The Unknown

Stories with the The Unknown theme:

• The Phantom Island of Hy-Brasil Aug 13, 2025

  

  On certain clear mornings, when the sea is as quiet as a sleeping cat and the western sky takes on a pearl-grey sheen, the fisherfolk along the coast of Galway whisper the same word with equal parts fear and longing: Hy-Brasil.

  It is said that the island rises from the horizon once in seven years, a perfect disc of green and gold ringed by a silver mist, visible enough to set a man’s heart leaping and yet distant enough to mock his grasp. Many have sworn they saw towers no bigger than a thumb’s nail, and cattle as small as beetles, moving upon its meadows. Some have come home greyed by a single day’s chase.