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Creepophile

A description for one who has a brilliant mind and superior intellect accompanied by a boarder line creepy obsession with true crime and or all things mystery. They are probably bad at geography and measurement conversions, but what they lack in skill they make up in witty banter.
Hey, you listen to the Mystery a la Carte podcast too? Oh man, we're total creepophiles!
Creepophile by macultra March 20, 2019
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Creepophile

Not technically a pedophile but still creepy enough to keep your kids close.
A creepophile is like a man watching kids play at a park. It's not against the law, but, you know he's possibly a child rapist.
Creepophile by The Flying 69 March 5, 2009

creepophile

A nasty old guy who can't be proven to be a pedophile, so he's just a creepophile.
Pervert alert! Hey Sandy, there goes that nasty creepophile that lives over on Euclid Avenue.
creepophile by Angelacia June 8, 2007

Credophile 

Literally "belief lover".

As for the previous poster, you fool that's not what credophile means. Credophile is an awesome term coined originally by the writer L. Sprague de Camp, in a letter to James Randi.

It's a label for those who appear particularly gullible and are particularly inclined to believe whatever claims come their way. (See Scientologist).
To quote de Camp directly,

A credophile gets positive pleasure from belief and pain from doubt... The credophile collects beliefs the way a jackdaw does nest ornaments: not for utility but for glitter. And, once having embraced a belief, it takes something more than mere disproof to make him let go.

Creepophobe

A person who has the fear of people finding out that he/she is a class-a pervert
Guy: "Brad is so scared of letting people borrow his phone. He thinks their gonna find his animal porn. He's a real creepophobe."

Credophile 

One who is consumed by the desire to assure that credit is assigned to oneself for research, stories, references and other information for which it is useful to be considered "the source."
"I told Grace to buy that new vitamin supplment. I explained that it was recommended to me by Matt, because he's a total credophile and he would freak out if I didn't tell her where I'd heard about it."
Credophile by KaiAng December 15, 2007