WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all. Several historical ...

Urban legends have always lived in spaces where curiosity meets fear. Before fact-checking was a tap away, these strange ...

Juniper was effective against witches, while foxglove was feared as the witches’ plant. In the past, plants were believed to ...

Halloween 2025 brings ancient myths, eerie origins, and global twists to the spooky season. Know about 8 fascinating facts about the world’s most mysterious and thrilling celebration.

Its most popular and unusual traditions have roots in the ancient Celtic fire festival of Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter. In more recent times, Halloween ...

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the holiday we know today. Here's the history.

A circle of figures, cloaked in ritual robes, stands in a clearing as the last light of day disappears behind the trees. A rhythmical drumbeat echoes through the grove as incense smoke spirals into ...

Just like those 8-foot skeletons, Halloween is getting bigger every year in San Angelo and across the nation. The National Retail Federation’s annual Halloween consumer survey revealed that total ...

One might think the campiest portrayal of rival gangs would come out of the musical West Side Story, but Walter Hill said, ...

If you’ve ever worn a scary mask, carved a pumpkin, or gone trick-or-treating, you’ve taken part in one of the world’s most curious cultural mashups. But where ...

The Union publishes Club News each Saturday. To share the latest from your western Nevada County club or organization, email [email protected]. Unfortunately only a small fraction of club ...