Arthur R. King

Mysterious World

Folklore, unexplained history, and strange tales at the edge of the known. Latest pieces are previewed here. Click through to read the full article on Substack.

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List updated 16 Sep 2026, 12:44 pm

22 Aug 2026

Jack O’Kent: The Man Who Cheated the Devil

Over a bridge and some turnips

8 Aug 2026

The Black Hound in Afghanistan

Old Folklore in a Modern Battlefield

16 Jul 2026

King Arthur’s Light-Footed Herald

Sgilti Ysgafndroed and the borderland between legend and myth

13 Jul 2026

The Unbreakable Codex: The Voynich Manuscript

Arthur R. King on the wartime codebreakers who ran into a six-century-old wall

8 Jul 2026

Rooms with a View of the Past

Arthur R. King cross-examines a collective time-slip anomaly

5 Jul 2026

The Four-Year Flight

Arthur R. King investigates the sky-high anomalies of the RAF’s most famous time slip.

3 Jul 2026

A Roman Record

A 1950s plumber stumbled into a fourth-century military march.

30 Jun 2026

Screaming Skulls

King here.

26 Jun 2026

The Manifestations of Flight 401

A Sky High Ghost Story

23 Jun 2026

The Phantom Courier of the Octagon House

A simple or passive haunting

17 Jun 2026

The Locksmith of Eastern State Penitentiary

A simple or passive haunting

11 Jun 2026

Black Shuck: Friend or Foe?

Terror, protection, and tragedy—spectral dogs across Suffolk, Essex, and Buckinghamshire

9 Jun 2026

The Black Shuck: The Spectral Hound of East Anglia and Southern England’s Shadow Lands

A black dog legend of churches, fens, coast roads, and death omens

8 Jun 2026

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Where history’s rabbit holes lead to the uncanny

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