The City Built for the Dead: China’s Fengdu Ghost City and Its Two Thousand Years of Underworld Ritual
Ming Mountain rises from the south bank of the Yangtze at Fengdu County with a single purpose: it...
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The Lady Who Locked Herself In: Haunting of Ballygally Castle on the Antrim Coast
The castle at Ballygally has stood on its promontory above the Antrim Coast since 1625, when James...
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The Cold War’s Haunted Ear: Berlin’s Teufelsberg Listening Station and Its Ghosts of the Intelligence War
Teufelsberg — Devil’s Mountain — rises above the Grunewald forest on the western edge of...
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The Headless Priests of Baguio: Haunting of the Philippines’ Diplomat Hotel
Dominican Hill Road climbs out of central Baguio City through pine forest and morning mist until...
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Nova Scotia’s Oldest Dead: Halifax’s Old Burying Ground and Its Three Centuries of Restless Sleepers
The Old Burying Ground sits at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Barrington Street in downtown...
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The Stepwell That Calls to the Living: Delhi’s Ancient Agrasen ki Baoli and Its Pull Toward the Dark
Turn off Hailey Road in Connaught Place and the city vanishes. A gate, a short path, and then the...
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The Ghost Fleet of the Pacific: Micronesia’s Chuuk Lagoon and Its Sunken World War II Graveyard
In February 1944, American carrier aircraft launched Operation Hailstone against Chuuk Lagoon—then...
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The Devil Took the Fourth Chair: Dublin’s Hellfire Club and the Night Satan Came to Dine
The path up Montpelier Hill outside Dublin begins in easy countryside—gorse, heather, the city...
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The Habsburg Curse: Why Every Owner of Trieste’s Miramare Castle Met a Tragic End
On a promontory above the Gulf of Trieste, a white-walled castle looks out to sea and waits for...
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The Werewolf Trials of the Alps: Austria’s Moosham Castle and Its Dark History of Persecution
In the high Lungau valley of southern Austria, a medieval castle above the village of Unternberg...
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