We at Atlas Obscura start planning for Halloween early. It’s not that we’re making costumes or prepping for parties (though some of us are), it’s that we and our network of freelance writers around the world are hunting for stories. We lean hard into October. In fact, this year, we called the whole month AO Loves Halloween. But it’s never quite enough for us. We’re looking for stories like these—weird, wondrous, wicked—all year long. Here are some of our favorite spooky stories of the year that dig into the history,…
