A black-and-white photo from the early 1900s shows a woman in rural America, her face covered with a sinister white mask. In another, from 1930, a tall figure stands in a field tightly wrapped in what ...

"Hiding behind their costumes, villagers often played pranks on one another, but blamed the spirits," Bannatyne told CNN.

Long before jack-o’-lanterns glowed on suburban porches and children filled the night with laughter and the rustle of candy wrappers, Halloween was something far older—and far darker. It began as a ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) - The St. Louis Art Museum will get to keep a painted mask of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman that was the center of a 3-year legal battle between the museum and the United States ...