South Korean's Yeongdeok haunted house.

 

The Yeongdeok Haunted House (historically known as Wooseok Garden) is  located in Gyeongsang Province on the eastern coastline.

 The house was built in October 1980 as a family owned  seafood restaurant near the beach, though it now lays in severe disrepair and over the past four plus decades since it's construction it has become one of the most well known  haunted houses in South Korea.

According to legend,  the ghost's are the former student solders that died during a diversion operation at Jangsari beach in Yeongdeok while  drawing the North Koreans attention away from the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War.

Around 400 to 700 young  soldiers tragically lost their lives during this battle and are belived to have been buried in this area. It is said that while 139 were killed and 92 were wounded (officially), the rest just went missing. 

The reason for the haunting is because the house was supposedly built on top of the mass grave of the soldiers that died there.

Though that's how the legend goes many locals also claim that's not true.

 The house has been featured on several lists as Korea’s most haunted and in the top three haunted locations in many publications.

This house has also been featured in several TV, paranormal special's, nline articles and in countless YouTube paranormal investigation's.

Visitors have reported headaches,  equipment malfunctions and even EVP's ( electronic voice phenomena) Ghost talking on recording.. 

One famous shaman that visited the location claimed their are in fact thousands of spirits there.

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Urban Legends 

In one story, a young couple once bought the place to turn it into a seafood restaurant as they got it cheap because of the haunted rumors. But not soon after they opened for business strange things started to happen. 

The wife reported spotting a ghost in the staircase, descending from the second floor again and again with the hair hanging down and when she first saw it she is reported to have fainted at the spot by the mere sight of it. It all was too much and they ended up abandoning the place not soon after because of all the incidents that kept occuring in their home.

In another version of this story the husband died in a car crash and the wife later flees the house because of the frightening ghost in the stairs .

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According to a slightly different variation of this tale the first owner died in a car accident shortly after opening the restaurant. The second buyer reported a woman ghost descending the staircase with her hair hanging down, fainted at the sight, and abandoned the property within months. A third occupant, who practiced traditional Korean shamanism, moved in believing he could cleanse the spirits and was also gone within a year. Like most urban Legends, each new story add's a little more to the rumor.

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The current owner, Mr. Ham, moved to the United States in the mid 2010s and has mentioned that he may eventually have the house demolished to make way for a war memorial park honoring the Jangsari student soldiers. 

The 2019 Korean film The Battle of Jangsari, starring Kim Myung-min and SHINee's Minho, retold the operation for a new generation and renewed public interest in the site.

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 If you plan  to visit this location, take a KTX to Pohang and a 30 minute taxi north along the coast, the exact address can be found online BUT  Be advised the building's seems to be  going through renovations with a new sign that reads Angle Garden, the exterior walls have been repainted in yellow and white with new exterior lighting, new paint and heart-shaped plywood window cutouts and the entrance is  blocked at night with lights on inside, indicating that people are currently living on site. 

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Legends of the house have also inspired a psychological horror video game..

Called... The Abandoned House in Yeongdeok, which was released on August 28, 2026.

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Neulbom Garden (늘봄가든) in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province

 A former restaurant building that sat vacant for a long time. It inspired a horror film named Neulbom Garden.

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Tied to local tragedies involving a family accident, suicide, and illness. Neighbors and visitors reported strange phantom occurrences, such as dirty tables cleaning themselves overnight, weird noises when closed, and customers claiming they ordered food from a female server when no waitresses worked there

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Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital (곤지암 정신병원)

Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province

It closed down in 1996.

It's reputation became so well know as one of the most haunted locations, that the story was even picked by CNN in 2012 as one of the world's most terrifying places.

Urban legends claimed patients died mysteriously and the owner went insane.

 Visitors reported seeing paint like blood at the entrance, along with rusted beds, equipment, and medical supplies left behind just as the staff fled. 

The building was  demolished in 2018.

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A horror movie based on this location was also released in 2018 The story follows the crew of an online horror web series called "Horror Times" as they livestream an exploration of the abandoned Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital it's a found footage movie similar to the Blair witch project..

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And the third is the Yeongdeok Haunted House..

Paranormal Encounters: Houston Rat-Man.

