30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn’t Know
The world is full of facts, and if you are as hungry for knowledge as we are, then we've got a whole menu readily available to you. Here at Bored Panda, we have random facts, mind-blowing facts that are perfect for 5 year-olds, facts that can even change your perspective of things, and facts that sound utterly fake but are totally true.
But this time we rolled up our sleeves and compiled a list we can call “the palate cleanser.” You see, this one is not for the faint-hearted, nor for the ones with high blood pressure and a tendency to have a nightmare or two every now and then, ‘cause today, we're gonna dive into the facts we wish we never knew.
You may wonder, why read them, then? It’s for the same reason we watch horror movies with covered eyes. Getting to know some creepy stuff about the world is hard, but not knowing it is even worse.
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After the Pulse night club shooting, when the cops were investigating, you'd think it was pretty quiet in there.
It was actually a cacophony of ringing cell phones. So many friends and loved ones calling people they knew were there, hoping they'll answer the phone and say they're ok...
Before you die, your last words could be, "I don't feel so good."
I was a paramedic for 15 years and heard dozens of people's final words. The phrase I heard most often, possibly from half to three quarters of them, were some form of "I don't feel so good." I've also heard, "Wait, somethings wrong." "Somethings happening." "I don't feel right." "Wait, somethings wrong." "It's happening." "Oh no, Oh no."
People feel the blood leaving their brain I think. Must be like a rush.
I remember listening to a few 911 calls on youtube when people said these words when they died...those gave me gooosebumps..
Many pets die because their owner dies unexpectedly and nobody comes to check on them in time.
You’re not the only one to get the creeps from scrolling through this post. There’s something about being creeped out that is both chilling and yet impossible to resist. But what exactly is this creepy feeling we all get? It surely can’t be graveyards, clowns, spiders, or horror movies themselves.
Frank McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, has been studying this sensation and made a conclusion after surveying more than 1,300 people that “Creepy is about the uncertainty of threat.”
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at a frequency of 52 Hertz, meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the "loneliest whale on the planet."
The inspiration for the song "Whalien 52". The artists described themselves as the lonely whale in their earlier years because no one seems to hear them and listen to their songs. "Lonely lonely lonely whale Like this, try calling once again Until this song that doesn’t have a response Reaches tomorrow"
On Mt. Everest, you have the rainbow valley, the last zone to climb to reach the peak. Which sounds cute but it's really the colorful jackets of dead climbers who are frozen in time against the white harsh snow.
Also, when close to the peak, the oxygen levels are so low that the body is starting to die. You only have a few minutes to reach the top.
My teacher told this to my class when I was in 5th grade (10 years) and I still remember me going home and crying for all those who died on their way.
More specifically, Frank said, “You’re feeling uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about here, but the signals are not clear enough to warrant your doing some sort of desperate, life-saving kind of thing.” Thus, it’s different from having a fear of something or revulsion.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, when you’re creeped out, your brain and your body are telling you that something is not quite right and you’d better pay attention because it might hurt you. We become more alert and ready to strike whenever the threat turns out to be real.
During the French Revolution, where the guillotine was introduced, the people to be executed fought to be first, as the blade would dull after multiple uses and wouldn't cut a head clean off at the first attempt.
There’s something called “Anaesthesia Awareness” where of certain people go into surgery and they don’t give you enough Anaesthesia, it will look like you’re asleep (eyes closed, not talking or moving), but the patient can still hear and feel everything that’s happening, but here’s the scary part. You’re unable to move, speak or open your eyes. Unless they have a monitor to show your brain activity, you’re stuck with having to endure the pain.
i have read of people waking up in the middle of operations suffering pain but unable to let someone know. Apparently if they notice things like pulse and heart rates will indicate something is wrong
Sometimes you're only conscious, but no pain. Still a good point, though.
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I am blonde and I woke up during surgery. They were repairing a tendon in my hand. The reason I woke up (and I remember this so clearly) is the smell. They were cauterizing my veins and I could actually smell it. I woke up and tried to speak, but couldn't so I started moving my right arm (the left one was immobilized for surgery). Someone noticed and they gave me another shot and I went back under. When I come out of the anesthesia, I was very groggy and loopy, but I remember the smell and waving my arm around. I still have nightmares about it.
Why did you mention your hair color? What does your physical appearance have to do with anything?
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I had surgery where I woke up and watched them operate. Thankfully I couldn't feel anything.
Same happened to me when I was 7 with a deep cut on my forehead It felt like I was between to realms(councious and...)just watching the doctor sew my head.
