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 ...

If today's protective clothing is impersonal, its 17th-century equivalent was downright sinister. Even if you've never heard of a plague doctor, you've almost certainly seen an image of one ...

And those were some masks. "Everybody probably is familiar with the classic image of the beaked physician, the plague doctor," Honigsbaum said. That the plague doctors looked like ravens about to ...

What doctors didn't know was that they were probably doing more harm than good—spreading the plague even more by exposing more people to their plague-covered articles of clothing. In the 14th ...

Police have said they are keen to trace a person who has been walking around a village dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor. Residents of Hellesdon, near Norwich, have been both "terrified" and ...

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "We are aware of reports made to police and online about a person dressed in 'plague doctor' clothing. "We have identified the male youth who was seen and he ...

Police have said they are keen to trace a person who has been walking around a village dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor. Residents of Hellesdon, near Norwich, have been both "terrified" and ...