Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

The story of Philinnion is about a ghost in ancient Greece, a maiden who returned from the grave to make love to a human.

The ghost stories of the ancient world reveal much about humanity’s early attempts to understand death and the afterlife. Whether it was a story to serve a moral lesson, a religious reminder, or ...

Long before Halloween monsters, ancient Greece feared their own dead. Burials and even stone-weighted graves kept restless ...

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

A 7,100-year-old skeleton from China has revealed a "ghost" lineage that scientists had only theorized about until now, a new study finds. Researchers made the discovery while studying ancient ...

Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama. Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a ...