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7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel

The exterior of Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel, as seen in Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021).

7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel

Zak Bagans Shares 16 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Ghost Adventures

Zak Bagans and his Ghost Adventures team.

Zak Bagans Shares 16 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Ghost Adventures

How Ouija Boards Went From Spiritualist Tool to Children's Toy

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How Ouija Boards Went From Spiritualist Tool to Children's Toy

ScareHouse: How a Famously In-Your-Face Haunted House Is Using the Pandemic to Its Advantage

ScareHouse is serving up a ton of (socially-distanced) terrors in Tarentum, Pennsylvania.

ScareHouse: How a Famously In-Your-Face Haunted House Is Using the Pandemic to Its Advantage

10 Facts About Famed Paranormal Investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren  

Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren in Amityville II: The Possession (1982).

Little Weesy Coppin, the Ghost That Foretold the Franklin Expedition’s Fate

An 1847 illustration of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus during an earlier Arctic expedition, by James Wilson Carmichael.

Ghostwatch: The BBC Halloween Hoax That Traumatized Viewers

Michael Parkinson, Mike Smith, and Sarah Greene in Ghostwatch (1992).

Learn How to Make Your Own Ghostbusters Slime

Bill Murray gets slimed in Ghostbusters (1984).

The Real-Life Origins of 15 Urban Legends

He's (probably) not hiding in your shower.

How 'Pepper's Ghost' Became the Toast of Victorian London

People in Victorian London were amazed by a stage effect perfected by John Henry Pepper that had them seeing a ghost.

There’s a Ghostbusters Frappuccino on Starbucks’s Secret Menu—Here’s How to Order One

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8 Frightening Facts about Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

John La Farge's title illustration for The Turn of the Screw in Collier's Weekly, 1898.

Tiny Ghost Town of Cleator, Arizona (Pop. 8) Can Be Yours for $1.25 Million

It's not Schitt's Creek, but it could be.

12 Unusual Marriages Involving Non-Human Partners

The Eiffel Tower was involved in one of the most prominent non-human marriages.

The Owners of The Conjuring House Are Hosting a Haunted Livestream

Warner Bros.

How Did Casper the Friendly Ghost Die?

Universal Pictures
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