The Neighborhood That Glitched, And 20 Other Creepy Things People Have Actually Experienced (And Won't Soon Forget)

None of us had ever said anything to the others because it sounded crazy, but we all got the same image in our minds whenever ...

80 Confusing Images Where “Things Only Get Weirder” The Longer You Look At Them (New Pics)

You’d think that with so much time spent online, nothing could surprise you anymore. Oh, how naive you are to think that. As ...

Scary stories for kids: Gremlins and the terror of normal, even cute, things becoming horrific

The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed the roots of the uncanny in the familiar, something that is altered just enough to ...
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17 children vanish into the night — 'Weapons' is terrific and terrifying

It's not a very good movie, but this is a great dark joke, because the world in which we talk philosophically about scary things is supposed to be separate from the world in which the scariest things ...

How TikTok’s Creepy Cooking Trend Is Haunting Everyone’s Feed

A new trend on TikTok has been dubbed "creepy cooking," featuring food videos fit for Halloween. Some creepy cooking videos ...

‘A “Stranger Things” knockoff’ or a ‘gruesome, gory, and scary’ triumph? Critics split over HBO’s ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ prequel series

Exhibit A: The Wrap ’s Bob Strauss, who kicks off his review by saying that the HBO series “made me want to run to Hawkins, ...

Spooky but not scary: movies to watch when you want chills, not nightmares

All Things Considered producers Avery Keatley and Marc Rivers talk about movies that capture the eerie spirit of Halloween without the blood, gore, or jump scares.