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I had that happen during oral surgery to remove 16 teeth. It was a couple hours of intense pain that I never want to relive.
This happened to me during surgery to remove my wisdom teeth. It was awful. I tried moving to back and forth so they would know I was awake. And instead of investigating, I heard the surgeon say "She's moving around too much, strap her down"... and when I came around and could talk, I tried to tell the oral surgeon what happened she just laughed at me and denied it was possible. She was supposed to become a partner of the practice. I don't think that ever happened because when I told the head owner he was very concerned thankfully.
I've actually had that happen to me. I was having my knee reconstructed and briefly woke up to see my surgeon flopping my leg around like a side of meat to work on the other side of my leg. No pain, but then I lost consciousness again. Since then, anytime I have anesthesia, I relay this story to them. Never had another issue.
My poor husband woke up for a bit during his colonoscopy. He's a redhead. They need more anethesia.
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i heard this happens a ot to people with red hair (so having a gene-mutation related to pain management ect.); i myself need a lot anaethetic, but painkillers work much faster.
my mom, a redhead was awake during her hysterectomy. she felt it all. doctor called her a liar. she told him about his golf game he was talking about.
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And that’s why you ask for that monitor. It’s not expensive and not invasive. But remember, your other vital signs Will indicate that you are in distress. You have a lot of staff in the room monitoring you, not just the surgeon and anesthesiologist. And, awareness is rare. Always answer the pre surgery questions honestly. If you are a drug addict or alcoholic be honest. They are not there to judge you, they are there to take care of you.
Happened to my friend - they only stopped the surgery when she went into cardiac arrest. She later told the surgeon about the conversation he had with the theatre nurse.
Had it. I was having a lipoma/benign tumor removed. I woke up and looked at the Doctor at Balboa Naval Hospital and said that hurts. The Anesthesiologist gasped and I went under.
Yep, and Locked In Syndrome - not sure you want to read about that if you don't already know of it.
I just watched the movie Awakenings the other day, very sad but interesting
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Since anything stronger than aspirin knocks me out, this one doesn't worry me.
I was one of those people...the woman who was the Anesthesia said to me before surgery that some people wake up during surgery but it's not real....BS. and it makes me wonder if she did it on purpose.
I woke up twice during my colonoscopy. I could see the monitor, so I've actually seen my appendix and intestines from the inside!
I read that redheads require more anaesthesia because of this exact thing....am a redhead, so believe it
I just read this recently ...and the poor ginger who delivered something here soon after got to hear it too....poor guy looked terrified.
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This happened to me when I had a burst appendix and the operation took longer than they thought. I was in agony, utter agony and I didn't understand why I couldn't see or move. I told them I was awake after the operation and they would not believe me until I told them what I had heard - including that they had to remove some bowel as it was gangrenous and something about washing out my stomach. I was 19 and now I'm 66 and still have dreams about it
This one is very wrong. Aneathsia awareness can happen for many reasons. First it might be intentional. Yes planned that you are waking up at the end of surgery or to keep you alive if your vital signs are not good. It’s a balance in Anesthisa how much drug to use and when. Anesthis is not on and off like a light switch.
I went back to watch a cardiac catheterization. Midway thru the procedure with a cath in the man's femoral artery, his legs started going like crazy. Oh c**p. I had to try to hold his legs still since I was the extra hands in the surgical suite. They gave him more anesthesia & he stopped. They put in a stint & the procedure was a success. I had a chance later on to talk to the patient. He told me he was dreaming about his college football days & running for the winning touchdown. He was so embarrassed that we could tell he was running.
Then the anaesthesiologist isn't doing his job. He should be paying attention, and the monitors (heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, etc.) would indicate that you were waking up.
my mom had this happen, she said she didn't feel the pain but she felt pressure when they were trying to put her knee replacement in
wow, now i if i get a stone in my kidney. I will literally suicide be- fore anything bad happens
Stephen King had a short story about this where it is told from the person's perspective who is subject to the surgery.
Had this happen to me at 9 years old. Out of body experience and had nightmares later.
I'm scare of this, because I am essentially a redhead. Redheads require more anesthesia on average. I'm a woman, so any discussion of this or complaint will likely be poo-pooed.
Yeah that's a thing. Mc1r gene. Redheads need more. It's strange. I once asked a vet if the same was true for animals, but she didn't know.
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I had my tonsils out when I was 9, I woke up just before they were to start surgery, another round of Anaesthetics.
Cannibal Corpse - Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead. This subject, but an autopsy rather than a surgery.
