According to SmithsonianMag.com, telling holiday ghost stories is a tradition that dates back to the time before Christmas was commercialized during the tail end of the Victorian era.

Let’s remember that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Telling dark and scary tales for the holidays is a tradition that dates back to pagan times.

Victorian era gives us a chance to do a creepy one; a scary one." Despite featuring the same cast, viewers may see slightly different interpretations of the characters though.

Halloween might not have been big in Victorian Britain, but Charles Dickens certainly knew a thing or two about giving us the willies. He created the world’s most famous ghost story (with a ...

Explore the "Creepy Side of Victorian History" during a "Haunted History" program. Victorian mourning traditions, lantern-lit cemetery walk and more are planned for a spooky new program at Fischer ...

The history of creepy Christmas stories - and where to find them #MerryOnMilwaukee. ... The line references the Victorian era tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve.

This creepy image was snapped by Google for its Street View map feature. It shows what seems to be a floating Victorian ghost in Cardiff, right near the Torchwood headquarters.

A good scary movie makes us afraid of its ghosts; a great one sees ghosts for what they are—specters of the past. Here are the best ghost movies currently streaming.

The so-called ghost appears to be an elderly woman in Victorian-era clothing, the women observed. The women, Victoria Greeves, 22, and Kayley Atkinson, 23, reportedly took the selfie, then sent it ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nothing says spooky quite like old Victorian homes. Old Louisville’s South Fourth Street Association is resurrecting its "Victorian Ghost Walk" for an extra creepy 13th year.

5 scary Galveston-area places to see this Halloween, from a pizza joint to a creepy Victorian house. ... Many if not most of those visits involve a ghost story or two, or three.