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Close-up of the cursed stain
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9 Creepy Cursed Objects

From stolen stones to chained up trees, don't mess with any of these items.
Roxanne Hoorn October 18, 2024
Food with a face is disconcerting. With fangs? Even more so.
food

Gloriously Gruesome Confections for Halloween–and the Rest of the Year

A new cookbook offers recipes that are both wholesome and horrifying.
Anne Ewbank October 15, 2024
In the original <em>Dracula</em> novel, the count is able to bite Lucy only after her necklace of garlic flowers is removed.
witchcraft

Banishing Evil With Edible Plants

All-natural monster repellent for spooky season might lurk in your kitchen.
Andrew Coletti October 14, 2024
This year, longtime Massachusetts corn maze Mike's Maze has a circus theme.
mazes

Inside the Weird World of Corn Mazes

The a-maize-ing history of getting lost among the stalks.
Roxanne Hoorn October 8, 2024
Holy Bones Festival hosts spooky performances.
arcades

10 Reasons to Visit Ypsilanti in October

A month of autumn and Halloween events, from wicked shopping to B-movie musicals and drag cabaret.
The contorted trees of Hoia-Baciu Forest in Romania.
forests

Five of Our Favorite Terrifying Podcast Episodes

Listen to these tales from our archives—if you dare.
Kit Sudol November 3, 2023
Particularly terrifying clowns were used throughout the experiment, which is totally normal.
haunted

For the Love of Fear

In a Swedish amusement park, two volunteers faced their greatest fears—for science.
Roxanne Hoorn October 31, 2023
The Raven Room
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12 Important Places in Edgar Allan Poe's Life (and Death)

A tour of the writer's world, from his short-lived military career to his multiple gravesites.
Atlas Obscura October 30, 2023
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura
puzzles

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Halloween Themeless

AO Puzzles October 30, 2023
cryptozoology

Explore the United States of Cryptids

Our archives offer a tour of the country's most elusive, mysterious characters.
Roxanne Hoorn October 28, 2023
The legend of the Snallygaster appears to have been an invention of local newspapers, but one that carried a dark threat.
mythology

The Unsettling Legend of Maryland's Native Cryptid, the Snallygaster

A strange, scary farce that brought together Old World legends and racist scare tactics.
Colin Dickey October 27, 2023
Our first place winner is Drew Babineau's photograph of a barber chair inside of a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
haunted

Our Spooky Snaps Photo Contest Winners

A collection of atmospheric images from our readers, to explore if you dare.
Winnie Lee October 27, 2023
List

14 Haunting Places in Literature

From Dracula's castle to the villa where Frankenstein came to life.
Atlas Obscura October 27, 2023
The 1984 film <em>Gremlins</em> was inspired in some ways by wartime gremlin stories (Roald Dahl's in particular), but put another modern spin on the older tradition.
military history

How Gremlins Went From Fairy Stories to Warplanes to Hollywood Legend

Meet these slippery, mischievous reflections of our anxieties about technology.
Hadley Meares October 24, 2023
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura
haunted

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Haunted Atlas

AO Puzzles October 23, 2023
List

21 Lost and Lonely Cemeteries

From overgrown graveyards to urban legends, these burial places are haunting—and possibly haunted.
Jonathan Carey October 20, 2023
A parasitic fungus emerges from the body of a fly in Peru.
subterranean

5 Creepy Tales of Real-World Zombies

And 10 places to wait out a (fictional) undead apocalypse.
April White October 20, 2023
This 1962 cover of <em>Official Detective</em> features a Halloween candy poisoner at work.
poison

Why Halloween’s ‘Poison Candy’ Myth Endures

Even though we know better.
Jennifer Byrne October 19, 2023