Every legend on the map

342 stories, every one sourced and placed on real ground.

Aarnivalkea, the fox fires — Finland
Alferd Packer, the Colorado cannibal — Colorado
America’s Stonehenge — New Hampshire
Ashfall, the Nebraska waterhole — Nebraska
Benjamin Lay, the cave-dwelling abolitionist — Pennsylvania
Bigfoot at Bluff Creek — California
Bloody Springs scattered coin — California
Bohemian Grove & the Owl Shrine — California
Bonanza Creek and the Klondike — Yukon
Bonbibi of the Sundarbans — Bangladesh
Bran’s neighbour: the Wallachian gold of Dacia — Serbia
Cahokia — Illinois
Camp Hero and the Montauk Project — New York
Captain Kidd’s treasure, Gardiners Island — New York
Champ of Lake Champlain — Vermont
Chimney Rock, the trail marker — Nebraska
Coker Creek gold — Tennessee
Crater Lake: the battle of Llao and Skell — Oregon
Craters of the Moon — Idaho
Dahlonega and the Cherokee gold — Georgia
Devils Tower / Bear Lodge — Wyoming
Devil’s Hole, the cursed gorge — New York
Diana of the Dunes — Indiana
Dogtown — Massachusetts
Dudleytown, the cursed hollow — Connecticut
Edgar Allan Poe and the Poe Toaster — Maryland
El Chupacabra — Mexico
El Dorado — Colombia
El Dorado’s cousin: the Lost City of Z — Brazil
Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle
Fort Delaware — Delaware
Fort Rock Cave and the oldest shoes on Earth — Oregon
Franklin’s lost expedition — Nunavut
Galena, the lead city — Iowa
Giant Mine and the arsenic under Yellowknife — Northwest Territories
Gold Bluffs beach gold — California
Great Zimbabwe and the Ophir myth — Zimbabwe
Greenwood and the graves of 1921 — Oklahoma
Gunung Padang — Indonesia
Hole-in-the-Wall — Wyoming
J.C. Brown and the lost cave of gold (Mount Shasta) — California
Jean Lafitte’s Gulf treasure — Texas
Jean Lafitte’s treasure — Louisiana
Joaquin Murrieta’s caches — California
Julien Dubuque and the Iowa lead — Iowa
Kennecott — Alaska
Killdeer Mountain and Medicine Hole — North Dakota
Kokoweef’s river of gold — California
La Chasse-galerie — Quebec
La Llorona, the Weeping Woman — Mexico
Lasseter’s Reef — Australia
Le Griffon, the lost ship — Michigan
Lily Dale, the town of mediums — New York
Mami Wata — Nigeria
Marcus Hook, the pirate haven — Pennsylvania
Mels Hole — Washington
Memphre of Lake Memphremagog — Vermont
Mercy Brown — Rhode Island
Momo, the Missouri Monster — Missouri
Montana Bar, the richest gulch — Montana
Monte Cristo, the mountain gold camp — Washington
Montezuma treasure at Kanab — Utah
Mothman — West Virginia
Natural Bridge — Virginia
New England’s Dark Day — Maine
Oak Island and the Money Pit — New Brunswick
Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake — British Columbia
Ong’s Hat — New Jersey
Paititi, the last Inca refuge — Peru
Pamola and Katahdin — Maine
Paul Bunyan and Babe — Minnesota
Pegleg Smith’s lost black gold — California
Pele, goddess of the volcano — Hawaii
Pepie of Lake Pepin — Minnesota
Plummer road-agent caches, Lewiston country — Washington
Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl — Mexico
Priam’s Treasure — Greece
Proctor’s Ledge, Salem 1692 — Massachusetts
Quivira, the city Coronado crossed Kansas for — Kansas
Rattlesnake Dick's lost loot — California
Rattlesnake Dick’s lost express loot — California
Red Bluff underground tunnels — California
Reed Gold Mine, where it started — North Carolina
Rennes-le-Chateau — France
Ringing Rocks — Pennsylvania
Robbers Cave and the Nebraska sandstone — Nebraska
Robbers Roost — Utah
Robert Johnson’s Crossroads — Mississippi
Rogers Rock and the great slide — New York
Rosiclare and the Illinois fluorspar — Illinois
Sarmizegetusa and the Dacian gold — Romania
Sasquatch, the wild man of the woods — British Columbia
Shanawdithit and the Beothuk — Newfoundland and Labrador
Sharlie of Payette Lake — Idaho
Signal Hill and the first transatlantic signal — Newfoundland and Labrador
Sijilmasa, the gate of the gold road — Morocco
Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman — New York
Slumach’s lost creek gold — British Columbia
Spanish lost workings (northern mines) — California
Spirit Mound — South Dakota
Spook Hill — Florida
Standing Rock — North Dakota
Stull Cemetery — Kansas
Sutton Hoo — United Kingdom
Tahoe Tessie — California
Taniwha of the rivers — New Zealand
Tassili n’Ajjer — Algeria
Ted Binion’s buried silver (found 1999) — Nevada
The 1715 Treasure Fleet and the Treasure Coast — Florida
The 1733 Spanish Fleet of the Keys — Florida
