What makes for a wild night in Asbury Park come Halloween (or any time of year)? How about spirits, candles and a bunch of strangers holding hands around a séance table? The two people I brought along ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022. In honor of spooky season, we sent the two biggest scaredy cats on our team, reporter Elvia Verdugo and editor Gloria Knott, to witness and ...

Interest in the occult has risen during the past decade, especially among young people. Seances are part of the trend. In a chamber beneath the Petit Ermitage Hotel in West Hollywood, 11 seekers ...

We sit at a large, round table in the dark, dim parlor as Madame Blavatsky calls for spirits to appear. Soon a bell rings. Then someone — or something — raps under the table. And Blavatsky goes into a ...