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The 6 Most Terrifying Things People Used to Do With the Dead
This article contains images that may disturb some younger readers and will absolutely kick your soul in the dick, regardless of age.
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- By N. Christie, Kyle Mulholland
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5 True Stories of Killer Animals Too Unrealistic for a Movie
It's freaky when actual animals turn into serial killers, stalking prey and evading capture in a way that makes the shark in 'Jaws' look like an incompetent asshole.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Evan V. Symon
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5 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 7)
This world is so scary that a lot of the creepy tales you told around the campfire have actually happened to real, very unfortunate people.
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- By Nathan Birch
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6 Ridiculous Science Myths You Learned in Kindergarten
Teachers are people, too, and people have this nasty tendency to occasionally lob whatever untruth comes flying at them right back at somebody else like a game of bullshit ping pong.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez, Himanshu Sharma
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6 Animals That Look Like They're Dressed Up for Halloween
Truly, Halloween is a magical day. Which is why some animals choose to celebrate it 24/7.
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- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 5)
We don't care if you don't believe in hauntings or ghosts -- go hang out in any of these places at night and your imagination will MAKE them haunted.
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- By Pauli Poisuo, Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Ivan Farkas
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The 5 Least Spooky Real World Hauntings
Boring people make for boring ghosts. At least that's the best explanation we could come up with for these hauntings.
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- By Tracy V.
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- 480
6 Real Serial Killers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
The following people and their bone-chilling exploits are totally real, and at least three-quarters of them are totally still alive.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Ivan Farkas
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The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Routine Surgeries Have Gone Wrong
Surgery, no matter how minor, is a scary thing. And these stories will only add to that fear.
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- By Hillery Alley
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6 Horrifying Things That Happen Before You Leave the Womb
The real world bites, but it's sure better than where you came from.
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- By Matt Machmuller
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5 Famous Musicians Who Correctly Predicted Their Own Death
Who knows when and how death's grim hand will come to us? Musicians, apparently.
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- By Sam Jackson, Ryan Menezes
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- 521
The 6 Creepiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games (Part 2)
Developers go through the trouble of creating a frighteningly elaborate Easter egg knowing that only a select few will forever be changed by it..
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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13 Old-Timey Photos That Will Give You Nightmares (Part 3)
History is the nightmare that keeps on giving.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 Creepy Glitches Hidden in Famous Video Games (Pt. 3)
Let's again take time to gaze into the horrors that can lurk beneath innocent layers of code.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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- 456
6 Creepy Places Where Dead Bodies Just Lie Out in the Open
Why spend Halloween giggling your way through a haunted house full of plastic skeletons and fake corpses when you can go find the real thing?
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- By Eric Yosomono, Alfredo Marquez, R. Jason Benson, Ryan Menezes
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- 691