Paranormal Travel

Scattered across Sardinia, there are roughly 800 stone burial monuments locals call Tomba dei Giganti, tombs of giants. The name isn’t subtle. Whoever first stumbled on these things, centuries after they were built, looked at the sheer size of the stones. They decided only actual giants could have built them, or been buried inside. Nobody’s…

On August 10, 1628, tens of thousands of people gathered along the Stockholm waterfront to watch the mightiest warship Sweden had ever built set sail. The Vasa carried 64 bronze cannons across two full gun decks. Elaborate carved sculptures covered its hull, and a crew of roughly 150 sailors and soldiers stood ready aboard. It…

A chandelier hangs from the ceiling of a small chapel outside Prague. Builders shaped it to contain at least one example of every bone in the human body. Nearby, a family coat of arms stretches across a wall, rendered entirely in bleached bone. Garlands of skulls drape along the vaulted ceiling. Four massive bell-shaped mounds…

Thousands of dolls hang from the trees on a small island south of Mexico City. Some are whole. Many aren’t. Missing limbs, missing heads, faces worn down by decades of rain and sun, all strung up together in a landscape that looks less like a garden and more like a warning. You can only reach…

Every travel enthusiast knows that cities carry memories. Some destinations wear their history in grand architecture, while others whisper it through local folklore. But in a few rare corners of the world, history leaves behind a sensory ghost: the faint, unmistakable aroma of vintage tobacco smoke lingering in an empty corridor, on a sun-baked brick…

Toronto has a secret: it’s one of the most wonderfully weird major cities in North America, and almost nobody knows it. On the surface, Toronto seems more mainstream. It’s clean. It’s multicultural. It’s got excellent food and professional sports teams and financial institutions. It’s the kind of city that gets praised for being “world-class” and…

Most people who visit Paris know there are catacombs. You queue at the entrance on the Place Denfert-Rochereau, descend about 65 feet underground, walk through roughly a mile of tunnels neatly lined with the bones of six million Parisians, and come back up feeling appropriately unsettled. It is a genuinely memorable experience. It is also,…

Most people who visit Rome do what Rome tells them to do. The Colosseum. The Vatican. The Trevi Fountain. The Spanish Steps. And honestly, that itinerary is not wrong, those things are extraordinary. But there is a church about a ten-minute walk from the Colosseum that most people just walk straight past. The Basilica of…

I study mythology, folklore, and the occult. I travel the world documenting the weird, the unsettling, and the historically strange for both this blog and my Amazon Prime show, Weird World Adventures. So when I tell you that Richmond, Virginia’s ghostly history surprises people, that’s not something I say lightly. The city is no stranger…

There’s a place in northern Australia that doesn’t quite behave the way you’d expect. From a distance, it looks like a massive pile of dark, broken rock… nothing especially dramatic at first glance. But get closer, and it starts to feel different. Like something about the landscape is just slightly off. This is Kalkajaka National…

White beaches, turquoise water, palm trees, fishing boats rocking in small harbors — it’s easy to picture islands as places where people go to relax and escape the rest of the world. But not every beautiful island has a peaceful past. Some islands that look almost like postcards today have histories that are far darker…

Few houses in the world carry the weight of both true crime and paranormal legend like the Amityville Horror House. Nestled on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island, New York, this unassuming colonial home became infamous in 1974 when the DeFeo family tragedy and the chilling accounts of the Lutz family thrust it into the…

A lot of the world’s most famous tourist attractions look peaceful today. People take photos, buy souvenirs, and maybe sit at a café. But many of them have much darker histories than most visitors realize. Some were once sites of executions, revolutions, battles, or political violence that changed the course of history. Over time, those…

Borley Rectory didn’t become famous because one shocking thing happened there. It became famous because many small, uncertain things happened over a long period of time, and because those things were recorded, argued over, and retold until the place itself stopped being just a house and turned into a case study. By the time Borley…

For a while, there was a neighborhood on Taiwan’s northern coast that looked like it had been dropped there by accident. Just outside Taipei, along the shoreline in Sanzhi, sat a cluster of brightly colored, round houses that looked more like flying saucers than homes. They were perched on concrete stilts, facing the ocean, and…

The Skirrid Mountain Inn sits at the edge of the Black Mountains in southeast Wales, just outside the town of Abergavenny. If you didn’t know anything about it, you could drive past and not think twice. It looks like what it is now: a low, whitewashed stone building with a heavy roof, thick walls, and…

The Myrtles Plantation sits just outside St. Francisville, Louisiana, surrounded by live oaks and the kind of humidity that never really goes away. It’s usually introduced as one of the most haunted houses in America, but that label tends to flatten what the place actually is: a working 19th-century plantation with a complicated history that’s…

In February 1978, five men from Yuba City, California, disappeared after attending a college basketball game in nearby Chico. What initially appeared to be a routine missing persons case gradually turned into one of the most perplexing mysteries in American history. Although investigators eventually located the men’s car and several of their bodies, the circumstances…

Cachtice Castle sits on a hill in western Slovakia, half-ruined and very aware of its reputation. Even in daylight, it feels like a place people have already decided how to feel about. That’s because this castle is inseparable from the name Elizabeth Báthory. The “Blood Countess.” One of the most infamous women in European history.…

Some museums are meant to soothe you. These are not those museums. These are the places that sit with the uncomfortable parts of human behavior: the violence, the obsession, the mistakes, the systems that failed, and the people who fell through the cracks. They’re not about shock for shock’s sake (well, not entirely). They’re about…

If you spend enough time diving into the weirder corners of the internet, you inevitably run into a cryptid that feels less like a monster and more like an inside joke. And no creature captures that energy better than the Fresno Nightcrawler, a being that, according to the videos we have, looks suspiciously like… a…

There’s something about horror movies that hits different when you realize parts of them actually happened. Or worse, that the places are real. Somewhere out there, you could literally book a stay and then wonder if you just brought a curse home with you. So, let’s take a look at some of the real-world places…

Every small town in America has its monster. Somewhere it’s a woman in white. Elsewhere it’s a hairy figure crossing lonely backroads at night. But in Northern Virginia, the monster wears a bunny suit. It’s absurd, it’s unsettling, and it’s been scaring people for over fifty years. The story of the Bunny Man is one…

If you’ve ever watched The Twilight Zone, you know that creeping feeling — the moment when an ordinary street or a friendly face suddenly feels… off. That strange mix of nostalgia and unease didn’t come out of a Hollywood writer’s room. It was born in a quiet corner of upstate New York, in the hometown…

You’re driving through the deep, humid heart of the American South. The asphalt is cracking, the air is thick with humidity, and the trees are ancient. Out here in the rolling hills of Tennessee, there’s a quiet that just feels wrong. And just past the tiny, sleepy town of Adams, tucked away among forgotten backroads,…