The Minnesota Historical Society really knows how to celebrate Halloween. TheyâÄôll be sponsoring dramatic readings of 19th-century Victorian ghost stories at the James J. Hill house in St. Paul, the ...
October has long been associated with ghosts – from ancient Celtic festivals to ward off restless spirits after harvest time to the modern standby of using an old sheet to make a last-minute Halloween ...
In the middle of the 19th century, however, popular portrayals of ghosts became a year-round staple, in part because photographers discovered that they could depict them. The first ghost photographs ...