 

Strange sightings are not as rare as many believe Human like entity have been spotted in all manner of forms from flying ones to cave crawler and more...today we talk about The Rat Man of Houston, though he's Not the only rat like humanoid that's been spotted, there are some from all over the country, but we'll get to them eventually..

The Houston Rat-Man has several eyewitnesses accounts dating back to the late 1980's.

 Like it's description would imply, he is a rat like humanoid.

This cryptid was first mentioned  on a 2022 Reddit  post, where the eyewitnesses recounts is strange encounter..

On his post he claims to have seen this  rat-like humanoid near the NRG Stadium. 

Afterwards  several other Houston residents replied to his post, claiming to have also seen the rat man around the city.

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Original 2022 post..

"I had an absolutely bizarre experience at a Texans football game and I just need to share it with you all to see if anyone else has ever encountered anything like this.

Last Fall I was at NRG stadium in Houston Texas when nature called and I headed to the bathroom. Now, here's where it gets weird – I'm at the urinal, and out of the corner of my eye, I spot this guy in a hoodie. But that's not the freaky part. He had this seriously strange nose that was kind of flaring, anf he was chewing on his own finger. The guy looked just like a rat. I was so creeped out that I could barely move. He had this intense gaze locked on me and then he put his finger up to his lips like he was telling me to be quiet, and walked away.

In that moment I felt the most genuine fear Ive ever felt – like the kind that sticks with you. No one else was in the bathroom. Has anyone else ever encountered something like this at NRG stadium? Maybe not exactly at a football game, but just seeing someone or something that made you question reality? It's been bothering me ever since it happened, and I'm hoping I'm not alone in this.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, and seriously, if anyone else has had a similar experience, please let me know I'm not going crazy here"

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🐀Other Eyewitnesses discriptions🐀

In 87 or 88.

"I saw this before, but I was only around 4 years old. I had just awoken and was walking down the hall towards the front to find my mom, but something got my attention in my room as I passed. It looked like a huge rat, and my room was messed up. I paused and backed up a couple of steps, and when I turned to look in my room again, this time, the room was completely in order, but in the doorway, staring down at me was a huge rat man. That's the only way I could explain it. I stayed screaming and ran, told my mom. She made my dad throw out a bed someone had given to us because she's very religious and assumed it was a Demon. I don't know what it was, but I still remember it clearly. I've Googled a few times but never found anything that seemed similar until now. I thought maybe rougaroo I'm from Louisiana, so that's our local legend. But it wasn't like a dog it was a rat . I never had imaginary friends or seen strange things before or after that, not until now that I'm older. That was back in 87 or 88."..

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2000's...

Yeah I’m from Houston and something shockingly similar has happened to me! I was at the Houston comets WNBA game and I was I was out getting concessions. The concession worker was looking down and being quiet fidgety. So once I walked up and asked for some popcorn, the concession worker, then glared up at me with the creepy rat, humanoid eyes. The way he sucked his almost cartoonishly large teeth shook me to my core. And as he stared into my eyes he then did the same shush motion as I backed up and walked away. The strangest part is taht there were many people around me! But no one else seemed to notice!"

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I was traveling through Texas a few months ago, I was stopping to get some pizza to eat. I went inside the restaurant and swear I saw a rat man leaving the restroom. I tried to alert the authorities and staff, but everyone shrugged it off as me seeing things. I know what I saw, the rat humanoid definitely squeaked at me. But people will believe what they want to sleep at night, I guess"

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"You are not alone! I live in Houston, TX and I have seen a "person" that fits this description while driving near NRG/South Main area. 

I was sitting at a red light and felt that feeling of being stared at. So I turn my head to my right and in the car next to mine there was what looked like an adult, human sized creature sitting in the driver's seat, but he had the face of a mammal.

At the time, I thought it was dog-like, but it could have been more rat-like as well. His face was covered in fur and he had a snout for a nose and whiskers. Also had the beady, non-human eyes. He stared at me with such intensity without looking away and I felt the most visceral fear, sort of a sinking feeling in my stomach and I wished I could drive away at that moment but I was stuck at the light.

I finally was able to speed away, but that image has stuck with me. Everyone I've told has just laughed it off and chalked it up to my mind playing tricks on me, but they just don't understand! It was super freaky.

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So, what do you think? Is there a rat like man roaming the Houston area?????? 

