Halloween

Atlas Obscura Scares Up the Best of the Season

October is our favorite month to celebrate the macabre, the mysterious, and the monstrous. Join us on a wild ride through a landscape of unsolved hauntings, terrifying legends, and hidden places almost too creepy to be real. It's going to be ghoulish good fun.

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Mask of the Bat God
Mexico City, Mexico

Mask of the Bat God

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

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Centennial Rock with the carvings "E Suydam 1876 M Danbury Centennial Year." Followed by the mysterious cypher. Unfortunately, weathering and possible vandalism has made much of the carving illegible. Early images of the carving in a better state of preservation can be viewed here: https://weirdnj.com/stories/cryptic-carvings-along-lawrence-brook/
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Lawrence Brook Carvings

Front of the mausoleum
New Orleans, Louisiana

Rice Family Mausoleum

Veado
Nazaré, Portugal

'Veado'

Misnébalam
Misnébalam, Mexico

Misnébalam

Coral Cut looking west
Palm Beach, Florida

Coral Cut

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