Gregory Burkart
This Chicken Reportedly Lost Its Head 2 Weeks Ago… and It’s Still Alive
This isn’t the first documened case of this weird and gross phenomenon, but it’s definitely been a while since it made news… and you’re probably grateful for that. But since it’s part of my job to unearth weird and disturbing stuff, I’m gonna drop some icky info you might not have stumbled upon willingly. You’re […]
Gregory Burkart
Chilling Tale of “Phantom Hitchhiker” Spreading Through Argentina
The mystery allegedly began on the night of February 26: Pedro Peirone, a businessman from San Jose de la Esquina, Argentina, was driving home when he stopped to offer a ride to a mysterious young hitchhiker. Peirone described the unnamed teen as very shy, but otherwise ordinary-looking, and hitchhiking is a fairly common practice in […]
Stephen Johnson
The Strangest, Creepiest YouTube Channels of All Time
YouTube is a bottomless well of the collective unconscious: If you dig around, you’ll discover sad things, wonderful things, and deeply strange things. Even when it’s not trying to be, YouTube is often an unnerving place. The following collection of creepy YouTube channels mixes intentionally spooky content with channels that may have some other purpose, but succeed […]
Alyse Wax
The Bizarre Story of the San Francisco Witch Killers
In the 1970s, James Carson was a family man with a Master’s degree living in Phoenix, Arizona. His daughter, Jenn, remembers him being a wonderful father and admits to being a daddy’s girl. But by the time Jenn was five years old, her mother noticed a significant change in James’ behavior. She became scared, and […]
Rob Galluzzo
Nightmare Fuel: This Is THE Weirdest Video You’ll See This Year
What in the hell is THIS?! I don’t know. I have no answers. Sometimes, videos surface online, or more accurately in my inbox from twisted friends with a note that reads “watch this!” And I hit play, and question everything I know about reality. The following is one of those videos. It’s listed at “Weirdest […]
Gregory Burkart
VIDEO: Gang of VERY Creepy Turkeys Seems to Be Performing a Bizarre Ritual
Disturbing, dangerous and just straight-up weird animal behavior is one of our favorite “Real Life Scares” topics, and nature has been very generous in providing us some seriously nightmarish material to report (we love you, Australia). But this clip takes it to a level we haven’t seen before. The following clip, shared yesterday on Twitter […]
Stephen Johnson
The Incredibly Bizarre World of Ghana’s Horror Movie Posters
Horror movie posters from Ghana are amazing. Painted by local artists to promote roadshow screenings of bootlegged foreign movies, these totally unauthorized images have a rawness and power that the slick Hollywood promotional materials can’t touch. In the 1980s and ’90s, “video clubs” sprung up all over the West African nation of Ghana. They screened […]
Gregory Burkart
Some People Who Watched This Smiley GIF Aren’t Smiling Anymore — They’re Dead
Today’s report dates back to the early days of 4chan, and like most lore involving allegedly haunted content, it revolves around an image file — which, according to most accounts, is dangerous or even deadly to anyone who opens it. In this particular case, the file is an animated GIF, which is said to evolve […]
Gregory Burkart
Another “Skull” Spotted on Mars — and Some Say It Looks Like BIGFOOT
Remember when we showed you all that cool stuff on Mars that kinda looks like… well, other stuff? NASA rovers like Spirit, Opportunity and the more recent Curiosity have returned the sharpest, most fascinating high-resolution images from the fourth planet’s surface we’ve ever seen… and given the nature of the human imagination and the quirky […]