Japanese Folklore,The Kudan

 

Japanese folklore is full of interesting creatures from oni and spirits to any number of fantastic yokai..

Today we talk about the Kudan, a yokai that takes the form of a fortune telling bovine.

Thought not as old as some other yokai legends like the Nine Tailed Fox or the vicious Oni, the Kudan can be traced back at least as far as the later part  of the Edo period.

 Stories of kudan being born on rural farms where reported in newspapers all over Japan with sightings continuing through the 1940s.

 Because they have a supernatural ability to predict the future and they're predictions  always comes true, a kudan's prophecy was considered absolute truth. During the Edo period, newspaper's would try to increase the credibility of their stories by adding the words “kudan no gotoshi,” or, “as if a kudan had said it” to their articles. This phrase remains in use in the Japanese language today as a way of assuring the reader of the truth of a story.

This yokai has such a respectable reputation  for honesty that images of kudan were used as charms  for good luck, prosperity, and protection from sickness and disaster. Newspapers would tell their readers to hang the printed images of kudan on their houses for protection and good fortune. 

Kudan were such popular yokai that their mummified remains were often carted around in traveling sideshows similar to PT Barnum's sideshow and circus in America.

 These kudan where taxidermy creations made from deformed stillborn calves, or from combined animal parts stitched together to create a chimera-like stuffed animal, one popular example of these kind of creation is the "Fiji mermaid " a taxidermy monkey and fish combo.

 People would  pay a small fee to look at these specimens and hopefully receive some of their good luck. A few of these mummified remains can still be found in museums today.

According to legend, Kudan are able to speak human languages from the day they are born.

Most of them don't live for more than a few days at most, the are said too give  one or more prophecies right after birth and then sadly they die. 

Their prophecies can be any number of subjects ranging from historical events, crop harvest (good or bad), droughts, famines, war, plages or pretty much anything else and no matter what it is the  prediction of a kudan always  comes true. 

Most Kudan are human faced cows, though in very rare occasions they can be cow faced humans 

They can appear anywhere in Japan, but seem to be more prevalent in Kyushu and western Japan..

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Paranormal Folklore: The Slide Rock Bolter.

  

The Slide-Rock Bolter is a strange and massive  cryptid   that makes it's home on to of steep mountains, it was first recounted by 19th century  lumberjacks, according to folklore it lives in the mountains of Colorado, but only on mountains where the slope is at an angle greater than 45 degrees. 

It somewhat resembles a large fish, with a large head, small eyes, and a huge mouth,  Its tail ends in a fluke like a dolphin, with enormous grab-hooks that it uses to stay in place high above it's prey until it's ready to strike.

The enormous beast doesn't hunt in a typical manner, instead it's a massive ambush predator.

 It can stay completely motionless for days at a time, watching the gulch below for animals or  tourists unlucky enough to cross it's path.

 The moment it's next meal is in sight, it will lift its tail to release its hold on the crest and let gravity do it's job, sending it barreling downhill, it drools a grease like substance   from the corners of its mouth to increase the speed as  its huge body barrels down the mountain.

It's  helpless victims are scooped  into its wide open mouth as it slides down. The accumulated speed will carry the Bolter up the next slope, where it will once again grasp the ridge with its tail and wait for it's next meal to wonder into it's grasp.

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Encounters..

Whole parties of tourists are reported to have been gulped down at once. The animal is a menace not only to tourists but to the forest as well. Many spruce-covered slopes have been rendered wastelands as the Bolter knocks the trees out by their roots or mows them down as if with a scythe.

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A forest ranger, whose district included the rough country between Ophir Peaks and the Lizard Head, conceived the bold idea of deceiving a Slide-Rock Bolter to slide to its own destruction. A dummy tourist was outfitted with a plaid Norfolk jacket, knee breeches, and a guidebook to Colorado. The dummy was filled with powder and fulminate caps and posed in a conspicuous place. 

The next day the false tourist attracted the attention of a Bolter that had been hanging for days on the slope of Lizard Head. The creature attacked. The resulting explosion flattened half the buildings in Rico, which were never rebuilt. The remains of the unfortunate Bolter made many a meal for the local buzzards that summer

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This cryptid and others can be found in Fearsome Critters (1910)

1929 Dogman Encounter.

 

Happy October 1st, officially Spooky Season 🎃🦇. 

