Paul Hornung was football's "Golden Boy" -- handsome, talented, and fabulously successful. He had a great career at Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy (the only player ever to win it on a team...

Each year the residents of Nether Haddon celebrate the village's founding in the time-honored way with games, music, and performances by their sword dancers. But something new is added to the fancy footwork...

One dark March evening Vera Howarth vanishes from her village. Despite search teams, TV appeals and a police investigation, she is never found, and her disappearance transmutes into a local ghost story.That...

Tolling church bells are as much an aspect of rural England as are grazing sheep, thatched-roof cottages and verdant-hedged lanes.  But someone in this sleepy village evidently takes exception to one...

The watchers that night who saw only blackness and the suggestion of trees massed against an ebony sky claimed later that they knew something would happen. Some probably cursed their ill luck that they...

Bonfire Night! The 400 year old tradition of burning the straw effigy is beginning. The torch extends...but it's no mock figure at the end of the rope. It's the body of a man... Brenna Taylor, Derbyshire...

Year after year, the villagers near Stanton Moor celebrate May Day with bonfires and the laying of rowan branches to seek protection for home and cattle.  But the men who gathered this May evening hadn't...

December bullies its way into the village in a swirl of snow and biting wind, threatening to cancel the annual St. Nicholas festival.  But winter's slap pales when a body is discovered in the candlelit...