Gregory Burkart
Woman Freaks Out as Daughter Talks to “Georgie” Down the Sink Drain
What began as a real-life scene out of Stephen King’s IT turned out to be something entirely different… but for a brief moment, an Ohio woman got a serious case of the creeps after finding her three-year-old daughter having a conversation with someone named “Georgie” in the plumbing below the bathroom sink. We probably don’t […]
Gregory Burkart
Twitter Users Decipher a Cryptic Voicemail, Revealing a Terrifying Message
It began on March 13, when a user known only as “Ty” (@strayedaway) began tweeting about a mysterious voicemail message he received recently from an unknown number. Although Ty’s account is no longer online, his tweets were saved and shared by other users, and as a result the voicemail quickly went viral. The original voicemail recording […]
Gregory Burkart
HEREDITARY Viewers at SXSW Wake Up to Scary Dolls at Their Doors
Ever since it first terrified audiences at Sundance, Ari Aster’s feature debut HEREDITARY has been one of the year’s most talked-about horror titles — and many advance viewers claim the movie has haunted their dreams long after the credits rolled. But for a dozen or so people who attended a midnight showing at South by […]
Gregory Burkart
This NYC Commuter’s “Pet Goblin” is Weirding the Hell Out of Twitter
It all began when user @bootyslime, a.k.a. “the korns,” tweeted a series of pictures showing an unidentified commuter on a New York City subway sitting cozily next to a bizarre plush toy that looked like their mutant offspring. The weirdest part isn’t the doll itself (it’s actually cute, in a freaky kinda way), but the […]
Gregory Burkart
The Bizarre Viral Mystery of Daisy Brown and Her Pet Monster
In past features, we’ve delved into the output of some pretty disturbing, baffling and unexplained online media “celebrities” — including the still-active “Chip-Chan” or the even more demented ANIMALHEAD, to name just a few. It’s impossible to keep up with all of them, since dozens more seem to pop up every day. But when one user/creator […]
Gregory Burkart
Texas Girl Performs Leatherface-Style “Surgery” on Her Dolls
A seven-year-old girl achieved viral infamy this week, after her sister tweeted some truly unsettling photos of her new favorite hobby: slicing the faces off dolls and plush toys and swapping them with others. The unnamed kid’s older sister Katelynn (Twitter handle @sassykatx) posted the first images of these disturbing face-graft experiments on Monday, and […]
Gregory Burkart
The Chilling Saga of “Dear David” Continues with a Disturbing New Video… and More
Remember when I told you about Adam Ellis, whose regular tweets about his allegedly haunted apartment — and a dead boy who may have murderous intentions — have gone insanely viral this month? Well, his saga of a creepy little ghost nicknamed “Dear David” is still unfolding… with some nightmarish new twists. It all began […]
Gregory Burkart
Nightmarish Video Shows a Blood-Red Cloud Descending on a Brazilian Town
If you’re already on edge anticipating the cosmic horrors in the wake of this year’s historic solar eclipse (assuming you’re reading this in North America, that is), the following story probably won’t be very reassuring… A post shared by ?Irenny Vieira ? (@irenny_ynneri) on Aug 17, 2017 at 4:47pm PDT In fact, when it comes […]
Gregory Burkart
Man Tweets a Dead Child is Trying to Kill Him; Internet Freaks the Hell Out
It all began with a mysterious tweet from New York-based author, blogger, artist and illustrator Adam Ellis — who goes by the memorable Twitter handle @moby_dickhead. That’s not the kind of username you’d expect to source the kind of pure nightmare fuel this man just spilled onto the social media landscape… but it happened, and […]
Makenzie McNeill
How THE BABADOOK Became a Gay Icon — Practically Overnight!
Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film THE BABADOOK is one of the best in modern horror. It’s an achingly sad tale of a single mother’s struggle to cope with the loss of a partner, the erratic tantrums of her now fatherless child, and subsequent damages to her psyche — all of which manifest in the towering boogeyman […]
Gregory Burkart
The “Medieval Death Bot” is Creeping the Hell out of Twitter
We’ve previously visited some of the gruesome, macabre and morbidly fascinating aspects of the European Middle Ages in some of our historical features [like this delightful list of witch-hunt torture methods], so if you’ve read those — or similar historical accounts of brief life and messy death in that era — you might not think […]
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 […]
Gregory Burkart
Fisherman Tweets Pics of Deep-Sea Creatures, Entire World Screams in Horror
My first draft of this story was basically “NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE,” all caps, over and over again, occasionally interrupted by “Oh wait, this one’s kinda cute,” then another avalanche of “Aw-hell-no.” As I recall, this went on for about six and a half paragraphs. For the sake of journalistic integrity, I decided to delete that […]
Rob Galluzzo
This Twitter User Spotted A Mother F-ing Snake On His Mother F-ing Plane!
It’s been 10 years since Samuel L. Jackson helped save a plane full of people from a group of deadly snakes. And now, it seems that sometimes real life can get just as strange as fiction! Via Gizmado, Twitter user Indelicio Medina was on a commercial flight to Mexico City when this little castaway made […]
Gregory Burkart
This Boy’s Homemade “Spongebob Diary” Quickly Turns From Adorable to Horrifying
If there’s anything we’ve learned about children’s cartoons, it’s that they can be deeply disturbing if you think about them long enough. One such example is the beloved kids’ series SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, now in its fifteenth year on Nickelodeon. Just think about Spongebob’s world for a moment… he lives in a community called “Bikini Bottom,” which […]
