Oct 26 2025
Tender cabbage, savory ground beef, tomatoes, rice, onion, garlic, and paprika simmer together in this hearty cabbage roll soup—a comforting one-pot dinner inspired by the flavors of traditional stuffed cabbage. If you love cabbage rolls but do not always have time to soften individual cabbage leaves, prepare the filling, carefully roll each bundle, and bake …
Oct 25 2025
Few American cities embrace Halloween quite like Salem, Massachusetts. By October, the historic streets fill with pumpkins, elaborate costumes, ghost tours, street performers, seasonal markets, museum visitors, and people who have traveled across the country simply to spend Halloween in the place nicknamed the Witch City. Historic houses stand beneath brilliant New England foliage, shop …
Oct 24 2025
October movie nights call for witches, ghosts, haunted houses, monsters, mysterious curses, and at least a little magic. Disney has been providing all of those things for generations, from the Headless Horseman galloping through Sleepy Hollow to the Sanderson sisters running amok in Salem. Some Disney Halloween movies are genuinely eerie. Others are funny, nostalgic, …
Oct 23 2025
New Orleans is a city where history never seems very far away. Centuries-old buildings line the French Quarter, wrought-iron balconies hang above narrow streets, courtyards hide behind weathered façades, and stories from generations past seem to cling to almost every block. It is hardly surprising that New Orleans has also developed one of America’s richest …
Oct 22 2025
Ghost movies do not have to involve dark hallways, terrifying apparitions, or people desperately trying to escape a haunted house. Sometimes the ghost is the person we wish we could speak to one more time. Sometimes a spirit returns to finish something left undone, help someone they love, make peace with the past, or simply …
Oct 20 2025
Halloween movie night does not have to mean hiding behind a pillow. For many families, the perfect October movie has pumpkins, friendly ghosts, mischievous witches, silly monsters, talking skeletons, and just enough spooky atmosphere to make the season feel special. The goal is not necessarily to be frightened. Sometimes you simply want a movie that …
Oct 18 2025
Hidden deep within the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo lives an animal that looks almost as though nature combined pieces of several different species. It has the long face and large ears of a giraffe, a rich chocolate-brown coat, and striking black-and-white stripes across its legs and hindquarters that immediately bring a …
Oct 16 2025
Poetry has always had a shadow side. Long before horror movies and Gothic novels filled our imaginations with ghosts, doomed lovers, strange creatures, ruined castles, and lonely figures wandering through the night, poets were writing about death, grief, madness, isolation, supernatural encounters, war, obsession, and the fear that something unknowable might be waiting just beyond …
Oct 11 2025
On the windswept Antrim Coast, where the Irish Sea meets a landscape of green hills, rocky shoreline, and centuries of history, stands a castle with a reputation that extends far beyond its stone walls. Ballygally Castle looks almost too picturesque to be haunted. The 17th-century building overlooks Ballygally Bay in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, along …
Oct 08 2025
More than four centuries after a group of men and women from rural Lancashire were accused of causing illness and death through witchcraft, the story of the Pendle witches still hangs over the landscape beneath Pendle Hill. Their names have become part of English folklore. Visitors encounter witch symbols on local signs, businesses draw upon …
