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The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)
There are some places you can take one look at and be certain -- just from a process of pure and logical deduction -- that they're home to terrible monsters.
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- By Robert Brockway, Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Andy Keher
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13 Old-Timey Photos That Prove History Was Haunted
Old-timey people were insane. Like Lovecraftian-world-of-horrors insane.
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- By Mark Hill
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7 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 6)
Well, it's that time of year again. Specifically, the time of year when we make you shit your pants with stories that sound like they must have been made up, but are actually terrifyingly true.
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- By Nathan Birch
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5 Modern Horror Scenes Ripped Out of History Books
It turns out that many iconic horror movie moments that you thought came out of the imaginations of Hollywood writers can also be found in the pages of history, hundreds or even thousands of years before it made sense for anyone to come up with them.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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The 6 Creepiest Glitches in Famous Video Games (Part 2)
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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6 Real Murderers Who Put Horror Movie Villains to Shame
Just in case you were considering sleeping easy this Halloween, or ever again, we're pleased to let you know that there are plenty of killers out there who would be right at home in anything John Carpenter could pull out of his ass.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Bernard Smith
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10 Old-Timey Medical Treatments Inspired by Your Nightmares
In the course of 10 pictures, we're going to make you feel way better about the fact that you weren't born 100 years earlier.
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- By Tracy V.
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The 5 Creepiest Stories in the History of War
Just don't ever ask Grandpa if he brought back any souvenirs from the Pacific.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Real Museums Straight Out of Your Nightmares
In our continuing mission to ruin your life completely, here are some museums that will have you sleeping with a nightlight for the next few years.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , J. Wisniewski, Itzhak J. Czukor
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5 Bizarre Ways Brain Scans Can Predict the Future
Now serious men in lab coats can slap a machine on your head and predict stuff like what products you'll buy, which tests you'll fail in class and even how likely you are to be a raging drunk. It's the future!
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- By Agneeth Mazumdar, XJ Selman
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The 6 Most Eerily Convincing Ghost Videos on YouTube
Science has found zero empirical evidence for the existence of ghosts, aliens, demons or any other supernatural creature and these videos will surely not fool an expert in video fakery. Unless he or she watches them alone, late at night, in the dark. Then they become very convincing.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Unintentionally Hilarious Moments in Famous Scary Movies
Even classic horror movies, the serious ones that actually have the power to frighten, tend to feature at least one or two unintentionally hilarious moments. Here are some of our favorites.
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- By RiffTrax
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5 Creepy Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened
The rational part of our brain tells us that there is nothing weird about coincidences. We're here to tell it to shut its pie hole.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 B.S. Political Arguments You Hear Every Election Season
Look, we're not going to try to sway you on any one issue, but you should know that there are some factual points that almost everyone gets wrong.
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- By Patrick McCarty, Alex Race
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5 Clues Hidden in Computer Files That Can Get You Busted
You leave digital fingerprints all over everything you do on a computer, and unfortunately for bad guys, it doesn't exactly take a CSI team to find them.
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- By Diana McCallum
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