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There are plenty of wholesome corners on the internet. This just isn’t one of them.
In various Reddit threads, people have shared some of the creepiest facts they’ve ever learned. From unsettling truths about life and the universe to disturbing details about science and nature, these revelations are anything but comforting.
We at Bored Panda have gathered some of the darkest ones below. Scroll through—just be warned, some of them are definitely not for the faint of heart.
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#1
I was 9-10 years old when full grown men started creeping on me. My almost 5 year old is more than halfway to the age when the sexual harassment becomes obvious.
It makes me want to burn the world to ash.
Paul C. 1 week ago
My wife and I found a 2 or 3 year old little girl wandering down the street. Nobody about. We decided to call the police and I was about to pick her up because I was so worried about her safety but my wife said, best not, somebody could say I had taken her, or worse. (I'm 70) So we sat on the floor until the police arrived. Child had an empty vape in her hand and after about five minutes the police arrived at the same time as a very dishevelled late teens sister appeared and whisked her away. I was so saddened that something as basic as protecting a child, which I would do in a heartbeat could, sadly, be viewed as a dangerous thing to do.
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#2
Your child is much more likely to be m*lested by a family member or family friend than anyone on the s*x offender registry.
Sue User 1 week ago
Ouder for the people in the back. I abhor pedopholia, but the s*x offender registry is misguided. Do dispical things to 6 month child: registry. Sixteen year oldboy get caught by father having sec with underage daughter: registry. Apparently she is too young to give consent, but he should have known better.
#3
That the number #1 cause of death of pregnant women is murder. Let that s**t sink in and be careful who you are friends and lovers with.
Rachel Pelz 1 week ago
As some allegedly say at weddings: "look at each other closely, look into each other's eyes and remember: this is the person that is most likely to k**l you"
#4
You could lose your health at any time and become disabled. Not scary, just unfortunate and sad.
Maples Dad 1 week ago
Yup, happened to me. Sick at work one day and that was it started. I have been medically retired for 4 years now.
#5
Apart from Maxwell, not one Epstein island visitor has been prosecuted.
Jrog 1 week ago (edited)
It's important to point out that not all visitors engaged in despicable activities. A very small percentage did. Epstein used the Island retreat as a meeting and socializing place for his business (and, likely, espionage) activities. The sexual stuff was a further tier where a fraction of the most trusted guest -or the espionage targets- would be invited. Using the flight logs as a "proof" of shady activities is tricky because those logs include a ton of people that were there maybe once or twice, for trivial reasons, and never partook in the bad stuff. On the contrary, it's reasonable to assume people who visited frequently, including Donald Trump, took part in the darker side.
#7
1 in 10 women say they have been r***d by their spouse and 83% of those women say it's their current spouse. Also just r**e statistics in general are horrifying. The conviction rate is appalling.
setsuriseikou 1 week ago
And that's why I left as soon as he let it slip in an argument that he had no problem with us having s*x even if I didn't want to
#8
Brain aneurysms can happen to anyone, regardless of age.
PeepPeep the duck 1 week ago (edited)
The girl I knew (I was her carers bff) was 45 and so pretty but like a 4 yr old. I asked her mum if she was born with something or had an accident, and her story scared the crâp out of me. She was 17 and a very smart academic up and coming in Perths science field and one morning she didn’t get up and it was because of this. She was permanently disabled for life, but still had the best sense of humor
#9
Antibiotic resistance is a huge massive growing problem.
PeepPeep the duck 1 week ago
I can’t believe the people who use it for nothing, before I had my kidney infection I thought I had a bad back and cold so I went to get some Sudafed thinking I could still work, my landlord and a worker at the chemist I know both asked if I was there for anti biotics for my cold. It’s strange to think people take it for a cold etc
#10
Morgues prefer to hire Women because they don't stick their d***s in corpses.
#12
Sleep paralysis combined with hallucinations that you are being watched by a frightening entity is a very real thing experienced by millions of people.
#13
Every day you are getting dozens of cancerous cells. It's just that your immune system is doing a great job to get rid of them. Until it doesn't.
#14
For most of human history, Mosquitoes have been the most dangerous animal to our species.
#15
While you're on opioids, your brain stops producing dopamine. When you are experiencing withdrawal, it's because it takes a while for that process to start again. So the intense depression and misery is basically how we would all experience life if our brains weren't constantly doping us up with happy chemicals.
Seedy Vine 1 week ago
Not all of our brains even make the happy chemicals that well, hence why people need medication sometimes.
#16
Police r**e people being detained, and most of the time nothing is ever done about it. NO s*x is consensual when it’s with someone being detained. Never.
#17
My father's school did a guided tour through the woods searching and learning about local herbs.
A few years later, my father was still a child, police showed up and asked him if he recognized the man in a picture that they showed him. My father explained that he was the herbalist tour guide.
Apparently, the guy had m******d several boys and had my father's name and address in his car.
The police had caught the guy by this point. I think he k*lled himself or died in suspicious circumstances...
#18
Autistic women are more likely to be R@p3d/SAed.
Might not be as scary as you hoped, but it's scary to me as an autistic woman.
