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When someone says the word "unicorn," most people conjure up an image of a white horse with a golden horn growing in the middle of its forehead. Perhaps

GROTON — Nestled approximately a mile north of the often bustling Gold Star Highway, tucked into the forest and guarded by an abandoned YMCA summer camp and Latham Reservoir, is

Humans apparently have a strong need for unicorns and have been searching for them for more than 2,000 years.

Legends, myths and folkloric systems across the western world record legendary horned creatures which have become known to us collectively as unicorns.

Some creepy old abandoned villages really seem to attract to them some odd tales. In 1778, two English colonists by the names of Johnathan Randall Esq. and Obediah Higinbotham evacuated their homes on the coast of Cranston, Rhode Island, in anticipation of a British attack during the Battle of Rhode Island of 1778, and settled... Read more »

Some Asian names for the unicorn The Chinese name for the unicorn is qílín (or ki-lin in Wade-Giles romanization), from which com...