Halloween

At his rural home in northern Ohio, master mask-maker David Lady has made all things scary his specialty.

Ohio music experts weigh in on why certain songs send chills down our spine.

In the farm fields of Fairfield County, about 30 minutes southeast of Columbus, the scariest creatures around aren’t ghosts or goblins. They’re scarecrows.

There is no evidence of any deaths or injuries from contaminated Halloween candy. Why are people still afraid of it?

R.L. Stine, the author who gives us “Goosebumps,” grew up in Central Ohio. He says he draws influence from his hometown in each of his scary stories.

Part of Halloween's charm is that the normal rules are suspended. When else can kids dress up and demand candy from strangers? But some rules do apply.

Ancient mounds and burial sites across Ohio played important roles in Indigenous cultures. But rumors about burial sites being haunted abound — ideas that are both misinformed and harmful.

Halloween is the height of the haunting season: The time for telling ghost stories that conjure up feelings of dread, terror and excitement.

Moonville is an abandoned railroad town in Hocking Hills. Nobody lives there anymore, but its stories live on.

This year, the search engine Google composed a map of its most popular spooky searches. The results, broken down by geography, may be surprising.