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Cursed Objects

More people are mounting horse heads on poles throughout Iceland.

Impaled Horse Heads Are Appearing More and More Around Iceland

The rise of paganism in the country is reigniting a macabre ritual from the Viking Age.

Olivia Young October 25, 2023

Sepp Kipfstuhl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project examines a sample taken from where fast-moving and slow-moving ice meet in the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Wonder Is Everywhere: The New Tornado Alley, the Coolest Library in the World, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White June 23, 2023

Robert the Doll has inspired a horror movie and regularly gets letters from those who fear they have offended the vindictive toy.

6 Cursed Objects, and the Legends Behind Them

Maybe it's best to just steer clear of white lighters, medieval books, and Robert the Doll.

April White October 26, 2022

The Chained Oak

A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.

Swansea Devil

A turn-of-the-century prophecy comes true when a mischievous wooden Devil watches the neighboring church burn to the ground

Here's looking at you, dandy horse.

4 Vaguely Historic Anniversaries We Overlooked in 2018

Matthew Taub December 26, 2018

Engineers Tradition Stone Plaque.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Engineers Tradition Stone

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

One of the crying child artworks by Giovanni Bragolin.

A Painting of a Crying Boy Was Blamed for a Series of Fires in the '80s

The artwork, said UK tabloids at the time, was haunted.

Natalie Zarrelli April 21, 2017

Saint Andrews, Scotland

Saint Salvator's Unlucky PH

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

Scribes often penned dramatic curses at the beginning or end of books in the Middle Ages.

Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses

Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death—or worse.

Sarah Laskow November 9, 2016

Permanently Closed

Michael's statue in Fulham during his glory days

Manchester, England

Statue of Michael Jackson

Fulham F.C. imploded once everyone excised its giant, hated tribute to the King of Pop.

The Curse of the Stolen Amethyst

Is this gemstone responsible for more than a century of tragedy?

Allison Meier October 18, 2022

Roscoe, New York

Craig-E-Clair Castle

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Agios Tychon, Cyprus

Ancient Sex Curse of Cyprus

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

Grave of Josiah Spaulding

Dummerston, Vermont

Dummerston Vine

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

Close-up of the cursed stain

Bucksport, Maine

Cursed Memorial of Colonel Buck

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

Permanently Closed

The Pools of Castellnou

Cursed swimming pool left abandoned is now a favorite of filmmakers and ghost hunters.

Ko Tarutao, Thailand

Ko Hin-Ngam

The cursed island of black pebbles.