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A city of ninety-two artificial islets built off Pohnpei in Micronesia from basalt columns weighing up to fifty tons, stacked like logs without mortar. How they were moved is unknown; local tradition says sorcerers made the stones fly. The city was abandoned around 1628. Pohnpeians consider the place dangerous and say one does not sleep there — a chief who tried, the account goes, was dead by morning.

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El Hellfire Club de Montpelier Hill

Un pabellón de caza levantado sobre Dublín en 1725 con piedra sacada de un túmulo prehistórico destruido a propósito para ello: los del lugar dijeron enseguida que acabaría mal. Poco después una tormenta se llevó el tejado. Más tarde el Hellfire Club irlandés se hizo con el edificio; los relatos sobre lo que pasaba dentro varían, y el más conocido habla de una partida de cartas en la que alguien reparó en que uno de los invitados tenía una pezuña en lugar de pie.

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Mar del Diablo

Una franja del Pacífico al sur de Japón conocida como el «Triángulo del Dragón», la réplica pacífica del de las Bermudas. Su fama viene de los pesqueros perdidos a finales de los cuarenta y principios de los cincuenta.

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Momo: the sculpture that became a panic

The face that frightened half the world in 2018 and 2019 was never a character. It is Mother Bird, a sculpture by the Japanese artist Keisuke Aisawa of Link Factory, made in the summer of 2016 and exhibited at the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo. In July 2018 a photograph of it was used in a YouTube video, from there it spread through messaging apps, and by 2019 it had grown into an international panic about a non-existent "challenge" supposedly pushing children towards dangerous tasks. Police forces and child-protection bodies in several countries stated publicly that no confirmed cases were found. The sculpture itself was destroyed by its maker.

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Aka Manto: red paper or blue

Another inhabitant of Japanese school toilets, and the cruellest in construction. A voice from the last cubicle asks which paper you want, red or blue. Choosing red means one thing, blue another, and both are bad; refusing to answer, in most versions, does not save you either. The legend is interesting because it is built as a trap with no exit: there is no right answer, and that is the point — it is the shape of a fear of being asked something you cannot answer correctly.

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A flying woman's head with its viscera trailing beneath — one of the most recognisable images in mainland Southeast Asian folklore, known in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos under different names. By day she is an ordinary woman; at night the head detaches and goes looking for food. Her appearance was traditionally linked to night lights over rice paddies and to sickness in livestock. In Thailand she has been the subject of dozens of films and remains a living figure of popular culture rather than a museum entry.

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