Browse UFO case files, paranormal reports, historical texts and research dossiers. These are accounts and leads for investigation—not proof of an extraordinary explanation.
To combine details, compare matches and investigate connections across the collection, create an account and search Anomaly Graph.
Not sure where to begin? Our research guides explain how to follow sources, compare accounts and turn matches into a useful investigation.
53,266 published records with substantive text · Page 974 of 1,110
Harder was the fate of another maiden, Archange Simonet, for she was seized by a were-wolf at this place and hurried away while dancing at her own wedding
Read record →The man-wolf dared as much for gain as for love
Read record →When the Hurons came to Sandwich, opposite the Michigan shore, in 1806, and camped near the church for the annual “festival of savages,” which was religious primarily, but incidentally gastronomic, athletic, and alcoholic, an old woman of the tribe foretold to
Read record →Among all the impish offspring of the Stone God, wizards and witches, that made Detroit feared by the early settlers, none were more dreaded than the Nain Rouge (Red Dwarf), or Demon of the Strait, for it appeared only when there was to be trouble
Read record →rs or more, could and did leap every wall in Detroit, even the twelve-foot stockade of the fort, to steal corn and watermelons, and that had been seen in the same barn, sitting at a table, playing seven-up with his master, and drinking a liquor that looked lik
Read record →k to wife the Dakota girl, Minnehaha (“Laughing Water”), hunted, fought, and lived as a warrior; yet, when need came, he could change his form to any shape of bird, fish, or plant that he wished
Read record →A frenzy swept over the West in 1890, inspiring the Indians by promise of the coming of one of superhuman power, who was generally believed to be Hiawatha, to threaten the destruction of the white population, since it had been foretold that the Messiah would d
Read record →When matters were at their darkest one of the young men who had been fasting for ten days--the Indian custom when divine direction was sought addressed his companions to this effect: “Last night there stood by me the form of a young man, clothed in white, who
Read record →The minister told his neighbors of this adventure, and on returning with two of them to the spot next morning they found the body of old man Baker swinging by the neck from a beam of the bridge exactly beneath where the apparition had stood--for it must have b
Read record →If war parties, emigrants, cowboys, hunters, any who for good or ill are going through this country, pass the haunted butte at night, the rocks are lighted with phosphor flashes and the banshee sweeps upon them
Read record →Hearing no sound, now, he glanced back and saw the wild train almost leap upon his own--yet just before it touched it the track seemed to spread, the engine toppled from the bank, the whole train rolled into the canon and vanished
Read record →Did they lose their provisions and starve in the desert?
Read record →Walking to the bride the body drew her from the arms of her husband, who, like the rest of the company, stood as in a trance, without the power of motion, and clasping her to its bosom began a waltz
Read record →Suha taught his people to build adobe houses, to dig with shovels, to irrigate their land, to weave cloth, and avoid wars
Read record →After they had lived near the mountain for five years the “little people” learned that the Zunis were advancing from the south and made preparations for defence
Read record →When a Comanche dies he is buried on the western side of the camp, that his soul may follow the setting sun into the spirit world the speedier
Read record →Lolomi obeyed these instructions, for presently a giant loomed in the distance and came striding across the plains half a mile at a step
Read record →He was belated one night and entered the vale of mounds, for he had no scruples against sleeping there
Read record →Umatilla, chief of the Indians at the Cascades of the Columbia, was one of the few red men of his time who favored peace with the white settlers and lent no countenance to the fierce revels of the “potlatch.” In these “feasts of gifts” the savages, believing t
Read record →A fierce-looking reprobate who was superintending the game glanced up, and, seeing Paddy's pale face, gave such a leap in his direction that the Irishman fled with a howl of terror and never stopped till he reached his door, when, on turning about, he found th
Read record →A tree of unknown age--the Old Elm--stood on Boston Common until within a few years
Read record →It was reputed that some of the treasure was buried on the shore by the robbers
Read record →The oldest house at Fort Neck, Long Island, was known for years as the haunted house, and the grave of its owner--Captain Jones--was called the pirate's grave, for, in the last century, Jones was accused of piracy and smuggling, and there have been those who s
Read record →It was after the turn of the century when a boat put in, one evening, at Cold Spring Bay, and next morning the inhabitants found footprints leading to and from a spot where some children had discovered a knotted rope projecting from the soil
Read record →On the shore of Oneida Lake is an Indian's grave, where a ball of light is wont to swing and dance
Read record →More than forty years after these events a meeting of Spiritualists was held in Columbia City, and a “medium” announced that she had received a revelation of the exact spot where the goods had been concealed
Read record →It is hardly to be wondered at that two prominent scientists should have declared on behalf of the sea-serpent, for that remarkable creature has been reported at so many points, and by so many witnesses not addicted to fish tales nor liquor, that there ought t
Read record →All but one of these Klamaths stole away after they had looked into its circular basin and sheer walls
Read record →The shadowy leaguers of Gloucester, Massachusetts, kept the garrison of that place in a state of fright until they were expelled from the neighborhood by a silver bullet and a chaplain's prayers
Read record →The charge of witchcraft was not pressed, because the man had obtained what he wanted, but the poor, houseless creature laid a ban on the place and told the thief that he would never have pleasure nor profit out of it
Read record →The snowballs were packed so tightly that they did not break on striking, though they were thrown with force, and Kirk was considerably bruised by them
Read record →So hideous is this demon that few of the mountaineers have courage to drink here, and they refuse to believe that the apparition is caused by the shape of the basin, or aberrated reflection of their own faces
Read record →Her friends commended to her affections a young chief who had valiantly defended the village against an attack of hostiles, but Juliet would none of this dusky Count de Paris, adhering faithfully to her Romeo
Read record →The air then seemed to be flooded with rosy light and thousands of sylvan genii ascended altars of rock, by steps of rainbow, to offer incense and greet the sun with song
Read record →The Indians account in this manner for the birth of the White Mountains: A red hunter who had wandered for days through the forest without finding game dropped exhausted on the snow, one night, and awaited death
Read record →rom my early career as a mystical entertainer I have been interested in Spiritualism as belonging to the category of mysticism, and as a side line to my own phase of mystery shows I have associated myself with mediums, joining the rank and file and held seance
Read record →In attending seances I have always made a pledge of honor with myself to banish all profane thoughts from my mind to the utmost of my ability
Read record →Distressed relatives catch at the least word which may remotely indicate that the Spirit which they seek is in communication with them
Read record →The fact that they are scientists does not endow them with an especial gift for detecting the particular sort of fraud used by mediums, nor does it bar them from being deceived, especially when they are fortified in their belief by grief, for the various books
Read record →During the last thirty years I have read every single piece of literature on the subject of Spiritualism that I could
Read record →This much travelled, much experienced man of the world was instantly and irresistibly attracted to the young medium
Read record →“Then the next day I would drown my remorse in wine
Read record →This second marriage was most romantic
Read record →Sothern, who were appearing at the Theatre Royal
Read record →“At the termination of the seance a general conversation took place on the subject of what we had heard and witnessed
Read record →“Some persons think that the requirement of darkness seems to infer trickery
Read record →Then too his mother had the reputation of being possessed of so-called “second-sight” and he may have inherited traits which helped to make the life of a medium look attractive to him
Read record →whose chief purpose seems to have been to establish the impression that while all other mediums cheated at times Home was strictly honest on all occasions, and in proof it was said that he was never exposed and never received a fee for his sittings
Read record →