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We’re diehard fans of all things macabre and we love nothing more than sharing our odd obsessions with fellow creepy fiends. Here we unearth forgotten crimes, share true ghost stories, and pride ourselves on giving the best recommendations for terrifying books and movies. Peruse the stories below—you’re sure to find something to satiate your appetite for the uncanny.

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This Debut Novel Will Leave You Paralyzed with Terror

A r/nosleep master publishes his first novel in The Patient, a horrifying tale set in a Connecticut mental hospital.

PHOTO TOUR: The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum's Corridors of Horror

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built to help make people well, but it soon became a living hell.

What Is Bedlam? The Hospital That Defined Madness

Bedlam Asylum’s chilling past haunts us to this day.

Step Inside the Haunted Halls of Waverly Hills Sanatorium ... If You Dare

Scores of people died in the facility—how many of their spirits remain?

The Misery of Forest Haven Asylum

Outside of Washington, D.C. lies an abandoned institution with a thoroughly disturbing past.

No Escape: Step Inside Australia's Beechworth Lunatic Asylum

Its brutal past has made it home to some of the most intense paranormal activity in the area.

LISTEN: Ghostly Encounters at the Villisca Axe Murder House and Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

A ghost hunter shares unsettling anecdotes—and chilling audio—from investigations at two of America's most haunted sites.

5 Insane Asylums You Never Want to Find Yourself Locked Up In

You don’t want to be caught in these hospitals after dark.

The Wailing Elm of Peoria State Hospital

This historic hospital for the mentally ill holds a strange history—and an even stranger ghost story.

9 Locations with Violent Pasts That Are Terrorized by Spirits

These notoriously haunted places share long and violent histories and reports of souls who roam the grounds in search of redemption ... or revenge.

A Living Nightmare: The History of Pennhurst Asylum

Shuttered in 1987, the souls of those who lived there still haunt its halls.