According to NPR, spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. From there, the word lived a harmless life, ...

Long before the Cherokee and other Native tribes called the Appalachian Mountains home, legends speak of a mysterious people ...

Ghosts are always scary. In the Alutiiq universe, ghosts are the physical manifestation of human and animal souls, and they are associated with death and reincarnation. When a person or an animal dies ...

Demons, by contrast, were almost always malevolent tricksters who served the Devil. Demons lacked knowledge of what it meant to be human. Hell was the demons’ lair. Early modern texts describe them ...

Carlos Moreno was killed when an alleged drunk driver crashed into him while he was cycling on Sugar Pike Road in Cherokee ...

Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen has complained to Kuala Lumpur that Thailand has been broadcasting “ghost sounds” along the disputed border despite a Malaysia-brokered ceasefire agreement. The ...

“The Cherokee learned that if you ask a question and you are patient, after seven days it will answer itself.” The penultimate line from the first ever animation in the Cherokee language — named “The ...

October is here, and that means spine-tingling screenings, haunted house adventures and chilling Halloween decorations that ...