It's October, and you know what that means: darker and colder days, the aroma of all things pumpkin spice, cozy evenings with your favorite hot beverage, and, of course, a dose of creepiness. Here at Bored Panda, we're absolutely hooked by the spookiness of October, and we couldn't resist creating another article that might not be everyone's cup of tea, especially if you're faint-hearted.
Introducing "Creepy Knowledge" - an X page filled with eerie facts that might send shivers down your spine. With over 33 thousand followers, this corner of the internet serves as a gathering place for those who crave that exhilarating thrill of the unknown. From men believing they were abducted by aliens to a woman who underwent 67 exorcisms, we’ve gathered the best chilling stories and mysterious phenomena that might keep you on the edge of your seat. Scroll down for the spine-tingling experience. Just be warned, you might want to keep the lights on.
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They don't pose much of a threat to humans and usually flees when alarmed. Not particularly dangerous to humans.
Have you ever wondered why October, the month when Halloween happens, feels like a time when spooky things and thoughts about the dead come together? To discuss this, including people's fascination with true crime stories and real-life horror, as well as the benefits of horror, Bored Panda reached out to Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral scientist at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark and a research project manager at Arizona State University.
Scrivner has conducted pioneering research on the psychology of morbid curiosity, true crime, and horror. “Most of my research looks at how and why people can find enjoyment — and can perhaps learn something — from fictionally dangerous scenarios.” The behavioral scientist told us that Halloween is a big reason why October feels so spooky. “Its origins in All Hallow's Eve, as well as related holidays such as Día de Los Muertos, lead to an increased focus on the concept of death. Other factors, such as the changing of the leaves, may also contribute to a concept of eeriness and death.”
Because I wanted to know what happened, I looked up her name and apparently the police arrived and arrested the man and nobody was hurt
Since media, including movies, TV shows, and social media, play a significant role in our lives, we asked Scrivner how these forms of entertainment contribute to our perception of creepy or unsettling themes. He explained that media often reflects what's happening in the world, especially things that grab people's attention. When we watch or read the news or engage with other media, we usually see things that many people find interesting or important. So, media not only shows us what's going on in the world but also focuses on what captures our attention. “Movies, TV shows, and social media probably don't create new creepy or unsettling things, but instead they amplify what we already find creepy,” Scrivner added.
Do you know why so many people are so interested in true crime stories and real-life horror? It's a curious thing – the way we are drawn to tales of real-life mysteries, gruesome crimes, and spooky events. In his research, Scrivner has found that “morbid curiosity is the strongest predictor of fascination with true crime stories and even real-life horror”. However, the behavioral scientist notes that this does not suggest these people are more accepting of terrible things. “They are driven to gather information about them.”
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths children have gone to throughout history to avoid eating their brussels sprouts!
They also display 'burrowing response' where they crawl into confined spaces - looking like someone has concealed a body..
Horror stories, found in movies, books, and more, might seem frightening, but could they actually have some positive effects? According to Scrivner, some studies propose that watching horror films or reading scary stories can “help people build emotion regulation skills and learn to overcome their fears and anxiety”.
So, the next time you find yourself immersed in a spine-tingling narrative, remember that there might be more to it than meets the eye—horror stories might just be teaching us valuable life skills in the most unexpected of ways.
Neither do I. I also think it's s****y to show images of ill and mistreated people.
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Looking into it, she spent year under psychological care with no results. Then, for some reason, she developed aversions to religious objects. That convinced the parents that she was possessed. The church initially denied the exorcisms, telling them to continue treatment. A priest convinced a local bishop to allow him to perform the exorcisms.
These days she'd have been diagnosed with treatment resistant schizophrenia with epilepsy induced psychotic episodes. Not sure there would be a better treatment now, but there'd be a proper care plan involving 24 hour care, with timely administration of epilepsy medication and antipsychotics to at least take the edge off some of the symptoms even if it didn't eradicate them.
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Poor girl. God only knows what hell she went through undergoing "psychological treatment" and exorcisms. Terrible.
For all the brave souls out there, listen to this recording of the performance of the exorcism https://youtu.be/-H4gvQDGiak?si=Ah325boUUq4vsEn2
Only for the very brave. These recordings are absolutely NOT for the faint of heart. They are gut wrenching to listen to. You have been warned.
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They were convicted, but given mitigating circumstances, they avoided jail time. Seems like the State wanted to blame someone in her death, but also knew it would be outrageous to punish anyone.
Load More Replies... Story is not told in full here. She had a formal diagnosis Epileptic Psychosis and was in treatment and on medication for it for five years ongoing. Her medication had stopped working; she was very religious, and a family friend convinced her into thinking that she was possessed. The priests that they went to first rejected doing an exorcism and told her parents to take her to the hospital and get her treatment for her diagnosed medical issue, the next ones were ordered to do the exorcism by the bishop. She actively refused food and drink.
Thank you for this clarification! I was thinking it was something along the lines of, if everyone around her thinks she is possessed, she would be convinced of it. What a shame, that poor misunderstood woman.
