The Files
Case notes on cryptids, UFOs, and the things science hasn't closed the book on.
The Chupacabra: The Goat-Sucker Legend, and the...
Eight drained sheep in Puerto Rico, 1995. Then a witness described the creature — and a researcher noticed she'd just seen the same thing in a movie. The full chupacabra...
The Chupacabra: The Goat-Sucker Legend, and the...
Eight drained sheep in Puerto Rico, 1995. Then a witness described the creature — and a researcher noticed she'd just seen the same thing in a movie. The full chupacabra...
The Wendigo: What the Algonquian Tradition Actu...
The wendigo isn't a deer skull with antlers — that image is traceable pop-culture invention. Here's what the wiindigoo actually means in Ojibwe and Cree tradition, in the words of...
The Wendigo: What the Algonquian Tradition Actu...
The wendigo isn't a deer skull with antlers — that image is traceable pop-culture invention. Here's what the wiindigoo actually means in Ojibwe and Cree tradition, in the words of...
What Is a Skinwalker? The Navajo Tradition Behi...
The skinwalker is TikTok's favorite scary story — and one of the most misunderstood. Here's what the yee naaldlooshii actually is in Navajo tradition, told with the respect the subject...
What Is a Skinwalker? The Navajo Tradition Behi...
The skinwalker is TikTok's favorite scary story — and one of the most misunderstood. Here's what the yee naaldlooshii actually is in Navajo tradition, told with the respect the subject...
Is Bigfoot Real? The Evidence For and Against
A century of sightings, one famous film, and not a single bone. Here's the honest case for and against Bigfoot — the Patterson–Gimlin footage, the DNA results, and the question...
Is Bigfoot Real? The Evidence For and Against
A century of sightings, one famous film, and not a single bone. Here's the honest case for and against Bigfoot — the Patterson–Gimlin footage, the DNA results, and the question...
The Most Famous Cryptids in America: A Field Gu...
Draw a map of the United States and you can't help drawing its monsters, too. There's a winged figure over the Ohio River in West Virginia. A giant, shy ape...
The Most Famous Cryptids in America: A Field Gu...
Draw a map of the United States and you can't help drawing its monsters, too. There's a winged figure over the Ohio River in West Virginia. A giant, shy ape...
Is Mothman Real? Sightings, Theories & The Silv...
Just before midnight on 15 November 1966, two young married couples — Roger and Linda Scarberry, Steve and Mary Mallette — were driving through the abandoned TNT area north of...
Is Mothman Real? Sightings, Theories & The Silv...
Just before midnight on 15 November 1966, two young married couples — Roger and Linda Scarberry, Steve and Mary Mallette — were driving through the abandoned TNT area north of...