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6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over
Our modern world was made possible by a whole lot of superstition, cruelty, and teeth harvesting on the part of our forefathers.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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7 Insanely Dark James Bond Scenes They Hope You Forget
We've all been bamboozled by the colorful misdirection of fancy cars and beautiful, preposterously named women.
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- By JM McNab
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9 Unbelievable Urban Legends (That Happen To Be True)
Maybe read these with the lights on.
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- By Nathan Birch
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The 5 Most Evil Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich
It turns out there have been plenty of psychopathic killers in history for whom a lifetime of mayhem and mutilation was just their way of paying the bills.
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- By B.T. Doran
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11 Great Halloween Costumes For (People Who Hate Their) Kids
Apart from naming them, picking a Halloween costume is the most nerve-wracking decision you'll ever make for your kid.
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- By Chris Radomile
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7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish We Never Found
The scariest video game moments ever aren't in horror games.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Chris Rio
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5 Creepy Diseases You Won't Believe Are Medically Possible
Watching Seinfeld makes some people literally ill. What's the deal with that!
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- By Ivan Farkas
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (10/27)
Forget Kim Kardashian's bum. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is breaking the internet.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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5 Famous 'Paranormal' Phenomena (Easily Debunked By Science)
In keeping with our storied tradition of ruining everyone's fun, here are some more examples of famous paranormal phenomena that seem to have some compelling evidence behind them ... until you look a bit closer.
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- By Jesus A. Rodriguez
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5 Famous Horror Movies You Won't (Want To) Believe Came True
Just because a horror plot is outlandish, that doesn't mean it couldn't actually happen ...
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- By Pat Carnell
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7 Archaeological Discoveries Out Of Your Darkest Nightmares
This is the body of Xin Zhui, a Chinese noblewoman who died over 2,000 years ago, yet continues to be blessed with the skin, flesh, organs, and sunny disposition of a fairly fresh corpse.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 236
5 Eerie Ways Entire Groups Went Insane Science Can't Explain
There's no way thousands of people just independently go crazy in the exact same way and for no reason, right? Wellll ...
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- By Jesus A. Rodriguez
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5 Horrifying Videos That Blow It At The Finish Line
We scoured YouTube and found some short horror films that did everything damn nigh perfectly ... right up until they completely imploded at the last possible second.
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- By Adam Koski
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- 145
10 Cracked Posts Everyone Went Nuts Over Last Week 10/25
It's 2015 and we get our news from Facebook. Doc and Marty never could have imagined it.
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- By Cracked Writers
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The 13 Worst Celebrity Halloween Costumes Ever Made
The masquerade merchants of the Internet have been putting all their elbow grease into their celebrity costumes this October. So let us behold their cornucopia of head-turning disguises.
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- By Michael Hossey
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- 201