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Where did she get the spiders to eat and coal to eat? Did they just happen to keep that kind of c**p around her while they were trying to supposedly exercise demons out of her. They couldn't surround her with bread and fruit?
they were probably starving her on purpose as some kind of ritual. I assume if they were starving her the room she was kept in wouldn't be in the best condition which would explain the spiders. But it's awful how many people think she is possessed, her body was literally eating itself trying to survive. Her brain was shutting down.
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ok what if bae just was hungry and a little mentally ill like we did not have to do all of the exorcisms🙄🙄
Idk why everyone on here keeps saying that religious people push their beliefs onto others on this website when comments like this are on every post about religion. Obviously religion has been known to be used as an excuse for horrible crimes, but there are a lot more religions than just whatever one you are thinking of and a lot of religious people who don't do anything bad
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I've encountered both religious aversion and fanaticism in several schizophrenics I've encountered working in the ER I can't help but wonder what a dose or two of Geodon would have done for her
You guys are saying there is audio of her exorcisims, what does it sound like?
Ah, Catholics in 2023: "The Catholic Church authorizes the use of exorcism for those who are believed to be the victims of demonic possession." Wikipedia.
This is really mild compared to the other things on the list.
I think this was the inspiration for the movie Fire in the SKy.
Yikes. Would not be able to sleep for days if I saw a dead body with eyes open in real life.
An extreme form of body dismorphic disorder, where the affected person believes that some part of their body doesn't belong to them.
Someone forgot to switch off the radio before the Soviet Union fell. Wouldn’t want to see that electric bill.
I’d think presenting the actual living actors alive would be more effective to clear the murder charges…
Yeah Catholicism can get pretty weird. They probably did this to overturn some of his edicts that had become problematic.
Do yourselves a favor, and do NOT look this up. I'm not sleeping tonight, or any night for that matter.
I can't stand watching any TV show with a laugh track anymore. Everybody loves Raymond ruined me. Ray Romano is so not funny and the laugh track just makes it worse. I was literally counting the seconds between LOLs and bored as hell.
These don't necessarily belong to children. It's more likely that they belonged to the Liquidators who went in after the area was evacuated. Don't forget, the Soviet government didn't even tell the people of Prypiat and the surrounding areas about the severity of the incident, and when they did evacuate, the people were encouraged to believe it was for 3 days. Almost no precautions were taken with the safety of the public until then. The gas masks were likely abandoned by the Liquidators when they were released from duty, they could have been using the school as a base of operations. They left most of the equipment behind, from gas masks to clothing to the fire engines and helicopters because they were too radioactive to take from there.
The strangest thing about this is that while premature burials were extremely rare, the fear of them was not. It was something close to mass hysterics at the time, helped by stories and novels like Edgar Allan Poe's "Buried Alive" and similar. Doctors at the time sometimes carried a "heart knife": If they pronounced someone dead, they afterwards stabbed him to the heart to make sure he did not wake up in the grave.
No more belly-rubs until we learn to behave ourselves around company!
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I think it's part of BP's contract that they have to exaggerate and mislabel things lol
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You keep using this word "Creepy" I don't think it means what you think it means. Nothing in this was creepy
The 9 year old bride is creepy, but not in a spooky way, but in a call CPS way.
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I'm surprised I never see Dr. Carl Von Cosel in these "Creepy" BP posts. He was in love with a woman, Elena Milagros de Hoyos, who had died of tuberculosis. He dug up her grave, took her corpse to his home and lived with her as his lover for 7 years. I watched a documentary about it and some of the things he did to the body were...well, definitely signs of his mental issues. Pretty interesting. Look it up
I think Sandby Borg belongs here. "Such an aura of horror clung to the site that when archaeologists went in to uncover the gruesome facts, local people warned them they should keep well away from the green mound within the low stone wall." Now, what happened at that place that made even looters stay away, and 1500(!) years later, locals still warns about it??? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/25/swedish-archaeologists-uncover-brutal-5th-century-massacre And yeah... one of the bodies had sheep teeths stuffed into his mouth... https://youtu.be/yKG1BM7WVBY?feature=shared
I think it's part of BP's contract that they have to exaggerate and mislabel things lol
Load More Replies... You keep using this word "Creepy" I don't think it means what you think it means. Nothing in this was creepy
The 9 year old bride is creepy, but not in a spooky way, but in a call CPS way.
Load More Replies... I'm surprised I never see Dr. Carl Von Cosel in these "Creepy" BP posts. He was in love with a woman, Elena Milagros de Hoyos, who had died of tuberculosis. He dug up her grave, took her corpse to his home and lived with her as his lover for 7 years. I watched a documentary about it and some of the things he did to the body were...well, definitely signs of his mental issues. Pretty interesting. Look it up
I think Sandby Borg belongs here. "Such an aura of horror clung to the site that when archaeologists went in to uncover the gruesome facts, local people warned them they should keep well away from the green mound within the low stone wall." Now, what happened at that place that made even looters stay away, and 1500(!) years later, locals still warns about it??? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/25/swedish-archaeologists-uncover-brutal-5th-century-massacre And yeah... one of the bodies had sheep teeths stuffed into his mouth... https://youtu.be/yKG1BM7WVBY?feature=shared
