It’s Halloween, which means its time for the annual Fark Scary Story Thread.
Here are the links to threads from previous years:
Well, here’s something you don’t see every day. A giant pentagram in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.
Looks to be about 1,300 feet across.
I’m sure it’s in no way a summoning grid for unspeakable eldritch horrors…
Heh.
Here’s a GIF that’s a wee bit unnerving:

It’s vaguely reminiscent of the creepy moon in Georges Méliès’s The Astronomer’s Dream.
Turns out it’s from a “tracking & compositing experiment” video:
I know that I always use subjects that are super-creepy for my tracking and compositing experiments…
Another post for the Halloween season.
I’ve always thought this was one of your creepier online GIFs:

And actually, it’s from a very short horror film called “Bedfellows,” available online:
The guy’s evidently done a whole series of them.
Sweet dreams…
Ever now and then you come across something interesting, but you wonder “What the hell do I say about this?”
I was looking for some scary gifs when I came across this. There are a few in the, but it seems to be mostly depressing black and white gifs for suicidal teenage girls.
Like this:

Or this:

Interestingly enough, more than half seem to be of stunningly beautiful actresses from popular culture. And, naturally, there’s a lot of Nine Inch Nails references.
And this is pretty striking:

Anyway, if you find yourself making or posting these gifs, maybe you should read this.
Consider this more an act of reportage than commentary…
This came out two days ago, and already has over 6 million hits, but I still thought Guillermo Del Toro opening couch gag for The Simpsons forthcoming “Treehouse of Horror” episode was too awesome (and too full of SF/F/H references) not to share.
Hat tip: Hank Wagner’s Facebook feed.
Hey, remember the spider-man of Denver?
In 2008 in Japan, a man found that a homeless woman had been living in his home for almost a year.
Given she was Japanese, I assume she was a very polite, quiet creepy visitor living in his home.
Hey, how much crawlspace do you think there is in your home?
And now, a completely unrelated image:

The Halloween season is upon us, so let’s start out with the eerie, lonely photographs of Michel Rajkovic.
His specialty seems to be long exposure black and white photographs of man-made structures over water, producing images of eerie beauty.
Here’s an example:
