Cops in the English village of Hellesdon are hunting for an unidentified individual who's been creeping out locals by lurking around town while dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor.

The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine.

One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor.” But the distinctive bone-white mask and black clothing was actually ...

So, if you see someone wearing a plague doctor costume this Halloween and their history isn’t quite up to snuff, make sure they share their candy with you first, before gently correcting them ...

School officials called the police when a teenager showed up at a Malden high school in a plague doctor costume Tuesday morning.

While it is widely debated among historians if this costume was in fact used frequently by plague doctors, according to historian Winston Black it is doubtful that de Lorme was the inventor of ...

But stuffed with strong-smelling substances—ambergris, mint, rose petals—the plague doctor's mask actually embodies both practical and erroneous responses to the spreading pandemic.

Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks In the 17th century, people believed these outfits could purify poisonous air. They were wrong.

Chrissy Teigen is so ready for Halloween, and to prove it, she made her nurse dress like a plague doctor. The Cravings cookbook author shared a snapshot of the medieval costume on Twitter on ...

A teenage boy dressed as a 17th century plague doctor in Hellesdon near Norwich, Norfolk, has been identified and told off by police.

Locals are being terrorised by a person in a costume which is associated with various plagues throughout history.