You won’t just find horror and terror in movies, book pages, and video game screens—they are far too common, unwelcome guests ...

Fact is often weirder than fiction. This isn’t just a fancy phrase, though! If you look at science, history, and even at our personal experiences, you’ll realize that the world can be a truly bizarre ...

1,000 years ago, creepy things people did were considered just another day at the castle. Here are creepy things that were ...

Your subconscious will do everything it can to hold you back and stop you from stepping out of your comfort zone. We’ve all been there before: You’ve been manifesting and begging for something better, ...

On the Friday, October 31, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Fear fascinates us for a reason. Psychologist Coltan Scrivner joins USA TODAY's The Excerpt to explain how morbid curiosity helps us ...

Most of us have intuitive thoughts, where our inner voice says something bizarre. But being functional adults, we don’t let that voice win. Children, however, haven’t yet developed the ability to ...

With over five years experience in the gaming industry, Sharon has covered all kinds of gaming content from listcles to news on the latest events. She grew up with three older brothers who spent all ...

It's not a very good movie, but this is a great dark joke, because the world in which we talk philosophically about scary things is supposed to be separate from the world in which the scariest things ...

Halloween is nigh. While modern frights are many, there are 10 in particular that worry me this week as my two ghouls prepare to haunt our neighborhood in a banana and a dinosaur costume. 10. Bad, sad ...

Attention all ghouls, goblins and thrill seekers: If you love being scared, then get on the ghost train to horror in Amarillo and nearby and fasten your seatbelts because this could be a goose-bumpy ...

When a scary or terrifying event occurs—whether it's violence, a natural disaster, or distressing news—adults often struggle with what to say to children. Many caregivers hope that staying silent will ...