Warning: Gross pics contained within. By Leanne Louie.

Every year, hundreds flock to Southern California horror experience the 17th Door. We went to a rehearsal to see how they prepare to frighten the masses.

Open If You Dare. By Emily Temple.

Read at your own risk.

Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived, in a coma, at the hospital in the morning of February 2nd, 2006. As her organs were failing, she...

The eerie noises coming from the attic at this Pittsburgh home were reason for alarm after all. Surveillance footage from Jerome Kennedy’s home revealed that someone had been crawling through his attic at night. According to Kennedy, that person is his next-door neighbor Robert Havrilla, 69, who he claims was peering into his bedroom through a vent.

State Rep. Mike Moon of Ash Grove said Monday, June 26, 2017, he meant to show his work as a farmer who is frustrated by the delays in the legislative process. He did not intend the perceived comparison of chicken slaughter to abortion. By Joe Robertson.

Seemed abandoned, but it had electricity and ventilation, so... While walking through the territory of a factory, located in the industrial area of the city, I noticed a weird concrete block with a metal gate on the side of it. I opened it and a latter climb later I was in a dark, small tunnel leading to an underground bomb shelter/safe house.

You may have seen headlines proclaiming that the great mystery of Antarctica's "Blood Falls" has finally been solved. That's a little silly, because the big mystery—the question of why blood-like bright red liquid oozes out of the otherwise white surface of Taylor Glacier—hasn't been all that mysterious for some time. Two years ago, a study suggested that the water, a salty brine full of interesting microbial life and colored by a high level of iron, seems to come up from an underground waterway that connects visible lakes on the surface.

Halloween’s approaching, and what better time to dig out those classic spine-tingling urban legends to tell around the campfire? You know the ones—Smile.Dog, Slendy, the Black-Eyed Kids. Oh, you don't? By Aja Romano.

The Victorian mums who disguised themselves as chairs, couches and curtains – to hold their children still for photographs

“Christopher’s cat watched, purring, until Aunt Cissy disappeared into the kitchen alcove again and came back carrying the trussed carcass of what seemed to Christopher to be a wild pig.”

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An enigmatic ex-con, his improvised religion, and the Georgia town that watched it all fall. By Asher Elbein.

It's a culture, not a costume. By Michael Gardiner.

The retail giant's decision, just two weeks before Halloween, comes amid a frenzy over "creepy clown" sightings and threats.

Happy early Halloween. By Juliet Bennett Rylah.

A bear chasing you is simply scary but a guy with a big mouse’s head can give you the creeps. What’s the difference? By David Livingstone Smith.

White House defers to FBI. Stephen King hits ‘hysteria.’ By Ben Guarino.

He was a young man of fine attainments, a profound scholar, and a musician of rare ability. His figure was remarkable for its grace, and his face — that is to say, his natural face — was that of an Antinous. But upon the back of his head was another face, that of a beautiful girl, ‘lovely as a dream, hideous as a devil.’ The female face was a mere mask, ‘occupying only a small portion of the posterior part of the skull, yet exhibiting every sign of intelligence, of a malignant sort, however.’ It would be been seen to smile and sneer while Mordake was weeping.”