Abilities
Automatic Writing
Writing attributed to an unconscious, spiritual, or paranormal source.
strange things, carefully told
Supernatural & Folklore
A field guide to folklore, reported creatures, uncanny experiences, and the stories fiction makes from them. Traditions, claims, and screen inventions stay clearly separated.
67 entries
A–Z
A
Folklore
Banshee
An Irish otherworld woman whose lament foretells a death.
Folklore
Barghest
An ominous northern English apparition often described as an enormous black dog.
Folklore
Basilisk
A legendary serpent whose venom, breath, or gaze can make merely approaching it fatal.
Cryptids
Beast of Bray Road
A modern Wisconsin legend centered on reports of a wolf-like biped.
Cryptids
Bigfoot
A reputed large, hair-covered biped associated with North American forests.
Folklore
Black Shuck
A spectral black dog said to haunt the roads, coast, and countryside of East Anglia.
Folklore
Boggart
A troublesome supernatural presence attached to a household or a particular place.
Folklore
Brownie
A household spirit that performs chores at night but can abandon a home when offended.
Cryptids
Chupacabra
A modern livestock-predator legend whose reported appearance changed as it spread beyond Puerto Rico.
Folklore
Church Grim
A supernatural guardian of a church or churchyard, often appearing as a black dog.
Abilities
Clairvoyance
The claimed perception of distant or hidden information without ordinary senses.
Folklore
Cockatrice
A rooster-and-serpent creature associated with unnatural hatching and a lethal gaze.
Cursed objects
Cursed Object
An object believed to bring misfortune, danger, or supernatural influence.
Folklore
Death Omen
An occurrence interpreted as a warning that someone will die.
Folklore
Domovoi
A household spirit connected to a family, its home, and domestic life.
Folklore
Doppelgänger
An uncanny double whose appearance challenges identity and presence.
Cryptids
Dover Demon
A large-headed humanoid reported by teenagers during two nights in 1977.
Folklore
Draugr
A restless dead being of Norse tradition, often possessing a dangerous physical presence.
Folklore
Dullahan
A headless otherworld rider associated with death omens in Irish tradition.
Folklore
Each-uisge
A predatory water horse whose inviting appearance can become a trap.
Folklore
Enchanted Rock Legends
A Hill Country landmark surrounded by stories of restless spirits, strange sounds, and hidden riches.
Folklore
Fachan
A monstrous figure from Highland tradition with one eye, one leg, and a single hand projecting from its chest.
Cryptids
Flatwoods Monster
A towering figure reported after a bright object crossed the West Virginia sky in 1952.
Cryptids
Fresno Nightcrawler
A legs-only figure born from surveillance footage and internet retelling.
Ghosts
Ghost
A perceived presence or manifestation associated with a person who has died.
Folklore
Golem
A humanlike figure brought to life from inert material through sacred knowledge.
Folklore
Grindylow
A lurking water creature used to warn children away from dangerous pools and ponds.
Fictional beings
Harker
A fictional Texas predator from LUV & WOO, Book 1, said to emerge from abandoned wellhouses when the ground runs dry.
Cryptids
Hopkinsville Goblins
Small luminous figures reported outside a farmhouse during a 1955 encounter.
Folklore
Huldra
A beautiful forest being whose human appearance conceals an unmistakably inhuman detail.
Cryptids
Jersey Devil
A Pine Barrens legend shaped by family history, religious conflict, and newspaper sensation.
Folklore
Jiangshi
A reanimated corpse in Chinese tradition, widely recognized through its stiff, hopping cinematic form.
Folklore
Kappa
A Japanese water-being often depicted with webbed limbs, a shell, and a water-filled hollow on its head.
Shapeshifters
Kelpie
A dangerous water being that commonly takes the form of a horse.
Shapeshifters
Kitsune
Japanese fox beings whose stories range from trickery to devotion and sacred service.
Ghosts
La Llorona
A wandering woman whose cries for her children haunt the waterways.
Folklore
Lady in Blue
A mysterious religious visitor associated with a Spanish nun’s reported presence on two continents.
Folklore
Leshy
A forest spirit whose territory does not necessarily follow human rules.
Cryptids
Loch Ness Monster
The famous modern lake-monster legend of Loch Ness.
Folklore
Mal de Ojo
A belief that another person’s gaze or intense admiration can bring harm.
Folklore
Mare
A nighttime being believed to press upon sleepers, bringing oppressive dreams and a sensation of suffocation.
Folklore
Marfa Lights
Distant West Texas lights surrounded by eyewitness accounts, speculation, and ghost stories.
Folklore
Merrow
An Irish merfolk figure associated with encounters between human lives and the sea.
Cryptids
Mothman
A winged red-eyed figure reported around Point Pleasant in 1966–67.
Fictional beings
Musca — Supernatural
A flylike humanoid from Supernatural, belonging to a community that usually avoids human attention.
Folklore
Nøkk
A shapeshifting water spirit associated with dangerous encounters at lakes and rivers.
Folklore
Nuckelavee
A skinless sea monster from Orcadian folklore, blamed for disease, ruined crops, and deadly encounters on land.
Ghosts
Poltergeist
A pattern of unexplained noises and moving objects attributed to an unseen agency.
Abilities
Precognition
The claimed perception of an event before it occurs.
Abilities
Psychokinesis
The claimed ability to affect matter without physical contact.
Folklore
Púca
An Irish shapeshifting spirit known for strange appearances, frightening encounters, and wild nighttime rides.
Folklore
Redcap
A murderous goblin of border ruins, said to stain its cap with its victims’ blood.
Ghosts
Revenant
A dead person believed to return bodily and trouble the living.
Shapeshifters
Selkie
Seal people who remove their skins to take human form.
Ghosts
Shadow Person
A dark humanlike form reported at the edge of vision or during sleep disruption.
Shapeshifters
Shapeshifter
A broad motif for beings or people who change bodily form.
Ghosts
Sleep Paralysis
A sleep-state event that can include immobility, pressure, and vivid sensed presences.
Fictional beings
Soul Eater — Supernatural
A predator that traps souls inside a distorted version of the house it occupies.
Abilities
Telepathy
The claimed direct transfer of information between minds.
Folklore
Tommyknocker
A mine spirit whose knocking may signal danger beneath the ground.
Folklore
Vampire
A returning dead figure associated with bodily harm, blood, or life-force loss.
Folklore
Waco Cat-Witch Legend
A man kills an attacking cat—and discovers the same fatal injury on his wife.
Folklore
Wendigo
A cannibalistic being associated with winter, insatiable hunger, and destructive greed in several Indigenous traditions.
Shapeshifters
Werewolf
A person believed or imagined to become a wolf or wolf-like being.
Folklore
Will-o’-the-Wisp
An elusive night light said to lead travelers away from safe ground.
Fictional beings
Zanna — Supernatural
Benevolent beings in Supernatural who become children’s imaginary friends.
Read beyond the legend.
Winn can feel everyone’s emotions. Lark gives her nothing. On a Texas ranch with monsters beneath the house, that silence might be the most dangerous thing she’s found.