The Alaska Triangle — Alaska
The Amber Room — Russia
The Antikythera wreck — Greece
The Ararat anomaly — Turkey
The Aswang — Philippines
The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel — New York
The Atocha — Florida
The Bagre and the Mali djinn — Mali
The Baldoon Mystery — Michigan
The Baltic Sea anomaly — Sweden
The Beale ciphers — Virginia
The Beast of Bray Road — Wisconsin
The Beast of Busco — Indiana
The Beast of Gévaudan — France
The Bell Witch — Tennessee
The Bell of King John / Loch Lomond — United Kingdom
The Bennington Triangle — Vermont
The Bermuda Triangle’s cousin: the Nazca of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan
The Betty and Barney Hill encounter — New Hampshire
The Black Dog of the Hanging Hills — Connecticut
The Blue Bucket Mine — Oregon
The Bohemia district and Bohemia Johnson — Oregon
The Bom Jesus and the Skeleton Coast — Namibia
The Borrego Sandman — California
The Bridgewater Triangle — Massachusetts
The Brown Mountain Lights — North Carolina
The Bunny Man — Virginia
The Bunyip — Australia
The Bunyip’s neighbour: the Moai and Rapa Nui — Chile
The Cahuenga Pass treasure — California
The Cape Henlopen pirate treasure — Delaware
The Cardiff Giant — New York
The Clear Creek coin wagon — California
The Cobalt silver rush — Ontario
The Copper Scroll treasure — Israel
The Coral Castle — Florida
The Crater of Diamonds — Arkansas
The Cremation of Sam McGee — Yukon
The Cuerdale Hoard — United Kingdom
The Curse of the Pharaohs — Egypt
The Cursed Amber Room of the steppe: Belovezhskaya bison — Poland
The Cypress Hills massacre — Saskatchewan
The D.B. Cooper ransom — Oregon
The Dark Watchers — California
The Demon Cat of the Capitol — Washington DC
The Derrynaflan and Ardagh hoards — Ireland
The Devil’s Bible — Sweden
The Devil’s Chair, Cassadaga — Florida
The Devil’s Pool — Pennsylvania
The Devil’s Tramping Ground — North Carolina
The Dogon and Sirius — Mali
The Dungarvon Whooper — New Brunswick
The Edmund Fitzgerald — Michigan
The Effigy Mounds — Iowa
The Exorcist steps — Washington DC
The Extraterrestrial Highway — Nevada
The Falcon Lake incident — Manitoba
The Fenn treasure — Colorado
The Flatwoods Monster — West Virginia
The Fouke Monster — Arkansas
The Fountain of Youth — Florida
The Fricot Nugget (found 1865) — California
The Galloway Hoard — United Kingdom
The Goatman — Maryland
The Golden Stool of the Asante — Ghana
The Golem of Prague — Czechia
The Golem’s cousin: Slovakia’s Cachtice — Slovakia
The Gray Man of Pawleys Island — South Carolina
The Great Serpent Mound — Ohio
The Grey Lady of Willard Library — Indiana
The Gurdon Light — Arkansas
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon — Iraq
The Heavener Runestone — Oklahoma
The Hemet Maze Stone — California
The Hermits of the Wissahickon — Pennsylvania
The Hindenburg at Lakehurst — New Jersey
The Hodag of Rhinelander — Wisconsin
The Honey Island Swamp Monster — Louisiana
The Hoosac Tunnel, the Bloody Pit — Massachusetts
The Hope Diamond and its curse — Washington DC
The Hopewell Rocks and the Fundy tides — New Brunswick
The Huldufolk and the elf stones — Iceland
The Hunley — South Carolina
The Jersey Devil — New Jersey
The Kaali crater — Estonia
The Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins — Kentucky
The Kensington Runestone — Minnesota
The Kentucky meat shower — Kentucky
The Keokuk geode beds — Iowa
The Kraken and the Norwegian deep — Sweden
The Kushtaka — Alaska
The Lady of the Lake: Sri Lanka’s neighbour, the Yeren — China
The Leatherman — Connecticut
The Lemurians of Mount Shasta — California
The Lewis Chessmen — United Kingdom
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp — South Carolina
The Loch Ness Monster — United Kingdom
The Loomis Gang loot — New York
The Lost Adams Diggings (Arizona claim) — Arizona
The Lost Adams Diggings (New Mexico claim) — New Mexico
The Lost Blue Bucket Mine — Oregon
The Lost Breyfogle ledge — Nevada
The Lost Cabin Mine — Wyoming
The Lost Cabin Mine (Trinity Alps) — California
The Lost Cement Mine — California
The Lost Dutch Oven mine — California
The Lost Dutchman mine — Arizona
The Lost Gold Lake (Stoddard) — California
The Lost Gunsight lode — California
The Lost Hardin silver — Nevada
The Lost Lemon Mine — British Columbia
The Lost Rhoades mines — Utah
The Lost Sea — Tennessee
The Lost Sheepherder mine — Nevada
The Lost Ship of the Desert — California
The Loveland Frog — Ohio
The Matchless Mine and Baby Doe — Colorado
