Not only are kids funny and witty, but it turns out that they can communicate with spirits and come up with the scariest ...

The pure honesty and naivety of a child are often endearing. However, truthfulness and candor have a dark side, and coming from an innocent mind can make them all the more eerie. Recently, someone on ...

Nursing a sick pet back to health is no easy task, but cleaning up puke and footing a hefty vet bill was just the start of one Redditor’s humiliation. Tasked with keeping an eye on their dog’s ...

Admittedly, the word "creepy" can mean something different to everyone — that is, things that totally give me the heeby-jeebies might not bother the person sitting next to me at all, and vice versa.

A car drives through a crosswalk near some Halloween decorations. One of the scariest things on Halloween isn’t monsters or ghosts — it's traffic. Laura Bargfeld / AP The scariest things lurking ...

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 ...

Stranger Things has delivered plenty of nightmare fuel over the seasons, but this episode in season 5 might just take the ...

Driving down the road, I heard a sudden sob from my three-year-old in the back seat. I pulled to the shoulder and opened his door, ignoring the traffic whizzing by. He was inconsolable and almost ...

With Halloween a mere two days away and trick or treats primed for an onslaught by excited youth, I thought it fitting to recant some of the scariest things I’ve witnessed in commercial real estate ...