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.

PRANKSTERS dressed up in creepy ‘plague doctor’ costumes have been spotted across the UK. Cops in Gloucester are investigating one of the sinister figures seen scaring children near a d… ...

Danny Buck, a historian at the University of East Anglia, who spotted the picture, said: "It's quite a smart-looking costume and it's important people realise that in the 17th Century plague ...

The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against “evil” smells thought to cause disease. But the truth behind this creepy costume will shock you! Discover the medically ...

Plague doctors, or at least images of plague doctors, are having a bit of a cultural moment again, roughly 300 years after their actual heyday. They’ve become popular motifs for stickers, pins ...

Police hunt prankster caught strolling around suburb dressed as 17th century plague doctor with long black cloak, hat and beaked mask. A prankster in Norwich goes for walks dressed as a 17th ...

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.

School officials called the police when a teenager showed up at a Malden high school in a plague doctor costume Tuesday morning. No weapons were found on the 14-year-old, but school officials ...

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 ...

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 ...