My close friend experienced this when she was very young and won't go under again for anything. When she had to have gynae surgery last year, she did it with a spinal block and stayed awake. She can't talk about what she experienced being awake under anesthesia. She just starts shaking and crying.
Once I started to wake up on the operating table while the doctor had sewn together (after thy put a screw to the bone) and I felt like somebody on my shoulders affix the net.
a friend of mine had that. it was absolutely awful. they told her that she will from then on only consent to life saving surgery.
happened to my mum, at the end of a foot surgery. the f*cking doctor didn't listen to her when she told him she is a 'pain-patient' (i.e. takes pain meds daily and needs a higher dose). She was a wreck when she woke up and took forever to heal.
My mother and I both experience this. It’s terrifying. We both have an extremely high tolerance of many different medications, particularly anything for pain or anesthesia. I’m always careful to repeat again and again that I must be monitored closely during any type of sedation. Waking up during a procedure, but not completely enough to communicate, is frightening.
Some surgeries you must be awake for. My father in-laws had deep brain surgery for Parkinson's. They attach a device directly on the brain to help control neuron signals. He was awake the whole time and the doctors turn the device on while your awake with your skull open to see how much to calibrate it.
It's also more likely to happen to have the redhead mc1r gene. Typically most natural redheads have to have more anesthesia for this reason.
I woke up in the middle of an operation, I remember saying, it hurts! and the doctor told me shhhhh and they put the mask on me to sleep again.
https://wwwapi.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2007-news-archive/11-29-waking-up-during-surgery.cfm
Something like that kind of happened to me, I wasn’t exactly asleep though. The doctor was cutting a part of my ear off for a biopsy. I said ‘I can feel that’ he said ‘that’s just pressure you’re feeling, you’re ok’ He then started to slice and I said ‘you’re cutting my ear off right NOW. I felt that!’ Then he motioned for a top up.
very very rare. That's why there are specialists handling it. The only case i've heard of was because the doc was skimming the drugs and selling them black market.
Being the oldest person alive means that every single human being who was alive at the day you were born has now died.
Another thought is - the exact moment you were born, you were the youngest person alive.
When whales reach a certain age they will eventually be to weak to swim back to the surface for air. So they will just suffocate to death and eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean.
But at least when they sink to the bottom of the ocean their bodies will create sprawling ecosystems that will last for a good few years.:)
Most sitcom laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950s, so you’ve probably been listening to dead people laughing.
A professor at my lecture today said that deer will lay on decaying corpses because they produce heat and the deer like that. Basically deer treat corpses as their personal sauna.
In the event of a water landing, flight attendants are specifically required to not allow dead bodies on the life rafts. No saving your dead parent/child/spouse for burial. Yeet that b*tch overboard.
On airplanes they turn off the lights before takeoff and landing basically in anticipation of the plane crashing.
Your eyes take time to adjust to the dark, so if the plane were to crash your eyes would be pre-adjusted, thus increasing your likelihood of being able to make it out.
They also ask that window blinds be opened in order to allow anyone outside to be able to see in in order to check for survivors.
The dolphin which most often portrayed Flipper on the 1960s television show Flipper committed suicide.
Kathy was the dolphin who most often played Flipper, and she committed suicide. This happens due to depression. In this case, it was crippling captivity. In another case, it was being separated from a researcher with whom the dolphin developed a strong bond. More on that story here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
Humans have enough bite power to bite off their finger. Bone and all. The only thing stopping us is our brain's natural safety factor.
It is way easier than you would expect to break someone ribs during CPR and it feels really weird. POPPOPPOPPOP like bubble wrap.
Didn't need to compare it to bubble wrap. I will never think of popping those bubbles the same way again.
The astronauts of space shuttle Challenger didn't die until the spacecraft hit the ocean. They fell through the air for almost 3 minutes.
No way to confirm this as true; I worked 29 Shuttle launches. It is more likely they were killed or unconscious from the explosion, or killed from lack of oxygen or G-force. It is almost certain, but no way to verify, that they probably were dead or completely unconscious immediately after the explosion.
Judith Barsi was the young actress who voiced Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven and Ducky in The Land Before Time. She was murdered at the age of 10 by her abusive father, who also killed her mother at the same time. Judith's gravestone displays Ducky's catchphrase, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"
Fatal familial insomnia is a thing. It's a rare, incurable prionic brain disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually, you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.
Aaannd, that is what will pop up in my head when I’m trying to sleep tonight
There's been multiple cases of people actually ending up being eaten by an escalator.
There are only three states in the USA that have outlawed child marriage: New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Your lips are made of the same skin type and texture as your anus.
