Joseph Hayes

Oct 25, 2024 | atlasobscura.com | Kate Golembiewski |Roxanne Hoorn |Joseph Hayes |Sarah Durn

From post offices and grocery stores to margarita bars and town halls, ghosts can turn up in the most ordinary places. In countless tales of terror and other stories we tell to scare ourselves, ghosts usually haunt abandoned buildings or float through cemeteries—but why wouldn’t they linger in everyday places too? From a post office to a margarita bar, spirits don’t discriminate what they populate.

Feb 23, 2024 | atlasobscura.com | Sonya Vatomsky |Joseph Hayes |April White |Joshua Adair

A Victorian-era sitter is clamped into position using a metal frame before having his portrait taken. We can’t seem to get enough of the Victorian Era, and the denizens of that mid- and late-19th century period that saw fascinating changes in science and society. Our obsession with everything from their fashion sense to their prudery has led to countless wondrous stories. Some are mere historical embellishment (you’ve heard about those “sexy” furniture legs?) but other wacky tales are all-too-true.