Rendering visits even more spookily evocative, the Colosseum is open till midnight on Saturdays from 21 August to the 23 October 2010.

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So it has come as something of a relief to Australians that the spookily influential Mr Parker appears finally to have revised his opinion of Australian wines.

ECONOMIST: Australian wine

But for a certain type of Brit she is as good as a ghost story to send shivers up the spine, a spookily attractive perfect fright night.

BBC: Playtime is over

Saint Servatius, responsible for spreading Catholicism to the Low Countries and a diplomat in the fourth century, is buried in the crypt and his relics (i.e. bits of his bone fragment) spookily feature in the basilica's treasury.

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It looks spookily like a flying saucer.

ECONOMIST: A personal eye in the sky