We are in The Clearing. The trees stop in a uniform oval where nothing grows and where, since official records began, nothing has grown. “Once when I came here,” says Alex, our guide, “I found 60 ...

In addition to stuffing my cranium with horror films, no-budget trash, old movies, and obscure kung fu flicks, I have an almost insatiable thirst for documentaries. It doesn’t matter what subject the ...

Many visitors are expected to visit the region despite climbing COVID rates. Despite climbing COVID-19 rates, Romania is keeping Transylvania, home of Vlad the Impaler, Dracula's castle and the "world ...

Hoia Baciu Forest, located in Romania, is famous for its strange and unexplained phenomena such as UFO sightings, ghostly apparitions, and mysterious energy fields. The Clearing, within the forest, is ...

Filmmaker Paul Dadrian is putting together a documentary about the Hoia-Baciu Forest, which is one of the creepiest places of Transylvania. Considering the eerie history surrounding the area, it’s not ...

Those intrigued by things that go bump in the night can’t help but take notice of Romania’s most folkloric region. The very word Transylvania conjures up spooky gothic castles and blood-sucking ...

A teenage boy who flew to Romania and stole a car so that he could find his “great-great-grandfather Count Dracula” and be “turned into a vampire” was chased by cops and detained. The 19-year-old, ...

A teenager was chased by police after travelling to Romania and stealing a car so he could find Dracula and be turned into a vampire. The 19-year-old from Switzerland travelled to the city of Fagaras ...

If you’ve loved our ongoing series on India’s most haunted places and the legends behind them, today onwards we share with you more such spooky tales from around the world. The first in our series is ...