The Hollow Journal

Four witnesses in a 1960s sedan watch a dark, winged Mothman figure cross a cracked road beside an abandoned concrete bunker.
Mothman: 26 Sightings and the Silver Bridge Link Added in 1975
Twenty-six sightings over roughly a year, Mary Hyre's contemporary coverage, and John Keel's 1975 link between Mothman and the Silver Bridge collapse. Read more...
Black and ivory engraving of a natural wolf stepping from abandoned human clothes at a crossroads, with a full-moon werewolf appearing in a small strip of film.
Werewolf Transformation: Why the Full Moon Came Later
Werewolf transformation was once a punishment, a private ritual, a weekly condition, or a seven-year curse. The full moon appeared around the edges before modern literature and film made it... Read more...
Wood-engraved plate of the Slavic leshy: a forest spirit as tall as the pines, his beard made of hanging pine boughs, stands still while a tiny traveler beside his boot walks a closed circle of his own footprints without noticing him.
The Leshy: The Slavic Forest Spirit Who Walks You in Circles
In Slavic folklore, the leshy rules the forest and changes size with the landscape, standing as tall as the pines beneath the canopy and shrinking to the height of grass... Read more...
A distant unidentified figure standing at the edge of an Appalachian field beyond a barbed-wire fence, with a utility pole against the dark sky.
Appalachian Cryptids: A Field Guide to the Mountains' Stranger Residents
A source-checked guide to Appalachian cryptids, comparing Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster, the Grafton Monster, the Squonk, the Wampus Cat, and Grassman by the documentary trail each one leaves. Read more...