On 23 October 1642, the first major battle of the English Civil War broke out in southern Warwickshire. The Battle of ...

In Victorian England, from the 1830s until around 1900, telling ghost stories was a big part of how you celebrated Christmas: ghosts, evil spirits and people gone insane!

“Between the Lights,” first published in Benson’s 1912 collection The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, is set in a quintessentially spooky mansion in the English countryside at Christmastime, ...

"It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood." ...

Following three years of sold-out performances in the North West of England, ArtsGroupie’s ‘Ghost Stories for Christmas’ ...

It took about five seconds to figure out Ghost Town might be something a bit special when I first played it earlier ...

On Ashes tours, there is often a forgotten cricketer or two. The men who end up carrying drinks endlessly, practise ...

Southern England is now the proud possessor of an entire “ghost line”. The East West Rail route was supposed to see trains ...

Maine’s loons are on the mend, filling more of the lakes and ponds in the state with their haunting calls. Maine is home to a ...

The poachers weren’t intimidated by heat, lightning, mosquitos, venomous snakes, alligators or losing their way in the South Florida swamps. They were there to steal the ghost orchid, a plant so ...

We all have our favorite movie and television Scrooges. “A Christmas Carol ,” based on the Charles Dickens novella published ...

Authorities say that the "person of interest" detained in the Brown University shooting is being released. “We want to inform ...