Every March the cryogenically frozen corpse of a Norwegian man breathes fresh life into sleepy Nederland, Colorado, where throngs of fun-lovers fill the streets for Frozen Dead Guy Days, a festival in honor of the town's most famous resident. The annual three-day festival is the brainchild of a local businesswoman who came up with the whimsical idea 16 years ago as a way to attract visitors to Nederland, where the man's body has lain in repose in a shed since 1993.
This coming week, 12 years after The Ring movie franchise last haunted cinemas, the vengeful ghost Samara and her cursed video are back in search of new victims. Like any savvy supervillain with staying power, she's learned to adapt: In Rings , Samara's third go-round , she's upgraded from frightening curious souls to death through that worn-out VHS tape to killing them via handy, easy-to-transfer digital files.
A picture appears to show an unexplained white figure inside a Victorian theatre rumoured to be haunted by an actress who died backstage. It was taken by a group of keen ghost hunters, who wanted to catch the legend on film for the very first time.
While there have been plenty of newsworthy, powerful, and deeply moving photographs created this year - there's also been a handful of playful, humorous moments that the Reuters award-winning team of photographers have captured. Three-year-old Oliver Quiros competes dressed as an astronaut riding a space shuttle in the Haunted Heats Halloween Surf Contest in Santa Monica, California.
A person dressed in a clown costume stands amongst attendees during the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in Manhattan, New York, US, October 31, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Searches for selfies led to many bad decisions, an outbreak of creepy clown sightings chilled even horror maestro Stephen King, and a hard-fought campaign ended with the election of former reality TV star Donald Trump as president of the United States.
... one could perform the "Thriller" dance. But there is another category of "Thriller" interpretation, in the straight-up weird, nutty portrayals that litter the deep page numbers of YouTube. The title of the video is "una ragazza di brasille fa il ...