged an American legend.

In the shadowed bayous of Louisiana's Tickfaw State Park, the legend of the Rougarou blurs the line between folklore and fear.

In the 1940s, a chicken lived for two years without his head.

Where blue mist clings to the ridgelines of the Smoky Mountains and forests remember what people forget, the legend of the Boojum stalks the borderlands between fear and folklore.

Found without passengers but full of cargo, the story of the Mary Celeste remains a mystery.

Project Blue Book episode “The Green Fireballs” finds inspiration from the strange and luminous green objects that were seen flying through New Mexico in December 1948.

The Tomb of the Unknown Solider once held four bodies. Now there are only three. What happened?

The Project Blue Book episode “The Scoutmaster” follows the events on August 15, 1952, when a scoutmaster is singed by a mysterious mist.

Ancient cultures around the world have aroused fascination, and provoked fear with curses and objects used to conjure them like rings, tablets and stones. But is there proof that some might have actually worked?

In 1962 North Carolina, a deadly car crash leads to a shocking discovery—a rare piece of American history hiding in plain sight.

In 1994, Zimbabwean kids spotted two glowing discs and sketched eerie, humanoid beings with large heads and haunting eyes.

Journey back in time to uncover how dinosaurs roamed the land and volcanoes erupted with fiery fury.

The secret society known as the Freemasons had more of an influence over the inception of the United States than many might realize.

Nostradamus' prediction of a second antichrist has intriguing parallels to Adolf Hitler.

Watch official U.S. government video of a 2004 UFO encounter, taken aboard a Navy fighter jet.

Experts recount the puzzling 1948 dogfight between World War II pilot George Gorman and a UFO, which was investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek.

Project Blue Book episode “Foo Fighters” draws from the 1944 sighting of mysterious orange lights.

Nostradamus may have foretold the coming of three antichrists beginning with Napoleon Bonaparte.

Official U.S. Navy video of a 2015 UFO encounter, taken aboard a Navy fighter jet from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, off the eastern seaboard, near the Florida coast.

Where the Rio Grande snakes between borders and generations, the weeping spirit of La Llorona drifts through time, her cries echoing not just from the banks of Mexican rivers, but from the shattered cosmologies of the Aztec world.

Explorers believe they may have found evidence of this lost ancient civilization

High above Big Sur's rugged coastline, the Dark Watchers stand as silhouettes born of Indigenous belief, Spanish encounter, and literary legend-blurring illusion and folklore while reflecting back the shadows we struggle to confront.

Sapphire Sandalo explores the Wendigo legend in Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park, tracing its roots in Algonquian tradition and the cultural factors that transformed it into a modern myth.

Project Blue Book episode “Abduction” is framed based on the 1961 reported UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill in New Hampshire.

Loch Ness expert Adrian Shine discusses his involvement with the Loch Ness Project and recaps his decades spent working to uncover the truth behind the Loch Ness monster.

Explore the true story of a strange pattern of unidentified lights seen by a group of professors from Texas Technical College in 1951.

While sweeping the Atlantic Ocean floor with sonar, researchers detect something massive: a 60-foot, shark-like creature of unimaginable proportions that may be a living megalodon, long thought to be extinct.

In 1980 in Texas, a car stopped when they saw an intense bright light. A diamond shaped object was pushing out immense heat. Watch this video and find out more about this mysterious UFO sighting.

A step by step process of how a body was prepared for mummification.

Project Blue Book episode “Operation Paperclip” takes from the true story of two pilots spotting an elongated UAP.

The Lost Book of Nostradamus reveals drawings that may contain coded clues and dire warnings about the future.

The Project Blue Book episode “War Games” draws from the unknown object detected and fired upon by soldiers in the Korean War.

The sighting of a cryptid in 1950s West Virginia set off a frenzy. What really happened?

Researchers attempt to determine what has caused hundreds of planes to mysteriously disappear in what is known as the Bermuda Triangle.

There have been thousands of UFO sightings from various civilians across the United States.

Did a tribe of warrior women really exist in the Amazon jungle?

Some historians believe an ancient Greek temple could be the palace of Atlantis described by Plato in his writings.

Could Bigfoot be descended from the prehistoric giant ape known as Gigantopithacus?

Did a ghost move a MonsterQuest camera at the Lizzie Borden home in Salem, Massachusetts?

Discover places across the country where strange phenomena are common in this clip from The UnBelievable.

In 1890, medium Helen Peters helped give the Ouija board its name. But after the board accused a relative of theft and tore her family apart, she spent the rest of her life warning others that its answers might not be truthful.

Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, but some say he never left the White House. From eerie premonitions of his own death to ghostly sightings during national crises, could the 16th president still be watching over America?

Alcatraz was built to hold America’s most dangerous criminals, but some say its dead never escaped. From phantom footsteps to haunted cells, do the spirits of inmates and guards still linger inside the prison known as The Rock?

Bloody Mary is the legendary figure said to appear when her name is repeated into a mirror. But who or what is she, where did the ritual come from and why have generations of children dared each other to summon her?

Learn about CONOP 8888, the Pentagon’s contingency plan for a zombie apocalypse.

Explore the legend of the Bell Witch through one descendant’s chilling account of a cursed doll and the woman he believed was a witch.

We make dolls in our image, name them and invite them into our homes. But across centuries of folklore, human-shaped figures have carried a darker possibility: what happens when the thing we created begins to have a will of its own?