Traditional Legends

In 2008, a woman named Lerina Garcia Gordo posted on an online forum something extraordinary. She claimed to have woken up in a world that wasn’t hers. Her sheets were different. Her job had changed. Her relationship status was not what she remembered. The differences were subtle, but undeniable. She was convinced she had somehow shifted into an alternate reality.

Whispers in the mists. Songs from unseen lips. Footsteps echoing in empty woods. In the highlands of the American Southeast, such signs may mark the presence of the Nunnehi—the Hidden People.

Before the name "hurricane" entered our everyday vocabulary, before weather apps and Doppler radar, the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean had their own way of explaining the violent storms that ripped through their islands. They feared and respected a force of nature embodied not as a storm system, but as a wrathful, commanding deity: Guabancex The Furious Goddess of Storms.

The Appalachian Mountains stretch over 2,000 miles from Alabama to Canada, winding through dense forests, rugged peaks, and some of the oldest terrain in North America. But they also hold darker mysteries—specifically, a pattern of unexplained disappearances that has come to be known as the Missing 411 phenomenon.

Along the quiet coast of South Carolina, where Spanish moss drapes from old oaks and sea breezes carry the scent of salt and sand, a ghost is said to walk.They call him the Gray Man of Pawleys Island, and locals know that when he shows up, trouble isn’t far behind.

When we think of witch trials in America, the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692 often come to mind. However, lesser-known episodes of witch hysteria also unfolded in other corners of the early United States, including the rural heart of South Carolina.

In the heart of New Orleans lives a legend—one whose influence reaches far beyond the French Quarter. Marie Laveau.

Known across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, these supernatural entities have long haunted the edges of human experience—neither angels nor demons, but something more ambiguous, more unpredictable.

Steeped in shadow and legend, Nanny of the Maroons, or Queen Nanny, stands as one of Jamaica’s most mysterious and fearsome figures.