The Bone Chapel of Sedlec: A Church Built From 40,000 Dead
2026/07/07
Beneath a small chapel in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, the bones of tens of thousands are arranged into chandeliers, garlands…
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2026/07/07
The Iron Maiden That Never Was: Anatomy of a Torture Myth
2026/07/02
The spiked cabinet that fills museum gift shops has almost no basis in the medieval record. Its origins are far more recent,…
Aokigahara: The Folklore of Japan’s Sea of Trees
2026/06/29
The dense forest at the foot of Mount Fuji has gathered centuries of ghost stories, from yūrei spirits to compasses that supposedly…
The Dancing Plague of 1518: When a City Danced Itself to Death
2026/06/25
In the summer of 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced without rest for days. Some collapsed; contemporary accounts say a number…