When our eyes dart around the entire scene, the black dots move into and out of our visual field, making them seem as if they are flickering on and off.

The Order is a secret society that failed to stay very secret after a series of horrific murders and mass suicides during the ’90s in Canada, France, and Switzerland thrust them into the spotlight. They believed that death was an illusion and that they'd be transported to a planet near the star Sirius post-illusion. In 1994, 23 members in Switzerland were found in an underground chapel in ceremonial robes, most shot. Twenty-five members were found in ski chalets with children grouped together. Sixteen bodies were found in the Vercors mountains in France, arranged in a star shape.

The Twilight Zone

The Speakeasies' Swing Band

This is why we can't have nice things. By Liz Publika.

#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won’t until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up. By Leila McNeill.

Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine. By Sam Biddle.

'Halloween Asteroid' shaped like a skull is late for the party this year, flying past Earth on 11 November.

October 30th is right around the corner, so what better time to remind you to snag Cyanide Studios’ Call of Cthulhu on that day? In fact, we’ve gotten the launch trailer for the game, which like so many of the previous trailers, is heavy on the Cthulhu and the weird. It also does a good job of getting the game’s story up and running for those who “walked in late”.

For nearly two millennia, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has served as a stark reminder that nature is capable of some serious violence.

It was the height of luxury when it was built in 1971 near the Armenian capital Yerevan. Now stepping inside Zvartnots airport's abandoned terminal is like being transported back four decades.

When darkness fell, the child began to sing. Almost every evening, the shrill voice – somewhere distant and alone – would endlessly call out the same haunting nursery rhyme in the dead of night.

Brian Coldrick is an Irish illustrator and the artist behind a series of eerie comic series called “Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories.” Keep in mind that the artist doesn’t need many panels to scare you – he only needs one. By Aušrys Uptas.

“Behind You” One-Shot Horror Comics and Gifs by Brian Coldrick

My slide into damnation began where all good things are found, a garage sale. By Melissa Johnson.

"You're able to make observations that put together the last hours of someone's life."

Hereditary is being called one of the scariest movies ever made..

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A cartoon about Christmas trees. One tree entices another with his festive decorations.

Spend any time on Twitter and you'll end up in some very dark places, facing an existential quandary about your place in the universe, asking if life can offer anything but pain. That's so typical by now that it's mentioned in Twitter's user agreement (you should really read those things)... By Michael Walsh.