Scotland’s Highlands are among the most beautiful and remote places in the world. But to many, this stunning landscape of mountains, lakes, and coastal villages also bears a notable air of mystery and foreboding. Even today, these ancient lands remain steeped in folklore and supernatural tales. Once one begins to dig into the stories of High Strangeness in the Scottish Highlands, it becomes clear why it is often considered one of the most haunted places on earth.

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Story One – Our Lady of Fatima

In the Autumn of 1917, as the brutality and savagery of the First World War threatened to finally overwhelm Portugal’s borders, seventy thousand people gathered near a rural township to witness an appearance by the Virgin Mary. What exactly happened during The Fatima Event?

Story Two – The Legend of the Bell Witch

Whether tales of cryptids or ghostly apparitions, every community has its own folklore. Here, we pay a visit to a small town in Tennessee, which was plagued by a spirit so vengeful that it was the first in US history to receive blame for an actual recorded death, the legendary Bell Witch.

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The forests of North America are dense, tall, and foreboding. So it may come as little surprise that as long as people have lived on the continent, there have been sightings of all manner of beasts and cryptids. Some, like the Canadian Wood Bison, were later discovered to be real. Others, like Bigfoot and the Thunderbird, remain in the grey area where myth, fact, and misidentification meet. But there is one creature so elusive and so bizarre in its appearance that those who’ve seen it claim it can only come from the depths of hell. With stories dating from today back to before America’s founding, how can we possibly explain The Jersey Devil?

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From Ballen Studios, welcome to Late Nights with Nexpo, the official podcast of YouTube creator, Nexpo, featuring the most bizarre and chilling true stories and mysteries to be found. Listen to unravel the unexplained.

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Story One – The Charterhouse Guest

The English county of Somerset possesses a rich and colourful history which is steeped in tales of myth and legend. It has been the scene of many a mysterious and unexplained occurrence, one of which is known as The Charterhouse Guest.

Story Two – Spirits of Devil’s Pool

After a string of deaths at a remote beauty spot in Queensland, Australia, many people began to wonder if the area was cursed. Legend told of a woman’s ghostly face appearing just below the surface of the waters there, luring young men to their deaths. In this chapter, we go in search of the spirits of Devil’s Pool.

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Story One – The San Pedro Haunting

During the summer of 1988, a young mother residing in an unassuming Los Angeles neighbourhood reported having been subjected to a horrifying and relentless series of attacks within her home. She claimed that these assaults had been carried out by a mysterious supernatural entity, but just how much truth is there behind the San Pedro Haunting?

Story Two – Doppelgängers and the Strange Case of Emilie Sagée

In 1845, a school in Latvia became the scene of some disturbing paranormal activity as a newly employed teacher began to appear in two places at the same time. We now recount the strange tale of Emilie Sagée. And ask the question; could we all have a doppelganger?

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Story One – The Skies Over Kecksburg

On the afternoon of 9th December 1965, the residents of a small village in rural Pennsylvania became the unwitting recipients of their very own legend. A mysterious event which captured the imaginations of an entire generation. What exactly happened in the skies over Kecksburg?

Story Two – The Trucker’s Wife

Whilst attending a conference in Las Vegas, noted UFO researcher, Stan Hernandez, was approached by a forlorn looking individual who had a tragic and harrowing story to tell. The man had recently lost his wife, who left behind a disturbing mystery regarding the events which led to her death.

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Story One – Footprints in the Snow

The Antarctic region is notorious for being as unforgiving as it is beguiling. For those who work there, the psychological dangers associated with their posting can often be more dangerous than any physical hazard. In this chapter, we will examine the fate befalling one such soul. A man who disappeared in May 1965, leaving nothing but a set of footprints in the snow.

Story Two – The Boys from Yuba City

On a cold evening in February, five young men inexplicably left the safety of their car and struck out into the woods in the dead of night. It would be months beforetheir bodies were found. Known as America’s own Dyatlov Pass Incident, we’re left wondering what happened to the boys from Yuba City.

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Story One – The CrossWade Interlopers

In the Spring of 2013, what seemed to be a straightforward emergency call out for two police officers would turn out to be anything but. Not only would this experience chill them to the core, but it would have them questioning their own sanity for years afterwards as they tried to solve the riddle that was the CrossWade interlopers.

Story Two – The Belfast Crossover

In October 2016, a nurse working a day shift at a busy hospital in Northern Ireland was involved in an unsettling turn of events, which left him questioning everything he thought he knew about the world we inhabit. What happened during the Belfast crossover?

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Story One – The Lead Masks of Vintém Hill

During August of 1966, the dead bodies of two men were found on a hillside in Brazil. Much of what was discovered at the scene would leave authorities baffled and has never been fully understood. What we are left with is a fifty-year-old mystery known as the Lead Masks of Vintém Hill.

Story Two – The Watervale Runner

Somewhere in South Australia, a small town holds a mystery in the palm of its hand. The disappearance of a young woman in October 2016 would turn the community upside-down and leave residents and local police questioning what happened to the Watervale Runner.

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