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With worries about the spread of gun ownership in his head, Fogerty devised one of his eeriest productions for this swampy psych-rock number.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

Otherwise, the town’s eeriest feature is its isolation.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

Plenty has been written about no crowds in sporting stadiums, but a Wales and England encounter in the Six Nations presented perhaps the eeriest atmosphere yet.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2021

Every winter I reread — sometimes for myself, sometimes with my children — Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising,” surely one of the eeriest novels there is.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020

The eeriest phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson