On the outskirts of Pittsburgh, near where Piney Fork empties into Peters Creek, there’s an old neglected railroad tunnel covered in graffiti and filled with...
In The Devil’s Dictionary, author Ambrose “Bitter” Bierce made an interesting observation about ghosts, one that has been an arguing point for many critics against...
There’s plain-looking concrete and steel bridge near where I live that’s supposed to be haunted. It replaced a covered bridge that once crossed the Cuyahoga...
There are plenty of strange creature sightings reported by people all around the globe. Usually, these stories range from ferocious known animals in unfamiliar places...
On March 18th, 1962 a boarding-school in Kashasah, Tanzania was forced to close its doors after 95 of the 159 students began suffering bizarre and...
It seems like many of our ghost stories can be lumped into groups of similar stories: the mother throwing her baby off a bridge, the...
In February of 1947, near the Indonesian coastline, a series of strange distress calls were picked up by numerous ships and listening posts; each received...
With permission from the great dudes at MUFON, we're excited to bring you a new addition to WF: The Mufon Files; a recurring look at...
If you’ve got an internet connection and a pulse, you’ve probably heard a lot about a certain video uploaded to YouTube last weekend that involved...
On September 3rd, 1873 James Burne Worson, a man from Warwickshire, England, literally disappeared into thin air, leaving no trace as to how it happened,...
From building UFOs to their occult beliefs, it’s well-known that Nazi scientists were involved in some bizarre things during WWII, but the latest find is...
Eyes wide-open, face pale as death, what is this androgynous creature that haunts children in their bedrooms?
Located in the beautiful mountains of central Pennsylvania, was once a thriving mining community populated by over two thousand people. This town, once a home...
Did Aleister Crowley unwittingly summon the Loch Ness Monster? One might not ever have a reason to compare Nessie with the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley,...
It took years for the grass to grow again at the site where they died. Though much about their deaths and the events that led...
There is a bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland, which has, throughout the years, seen it’s fair share of suicides. Though “lovers leaps”, or suicide bridges are...
On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal takeover. After an earlier hijack attempt on WGN-9 during...
On March 18th, 1962 a Kashasah boarding-school in Tanganyika was forced to close its doors after 95 of the 159 students began suffering bizarre and sporadic fits of...
On the morning of February 9th, 1855 the townspeople of Devon, England awoke to find a series of mysterious hoof-shaped foot-prints tracked across the newly...
In October of 1853 in the town of Lynn, Massachusetts, a group of people congregated under the watchful eye of a man named John Murray...
During late night rummagings through musty old newspapers, a pox upon my friend and colleague Ken Summers for introducing me to this damnable pursuit, an...
In the state of Vermont, a monster has gone missing. Not that I believe there ever was one, mind you. But once upon a time,...
Believe it or not, there exists a form of fortune telling that consists of reading someone's past and future by staring at the corresponding cheek...
Dana Matthews takes this week off from her regular writings about strange happenings all throughout history, and instead brings us her own personal experience with...
For over 700 years scientists and mathematicians have studied the mathematical curiosity known as the Fibonacci Sequence, many arguing that it and it's "perfect number"...
Once believed to be a divine blessing from God, stigmata has been the subject of debate for centuries. Is it truly a miracle with no...
There’s no denying that the Enfield Poltergeist is one of the best-documented cases of purported paranormal activity to date. Thirty-two years later, the series of...