spooky
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Sheen has previously spoken about a series of spooky experiences in Port Talbot, south Wales, which convinced him the town was "very UFO-y".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Coherence is also closely tied to quantum entanglement, the phenomenon that prompted Albert Einstein to describe it as "spooky action at a distance."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
The question of whether Summerween makes Halloween less special, and whether the calendar year is big enough for two spooky seasons, is personal — but it also speaks to a cultural obsession with consumption.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Fittingly, Rhys is currently portraying the mayor of a small island town where spooky, supernatural things keep happening on Apple TV’s comedy-horror series “Widow’s Bay.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Then came the voice once again, soft and spooky this time, "Rattle my bones," it said.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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There’s no sense that things are going to get spooky, because they’re pretty spooky from the beginning, and though they become spookier as the series goes along, they are almost never not spooky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
But something makes the newly discovered species even spookier.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
While Ortega wore a bright pink Valentino dress to last year's Met Gala, this year she went with a distinctly spookier and more gothic vibe.
From BBC ● May 2, 2023
A more apt slogan for these games might be lonelier, quieter, spookier.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
I kept walking and walking, and it kept getting darker and darker and spookier and spookier.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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Rather, they are merely Halloween-inspired, containing candies that are shaped like bats and cats — undeniably two of the spookiest creatures.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
From ‘American Horror Story’s’ Murder House and ‘Poltergeist’s’ suburban spooker to a handful of ‘Halloween’ homes, here’s a quick guide to a dozen of the Southland’s spookiest homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Not any more, now that I put together this guide to what to do in and around New York City during the year’s spookiest month.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
Consolidation has long been the publishing industry’s buzziest, and probably spookiest, existential threat.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2023
It gits almighty cold there in September, an' it was sure the spookiest show I ever seen.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
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