Everything in the atlas

Al Jazirat Al Hamra is an abandoned pearling town in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, left by its people in 1968. Locals widely say its empty houses and mosque are haunted, and some say jinn live there.

Albasty is a female demon in the beliefs of Turkic peoples. Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Siberian Tatar tradition blames it for harm to women in childbirth and to mothers of young babies.

Aleister Crowley said a voice he called Aiwass dictated Liber AL vel Legis to him in Cairo over three days from 8 April 1904.

The karakoncolos is a winter figure of Turkish folklore said to roam the streets in the coldest part of the season, Its name is tied to the Greek kallikantzaros, and scholars disagree over whether the word began in Turkish or Greek.

Lilith is a female figure of Jewish texts and practice, feared as a threat to childbirth and newborns and, in a medieval telling, Adam's first wife. Childbirth amulets tied to her story are still used by women today.

In December 2009 many Coptic Christians said the Virgin Mary appeared above a church in Warraq, Giza. Others asked whether it was a flash of light.

Tepegöz is a one-eyed monster in the Book of Dede Korkut, a collection of Turkic epic tales. A. Guseynova says he was born to a shepherd and a peri, and Wikipedia says Basat killed him.

A treasure dug illegally from burial mounds in Uşak Province, Turkey, bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and said by some in Uşak to carry a curse on the men who dug it up.

Early on 19 September 1976, people in Tehran reported a bright light overhead, and Iranian Air Force F-4 jets were sent up to intercept it.

Lord Carnarvon died in Cairo on 5 April 1923 after an infected mosquito bite. Press stories then linked his death to a curse on the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Umm al-Duwais is a figure of Emirati and Gulf folklore: a beautiful woman with a cat's eyes who calls men to follow her, then turns into a frightening old woman and kills them. In Qatar she is called Umm Ghannan.

Wadi al-Baida, known as Wadi al-Jinn, is a valley in al-Baida Park about 30 km northwest of Medina, Saudi Arabia, where cars left out of gear seem to roll uphill. Many people credit jinn, Arab News reported; Wikipedia calls it an optical illusion.

The āl is a figure of folk belief in Iran, Armenia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, feared as a danger to women in childbirth. In Persian belief she lives in springs and comes to a new mother left alone.