The archive / 5 case files

Folklore

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

Four boys found a woman’s skull inside a Worcestershire tree, beginning a mystery of anonymous messages, suspected spies and alleged witchcraft.

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