Explore the hidden world of what scares us alongside Dr. Emily Zarka, host and writer of the PBS series Monstrum. From bats and vampires to myths and monsters, she reveals how our fears reflect our ...

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In the face of cruel horrors or pure joy, words tend to fail us. The uncanny and the sublime also render us speechless. To what do we turn then to capture what our conscious minds cannot grasp? For ...

NORTH ADAMS — What do Bigfoot, vampires, cursed campgrounds and haunted railroad tunnels have in common? You can learn about them all at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, in a class, ...

In his entertaining debut, historian Coward surveys centuries of folklore, arguing that these tales, with their focus on transformation, deviance, nonconformity, and otherness, have always been ...

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Mark discovers the deep stream of tradition carrying the sounds of Scotland to Nashville. Mark treks to the Scottish Highlands on Burns Night as Scots worldwide celebrate their national poet and bard, ...

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