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Live-size sleeping woman candle

This wax sculpture of a sleeping woman was made with several wicks, turning her into a giant candle (not to be mistaken for the soap woman of the Mutter Museum). It was sculptded for the Arnhem Mode...

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Yet another weird Herman Cain campaign ad: "He Carried Yellow Flowers"

[Video Link, via Tim Heidecker] This one's classic, meaning it came out back in August when no-one was paying attention.  Herman Cain sings Lennon classic “Imagine There's No Pizza ... Visualizing...

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CIA threat-tracking technology is fascinating, creepy

Palantir is security software that helps CIA analysts take innocuous events (man comes to U.S. on temporary visa, man takes flight training classes, man buys one-way ticket from Boston to California)...

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Accused Maryland cannibal-murderer who ate pal's heart and brain had podcast,...

Profile pic Alex Kinyua, aka COREeye67, used for his "WARRIOR SYNDICATE RADIO (WSR-366)" podcast. Maryland resident Alexander Kinyua reportedly confessed to police that he killed his a man who lived...

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An "extremely rare anti-masturbation device"

I'm sure this didn't cause any psychological issues in the Catholic boys forced to wear this. The rare 19th century item is made of copper and was designed to be worn by boys so they could not commit...

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1967 Sony video camera ad promotes sexually spying on women

Nope. Nothin' at all creepy about this vintage Sony "portable videocorder" ad, which ran in Scientific American in 1967. Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by fdecomite. Oh, fine, the "peep"...

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Your drugs are tested on Russians

It's so difficult to get access to modern health care in Russia that the country is becoming a haven for medical testing — there are more people there willing to be guinea pigs for more stuff simply...

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City business people

My friend Jason Tester pointed me to this oddly mesmerizing and creeptastic stock video titled "City business people." Entranced, our own Rob Beschizza looped it and also generated the requisite...

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Creepers gotta creep — for science

In 1938, researchers at Bryn Mawr College published a paper on Egocentricity in Adult Conversations. In order to accurately record the pattern and content of conversations as they happened in real...

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It's not a horror movie; it's physics

This creepy-looking image of U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary has its origin in the movement of water molecules. The Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics tumblr explains what's going on — and how physics can make a...

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Mystery of creepy painting solved

Mrs and Mrs Webb, a couple in England, were mailed this curiously sinister portrait. No return address, cover letter or other information accompanied the plain but very strange painting, whose subject...

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The disturbing world of bootleg Disney's Frozen games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMryLNbDn0k Maybe you've heard of Elsa Frozen Brain Surgery -- you know, the game where you open the popular Disney princess' skull and extract fashion items from her...

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Truly bizarre and creepy kids’ masks of the Biblical plagues

“Boils! Cow Plague! Frogs!” (more…)

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Dream Recollection Inducer

“Dream Recollection Inducer (GIF Format)—To gaze at shortly after waking.” By ZBAGS.

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Weird clown startles couple at cemetery in the night

Driving past a Chicago cemetery at night, Julia Graham and her husband were "freaked out" when they noticed a clown who climbed the 7-foot gate and "waved slowly" at them as they took photos. "I mean,...

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Creepy 1975 commercial sexualizes babies

https://youtu.be/l7IP5SV6GqQ "There's one person nobody can resist and that's a baby."

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WATCH: Waterphones, source of creepy film music effects

Ever wonder how they make unsettling dissonant sounds in sci-fi and horror films? Some are made by waterphones or synths emulating them. Portland-based Robb Bockman demonstrates an analog waterphone,...

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Excellent creepy hand illusion

"Drawn on my hand with markers and pen," writes Natalie Nakles. (more…)

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Creepy cloaked figure photographed dropping meat near playground

Police are investigating strange photos turning up online of a cloaked individual reportedly placing raw meat near a playground in Gastonia, North Carolina. (more…)

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Freaky! Street sign casts shadow of hanging man

These photos were taken at a crossing in South Devon. The junction is locally known as "Dead Man's Cross" and is reportedly the former site of a gallows. Creeeeeeeepy! A fellow named George Johnston...

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