Bigfoot: Analyzing the Evidence of Sasquatch
The evidence for Bigfoot, the large hairy hominid reported across North America’s forests, falls into four classes: the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, plaster footprint casts, the 2014 Sykes DNA study, and tens of thousands of eyewitness reports. Each class records a real human experience; none has yet produced a body. Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: […]
The Banshee: Ireland’s Wailing Spirit of Death
What Is the Banshee in Irish Tradition? The banshee (Irish bean sídhe, “woman of the fairy mound”) is a female spirit in Irish folk tradition whose wailing cry, the caoineadh, is held to foretell a death in certain old Gaelic families. She belongs to the wider Otherworld of the Sídhe, the supernatural people of pre-Christian […]