Under the glow of twinkling lights and jingle bells, something darker emerged to mark the start of the holiday season this month in Pittsburgh. At Penn Brewery, people of all ages celebrated the ...

From a Northern Liberties parade to Krampus photo ops, Philly’s holiday season is trading forced cheer for folklore, horns, and a little rebellion.

Louisville Krampus Celebration founder Steve Vessell shares the folklore behind Krampus, how the tradition took hold in Louisville, and what continues to draw people to the community surrounding this ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A new kind of holiday experience awaited unsuspecting visitors to the Market Square Christmas Village. Lurking in the shadows amid the sparkle and merriment, creatures that appear ...

Krampus is coming back to Pittsburgh. Tonight. Krampus is a mythic cloven-footed figure known to appear on Dec. 5, who acts as an anti-Santa, punishing the naughty and sparing the nice. He’s known to ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Santa has been spotted throughout Toledo for the past few weeks as he visits children to see what they want for Christmas this year. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on the kiddos ...

As the Halloween season folds back into the dark, there lingers one shadowy folklore figure that travels forward into the holiday season –– the Krampus. At first a pagan figure of the winter solstice ...

NEW ORLEANS – Feeling creepy this holiday season? Check out a Krampus Celebration! Although the Halloween season has officially passed, New Orleans Nightmare is cooking up new frights for Southern ...

There were days when St. Nick might have delivered stockings full of coal or switches to bad kids, but when was the last time anybody's naughty little offspring got anything but exactly what they ...

Generally, the holidays are a time to celebrate the merry, the good, and the light, while honoring folkloric figures such as Santa Claus. But there are plenty of traditions that veer off from the more ...

Christmas is celebrated in many different places around the world, and some of this holiday's traditions are fairly unknown ...