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7 Allegedly Haunted Dolls

Creepy dolls, you say?

7 Allegedly Haunted Dolls

8 Haunted Places You Can Spend the Night

Be sure to pack your ghost-hunting gear.

8 Haunted Places You Can Spend the Night

8 Facts About Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle is an iconic part of the city's skyline.

8 Facts About Edinburgh Castle

13 Facts About The Haunting True Story Behind The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021).

13 Facts About The Haunting True Story Behind The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

You Can Own an Allegedly Haunted Florida Jail for $140,000

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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).

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

Zak Bagans and his Ghost Adventures team.

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

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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.

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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