Nightmarish Mascots for Halifax Oyster Festival Prompt Horror & Jokes

Clowns get a bad rap when it comes to campy characters that have a tendency to scare people. Sure, they can come across pretty creepy, but it takes attention away from other notable entries to the genre. Top of the list here is mascots. Having some poor guy dress up and prance about in an …
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Amusing Things That Are Normal at 3PM but Terrifying at 3AM

What is it about the night that transforms the seemingly mundane into the stuff of nightmares? It can’t just be about the dark. It feels deeper and more primal than that. There’s no doubt that the sound of an ice cream truck is pleasant, warm and nostalgic at 3PM, but completely sinister at 3AM. One …
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People Share The Creepiest Things They Ever Heard Kids Say

We may not have the answers to many of life’s questions, but we have pretty much figured out «what would happen if you wiped the brain of a human being and watched their every waking thought run riot?». The reason for this is that children exist. As everyone who’s spent a long time around kids …
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Unhinged Family Freaks Out When Daughter-In-Law’s First Born Isn’t a Boy, Goes Full ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ at the Shower

Every family has its quirks, but this redditor’s story about how her in-laws reacted to the sex of her unborn child is beyond unsettling. The family nearly had a collective mental breakdown after they failed to will a baby boy into existence through various «rituals,» the ultimate goal possibly being to superimpose their dead grandfather’s …
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Woman Is Flabbergasted By Elderly Lady’s ‘Secret’ To Leading A Long Life

For a society that doesn’t seem to really like old people that much, we sure are obsessed with figuring out how to live the longest lives possible. Zoomer nihilists aside, it seems like a lot of us have an interest in turning our golden years into platinum ones, and that’s without even getting into those …
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Creep Gets Fired For Harassing Female Co-workers, Still Asks For Reference

Audacity can get people very far in life, even in times when they don’t deserve it. A confident demeanour will always open a lot of doors, but unfortunately, it’s also a trait that is easily abused. Charm often allows certain individuals to get away with some seriously unacceptable things, so it makes a refreshing change …
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Scary Science Facts That Most People Don’t Think About

Science is fun and informative, but it’s also horribly scary. There are invisible dangers all around us — ancient viruses locked away in glaciers waiting to defrost, zombie proteins that cause cows to go mad. Yeah, this stuff is pretty wild. If you’d rather remain blissfully unaware, we don’t blame you in the slightest, but …
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Creepy Interviewer Makes Woman Uncomfortable With Inappropriate Questions, Gets Fired

Job interviews are one of the more nerve-racking and anxiety-inducing things a person can experience. To take an already stressful situation and crank up the discomfort by throwing some sexual harassment into the mix is downright sociopathic. When u/R_Rover_2013 called out her interviewer after he asked a series of highly personal and inappropriate questions, he …
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10+ People Share Their Creepy Real-Life Paranormal Experiences

The paranormal world is a pretty big part of pop culture. It overlaps with the horror genre (the unexplainable, to most people, is pretty damn terrifying), and has been the basis for (or a topic on) sixty eight reality television series. People live for ghost stories, tales of UFO sightings and abductions, and somehow, are …
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