Mystery or Myth
Ships and airplanes have supposedly vanished in this area of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
Bermuda Triangle
In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine unusual objects flying near Mount Rainier. Newspaper coverage helped popularize this term for mysterious objects in the sky.
Flying Saucers
This word, often seen on old gravestones, comes from a Greek word meaning an inscription written in memory of someone who died.
epitaph
This friendly cartoon ghost first appeared in the 1940s and would much rather make friends than scare anyone.
Casper the Friendly ghost
A person who claims to communicate with the spirits of people who have died is known by this term.
Medium
This mysterious prehistoric monument in England consists of enormous stones arranged in a circle, and questions remain about exactly how and why it was built.
Stonehenge
In 1952, numerous unusual lights were reported over this major U.S. city, prompting military investigations and national headlines.
Washington DC
This famous American president is buried in Springfield, Illinois, where visitors traditionally rub the nose of his bronze bust for good luck.
Abraham Lincoln
In the 1984 movie Ghostbusters, this actor plays Dr. Peter Venkman and famously gets covered in slime.
Bill Murray
This board, featuring letters, numbers, “yes,” and “no,” uses a movable pointer called a planchette and became associated with attempts to contact spirits.
Ouija board
In 1872, this ship was discovered drifting in the Atlantic with its cargo and many personal belongings still aboard—but its captain, his family, and the crew had vanished.
Mary Celeste
In 1561, residents of this German city reportedly witnessed strange shapes and objects filling the sky in an event later depicted in a famous broadsheet.
Nuremberg
This Massachusetts cemetery is the final resting place of Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock.
Granary Burial Ground
In the 1990 movie Ghost, Patrick Swayze's character uses this song to communicate his presence during the famous pottery scene with Demi Moore.
Unchained Melody
After the death of her husband, this First Lady reportedly held séances in the White House while grieving the loss of their young son Willie.
Mary Todd Lincoln
According to legend, this ancient island civilization described by Plato sank beneath the ocean after falling out of favor with the gods.
Atlantis
In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported seeing a strange craft while driving through this New England state, an encounter that later became one of America's best-known alleged alien-abduction stories
New Hampshire
Visitors traditionally leave coins on veterans’ gravestones. According to a modern custom, this particular coin indicates that you served with the deceased.
A dime
In A Christmas Carol, this ghost appears wrapped in chains and warns Scrooge that three spirits will visit him.
Jacob Marley
These three sisters from Hydesville, New York, helped launch the American Spiritualist movement in 1848 by claiming they could communicate with a spirit through mysterious knocking sounds.
The Fox Sisters
For decades, mysterious geometric designs have appeared overnight in fields, particularly in England. Some were later demonstrated to have been created by people using simple tools.
Crop Circles
In 1942, during World War II, military personnel in Los Angeles reported unidentified objects in the night sky, prompting searchlights and anti-aircraft fire in an event that became known by this dramatic name.
Battle of Los Angeles
This famous British scientist was buried in Westminster Abbey in 2018, near the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
Stephen Hawking
In the 1947 romantic comedy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, this actress played the widowed Lucy Muir, who moves into a cottage haunted by the ghost of a sea captain.
Gene Tierney
This supposed psychic ability involves obtaining information about a distant or unseen person, place, or object without using the ordinary senses.
clairvoyance