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Also known as Bean Sídhe · The Keening Woman
A herald, not a hunter. The banshee is a female spirit bound to the old Irish families — traditionally those with Ó and Mac names —…
Also known as Black Cadejo · White Cadejo
A supernatural dog of the night road, usually encountered as a pair of opposing figures. The white cadejo guards travelers, while the…
Also known as The Whistler
A gaunt figure, impossibly tall — some accounts say six meters when it stands straight — that crosses the llanos at night carrying a…
Also known as Ji?ngsh? · Hopping Corpse
A reanimated corpse in Chinese folklore, stiff with death and commonly depicted moving in short hops with its arms extended. The…
Also known as Phi Krasue · Ahp
A nocturnal being seen as a woman's head drifting through the dark with luminous organs suspended beneath it. Names and origins vary…
Also known as The Slit-Mouthed Woman
A woman in a surgical mask — unremarkable in Japan, which is the point — who stops pedestrians, usually children walking home alone,…
Also known as The Weeping Woman
A woman in a white gown who walks waterways at night, weeping for the children she drowned — in grief, in madness, or in vengeance,…
Also known as Kuntilanak · Matianak
The vengeful spirit of a woman who died in childbirth — Southeast Asia's most feared apparition, and the only entity in this archive…
Also known as Shadow Figures · The Hat Man
Two-dimensional silhouettes of human form, blacker than the darkness around them, most often seen crossing doorways or standing in…
Also known as The Balete Drive Apparition
The Philippines' most famous roadside ghost. A woman in a long white dress, black hair over her face, who appears in the back seats of…