The council has recently lobbied the government to pardon the hundreds of women executed during the 17th century witch trials ...

The Futuro House sits in an open grassy area that makes it look even more like it just touched down from space. Originally designed as a ski cabin in the 1960s, these unique structures are incredibly ...

During the 1600s, when Maryland society was just forming out of groups of immigrants primarily from the British Isles, early ...

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

Here’s how some of the most classic Halloween costumes came to be — fair warning, some have grim origins. “Once witchcraft ...

As tens of thousands of revelers descend on Salem, Mass., every Halloween because of the witch trials of 1692 and 1693, towns ...

The fear stems from superstition which led to persecution of real people, mainly women, with infamous witch trials happening ...

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...

It's never been clearer that the vampire romance, that sub-genre purveyor of delectably dramatic pleasures, is indeed ...

Grace White Sherwood, the “Witch of Pungo,” most certainly had a way with the neighbors. According to local legend and court ...

“Rock-n-Troll Hall of Fame” is proudly displayed on the side of this unique attraction. Inside, thousands of troll dolls with their wild hair and grinning faces fill every available space. The ...

But real ghosts or not, Walter Knott did built a ghost town, and he cobbled it together out of old buildings sourced from ...