cemeteries
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Halloween FeatureThe Startling History of the Jump Scare
By Gavia Baker-Whitelaw · October 28, 2024
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Halloween Feature5 Macabre and Mysterious Stories About Candy
By Samantha Chong · October 11, 2024
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Halloween FeatureFoxfire Brings Magical Light to the Dark Forest
By Leigh Ann Henion · September 25, 2024
Haunted Halloween Harvest
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.
Tales of Terror: The mother of all witches, creepy cryptids, the many faces of death, and more.
An Extra-Creepy Atlas: Create your own Road Trip of the Damned with these unsettling Places you can visit IRL (in this life or the next).
You Are Fearless. You Have Scrolled Deep Into the Atlas Obscura Crypt.
Venture even deeper into the shadows for more spine-tingling Stories, positively paranormal Places, and other spooky surprises.
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List
21 Lost and Lonely Cemeteries
From overgrown graveyards to urban legends, these burial places are haunting—and possibly haunted.
food
The Decadent Diet of Aleister Crowley
From sex-magick oysters to fantastical haggis, his diaries reveal an adventurous gourmand and accomplished chef.
maori
Does the New Zealand Fantail Connect the Human and Spirit Realms?
The bird is sometimes considered an omen of death, but in Māori tradition, that's just one part of its story.
subterranean
5 Creepy Tales of Real-World Zombies
And 10 places to wait out a (fictional) undead apocalypse.
Gardner, Massachusetts
S.K. Pierce Mansion
This historic Victorian mansion is allegedly so haunted that a signed waiver is required to enter.
Still hungry for more mischief and mayhem?
Satisfy your appetite for all things Halloween, from tasty treats to unsolved mysteries, with these classics from years past.
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