1 week ago Grisly human remains found inside creepy shed are identified as sex offender

An anonymous tip-off lead police to an abandoned ramshackle shed - and inside, there was a horror discovery

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2 w. ago Mum finds creepy hidden room in home after son noticed attic 'didn't add up'

In a seriously creepy discovery, one woman found a secret room in her home that was almost entirely unnoticeable - until her son noticed that the size of the attic 'didn't add up' with the rest of the property

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3 w. ago Police led to horror discovery by toddler, 3, with blood on her face

Maria Camila Garcia-Molina, 24, was found dead in her car with stab wounds to her neck and wrapped in towels as her three-year-old daughter was found wandering alone with blood on her face

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3 w. ago Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal lifeIn Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse things in order to “play the part of the fictitious creature called ‘an ordinary person’”. This description comes from Keiko, the 36-year-old narrator of Convenience Store Woman. Keiko’s conformist family and friends can’t believe she can be happy being single and working a dead-end job at a convenience store. Keiko finds an unexpected way to make it look as though she is normal: she keeps a man in her bathtub, hoping that everyone will simply assume they are a couple. A similar idea appears in Murata’s short story Poochie, from the collection Life Ceremony. A young girl takes a friend to a shed in the mountains to meet her pet; the friend is surprised to discover that the pet is a middle-aged man. Murata is interested in the lengths humans will go to in order to domesticate ...

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3 w. ago Woman 'creeped out' after making gruesome discovery while renovating her house

Emmie Brookman, 28, made the eerie revelation whilst in the walls of her three-bedroom property in Barrowford, Lancashire

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3 w. ago Woman 'really creeped out' after making horror discovery in her wall while renovating her house

Emmie Brookman and Norton Johnston were renovating their home when the found some bones in the walls - and also found out that a local murderer lived next to the farmhouse

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