horror story
muttering
grapevine
whisper
scandalmongery
rumoredly
gossip mill
word on the street
supersuspicious
furphy
suspiciously
scaremonger
out of the corner of one's eye
give about
suss
juxtaparanodal
talk
scandalosity
creepily
ooky-spooky
oversuspiciously
spookily
inspire
backstairs
spicy
spooksome
rumorology
paranodally
enigmatic
jealous
jalouse
on dit
ominously
reportedly
ghostly
noise
scandalously
scarehead
put about
mistrust
skeleton in the closet
hinky
portentously
skeleton
skeleton in the cupboard
sussy
suspectedly
suspectingly
rumour has it
speculating