creepy Thieves return "haunted" Hello Kitty plushie stolen from scrapyard after fatal crash David Pescovitz
real estate The "real-life" haunted house that inspired The Conjuring is for sale for $1.2M Thom Dunn
1980s Watch this 1989 television commercial for the wonderful "Mysteries of the Unknown" book series Popkin
happy mutants The Occult Defence Agency Budgeting Simulator: a text adventure that pits monster-slaying against austerity Cory Doctorow
Southern Reach Trilogy The Strange Bird – an excerpt from Jeff VanderMeer's new Borne story Jeff VanderMeer
experimental cinema Guy Maddin's Seances is a Different Movie Every Time You Watch It Richard Kaufman
Science Testing infrasound thrills and chills with a double-blind randomized spook-house Cory Doctorow