Sea spiders have such tiny abdomens that their guts and genitals are in their legs.

New technology creates digital ghosts to help the psychotic.

For thousands of years humans have used embalming methods to preserve dead bodies. But nothing compares with Russia's 90-year-old experiment to preserve the body of Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union. Generations of Russian scientists have spent almost a century fine-tuning preservation techniques that have maintained the look, feel and flexibility of Lenin's body.

The purportedly possessed children's toys can sell for as little as $45 and for more than $1,500.

Child advocates want toymaker Mattel to pull the plug on a new interactive Barbie doll that records children’s voices and uploads them to a cloud server.

An abandoned farm house in the middle of a wheat field. Photo by Jeff Edes.

This week the Vice President and Social Chair of the United States groped the wife of Ashton Carter as he was sworn in as Secretary of Defense. This was funny--Joe Biden, he's wacky!--but also sort of not funny and indicative of a creepy, creepy trend.

Tragic tales of doomed romance and supernatural horror, often set in baroque castles, have thrilled readers for centuries. But many modern-day fans of Gothic literature may not be familiar with the 18th Century novel that inspired the genre.

Renters of this apartment were trying to figure out how the rats were getting inside. So they set up a camera.

Eleven people have been arrested in eastern China for allegedly stealing women's corpses for use in "ghost marriages", it's been reported.

Hacking into the Home Depot credit card system, the financial records at JP Morgan Chase? Child’s play! Try hacking into the feed of a local Chicago television station and replacing the sport anchor with a really creepy incarnation of Max Headroom.

Double-tap that fucker.

Day of the Dead explores the special objects and rituals of the annual Mexican celebration of All Souls' Day, which is observed on the first day of November. The film examines the Mexican philosophy of death and the ways in which people have come to terms with mortality. A rich variety of folk objects, created each year for the celebration are shown in detail. Music composed and performed by Laurindo Almeida. Narration read by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. running time: 15 minutes, color.

Who you gonna call? 

Just in time for halloween

77-year-old grandmother and infamous Bosnian eyeball licker Hava Cebic claims she can cure people’s eye problems by the soft caress of her tongue on their eyeballs. Apparently she can cure anything from eye splinters, ocular hypertension to conjunctivitis crusts (ew).

Just two hours from Whistler is the ghost town of Bradian. It has power lines, phone lines, and the 50 acre site is already zoned rural residential. And it can be yours for under a million dollars.

Hamilton County can be sued because a morgue attendant had sex with female corpses while at work, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Kenneth Douglas admitted in court that he sexually abused three corpses while he was drunk or on drugs, but he had sex with up to 100 bodies, he said in a deposition.