From invasion by hostile aliens to apocalyptic asteroid strikes - are we right to fear the final frontier ?
The bizarre incident saw the man shoot his wife after he became convinced that his life was in danger.
Being scared out of your wits might actually yield unexpected health benefits.
A psychologist takes a closer look at our fascination with scaring ourselves silly with horror movies and jump scares.
For years, the city of Pompeii has been associated with stories of bad luck inflicted on anyone who removes anything from the site.
Three unidentified objects have now been downed by fighter jets over North America and we still don't know what they are.
Archaeologists have shed possible new light on the nature of some enigmatic burials found in the ruins of a Roman villa.
This fearsome looking denizen of the deep has needle-sharp teeth and a terrifying extendable mouth.
Police are investigating the case of a woman who was murdered by villagers who believed that she was a witch.
A close encounter in 1997 left Sacha Christie scared of leaving the house in fear of being abducted by aliens.
This fearsome carnivore would have given even today's lions and tigers a run for their money.
The staff of a pet shop in Coventry, England, are so fearful of the resident spook that they daren't work alone.
An experienced hiker became fearful for their life after being followed by an unidentified creature in the Cascade Mountains.
A new study has played down fears that wormholes would not be stable enough.
The debris from one of the rockets the Nazis once used to rain fear and death upon the UK has been found in Kent.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a new species of large, carnivorous dinosaur in Argentina.
A new study has revealed that ghostly tales and scary stories have little impact on those with mind-blindness.
A metallic monolith that appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been torched by a mob.
An attempted murder investigation is underway in South Africa after a woman was attacked and set on fire.
New research suggests that some victims of the plague were buried face down to stop them rising from the dead.