Mysteries & Folklore

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?

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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?