I can’t look away.

That’s the mark of an eerily fascinating story, and this week served up a pile of them. Whether it’s the clown who scaled a cemetery fence in Chicago and then stood waving very, very slowly to passersby, or the discovery of a snake with four little grasping “hands,” it just seemed like a creepier-than-average week. So here’s a little roundup of spooky science that had me riveted.

(OK, the scary clown has nothing to do with science, but I made you look.)

i’d rather there be creepy clowns in cemeteries late at night than creepy clowns anywhere else, tbh http://t.co/tmy4ACKr6b

— neff in texas (@nffcnnr) July 24, 2015

Artist Kate Clark does taxidermy with a twist: she molds human faces from clay and