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The Unexplained

Ghosts, cryptids and psychic claims, examined through the accounts and evidence behind them.

A Quebec farmhouse was plagued by fires, flying stones and a foul-mouthed voice that would only talk when an orphan girl was nearby.

Tales of a leaping figure who breathed blue flames spread across Victorian London, and an aristocrat was blamed for the terror.

A Japanese temple’s mermaid, said to have been caught in the eighteenth century, finally gave up its secrets to science.

A psychiatrist set out to test whether premonitions could prevent disasters, and found warnings of his own death among the predictions.

Two Yorkshire cousins cut fairies out of paper and convinced the creator of Sherlock Holmes, then could not agree on how the joke had worked.

A child-eating vampire with iron teeth sent Glasgow’s children into a graveyard and its newspapers into an argument about American horror comics.

Psychical researchers set out to manufacture a spirit from scratch, and ended up with a ghost that could not exist and would not stay quiet.

The truth is in here