There's something about a haunting ballad that stops you in your tracks. Maybe it's the raw vulnerability in a singer's voice, or the way certain melodies seem to reach into places you didn't know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most haunting ballads ever recorded was dominating the Billboard Hot 100 exactly 53 years ago today. The song would go ...

It’s one of classical music’s most haunting mysteries... Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony has just two movements, yet it feels complete. Did he mean to stop there? Or leave it behind unfinished?