An early account of  a Dogman/Wolfman raiding a pig farm in 1929..

This creature was described as a large  black, bipedal, pointy eared Bear/ Hyena. 

The sightings took place in Valparaiso, Indiana, and was reported in the Vidette-Messenger,(local News Paper) on  February 8, 1929

The Encounter.....

Galena Indiana,  Feb. 8, 1929—

Another hunt has been started here for the mysterious black beast that raided the A. A. Akins farm just east of here, killed one pig and carried off in its “arms” another pig weighing 85 pounds, according to Leonard Akins, 20, who surprised the animal and was forced to flee for his life. 

Posse of farmers, aided by dogs which tried to trail the black animal, failed to find it and returned still in doubt as to the identity of the creature.

“I can’t imagine what it was unless it was a cross between a big bear and a hyena,” young Akins said. The hunters found one set of tracks that resembled bear tracks, Akins related, but as no one in the party was an expert on bears, the question was left open, he said.

“The critter walked on its hind legs, had pointed ears and ferocious teeth, I can say that much,” Akins declared. The youth said he ran into the animal in a barn on the Akins farm. The beast was killing a 60-pound pig.

“The creature reared up on its hind legs and started toward me,” Akins said. “My airdale dog, however, dashed ahead and barked at it and it turned on the dog.”

Akins then started to run to his home to get his gun. In running he glanced around, saw the animal seize another pig which weighed at least 60 pounds, take it in its “arms,” go across the fence and start for some woods.

“It was as big as a man and walked on its hind legs,” the youth asserted. A canvass will be made of all circuses and zoos in Southern Indiana to determine if any wild beast escaped.

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The creature was never captured, and still remains a mystery too this day 

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Paranormal Folklore, Korea's Blue Tiger.

Given how popular Netflix KPop Demon Hunters was last year, a large portion of you already know about the  Jeoseung Saja ( Saja boys) though unlike the movie the folkloric version is not evil they are basically underworld civil servants working for the king of the underworld, they  guide souls to the afterlife, and Huntrix, the main girls are essentially a sensationalised version of shaman/ exorcists.  Then we have a fan favorit,  Derpy the blue demon tiger.....(not actually a demon)....

But just like the rest of the characters, he and his bird companion are also based of  Korean folklore and traditional art work..The tiger in general is well regarded in Korea.

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The tiger is considered a symbol of courage and strength,  he is also revered as a guardian that drives away evil.

During New Year, people would hang paintings of tigers  on their doors to ward off bad luck and invite good fortune.

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In (Hojakdo 17th century) traditional Korean folk paintings the tiger was usually shown in a more goofy,  comical or even foolish looking  depiction. this was done  as a form of social Satir to make fun of aristocrats..

 In these minhwa paintings, its often accompanied by one or more  magpie. The foolish tiger symbolized the corrupt aristocrats nobile's or government, while the  magpie represented the common people mocking his  authority.

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Tigers and the Mountain Spirit.

In Korean mythology,  the tiger was viewed as   a companion of the Mountain God Sanshin, holding absolute authority in nature and can be found in many paintings accompanying him.

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One more fun fact, the Korean peninsula also resembles a Tiger....

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Ok, now on to today's main topic the Blue Tiger, also known as the Maltese Tiger ..

Though this blue kitty is more of a cryptid then a folkloric creature 

  Most sightings come from  the Fujian province of south east China .

Witnesses claim it  has bluish fur with dark gray stripes.

The south Chinese tiger is critically endangered today, due to its illegal and continued use in traditional Chinese medicine, and the "blue" variation  may  already be extinct .

Though most sightings have taken place in south china, the  Blue tigers have also been reported in Korea and Burma.

The term "Maltese" comes from domestic cat terminology for blue fur, and refers to the slate grey coloration. Many cats with such coloration are present in Malta hence the name Maltese, however two of the more well known blue cat breed are  the Russian Blue, and a variety of the British Shorthair, the British Blue, but blue bobcats and lynxes have also been recorded, and there are genetic mutations and combinations that result in a bluish hue, or at least the impression of a blue-gray animal. And black tigers where once considered nothing more then mythical at one point through pelts have proven this to be a real creature, Not thought it's not  actually a fully black tiger, like a panthers fur,  most of the time it's stripes are simply much wider then average which obscure most of the orange fur. Though a fully melanistic tiger isn't impossible for the same reason white tigers exist, its just a rare genetic trait.

