Ghost tours are not about frightening people...They are about helping people understand how stories, buildings, and ...

A dense green forest surrounds the thin corridors of dark brown earth that make up the Appalachian Trail system. The trees ...

Marianne Noble, a professor of literature at American University, does a lecture on the history of Christmas ghost stories at a Profs and Pints event.(WTOP/Mike Murillo) During the holiday season, it ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) – A faint crisp chill has begun to fill the air, candy corn is lining the shelves at local grocery stores and people have begun to put up 12-foot skeletons in their front yard ...

In anticipation of Halloween, I just picked up a complete collection of the ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ book series (Alvin Schwartz, 1981; 1984; 1991), which I loved as a kid (despite a few of ...

Did the Eastern Idaho State Fairgrounds once house POWs? RELATED: Fact or Folklore: Is Jensen Grove Lake on top of a dump?

Everybody loves Maine. Some folks love it so much, they refuse to leave, even in the afterlife. “Maine is incredibly haunted,” says Jennifer Pictou, CEO of Bar Harbor Ghost Tours ...

Mount Greylock is home to a spectral Civil War veteran. A train tunnel is plagued by the spirit of a worker found mysteriously strangled. Two immigrant sisters haunt a Lenox inn after an adultery ...

Things that lurk in the night may be more than just a chill down the spine. One Provo folklorist collects eerie tales and turns them into a form of living history.

Third Eye Open is part of an award-winning anthology of creepy tales inspired by Malaysian and Chinese myths and culture.

Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel about Arthur Kipps, a London lawyer who is summoned to the funeral of Alice Drablow, a reclusive widow, to settle her estate. As ...