Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: Identity Revealed Decades Later

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?