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The first reported sighting of a blue tiger was in 1910...

In  1910, a big game hunter  named Harry Caldwell who was doing missionary work at the time,  claims to have seen and hunted a blue Tiger outside Fuzhou. He describes his encounter  in his book Blue Tiger (1924), and by his hunting companion Roy Chapman Andrews in his Camps & Trails in China (1925, chapter VII). Chapman cites Caldwell thus:

"The markings of the beast are strikingly beautiful. The ground color is of a delicate shade of maltese, changing into light gray-blue on the underparts. The stripes are well defined and like those of the ordinary yellow tiger."

— Caldwell, Chapman (1925)

A more recent report, given to Mystery Cats of the World author Karl Shuker, comes from the son of a US Army soldier who served in Korea during the Korean War. His father sighted a blue tiger in the mountains near what is now the Demilitarized Zone.  This account takes place in 1953. It is also the last know sighting of the blue tiger.

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Two apex predators used to roam the wilderness of Korea, up until the 1900s. The Amur or Siberian tiger, the largest species of tiger, which  became extinct on the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945,  during the Japanese occupation large portions of the tiger population where wiped out. Then the Amur leopard went extinct in Korea some time in 1970s. This leaves the Asiatic brown bear and grey wolf as the only two apex predators left in the Korean peninsula, both said to be found in North Korea..

Officially, there are no more wild tigers in Korea today.

The  Siberian Tiger is also critically endangered, they can still be found in  the Sikhote-Alin mountain region in the Russian Far East, with smaller numbers extending into Northeast China.

Unfortunately there are only around 500 - 750 Siberian tigers left in the wild because of illegal hunting and habitat lose ) deforestation most living in eastern Russia or Northern china, though some could still be make there way into Korea now and then.

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Paranormal Russia: The Seven Giants

 

Have you ever heard of the Seven Giants?

It a famous rock formation in Russia, the colossal rocks are also tied to a legend about a wizard.....

All seven stand between 98 and 138 feet tall...

There are a few different ways to get to them, you can go by road from the Komi Republic, hiking or skiing over the Dyatlov Pass from the Sverdlovsk region, or helicopter. 

Up until 2004, a car route from the Sverdlovsk Region was also available, with a visit to the Dyatlov Pass, the Otorten Mountain and the source of the Pechora River. It was officially banned to preserve two protected areas.

 All seven stone pillars are located west of the Ural Mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic in the Pechoro-Ilychski Reserve on the mountain Man-Pupu-nyor, between the Ilych and Pechora rivers.

 They are also known as the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations and the Poles of the Komi Republic. 

These massive stones are a popular tourist destination and have  been given the title of one of the Seven Wonders of Russia.

They were even commemorated on a stamp.

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The legend comes from folklore of the Mansi people.

According to myth,  the pillars were once a group of giant Samoyeds marching through the mountains to conquer the Mansi people. When the giant warriors reached the holy Mansi mountains and laid eyes upon them, a powerful shaman (sometimes called Yallingner) confronted the group.

The shaman used his ceremonial drum and magical powers to stop the invading giants in their tracks and turning them into stone. However, the shaman himself was unfortunately also affected by his own magic and turned to stone as well. Now they all stand as giant pillers of stone forever.

 This myth explains why six of the stone's stand close together in a line, while the seventh stands slightly separated from the rest, representing the petrified shaman.

In the Mansi language, Manpupuner (or Man-Pupu-Nyor) translates literally to "Little Mountain of the Gods".

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Also, in case you're wondering, these are the Seven Wonders of Russia..

1. Lake Baikal, in Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatia.

2. Klyuchevskaya Sopka and the Valley of Geysers located in Kamchatka Krai. Is a massive active volcano and  the second-largest collection of geysers in the world, right after Yellowstone in the United States.

3. Mamayev Kurgan, in Volgograd, Oblast.

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4. Peterhof in Saint Petersburg.

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5. Saint Basil's Cathedral, in Moscow.

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6. Manpupuner Roc Formation (The Seven Giants), in Komi Republic. 

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7.Mount Elbrus, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Caucasus Mountains just north of the Georgian border.

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