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Welcome to the dark
side of Greece!


             Greece is a country with thousands of years of history. Its land has whitnessed numerous civilisations peaking and decaying, Gods and mortals enganging themselves in epic battles, amazing events and ancient mysteries taking place. Through the echo of millenia strange creatures, marvelous inventions and amazing phenomena have marked the Greek land. The researcher of the weird can still trace them in myths, legends, customs even arcaelogical findings. Here we have an evergrowing collection of the lesser known weird side of Greece...

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Index

  • Ntavelis cave
    Strange disappearances, wierd phenomena and
    unexplained sightings. What happens at the
    ancient marble quarry near Athens?

  • Drosoulites
    The dew people. For a few minutes each dawn of late spring, just before the first rays of the sun, the mysterious fortress of Frangokastelo in Crete fills with shadows and echoes with foodsteps of soldiers and the clanging of their weapons. Are they the ghosts of the lost soldiers of Commander Dalianis?

  • The mysterious lids of Athens
    Thousands of weird metal lids lie in the streets of Athens and other Greek cities too. They bare bizzar esoteric symbols but no one seems to have noticed the. What do they realy mean?

  • Elounda: The lagoon of the mermaids
    Inside the calm waters of the Cretan lagoon an ancient city lies submerged for thousands of years. For centuries people claim to have seen strange silouettes sliping quetly between the waves. What lies at the bottom of the lagoon?

  • The Great 1954 Greek UFO flap
    A list of sightings of unexplained phenomena in Greece during the year of 1954.

  • The Gates of Hades
    Near the ancient Psychomanteion of Poseidon, the Oracle of the Souls, lies the entrace to the Underworld. An unexplored system of cave tunnels that span throughout the underground of Southern Peloponnesos.

  • Humanoids in Greece
    A list of some sightings of weird humanoid creatures in Greece.

  • The Necromandeion of Ephyra
    An Oracle of the Dead near the Entrance to the Underworld in Epirus. Ancient prophecies and predictions through the communication with the souls of the dead and a cleansing dark ceremony that was leading to the catharsis.

  • UFOs, Coincidences and Plane Crashes
    An accound of some weird coincidences regarding plane crashes in Greece....

  • Vrykolakes
    Ann accound of the vampire legends in Greece from the The Journal of American Folklore.

  • Vrykolakes (2)
    Another accound of the phenomenon in Greece.

  • The mysteries of the Minoans
    The minoic civilization flurished millenia before the arrival of the Myceneans in mainland Greece. In the island of Crete the Minoans established a powerful comersial state with such prosperity, well-being and equality that even today is aknown to us. Suddenly, around 1500 AD, the eruption of volcano in Thera put an end to this extrordinary's people dominance and marked the beginning of the so called middle ages of Greece.

  • Atlantis: The lost paradise
    The legend of Atlantis has fascinated the human kind for millenia. One of the most prominent theories for its actual location is the one about Thera, the beautiful Greek volcanic island in the middle of the Aegean. Were the Minoans inhabiting the island the true Atlanteans?

  • Geodetic triangularity of the Hellenic area
    Were the Greek ancient monument built with a greater plan in mind?

  • Ancient Greeks in America
    Was really Colombus the one to "descover" the American continent or was it already known to the Western world a few thousand years earlier?

  • Philadelphia Experiment: The Greek Connection
    In 1943 the American government conducted a very extraordinary experiment which was called the Philadelphia Experiment. Through the years many research has been done concearning the experiment and many theories and explanations have been given. Most of them though ignore its last chapters which happened to take place in Greece a few years later.

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