Back in the Middle Ages, people had a supernatural explanation for almost everything. In their minds, spirits lurked in every ...

The tiny artifact features a depiction of what appears to a be a dragon or a basilisk—a mythological serpentlike creature.

The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book ...

Humanity's struggle against monstrous creatures has been a perennial favourite of storytellers for thousands of years. … ...

A Medieval Pilgrim May Have Carried This Basilisk Pendant to Guard Against Evil Found in Poland, the “pilgrim’s badge” was likely worn by a Christian traveler hundreds of years ago ...

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book.

Most of us have our lists of people whom we regard as profoundly evil. And a number of us also think that the people on our lists are mentally ill, deranged, insane, or crazy. But is being evil ...

Ooooowwwoooo! Werewolves, zombies and good old-fashioned ghosts may pop out of the crypt tonight, but Halloween's creepiest staples didn't just appear out of thin air. Many of them once instilled ...

A new Resident Evil experience, created via the engine for the original RE2, takes Capcom’s classic survival horror back to the Middle Ages.

Cartographers used the bizarre creatures depicted in maps from medieval and Renaissance times to illustrate mysterious, unexplored regions of the globe.