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6 Halloween Costumes You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
The following homemade costumes require nothing more than a fertile imagination, some deft DIY skills, and a little elbow grease. And an obscene overabundance of free time.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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The 6 Most Terrifying Places on Earth to Be Stranded
It doesn't matter how logical and rational you think you are, chances are there's at least one place in the world where you would never dare venture.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Aaron Matthew Smith, Ivan Farkas
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The 6 Creepiest Unexplained Phone Calls
When even the Do Not Call Registry can't help you, things can get absolutely insane.
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- By Robin Warder
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5 Real Killers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
WARNING: These are not for the faint of heart, and #1 will be just about the most disgusting thing you've ever heard.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Creepy Unsolved Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain
Thousands of people go missing every year. But as sad as that is, most of those cases have perfectly logical explanations. Some don't, but that's not even the creepiest part ...
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- By Evan V. Symon , Robin Warder
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4 Horrifying Realities of Working at a Haunted House
If you haven't been to a haunted house recently, you're missing out on something truly unexpected: At some point they actually became scary.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Lillian Sharrow, Alexander Kraft
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5 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 8)
It's that time of year again, kids! What time is that, you ask? Why, it's pants-soilin' time!
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- By Nathan Birch
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6 Roles That Crush Your Image of Iconic Horror Movie Actors
Whenever a movie monster seems totally real, just go to iMDb and check out the other roles played by these horror icons.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Brilliant Art Projects That Ruin Classic Kids' Characters
Prepare to be disturbed in two dimensions.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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6 Archaeological Discoveries Scarier Than Any Horror Movie
Some things were probably buried for a reason...
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- By Adam Wears, Ivan Farkas
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5 Shockingly Dark Scenes Starring Iconic Kids' Characters
It turns out that destroying innocence was not invented by the Internet after all.
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- By Erik Germ
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- 383
6 Video Game Glitches Scarier Than Anything Done on Purpose
Join us for another excursion into the unintentional, hilarious terror of video game glitches.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio, Tristan Cooper
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- 359
5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books
Human history can -- and constantly does -- produce stories that are far more creepy and gruesome than any horror-movie hellbeast or latex-mask-sporting serial killer could ever aspire to be.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Anyone Ever Made Money
The real world offers something much scarier than Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers.
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- By B.T. Doran
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7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs We Wish We Never Found
We have unfortunately seen the horror lurking beneath the surface of your favorite video games, and now we pass the curse to you.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Michael Kane
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- 464