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The Gandillon Werewolf Family
Painting of Henri Boguet, the French judge who recorded the Gandillons’ story and took part in their trial. One werewolf is incredulous enough, but a whole family of werewolves? Such a story happened...
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A Warning Unheeded: A Victorian Account of Precognitive Dreams
Painting of Frederick George Lee. Today’s article is an account from Frederick George Lee’s 1885 “Glimpses in the Twilight: Being Various Notes, Records, and Examples of the Supernatural.” Lee was an...
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The Airline Stewardess who Starved Herself to Death for Aliens
A picture of Gloria Lee from her first book, “Why We Are Here.” In September 1953, 28-year-old Gloria Lee began to hear a strange voice in her head. Fortunately, the voice didn’t claim to be a...
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Zenhachi’s Unhappy Grandson: A Story of Reincarnation from 19th Century Japan
Portrait of Kyokutei Bakin, the author of Rabbit Garden Tales. Rabbit Garden Tales is a collection of strange stories gathered by the Edo-era Japanese novelist Kyokutei Bakin. The collection...
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Bipedal Octopus Dwarves from Beyond the Stars
Drawings by Yoshihiro Fujiwara of the aliens he saw in 1974. Part of the fun in reading UFO stories, at least for me, is the descriptions of the aliens themselves. Outside of the usual grays and...
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Androids Amok in Argentina
In 1963, Eugenio Douglas was allegedly attacked by a UFO and chased by robot-like aliens in Argentina. On October 12, 1963, in the middle of a terrible storm around 3 AM, Mateo Manocchio and his wife,...
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The Kabukichou Love Hotel Murders
Between March and June 1981, Tokyo’s red-light district was the sight of three unsolved murders, all of which occurred in love hotels. Back in the 1980s, Akina Nakamori was one of the biggest pop stars...
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A Brief History of a Satanic Armchair
La sillon del Diablo, or “The Devil’s Armchair,” is a cursed chair that’s said to kill anybody who sits in it. The Museo de Valladolid is a museum in the Spanish city of Valladolid that divides its...
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The Boy Who Was Zapped By a UFO
Drawing of a UFO that supposedly attacked a boy in Spain in October 1977. It was the night of October 1, 1977. 7-year-old Martin Rodríguez was playing a game of hide-and-seek with some amigos in...
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The Kuykendall Family Phone “Hack”
In 2007, three families in Tacoma, Washington claimed to be the victims of a hacker who spied on them through their cellphones. Today’s post is a guest article written by Carla. In February 2007,...
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How Gnomes Drove an Artist to Kill Herself
The Castle of La Boca, named after the neighborhood in Buenos Aires where it stands, is a big and beautiful representation of Catalan modernism. It’s also supposedly haunted, which is why many people...
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A Skeptical Law Student
Antonio de Torquemada. In the “Garden of Curious Flowers (1570),” a hodgepodge work of miscellanies that had the proud distinction of being banned by the Inquisition, the Spanish author Antonio de...
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A Haunting on Fuencarral Street
Diego de Torres Villarroel It would probably be easier to tell you what the 18th century Spanish writer Diego de Torres Villarroel didn’t do. According to his highly picaresque autobiography, Torres...
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The Demon of Spreyton
Modern-day picture of Spreyton, England In November 1682, Francis Fey was a 20-year-old servant in the service of Philip Furze, a landowner who lived in the little English village of Spreyton. One day,...
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The Alien Who Needed a New Head
A magazine photo of Mr.F, the baffled protagonist of today’s story. During the 1970s, Japan was swept by a boom of new interest in the occult. Spoon-bending, Nostradamus, New Age religions, and...
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Hieronyma and Her Incubus
An 1879 painting of an incubus. The 17th century priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari was a thinker who tackled some of the most pressing questions of his time. Could demons and humans, for example, have...
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Invasion of the Russian Robotoids
Forget the Body Snatchers- the Russian Robotoids are here! Between June 1975 and November 1982, conspiracy theorist Peter Beter released a series of cassette tapes that he called “audio letters.” In...
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The Girl Who Ate Fairy Food
Drawing of Ann Jefferies and her fairies, from Robert Hunt’s “Popular Romances of the West of England.” In 1696, the English printer Moses Pitt wrote a peculiar letter to Edward Fowler, Bishop of...
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The Farmer Who Traveled 800,000,000 Miles
Buck Nelson: Farmer, contactee, and UFO convention organizer. In the early days of contactees and UFOs, the Missouri farmer Buck Nelson was a breath of fresh air. While other contactees figured talking...
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The Terrassa Double Suicide
José Félix Rodríguez Montero and Juan Turu Vallés I’d like to think chasing UFOs is generally a harmless hobby. If any of the stories at Bizarre and Grotesque are to be believed (and they shouldn’t...
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