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

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

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 ...

As someone who spends a considerable amount of my professional life writing about spooky stuff, you’d think that by this point, there wouldn’t be much that could scare me. However, you would be wrong ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...