Travelers looking for a taste of dark drama can stay in accommodations built in former prisons, cult compounds and defunct military installations.
Category: Ghosts
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Humor to Counter Despair’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Don’t Say ‘Macbeth’ and Other Strange Rituals of the Theater World
Pulling back the curtain on the peculiar customs and enduring superstitions that help define life backstage.
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In England’s Most Haunted Village, Halloween Means Screams and Skeptics
Pluckley is said to count at least 12 spirits among its 1,000 residents. Come October, ghost hunters arrive in droves to a place where even nonbelievers concede they’ve had eerie encounters.
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What to Know About the Real Story That Inspired ‘The Deliverance’
A mother in Indiana claimed that she and her three children were bedeviled by shadowy figures and swarms of black flies — and possessed by demons. A Netflix movie tells their story.
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What Is the Scariest Song of All Time? Poem? YouTube Video?
Times writers revealed their picks. Listen at your own risk.
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Why Can’t We Give Up the Ghosting?
How a disappearing act became the default ending to so much human interaction.
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Dark Tourism: Destinations of Death, Tragedy and the Macabre
The New York Times – Travel:Travelers who use their off time to visit places like the Chernobyl nuclear plant or current conflict zones say they no longer want a sanitized version of a troubled world.