List of All Articles with Tag 'ghosts'

Familiarize yourself with these spooky slang terms for the spectral from the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE).

Being rich, famous, or influential has plenty of perks—but escaping the spirit world’s torments isn’t necessarily one of them.

Some, like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Victor Hugo, believed they had communicated with spirits directly; others, like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy, had ghostly encounters they couldn’t explain.

Some 19th-century scientists embraced psychical research, while others tried to debunk the sensational stories.

Whether born of folklore or a historical tragedy, each of these ladies has a haunting tale.

These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.

Mystic Manor in Hong Kong Disneyland manages to honor the original Haunted Mansion ride while respecting cultural sensitivities at the same time.

A visual guide to why heavy rain caused such devastation and killed so many people in the city of Derna.

At least 10,000 people are still missing after a catastrophic dam burst which took 2,300 lives.

Much of Derna is under water after two dams and four bridges collapsed in flooding after Storm Daniel.

The storm causes severe flooding in eastern Libya after killing a dozen people in Europe last week.

Learn about Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’—the classic ghost story that inspired (among many other things) Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor.’