Real-Life Monsters in the Shadows

Not all monsters hide under the bed—some wear a bunny suit and lurk in the shadows of Virginia.

Picture this: October 1970, Fairfax County, a maniac in white, flinging a hatchet

at a car's windshield. It's no urban legend; police reports confirmed the chilling encounter. Meanwhile,

far to the north in Maine, whispers of a forest ghost turned out to be true.

For 27 years, Christopher Knight—better known as the North Pond Hermit—vanished from civilization,

surviving through over 1,000 nighttime raids on local cabins. He became the unseen phantom of the woods,

watching hikers stroll unknowingly through his hidden domain. So which terror

strikes deeper: the imaginary threats of campfire tales or the real-life specters living