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Hoia Baciu Forest, located in Romania, is famous for its strange and unexplained phenomena such as UFO sightings, ghostly apparitions, and mysterious energy fields. The Clearing, within the forest, is ...

The world's most haunted forest in which entire communities have vanished and UFOs have been spotted is in Europe. Hoia Baciu Forest in Transylvania has been called one of the world's most haunted ...

NESTLED between two mountain ranges in Transylvania is a forest locals have long refused to enter for fear of what lies within. Now, a tour company is venturing into the Hoia-Baciu Forest, where UFOs, ...

In addition to stuffing my cranium with horror films, no-budget trash, old movies, and obscure kung fu flicks, I have an almost insatiable thirst for documentaries. It doesn’t matter what subject the ...

Filmmaker Paul Dadrian is putting together a documentary about the Hoia-Baciu Forest, which is one of the creepiest places of Transylvania. Considering the eerie history surrounding the area, it’s not ...

Those intrigued by things that go bump in the night can’t help but take notice of Romania’s most folkloric region. The very word Transylvania conjures up spooky gothic castles and blood-sucking ...

We are in The Clearing. The trees stop in a uniform oval where nothing grows and where, since official records began, nothing has grown. “Once when I came here,” says Alex, our guide, “I found 60 ...