During the early hours of 1st November 2012, security staff monitoring CCTV at an office in Castlefield House on Liverpool Road, Manchester, witnessed a harrowing chain of events.

And you would be afraid of?

The most nervous of worrywarts can experience extreme sports through the lens of a GoPro. The couch offers a perfectly suitable place to virtually experience a base jump off of the Freedom Tower or fly through a skinny canyon littered with jagged rocks with a wing-suit. But before you kick back and reach for some snacks, brace yourselves — these videos are anything but relaxing.

Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a "House of Horror".

The northeast of the US has plenty of hauntings due to the length of time Europeans have been settled there. The South, however, has its dark history of slavery to bring up its ghost numbers. Given that millions of people were dehumanized, abused, and killed on the South’s plantations, it’s no surprise that tales of angry spirits abound. And, yes, some of them want revenge.

You won't believe this! - Insane British man becomes SATAN!

Each photo is strange, dark and scary.

An Indian man from the Kalakuri village in Bankura, West Bengal has been sentenced to death for decapitating a baby and drinking its blood. The horrific offence took place two years ago according to local media sources.

Mafia killings don't typically shock Italians -- as disturbing as the occasional hit may be, the tragedy usually affects only friends and families of the victims. But a coldblooded, point-blank killing this month in southern Italy has a nation grieving - for a 3-year-old child.

From the producers of CABIN FEVER, THE RING, WE'RE THE MILLERS, and AMERICAN PIE. Three college girls go on a care-free vacation of drinking games, topless sunbathing, and sexual exploration. Their frolicking fun comes to an abrupt end when toxic zombie beavers try to EAT THEM.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Shocking photographs have emerged of a cannibal by the name of Mad Dog eating the flesh of a lynched Muslim man for the second time in as many weeks. In one, 'Mad Dog' - real name Ouandja Magloire - cuts a portion of meat from the body of a murdered Muslim lying burning on a roundabout in the capital of the Central African Republic, with the body of another a few yards away.

Alien: Isolation has just erupted from an incubating egg, wrapping the sinewy fingers of survival horror around one of the most iconic monsters in cinema. Check out this official debut trailer for Creative Assembly's claustrophobic new survival horror, Alien: Isolation.

Recent violence in South Sudan has captured the headlines, but just across the border, similar horrors have been visited upon a country hidden from the outside world. For ten deadly months, the Central African Republic has been ravaged by atrocities between Muslim Séléka rebels, who seized power last March, and Christian militias. Thousands have been killed and almost a million – a fifth of the population – driven from their homes.

As scary as this is, I would have loved to have seen that as close up as they did. Just amazing.

I've added some knife throwing to my show at the Texas Renaissance Festival. We started out the first weekend with me doing most of the knife throwing and Dakota only popping the balloon. We feel we get a better response when Dakota does all the knife throwing in the show.

Rolling Stone takes you inside the dark underbelly of factory farming in the meat industry

When you think of advertisements for cars and tires, you’re reminded of those generic expansive landscape photography commercials, with a scenic setting, zero traffic and an Enya soundtrack in the background. Not so if you’re Autoway, a Japanese tyre company who decided to highlight how good their tyres can be using the forces of the supernatural. With some seriously shocking results.

I can't believe Brian and I have been doing this for so long. We started doing this January 31st 2011 and never knew it would become this popular. 90 million views and nearly an astonishing half a million subscribers! Here we are 3 years later kicking off Season 4 in Boston!

Hanging guy scared bystanders.

In honor of Halloween, Salon asked 12 novelists to try their hand at the form. Below are their ghostly, bloody, watery and surprisingly pet-focused forays into darkness.