- Find Creepy Places - Though these creepy places are on our list as Halloween-ish because they're just creepy in general, some may have some extra-spooky fun, like tours, going on October 31. Get some tips on terrifying travel to the locally monstrous (like ghostly tours of formerly ghastly scenes such as the old West Virginia penitentiary), learn about the mystical and mysterious (like the real Central America crystal skulls thing), or how to get up close with ghosts (as in sharing space with spooks in haunted hostels and B&B's). See it all with a comprehensive creepy list.
- Creepiest Places in Eastern Europe - Let's face it: the movie Hostel preyed on our predisposition to find Eastern Europe sorta shivery, so we like shudder-inducing suggestions such as the Sedlec Ossuary and Prague's Torture Museum (ewww) in the Czech Republic and Dracula sights in Romania.
- Best Ghost Walks and Haunted Places in the UK - There's no paucity of the paranormal across the pond: walks into the weird and tours of the terrible in some of the most haunted cities in one of the most generally haunted countries in Europe -- think drawing, quartering, beheading, and medieval castle curses -- are some seriously scary stuff. And some of it's free!
- Halloween in London - The biggest city in the UK deserves (and gets) its own Halloween roster of events: some are really just good 'n raunchy (the Torture Garden Halloween Fetish Ball) or spooky 'n silly fun (The Scare Witch Trials at London Dungeon) rather than truly terrifying; the London Tower is always kinda creepy, though.
- Mexico Mummies - Mummies are real. That is, mummies aren't just products of horror flicks and mysterious ancient burial rites: you can see real unlive mummies from the very near past in Guanajuato, Mexico's Museo de los Momias (Museum of the Mummies). It's totally cool; get the whole scoop:
- First Guanajuato Mummy Exhumed in 1865
- Guanajuato Builds New Mummy Museum in 2007
- Displaying Dessicated Corpses (err, Mummies) - The mummies you'll see on display in the Guanajuato mummy museum are not wrapped in a neat linen bundle, as could easily be pictured if you think "King Tut" -- these mummies have generally not been retouched, dressed, or "fixed" in any way: you'll see them as they were buried, for the most part (and how they were buried can have a very grisly side...
- Ignacia Aguilar's Mummy - Was She Buried Alive?
- Mummy Death Masks
- Hours for and Directions to Guanajuato's Mummy Museum
- Halloween in Italy - About.com's Guide to Italy, Martha Bakerjian, reports that Halloween events are starting to take hold in Italy these days, and you can find some special fun on October 31 with Urban Trekking's All Saints Eve walks in many cities which might, according to Martha, "...include special night visits to medieval towers, crypts, dungeons, or castles." And Italy, like Mexico, is one of the other places on the planet where you can actually see real dead (as opposed to real live) mummies, naturally preserved for your viewing horror. (It's totally cool.) Learn more:
Want to find a little more action -- like Halloween parties -- on October 31 worldwide? Check this out:
