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This famous serial killer is most known for his murder of sixteen people in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A little-known fact about him, however, is that he is a native Ohioan who attended The Ohio State University for 3 months.
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
This 1979 horror movie featured Sigourney Weaver and won an Academy Award for best visual effects. Its poster features a glowing green egg with the words: "In space no one can hear you scream."
What is Alien?
This Ohio spider is highly venomous and shares a name with a Marvel superhero.
What is a black widow?
This group of people, who existed from the 8th to the 11th century, are sometimes romanticized in modern media such as How to Train Your Dragon. However, they actually lived a brutal life that involved raids, enslavement, infanticide, and religious violence.
Who are the Vikings?
This internet creepypasta was just given a film adaption on May 29, 2026. The movie focuses on an infinite maze of yellow, haunting rooms.
What is The Backrooms?
This common phobia is the fear of small, confined spaces.
What is claustrophobia?
This Cincinnati serial killer, Anna Marie Hahn, murdered 5 elderly men from Cincinnati by poison between 1933 and 1937. She was convicted of murder and became one of the first women in America to be executed by this method in 1938.
What is the electric chair?
This film, released in 1922, is often recognized as the first vampire movie ever. Since 1922, its titular character has reappeared in easter eggs in media such as: What We Do in the Shadows, Red Dead Redemption II, and even SpongeBob Squarepants.
What is Nosferatu (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror)?
This fungus can infect carpenter ants and hijack their behavior and grow a stalk from the ant’s body to release spores. Although its effects do not yet impact humans, the possibility of it is explored in the 2013 video game The Last of Us.
What is Cordyceps?
This secret biological and chemical warfare unit from 1940s Japan brutally experimented on many humans, performing procedures such as vivisections, weapons testing, frostbite testing, and so much more.
What is Unit 731?
This creepypasta originated on Reddit in 2012, and tells the story of a man who, after being assaulted by a college football player, claims to have lived an entire life while passed out on the pavement. He is only awakened from the stupor after noticing that this household object, located in his living room, simply "doesn't look right."
What is a lamp?
Trypophobia is the fear of holes. Things that would bother people with trypophobia include wasp nests, sponges, and this mass of hexagonal prismatic cells built from beeswax.
What is honeycomb?
This Ohio serial killer was known as the Cleveland Torso Murderer, or the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Operating in Cleveland in the 1930s, he mainly went after poor, lower-class drifters, which were easy to find due to this major American economic event that was occurring at the time.
What is the Great Depression?
This 1980 Stephen King film follows Jack Torrance as he takes his family to a mountain hotel during the wintertime. The most iconic quote of this film by far is, "Here's Johnny!"
What is The Shining?
House centipedes, although their names imply 100 legs, can actually have up to this amount.
What is 177?
This terrifying tool, most commonly associated with outdoor work today, was originally invented in the 18th century to assist with childbirth. It would've been used to widen the pelvic canal.
What is a chainsaw?
This creepypasta was created in 2010, after a Minecraft gamer reported encountering a mysterious figure in a sing-player world.
Who is Herobrine?
Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. While the name implies spiders are insects, they are commonly mistaken for being this.
What are insects?
This serial killer and rapist, Anthony Sowell, murdered 11 women between 2007 and 2009. He is most known as the ______ Strangler, named after this Ohio city in which he was born.
What is Cleveland?
This old-school scary movie was released in 1973 and is about a mother whose daughter has been possessed by a demon. Viewers reportedly fainted and vomited during screenings. There were even reports of heart attacks and miscarriages linked to this film.
What is The Exorcist?
This insect tastes with sensors on its feet and, if they find food, vomit digestive enzymes onto it to liquefy it before sucking it up.
What is a housefly?
This revolutionary era, known as the Reign of Terror, was a period of extreme political violence that included the beheadings of 15,000 to 17,000 people. Taking place in this European nation, it only ended with the execution of Robespierre.
What is France?
This internet horror story resulted in a real-life horrific stabbing on May 31st, 2014. In this case, two twelve-year-olds stabbed their friend 19 times, believing it would appease this tall, faceless creation.
Who is Slenderman?
Nosocomephobia, which involves intense anxiety, avoidance, and sometimes panic attacks triggered by hospitals or medical settings, is colloquially known by this.
What is White Coat Syndrome?
This Ohio serial killer, Donald Harvey, claims to have murdered 87, but has actually confirmed to have killed 37. A former hospital orderly, he only murdered cardiac patients, with his crimes taking place in Marymount Hospital, Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital, and this hospital, nestled just behind UC's Medical Campus.
What is the Cincinnati VA Medical Hospital?
This 1991 horror movie Silence of the Lambs follows Clarice Starling as an FBI agent as she interviews Dr. Hannibal Lecter searching for this serial killer, who shares a name with a New York NFL team.
Who is Buffalo Bill?
This insect, a common house pest, can move up to 5km/hr and was the animal featured in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. A lesser known fact is that this animal can live without its head for up to 2 weeks.
What is a cockroach?
War is, perhaps, the most brutal and horrifying creation by man, serving as the catalyst for other human horrors such as terrorism, slavery, persecution, and oppression. In an attempt to "humanize," war, this series of four international treaties adopted in 1949 set the core rules of international humanitarian law.
What are the Geneva Conventions?
This creepypasta, the Russian Sleep Experiment, tells the tale of five political opponents who were exposed to an experimental sleep inhibiting stimulant that would last for 15 days. Although that sounds like something that may happen in Russia today, this creepypasta actually takes place in this 1900s era.
What is the Soviet Era?
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, although a silly name for the fear of this, is actually a phobia rooted in the Bible's New Testament, stating, "Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man." (Revelations 13:18)
What is 666?