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

Things that lurked in the night were more than just a chill down the spine. One Provo folklorist collected eerie tales and turned them into a form of living history.

Atsu's story in Ghost of Yotei follows her pursuit of revenge against the "Yotei Six" after her family is killed. The Onryo persona is a vengeful ghost from Japanese folklore, symbolizing revenge and ...

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 ...

Demons, by contrast, were almost always malevolent tricksters who served the Devil. Demons lacked knowledge of what it meant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re Black, you’ve been told by someone in your family about some haint, a reappearing phantom or a folktale that left you with chills. In honor of spooky season coming, it’s only right for us to ...

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 ...