Ukrainians sing and dance in a subway in downtown Kiev in 2009. It has been a tradition for 20 years. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

The Long Beach High School marching band prepares to march down the Long Beach boardwalk during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption

We asked you to send us your scary stories, then we told them to an anthropologist. iStockphoto.com hide caption

Chinese composer Tan Dun's latest work, Nu-Shu: The Secret Songs of Women, was inspred by an ancient language spoken in a remote area of Tan's home province of Hunan. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has pleaded not guilty to five charges related to the phone hacking scandal. Sang Tan/AP hide caption

Singer-songwriter Rita Hosking grew up in a house she says was haunted. She even saw the ghosts of a mother and her son, she says. Rik Keller Photography hide caption

CBS correspondent George Polk and his wife, Rea, in 1948, shortly before his murder on May 8 of that year in Greece. Megaloeconomou/AP hide caption

Andrew Neiderman has written more than 40 novels in his own name, in addition to dozens as V.C. Andrews. Courtesy of Andrew Neiderman hide caption

Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, shown here conducting the New York Philharmonic orchestra in 1963, was a legend in American music. Letters to and from Bernstein have been compiled into The Leonard Bernstein Letters, a new book edited by Nigel Simeone. Express Newspapers/Getty Images hide caption