The Top 20 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time
Top 20 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, The Taco Liberty Bell and many more hoaxes which took general public for a ride 🙂
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Urban Legends
Top 10 Bermuda Triangle Theories
The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area with it’s points being at Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and San Juan Puerto Rico. In this area, over the course of time, many different aircraft and boats have mysteriously disappeared without a trace, leading many to believe that the triangle has something unusual about it that is swallowing up people, planes, and boats.
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Tomino’s Hell – Japanese Urban Legend
This is popular Japanese story is about a poem called ‘Tominos Hell’ They say that you should only read with your mind, and never out loud. If you were to read it out loud, then you must take responsibility for your actions.
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Time Travelers
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to some moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period (at least not at the normal rate)
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The Mysterious Gurus & Cults
Cults seem an enigma. We all know of their existence, or have heard of their more extreme measures such as mass suicide or even violence. Yet most cults are quite innocuous. But still the mystery remains.
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Unexplained Mysteries – Urban Legend of Bunnyman Bridge
There are many variations to the legend, but most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume (‘bunny suit’) who attacks people with an axe. Many variations occur around ‘Bunny Man Bridge’, the concrete tunnel of a Southern Railway overpass on Colchester Road in Clifton.
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The Curse of Macbeth – Haunted House
One of Shakespeares more popular plays, Macbeth has a bizarre and dangerous past, going right back to its premiere performance in the early 1600s. Two such superstitions float around Macbeth. The first is that it’s bad luck to even say Macbeth except during rehearsal or performance.
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Folklore in Trinidad & Tobago
Superstitions and Folklore Characters in Trinidad & Tobago well be similar to other Caribbean countries with slight variations in name of the character
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The Devil’s Footprints
The Devils Footprints was the name given to a peculiar phenomenon that occurred in Devon, England on 8 February 1855. After a light snowfall, during the night, a series of hoof-like marks appeared in the snow.
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The Cursed Diamond (Hope Diamond)
The Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries. Its perfect quality, its large size 45.52 carats (9.10 g), and its rare color (fancy deep blue diamond) make it strikingly unique and beautiful, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The Bloody Countess
Countess Elizabeth Bathory, was a Hungarian countess from the renowned Báthory family, has often been described as Countess Dracula. She is possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the ‘Blood Countess’ and as the ‘Bloody Lady of Cachtice’
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The Tarim Mummies – The Deads Tell a Tale
The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BC to 200 AD. In addition to being very well-preserved finds, controversy flows around them as DNA tests seem to show that they are the result of Asian and Caucasian mating thousands of years before it’s commonly thought that the two peoples intermingled.
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Secrets of the Voodoo Tomb – Unexplained Mysteries
Among the sites associated with New Orleans voodoo is the tomb of its greatest figure, Marie Laveau. For several decades this ‘voodoo queen’ held New Orleans spellbound-figuratively, of course, but some would say literally, as legends of her occult powers continue to captivate. She staged ceremonies in which participants became possessed by loas (voodoo spirits) and danced naked around bonfires;
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Unexplained Mysteries of Voodoo’s power
Voodoo is a religious tradition originating in West Africa, which became prominent in the New World due to the importation of African slaves. West African Vodun is the original form of the religion; Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo are its descendants in the New World.
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Voodoo Fetish Market, Africa’s Voodoo Supermarket
Togos Akodessewa Fetish Market is recognized as the largest fetish market in the world, a place where Voodoo practitioner can find anything they need for their rituals.
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