Folklore
Samantha Houston and Love Letters
Historians have found no evidence for the story of Samantha Houston, a girl said to have died at the Driskill hotel in Austin, Texas, Austin Monthly reports. A painting there, Love Letters, is said to be haunted by her.
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Folklore
Sarah Ellen Roberts, the Pisco vampire
Sarah Ellen Roberts, an Englishwoman buried in Pisco, Peru, became the subject of a vampire legend. On 9 June 1993, eighty years after her death, crowds gathered at her grave.
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Folklore
Sonjō and the weeping woman of Akanuma
In a dream, a weeping woman stands at Sonjō's pillow and asks why he killed her husband. They were happy together at Akanuma, she tells him.
Something ToldObscurity 4 of 7
Folklore
The 99-Door Mansion (Caledonia House)
Caledonia House, an abandoned mansion in Penang, Malaysia, built for the Ramsden family and rumoured to be haunted since John St Maur Ramsden was shot dead there in 1948.
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Folklore
The Armero curse
Armero, Colombia, was destroyed by mudflows from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in 1985, and over 23,000 people died. In Armero Guayabal some people still say a murdered priest had cursed the town.
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Folklore
The Bernardo de Gálvez portrait
A painting of Bernardo de Gálvez, a Spanish general, that hangs in Galveston's Hotel Galvez in Texas. Local folklore says photographs of it fail unless you ask his permission first.
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Folklore
The Devil Baby of Hull-House
A rumour of a hoofed, tailed, talking Devil Baby that brought crowds of women to Hull-House in Chicago, recorded by Jane Addams in her 1916 book The Long Road of Woman's Memory.
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Folklore
The Devil's Rocking Chair
A rocking chair tied to a claimed possession case told in The Devil in Connecticut, a book, bought by Zak Bagans in 2019 and shown at his Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. A Glatzel brother has called the possession story phony.
Something Left BehindObscurity 3 of 7
Folklore
The Dragon's Triangle (Devil's Sea)
A supposed danger zone near Japan, also called the Devil's Sea, promoted by the writer Berlitz in his 1989 book The Dragon's Triangle. Larry Kusche traced the legend to a 1955 New York Times article and found nothing unusual behind the losses.
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Folklore
The German Girl of Pulau Ubin
A shrine on Pulau Ubin, Singapore, to a German girl said to have died in a quarry in August 1914; William L. Gibson found no evidence her family lived on the island and traced the story to a man named Chia, first in print in 1987.
Somewhere You Can GoObscurity 4 of 7