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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).

10 Facts About Famed Paranormal Investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren

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.

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

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

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How Did Casper the Friendly Ghost Die?

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When Thomas Edison Tried Besting Nikola Tesla by Building a "Spirit Phone"

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World’s Largest Ouija Board Unveiled in Salem, Massachusetts

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