Mystery Timeline
A timeline of yokai, cryptids, ghost stories, urban legends and ancient mysteries from the age of myth to the present. Events outside Japan are placed alongside the Japanese historical periods of the same time.
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Gods and mythical beasts of world mythology, ancient ruins and legends from before recorded history.
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Legends recorded in the Kojiki, Nihon Shoki and provincial gazetteers, ancient ruins and other mysteries up to the Nara period.
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The age of oni, vengeful spirits and onmyoji: Shuten-doji, the nine-tailed fox, the vengeful ghosts of Sugawara no Michizane and Taira no Masakado, and other mysteries of the Heian capital.
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Yokai and strange tales from the age of the samurai, alongside the mysterious books and legends of medieval Europe, from the Kamakura period to the Warring States era.
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The era when Toriyama Sekien's yokai paintings and ghost stories such as Yotsuya Kaidan flourished, and countless yokai were depicted in art and tales.
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From the age of The Legends of Tono to the days when Nessie and the coelacanth made headlines around the world: mysteries from the Meiji era to the end of World War II.
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The UFO boom, the tsuchinoko and lake monster crazes, the Slit-Mouthed Woman, and other mysteries that captivated Japan from the postwar years to the end of the Showa era.
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Scary stories born on internet forums, the filming of deep-sea creatures, UAP hearings and other mysteries from 1989 to the present.