The song “Baby Shark” is actually the perfect rhythm to guide infant CPR.
If you electrocute someone while they are submerged in water, it won’t leave burn marks.
In Formula 1, safety belts were not mandatory until 1972.
Before then, drivers believed it better to be ejected in a crash, and either die instantly from a broken neck or suffer many broken bones.
The alternative, they thought, was to be trapped and essentially cremated alive should the gas tanks ignite.
Niki Lauda Was famous for surviving bad crash. He nearly was burned to death in his car. he survived to continue his racing career and becomes World Champion. His racing goggles literally melted to his face and most of his ears where burned off. The fact that he only missed less than 2 months of his racing season tells the story of huis fortitude and pain endurance.
There's a zombie fungus that basically enslaves ants for its own benefit until it kills them.
That's pretty scary, the ant literally has a mushroom growing out of its head, like a "cute" little hat. The possessed ant will try to go back to its colony so that the fungi can infect more with its spores. It's like a zombie ant-pocalypse.
There is a parasite called Dracun culiasis, or more commonly "Guinea worm" that can enter your leg through drinking infected water. You won't notice anything until ~1 year later, when a small portion breaks the skin to release larvae. At this point, it's a meter long.
A. Meter. Long.
And it has to be extracted centimeter by disgusting centimeter.
NTDs are the stuff of nightmares.
Not morbid but unnerving, at any time without any warning you can die of a brain aneurysm and there is litterally nothing you can really do about it. Anyone can have one.
You can die from pooping too hard.
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Note to self: don’t read weird sh*t like this again before going to bed..
i am traumatized now.... some were interesting, other were damn disturbing..
To be fair...pigs scream about nearly everything in their lives. If you have to hold them so they can have a necessary medical procedure done, they scream. If you have to move them into a new enclosure, they scream. It's just what they do when they don't like things. You can pick up a baby piglet and it will scream like you're trying to do it the most awful harm in the world.
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Some absolutely dreadful facts. I need to look for a funny post or cute animals to get over these!
What kinda person reads this morbid stuff? I mean besides me. I'm sceptical about quite a bit of it though. However I'm to lazy to research the ones I doubt.
Hey did you know that once, someone sued Mtn. Dew for finding a rat in their soda and they took them to court. Mtn. Dews' rebuttal said that was impossible because the rat would dissolve after a few months. They proved it and won. THIS IS WHY YOU DONT DRINK MTN DEW!!!
Fun fact: female rabbits will think they’re pregnant every year. Why? Because rabbits are literal sex machines. Also, they make nests from their own fur and fur from other rabbits just pulling it out anxiously and running to the nest and make it more comfortable. Even if they’re in a group with females only they’ll do it.
Some of these I already was familiar with and some of these I have to question how they found out
That everest one madre my stomach feel sick for a good hour :( Most of these are so sad
Don't worry, it's their own fault when they climb Everest.
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Well this isnt a gore site, as you rightly say this is bored panda. I don't come here for gore. This article was interesting but freaky. I'm glad it didn't go any further than it did it would be disturbing
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i am traumatized now.... some were interesting, other were damn disturbing..
To be fair...pigs scream about nearly everything in their lives. If you have to hold them so they can have a necessary medical procedure done, they scream. If you have to move them into a new enclosure, they scream. It's just what they do when they don't like things. You can pick up a baby piglet and it will scream like you're trying to do it the most awful harm in the world.
Load More Replies... Some absolutely dreadful facts. I need to look for a funny post or cute animals to get over these!
What kinda person reads this morbid stuff? I mean besides me. I'm sceptical about quite a bit of it though. However I'm to lazy to research the ones I doubt.
Hey did you know that once, someone sued Mtn. Dew for finding a rat in their soda and they took them to court. Mtn. Dews' rebuttal said that was impossible because the rat would dissolve after a few months. They proved it and won. THIS IS WHY YOU DONT DRINK MTN DEW!!!
Fun fact: female rabbits will think they’re pregnant every year. Why? Because rabbits are literal sex machines. Also, they make nests from their own fur and fur from other rabbits just pulling it out anxiously and running to the nest and make it more comfortable. Even if they’re in a group with females only they’ll do it.
Some of these I already was familiar with and some of these I have to question how they found out
That everest one madre my stomach feel sick for a good hour :( Most of these are so sad
Don't worry, it's their own fault when they climb Everest.
Load More Replies... Well this isnt a gore site, as you rightly say this is bored panda. I don't come here for gore. This article was interesting but freaky. I'm glad it didn't go any further than it did it would be disturbing
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