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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.

So many people are overindulging on brunch mimosas that restaurants now have a vomit surcharge.

The best documentaries prove that truth is not only stranger than fiction—it's frequently more entertaining.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, robbing graves of their corpses for dissection at medical schools was an all too common practice—and sometimes, enraged citizens rose up in protest.

If you were an 18th-century settler in Australia with no knowledge of marsupials, you just might decide to call a koala a ‘bear,’ right?

The rich history of the English language is full of similar directional words that are cool but uncommon, like ‘pancakewards,’ ‘couchward,’ and ‘pocketwards.’

The comic teased that we may not have seen the last of Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer.

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

LEGO’s new bricks in honor of Blindness Awareness Month form braille symbols with the toy’s classic studs.

The theremin—a spooky instrument that scored the biggest sci-fi films of the 1950s—was invented by accident.

Technically, the most cost-efficient time is December 26. But your kids probably won't like that.

Can you get out of the country in one day? Yes, but it won't be pleasant.