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The St. Augustine globster washed ashore in 1896.

Though these marine mysteries are often solved, globsters—unidentified organic masses that wash up on beaches—continue to capture the public’s imagination.

In 1994, Mariah Carey surprised everyone—including herself—by coming out with what would quickly become a Christmas classic.

Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ on display at the Museum Of Modern Art.

American painter Jasper Johns shook up the art world by reconceptualizing common icons like targets, numbers, and letters—and it all began in 1954 with ‘Flag.’

The options for laughing online are numerous.

Everyone has a preferred way to laugh online, whether it’s an acronym like IJBOL (“I Just Burst Out Laughing”), a reaction GIF, or a crying laughing emoji. Which one do you use?

A Tlingit boy wears a traditional woven red cedar hat.

November has been proclaimed Native American Heritage Month for more than 30 years, but the movement to honor Indigenous cultures started long before that.

‘The Nightmare’ by Henry Fuseli, circa 1871. Frame has been added.

Take a look at these 13 names from across the world that describe sleep paralysis and the demon once believed to cause it.

The 2015 low-budget horror flick became a massive word-of-mouth hit, and now has its very own spin-off.

Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers in John James Audubon's ‘Birds of America.’

Here’s your introduction to this legendary, (maybe?) extinct avian—and a look-alike species that might be the source of all the rumors.

A lithograph of the 1889 Johnstown Flood made in the 1890s shows the debris caused by the flood in flames.

The Great Flood of 1889 killed more than 2000 people, swept away 1600 homes, and caused $17 million in damage. And it wasn’t the last time Johnstown would flood.

John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ isn't the only good horror remake worth watching. This season, you can scare up something better for your next marathon with these killer picks.

It's Polly's world—everything's just really small in it.

These vintage Polly Pocket toys from the ’90s and beyond are fun for more than just nostalgia; they could pack some serious cash into your wallet, too.

Whether you call it Mischief Night, Devil's Night, or something else, it all means one thing: wanton destruction of property.

Weird but fascinating facts about everything from the guy who dragged cars with his nipples to frogs shedding (and eating!) their own skin.

From uniting the Crowns to whipping witch hunters into a frenzy, King James VI and I left his mark on history.

"They want someone to spray the trees so the leaves stop falling."

NYC311 has fielded calls involving everything from goats to ghosts.

Sally and Jack Skellington in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993).

The best Halloween movies for kids are ones that also don't bore the adults.

Screenwriters and filmmakers made key changes to how these novels finished up.

You might be surprised to see how these movies end, even if you’ve read the books.

The haunted house is one of horror’s most time-honored tropes, a dark twisting of the place we call home into a maelstrom of terror and things that go bump in the night.

A detail of the Chi Rho monogram in the Book of Kells, a priceless illustrated manuscript from the Middle Ages.

The medieval era wasn’t just a bunch of flat Earthers feasting and jousting.

Sugar skulls are just one part of Día de los Muertos.

In Latin America, el Día de los Muertos is a celebration of life and death, and an invitation for the deceased to return home once again to those who love them.