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Necrotizing fasciitis-infected bananas have been the boogeyman of potassium lovers and people who enjoy checking their email unmolested by chain letters for over a decade. Now, rumors of flesh-eating bananas are resurging in Mozambique, where an email hoax is bedeviling plantain superfans. The email's spurious medical warning advises readers to avoid bananas for three weeks, reports AFP: More »
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There is a "fact" going around the internet that a person is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider. But can a champagne cork really murder a human being? More »
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Over the course of August, Sri Lanka's countryside has been whipped into a mass hysteria by an urban legend known as "the grease devil." Rumors of these supernatural prowlers have rural townspeople attacking suspected grease devils, and people are dying as a result. More »
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Here in America, the most famous urban legends tend to skew on the grisly side (see: The Hookman, the hand-licking escaped mental patient). But in South Korean urban folklore, there's an ever better villain: the killer, breath-stealing electric fan. More »
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The Chupacabra, a legendary blood-sucking cryptid, appeared on The X-Files, had its own series called Chupacabra: Dark Seas, and enjoys near-mascot status in Texas. Now it seems it may have its origins in the movie Species. More »
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When a photo of a chupacabra appears in the news, it tends to be a shriveled, hairless, canine-looking corpse. According to University of Michigan biologist Barry OConnor, these chupacabra corpses are simply coyotes with sarcoptic mange (a.k.a. scabies). More »
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Speed demons have been tearing down Lemon Tree Passage Road near Newcastle, Australia to summon a motorcycling apparition. The motorcyclist was killed by a speeder in 2007, and police are plenty miffed about these high-speed seances. More »
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Massachusetts' Bridgewater Triangle is ground zero for all manner of pseudoscientific phenomena, such as ghost hitchhikers, black helicopters, and Indian burial grounds. In short, the area is the entire oeuvre of Stephen King in the wrong state. [Boston via Cryptomundo] More »
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The latest pair of possible Bigfoot sightings has confirmed our suspicions: The Hendersons' favorite house guest hates posing for pictures. A footprint was discovered in the jungle of Sumatra, and yet another candid was taken in Kentucky. More »
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This creepy image was snapped by Google for its Street View map feature. It shows what seems to be a floating Victorian ghost in Cardiff, right near the Torchwood headquarters. More »
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A few months back, the people of Salta, Argentina were being brutally walk-assaulted by gnome like creatures, and this October, there is creepy new gnome footage. I personally believe that this isn't a woodland creature, but instead a tiny alien race slowly taking over our world; to quote my man Casey from The Faculty, "If you were going to take over the world, would you blow up the White House 'Independence Day' style, or sneak in through the back door? " Is David the Gnome finally enacting his vengeance for the human's mistreatment of his animal friends, or an alien master race? Either way our pointy headed friend can do a mean Hammer crawl. Check out the two homemade videos of pointy hatted proof. More »
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