Ghosts

A sudden death, a corpse in the house, and a mysterious ringing of bells.

Little Howard Winham demands two of everything–one for himself and–most baffling his parents–one for his dead twin?

Two curiously solid apparitions from the trenches of the Great War. “Lieut. Smith said that it was quite a common occurrence for men in the war zone to see the ghosts of their comrades who had been killed.”

Coal miner and farmer Hickman Whittington took out classified ads stating that he could rid any house of any ghost with a single, secret Bible verse. It was guaranteed and absolutely free except for expenses.

A ghostly tale from Mexico City about an evil raven named El Diablo, for Dia de Los Muertos.

Two simple 19th-century ghost illusions you can do at home.

There is something horrifyingly fascinating about accounts of the dead who stubbornly refuse to lie down quietly, but continue to walk as they did in life. They may be called revenants, or vampires, draugr, ghouls, or the Undead. They scare us.

The dead are dead. They cannot hurt us. (We hope.) So why are we so afraid of a corpse?

“I felt certain if that shade came on and touched me, I was a dead man.” A fight to the death–with Death.