Start rooting around in the couch cushions because a grand mansion once owned by a nineteenth century cookie inventor is currently up for sale.

Canada's Nightmares Fear Factory is a haunted house with a consistently updated Flickr feed, filled with snaps of the people who pass through the establishment. The faces are a absurd combination of shock, amusement and terror, and it seems like everyone basically screams at the top of their lungs. Since we know…

"When I was between the ages of five and eight, my sister and I slept in a large attic bedroom. At nightfall the room was filled with gypsies who glided around in clusters." Welcome to a world of haunted houses:

I was riding the train a few Octobers ago when I overheard one middle-aged businessman say to the other, "A ghost followed us home the other day. It was a handyman ghost." His tone was totally matter-of-fact, and his friend responded in kind: "Oh yeah, what did you do?" "We just got some holy water and spread it…