Stories in English
Traditional tales preserved in the English language.
The Polynesian demigod Maui pulls a giant fish from the ocean floor, creating the North Island of New Zealand in this foundational Māori creation myth.
The sacred Lakota myth of the mysterious woman who brought the holy pipe and seven ceremonies to the people, transforming into a white buffalo before disappearing.
The Korean founding myth of Dangun, born from a heavenly prince and a bear-woman, who established the first Korean kingdom of Gojoseon in 2333 BCE.
A story of a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune.
The legendary Polynesian trickster-hero Maui fishes up islands from the bottom of the ocean using a magical fishhook and his own cunning.
The giant lumberjack of American tall tales, whose enormous size and strength shaped the landscape of the northern United States.
A modern legend about a spectral traveler who disappears from a moving vehicle.
A teenage couple at a lovers lane hear a radio bulletin about an escaped asylum patient with a hook for a hand.
A babysitter alone in a strange house receives increasingly threatening phone calls from a man who turns out to be upstairs.
A Japanese urban legend about a woman with a surgical mask who asks if she is beautiful, then reveals a horribly slit mouth.
Children with entirely black eyes approach homes and vehicles, asking to be let in. Those who refuse feel relief; those who consent are never the same.
A woman driving alone at night is followed by a truck flashing its headlights, only to discover the driver was trying to warn her about a killer crouching in her backseat.
A traveler wakes up in a hotel bathtub full of ice with a note to call 911, only to discover a kidney has been surgically removed.
A mass-produced painting of a crying child is found intact among the ashes of burned houses, fueling beliefs it carries a supernatural curse.
A mysterious creature stalks Latin American countrysides, draining the blood of livestock and leaving puncture wounds as its only signature.
A mysterious stranger at a party utters a chilling phrase that later proves to be a fatal premonition about a crowded elevator.
A mirror invocation ritual that summons a terrifying spirit when her name is chanted three times in darkness.
A tall, faceless figure in a suit who stalks children and causes memory loss, paranoia, and disappearance.
The Weeping Woman of Latin American folklore who eternally searches for the children she drowned in a fit of rage and jealousy.