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What To Do On Halloween: 2019 Edition

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Previously: What To Do On Halloween, 2018 Edition. Halloween is fast approaching, so you know what that means, right? Yep: It’s time for the 2019 edition of our big What To Do On Halloween post Continue Reading > about What To Do On Halloween: 2019 Edition

Creepy Wikipedia: The 1885 Chicago Cholera Epidemic That Never Actually Happened

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Previously: Phantom Social Workers. At the beginning of August in 1885, a terrible storm descended upon the city of Chicago — a storm that dumped more than five inches of rain on the city in less Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The 1885 Chicago Cholera Epidemic That Never Actually Happened

The Price Of A Wish: Investigating 999-9999, Thailand’s Phone Number Of Death

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Previously: Red Numbers. Is there something you’ve been wishing for? Something you want more than anything else — and are willing to give anything in order to get it? If you’re in Thailand, try Continue Reading > about The Price Of A Wish: Investigating 999-9999, Thailand’s Phone Number Of Death

Old Things Made New: Horror Riffs & Re-imaginings To Read, Watch, And Play

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Previously: Unconventional Indie Horror Games. I say often that while I can usually take or leave old things, I have a deep and abiding love of new things that are made out of old things. Continue Reading > about Old Things Made New: Horror Riffs & Re-imaginings To Read, Watch, And Play

Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: La Llorona, The Weeping Woman

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Previously: The Red Room Curse. Type: CC (Corporeally Challenged). Period/location of origin: Unknown, Latin America. Subject’s roots run so deeply that it is difficult to pinpoint precisely Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: La Llorona, The Weeping Woman

Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Red Room Curse

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Previously: The Chained Oak Of Alton Towers. (CW: Homicide, suicide.) Type: EV (Electronic Virus). Period/location of origin:  Late 1990s; Japan; the internet. Appearance: Continue Reading > about Encyclopaedia Of The Impossible: The Red Room Curse

If You Get A Phone Call From A Red Number, Don’t Pick Up

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Previously: The Zioptis Foundation’s Dial-A-Trip. There are, it’s said, a set of telephone numbers from which you should never answer any calls. They’re called red numbers — and although no one Continue Reading > about If You Get A Phone Call From A Red Number, Don’t Pick Up

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