Court records from 1691–1692 preserve the account of a man who called himself a werewolf. He described a struggle for crops rather than attacks on people.
A dead neighbour supposedly wandered for sixteen years; villagers ended the terror by opening his grave and cutting off the corpse’s head.
A pamphlet linked murder accusations with a diabolical belt and presented the execution as a public warning.
Attacks on children prompted a werewolf hunt and then prosecution of a hermit living near the forest.
Acidic saline springs became a testing ground for deciding which shapes and genetic signals genuinely indicate life.
Long roll clouds reveal atmospheric waves studied by meteorologists and used by glider pilots.
Recurrent nocturnal storms make Maracaibo a principal global lightning hotspot; this is a climatic pattern rather than a single encounter.
In a distinct story by William of Newburgh, a dead chaplain disturbs his former patroness. Four men wait beside the grave, but the decisive encounter falls to the monk who remains alone in …
William of Newburgh tells of a suspicious husband who dies after falling from a beam, and two brothers who connect their father's death with his subsequent wanderings.
In Milovan Glisic's story, a mill-haunting vampire names himself after finding a log instead of a victim. The search for his grave joins village comedy, folk belief and a love story.
