Uncanny Atlas

A directory of the unknown.

The famous cases float at the top. The further down you go, the fewer people have heard of them, and the stranger they get. 31 entries so far, every one linked to its sources.

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Band 1 of 5

Above the waves

The cases people already know.

  1. Old Jeffrey, the Epworth Rectory spirit
  2. The Great Amherst Mystery
  3. The Kentucky meat shower
  4. Yuki-onna, the woman in white
Band 2 of 5

Surface

Known to anyone who has read a little.

  1. Jikininki, the corpse-eater
  2. Mr. Procter's house at Willington Mill
  3. The Grave Creek stone
  4. The Livonian Christmas werewolves
  5. The demon-fires of Dan-no-ura
Band 3 of 5

Twilight

Footnotes in the older books.

  1. Lord Brougham's vision in the bath
  2. The Wem farm disturbances
  3. The ghost of Sergeant Davies
  4. The mujina of Kii-no-kuni-zaka
  5. The radiant boy by the bedside
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Midnight

One source, maybe two, and a long gap since.

  1. Sonjō and the weeping woman of Akanuma
  2. The Chinese seals of Ireland
  3. The Syderstone Parsonage knockings
  4. The flying napkins of Hahn and Kern
  5. The yellow light in the Weinsberg prison
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Abyss

A line in an old journal, and nothing else.

  1. Picou's werewolf by the buckwheat field
  2. Schafarik's white object on the moon
  3. The Brixton iron spheroid
  4. The Griefswald body crossing the sun
  5. The Kattenau luminous bodies
  6. The Marseilles round body on the sun
  7. The Naples lapstone fall
  8. The Pictou Harbour yellow fall
  9. The Tarbes worked stone disk
  10. The Youghal mirage of an unknown city
  11. The manglalabas in the widow's house
  12. The spindle-shaped body on the sun

That is the bottom, for now.

New entries sink to wherever they belong. To see everything at once, sorted and searchable, use the directory.

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