Mysteries & Folklore

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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