The Melon Heads & the Ohio woods — Ohio
The Menehune — Hawaii
The Michigan Dogman — Michigan
The Mojave Nugget (found 1977) — California
The Mongolian death worm — Mongolia
The Monument Rocks chalk pyramids — Kansas
The Moon-Eyed People — Georgia
The Mountain of Lost Silver: Roraima — Venezuela
The Mountains of the Moon — Uganda
The Naga of the Mekong — Laos
The Nahanni and Headless Valley — Northwest Territories
The Nain Rouge of Detroit — Michigan
The Nasca lines — Peru
The Natchez Trace and the Harpe brothers — Mississippi
The Nazca of the north: the Ancient Bristlecones... and Bhutan’s Migoi — Bhutan
The Nazi gold train — Czechia
The Neahkahnie treasure and the beeswax wreck — Oregon
The Newport Tower — Rhode Island
The Nibelung hoard of Vienna: the Habsburg treasures — Austria
The Night Marchers — Hawaii
The Nkisi and the Ugandan Ssese spirits — Uganda
The Old Croton Aqueduct — New York
The Old Man of the Mountain — New Hampshire
The Owens Lake bullion — California
The Ozark Howler — Missouri
The Padmanabhaswamy treasure — India
The Palatine Light of Block Island — Rhode Island
The Panagyurishte treasure — Bulgaria
The Paulding Light — Michigan
The Peralta stones — Arizona
The Piasa Bird — Illinois
The Plain of Jars — Laos
The Planchas de Plata — Arizona
The Poker Flat cache — California
The Pope Lick Monster — Kentucky
The Port Orford meteorite — Oregon
The Proctor Valley monster — California
The Qivittoq — Greenland
The Queen of Sheba’s gold — Eritrea
The Quiet Zone — West Virginia
The Ratu Kidul of the southern sea — and Croatia’s Baska tablet — Croatia
The Rhinegold of the Nibelungs — France
The Ridgeway Ghost — Wisconsin
The Ringing Rocks of Jefferson County — Montana
The Riverside Bridge Monster (1958) — California
The Rock Lake pyramids — Wisconsin
The Roswell Incident — New Mexico
The Rougarou — Louisiana
The Ruggles brothers' strongbox — California
The Rusalka and the Slavic water — Serbia
The Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá — Mexico
The Saddle Ridge Hoard (found 2014) — California
The Sampo of the Kalevala — Finland
The Sampo raid and Pohjola — Finland
The Screaming Tunnel — Ontario
The Scythian gold — Ukraine
The Selbyville Swamp Monster — Delaware
The Singer gold of Padre Island — Texas
The Skaill Hoard — United Kingdom
The Skunk Ape — Florida
The Snallygaster — Maryland
The Spanish gold of the Wichitas — Oklahoma
The Spillings Hoard — Sweden
The Spooklight — Missouri
The St Louis ghost train — Saskatchewan
The St Ninian’s Isle Treasure — United Kingdom
The Staffordshire Hoard — United Kingdom
The Sylacauga meteorite — Alabama
The Thoen Stone — South Dakota
The Tokoloshe — South Africa
The Treasure of Guarrazar — Spain
The Trolls of Norway — Norway
The Vikings of Vinland — Newfoundland and Labrador
The Villisca axe murders — Iowa
The Wampus Cat — Tennessee
The Wendigo — Ontario
The Wetumpka crater — Alabama
The Wheelbarrow Mine — Idaho
The Windsor Ruins — Mississippi
The Witch of Yazoo — Mississippi
The Wolf of Latvia and the Baltic amber gods — Latvia
The Yamashita treasure — Philippines
The Yeti — Nepal
The Zmey and the Bulgarian dragon — Bulgaria
The abandoned City Hall station — New York
The ancient copper of Isle Royale — Michigan
The beyul, the hidden valleys — Nepal
The gold mine in Rock Creek Park — Maryland
The lost Confederate treasury — Georgia
The lost San Saba mine, the Bowie mine — Texas
The lost Swift Silver Mine — Kentucky
The lost tomb of Nefertiti — Egypt
The lost treasure of Lopez — Paraguay
The petroforms of the Whiteshell — Manitoba
The phantom ship of Northumberland Strait — Prince Edward Island
The pirate anchorage of Ile Sainte-Marie — Madagascar
The red-haired giants of Lovelock Cave — Nevada
The sheriff who robbed his own roads — Montana
The spirit of Devils Lake — North Dakota
The tomb of Genghis Khan — Mongolia
The treasure of Jewell Island — Maine
The treasure of Llanganates — Ecuador
The unopened tomb of Qin Shi Huang — China
The white deer of Presidio Park — California
The white elephant & the Ramayana treasure — Sri Lanka
The woman the sky hit — Alabama
Tiburcio Vasquez’s hideout loot — California
Tom Thomson and Canoe Lake — Ontario
Tragedy Spring cached gold — California
Treasure Mountain and the French gold — Colorado
Victorio Peak — New Mexico
William Waddell’s wandering arm — California
Wind Cave and the emergence — South Dakota
Yamashita’s gold — Philippines
Yamata-no-Orochi and the sword — Japan