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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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Gimme that Cash 2 years ago
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.”
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PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
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
David 2 years ago
A friend had almost this happen to her long ago. Was a teenager, babysitting. Glass door - could see the intruder trying to break in. Before cell phones. Phone mounted on wall by glass door. She called the cops but had to abandon the phone. Took the kids she was babysitting upstairs and out a window onto the roof. The guy was looking all over for them and did stick his head out the window but they were just far enough around the gable that he didn't see them. The intruder fled when the cops came. I don't recall if they caught him. I just remember her talking about how scared she was on the roof. She is in her 70s now and that moment is still a memory for her.
Tameeza Joyce Lightowler 2 years ago
Oh gosh... I hope though that's she okay... Any extremely traumatic event does stay with you... But she's an absolute Hero for saving the children
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Marcellus II 2 years ago
The neighbour, who is already planning to tell the journalists "Oh she was such a nice woman" and so forth. They're practically rehearsing it.
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Xenia Harley 2 years ago
My sister was sleeping over my cousins' house once as a teen, and my aunt and uncle went out. The kids climbed onto the roof because there was an intruder. Mind you, this was pre-cell phone days! I think my cousin called her parents before going out on the roof. Police came. Thankfully, intruder was scared off. Back door had been broken into. My aunt had an epileptic episode due to the stress, so she had to go to the hospital!
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
What’s really f****d up about your story is the fact they left for a medical emergency and so the creep was obviously watching the house a while and often and it wasn’t an opportunistic crime he attempted. You’re so freaking lucky
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Snorky The Pig 2 years ago (edited)
While she was obviously scared stiff, if you read the CNN article, she didn't know he was right behind her. The police got her off the roof and arrested the guy. She probably only knew afterward when she saw the picture. And I am happy she survived too.
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Lunamorte Louise 2 years ago
Oh god that is scary. Like something out of a horror movie. I hope she is ok.
Robert Maybeth 2 years ago
No, a happy end is that criminal blown off the roof like a rabid pigeon
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Megalodon Meg 2 years ago
Omfg so I've always said if someone broke into my house and I could take the doors I'd hide on my roof and now I GUESS THATS NOT AN OPTION
Stephanie Dallier 1 year ago
Well, that’s a nightmare in a picture… and gets worse when you read the description… but gets better when you read the comments
Stephanie Elisa 2 years ago
The scariest part is that he's not there to steal anything. He's there for her.
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.
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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.”
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Hippopotamuses 2 years ago
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths children have gone to throughout history to avoid eating their brussels sprouts!
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Elizabeth Elliot 2 years ago
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.
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Skullface VonHornhelm 2 years ago
This is really mild compared to the other things on the list.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I think this was the inspiration for the movie Fire in the SKy.
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Gimme that Cash 2 years ago
Yikes. Would not be able to sleep for days if I saw a dead body with eyes open in real life.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
An extreme form of body dismorphic disorder, where the affected person believes that some part of their body doesn't belong to them.
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Lotus Flower in Space 🪷 2 years ago
Someone forgot to switch off the radio before the Soviet Union fell. Wouldn’t want to see that electric bill.
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Moosy Girl 2 years ago
I’d think presenting the actual living actors alive would be more effective to clear the murder charges…
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Yeah Catholicism can get pretty weird. They probably did this to overturn some of his edicts that had become problematic.
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Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
Do yourselves a favor, and do NOT look this up. I'm not sleeping tonight, or any night for that matter.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
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.
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Sian Edwards 2 years ago
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.
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The Scout 2 years ago (edited)
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.
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Hippopotamuses 2 years ago
No more belly-rubs until we learn to behave ourselves around company!
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BoredPossum 2 years ago
And still nobody has ever been able to prove the existence of ghosts...even when they know where they live. Curious.
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Lsai Aeon 2 years ago
You keep using this word "Creepy" I don't think it means what you think it means. Nothing in this was creepy
Jessica Jones 2 years ago
The 9 year old bride is creepy, but not in a spooky way, but in a call CPS way.
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Lori Harper 2 years ago
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
Dan Flo 2 years ago (edited)
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
Lsai Aeon 2 years ago
You keep using this word "Creepy" I don't think it means what you think it means. Nothing in this was creepy
Jessica Jones 2 years ago
The 9 year old bride is creepy, but not in a spooky way, but in a call CPS way.
Load More Replies... Lori Harper 2 years ago
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
Dan Flo 2 years ago (edited)
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
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