Gov. Greg Abbott Ad against Gov. Abbott's strict abortion law in TX is creepier than any Twilight Zone — because it's real (video) Carla Sinclair

tech In 1854, Mary Dillwyn took the first photo of a snowman Popkin

fantasy "Bowling with Corpses" in Mike Mignola's new land of dark fantasy folklore Gareth Branwyn

dolls Wonderfully strange assortment of doll parts found at antique store Popkin

books Seth's pocket-sized ghost stories are bringing Victorian chills back for Christmas Mark Frauenfelder

NASA Mystery solved of eerie sound coming through Starliner speaker docked at space station Allan Rose Hill

Science California's amazing geographic oddities B.R. O'Deal

News Meet the "Silent Man" who mysteriously blocks traffic without uttering a word Mark Frauenfelder

1960s Prepare to cringe: Liberace's far-out "Feelin' Groovy" from 1968 Mark Frauenfelder

decay Step into another dimension with Manon Weiser's eerie tintype photos Popkin

book reviews A new art book, "Mask Garden," reveals the psychological horror of vintage UK paperback covers Mister Dobo

books Finally, new work from "Calvin & Hobbes's" Bill Watterson: The graphic novel "The Mysteries" Ruben Bolling

photography These vintage photographs all contain an empty space where a person used to be Popkin

Firework disaster Terrifying firework disaster shatters peaceful suburban evening Mark Frauenfelder

art The photos in this 1913 fitness book look like art pieces about the supernatural Popkin

real estate Real estate listing glosses over cemetery in the backyard Rusty Blazenhoff

podcast "Hoaxed" podcast tells the recent Satanic Panic story of the "Hampstead Hoax" Jennifer Sandlin

AI The dystopian cheeriness of Singapore's useless, gaslighting AI therapist chatbot Thom Dunn

VR VR loses its V; a new visor will kill you Jason Weisberger

Comics Night Eaters is the freaky Covid immigrant horror story you've been waiting for Thom Dunn