“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats” – Voltaire.

His name is Wrinkles and he's booked for months in advance. By Peter Holley.

The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?” By Maria Dolan. (2012)

At McKamey Manor, people pay to be kidnapped, bound, masked, slapped, stomped on and held under water over an eight-hour ‘tour’. But unlike other ‘extreme haunts’ of the same variety, here there’s no safe word to make it stop. By Rory Carroll and Mae Ryan.

Once, when I was 17, I woke up in the dark and couldn’t move. I could hear, at least. That’s why I was awake to begin with: someone was banging on the front door in the middle of the night, insistent, sharp, angry. I could see, too. My eyes were open to the ceiling above me. My head, though, was locked into position by some invisible vise. I tried to yell, to warn my parents about the angry intruder outside, and the...

Humankind it seems has a definite desire to somehow transcend the amorphous barrier between life and death to communicate with the spirit world... By Brent Swancer.

One family hoped their new home would bring a fresh start. But the house held secrets that would cause them years of heartache. By Will Hunt and Matt Wolfe.

He thought he was being personally haunted by a ghost. By Melissa Dahl.

EXCLUSIVE Tamara Samsonova (pictured), 68, is thought to have beheaded and dismembered her victims in Russia's St Petersburg, in a reign of terror that may have lasted two decades.

This is one of the most disturbing and wildly complex parasitizations in the animal kingdom. By Matt Simon.

An indigenous tribe has lived on North Sentinel Island with limited contact from the outside world for the past 60,000 years. Anybody who has tried to contact the Sentinelese people has been killed, or at least drawn a violent reaction from the community. The island which rests in the Indian Ocean, is so dangerous for outsiders to attempt to visit that India’s government has established a three-mile exclusion zone to prevent more violence.

This "biolapse" condenses more than three months of footage into an eerie study of how carnivorous plants eat insects by filmmaker Chris Field

For the writer Shirley Jackson, the poison was always in the sugar pot—and that was her charm. By B.D. McClay.

Ghost hunters searching an abandoned Mississippi hospital for the paranormal found the body of a missing 69-year-old woman. Sharon Wilson was discovered outside Kuhn Memorial Hospital — a condemned building believed to be haunted — in Vicksburg in Warren County Sunday night, police said.

In 2011 Callie Quinn moved from Austin to Chile to experience a new way of life. Then she met a charming fellow foreigner—and almost lost everything.  

By Lara N. Ehrlich.

You aren’t alone in your fear of makeup-clad entertainers; people have been frightened by clowns for centuries. (2013)

On eBay, do a search for “haunted” and you’ll get dozens of dolls, boxes, crystals, Ouija boards, and other pieces of regular-looking furniture that contain a little something extra special inside of them. These items are hawked by a slew of sellers, from full-fledged businesses that specialize in only selling ghost-enhanced artifacts, to regular folks who just want Uncle Wally’s old stuffed animal out of the house.