The Other Guest 1 week ago (edited)
Raped and sexually a*saulted. We can't discuss an issue if we're afraid to use the correct terms. EDIT - huh. Let's try that again. Assaulted. (Note to self: don't accidentally spell "ass" by putting the non-width joiner after the second instead of between the two)
#19
In 200 years no one will remember you, except you do something very awesome… or very bad that puts you in a history book.
Tucker Cahooter 1 week ago (edited)
I don't think anyone remembers me now, let alone 200 years from now
#20
Overpopulation, with everything going on (climate change/inflation/diminishing resources), people still encourage reproduction, especially in third world countries.
Rachel Pelz 1 week ago (edited)
I think the people promoting having many kids in industrial countries are scarier.
#21
I don’t know why but thinking about something at the bottom of the ocean like the Titanic gives me the creeps. All that pitch black water.
#22
My iPhone figured out my son’s nickname and labeled all his pictures with it.
#23
Today i learned that you can get pregnant while being pregnant. As a woman that scared the s**t out of me.
#24
There is a bank in the state of Colorado that has a lockbox in it. In that lockbox is the last recording of Timothy "Grizzly Man" Treadwell, a conservation enthusiast and bane of the existence of Katmai National Park rangers, due to his dangerous interactions with the park grizzlies.
The recording consists of the audio of Timothy and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, being attacked, eaten, and k****d (in that order) by Bear 141 "Ollie"*. The only people to have listened to this audio are the park rangers and troopers who assisted in identification and recovery of Treadwell and Huguenard's bodies, the forensics specialists working on the case, and Werner Herzog, director of the documentary about Treadwell called "Grizzly Man". Herzog is the reason the tape is in a private bank lockbox and will never see the public light of day.
*"Ollie" is the name given to the bear by Treadwell, as is commonly done by fans of the Katmai Bears. He was tagged as Bear 141, and park rangers and NPS staff are no longer involved with naming bears: all named bears are considered to be "unofficial fan names".
Jrog 1 week ago
"Treadwell set his campsite near a salmon stream where wild bears commonly feed in autumn. He was in the park later in the year than normal,[4] at a time when bears attempt to gain as much fat as possible before winter. Food was scarce that autumn, causing the bears to be even more aggressive than usual" Yep, this is ChrisMcCandless-level decision making there.
#25
Some women have reported feeling their organs slowly slide back into place after giving birth via a C-section.
#26
That before/as we lose our baby teeth, the permanent ones are already inside our skull. Waiting... Watching...
#27
A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.
PeepPeep the duck 1 week ago (edited)
I feel like the pigs on the farm would do it to the farmer where I am, but I was smart and give them love and respect and danish’s and sometimes hard candy as a treat. They are so protective of me now it’s cute having something weighing nearly as much as my car look out for me. I came out in the middle of the night to give them a bucket of apples and sweet potatoes (couldn’t sleep) and something came near the pig pen, piggly (my 6 foot long huge girl) started barking and charged at whatever it was and came back and made sure I was ok cos I was scared and hadn’t heard her bark before that 😂 the boy pig is bigger girth wise, his shoulders are about my height in width( four foot 10) hes a sucker for hugs and wheat bix and de-ringed ring pops (his fave naughty every now and then treat)
#28
During the merger of two black holes,a black holes can occasionally get ejected from the system and get shot out into open space and become a wandering black hole, the creepy part for me is that because a large part of the way in which we see black holes is through their interactions with their surroundings we wouldn’t really be able to see it coming towards us.
Son of Philosoraptor 1 week ago
Sun might flare but have no dread, it so quick we instant dead.
#29
There's a shortwave radio transmitter based in Russia that has been continuously broadcasting strange, repetitive buzzing sounds, periodically interrupted by spoken Russian, stating names or random numbers. This has been going on continuously since the early 1980s and possibly longer.
David Andrews 1 week ago
They are called Number Stations and have been on the go for over a century now all over the world. Likely used to convey messages to undercover agents or for espionage, they broadcast music, numbers or words, which have specific meaning to the intended recipient, while meaning nothing to anyone else tuning in
#30
Snails have teeth.
How many?
15,000 - 25,000
If I remember correctly their teeth are one of the hardest materials on Earth.
#31
In Hawaii there are hundreds caves throughout the islands and the ancient Hawaiians buried there dead in them , so it could be possible that if you find a unmarked cave it could be a chance it has ancient remains in it .
#34
How humans and pigs are so weirdly related.
You can use pig pancreas for transplants and to make insulin. You can use more organs of a pig.
But the fact that scares me, terrifies me is...Humans smell like good pork when they burn.
I was in the spot of an accident with high voltage and it burnt my dad's hand...to this day the smell haunts me. My dad was fine, but the smell. The live burnt flesh, in this hue of vicious pink that feels unnatural and charred black. It smelled of smoke, burnt dirt and pork.
I don't eat pork anymore. My dad actually loves eating pork though...so I guess someone is a cannibal :/.
#35
When a star explodes it creates a Gamma burst and it destroys all in it’s path If a Gamma burst goes off near Earth we’ll all be wiped out because it happens immediately and there is no warning.
Jrog 1 week ago (edited)
Good news: none of the stars within 200 light years (the "danger zone" where energy is strong enough to cause massive damage) of our Solar System are of the type that emit gamma ray bursts while exploding. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Space_for_you/Gamma-ray_bursts_are_we_safe
#36
If you die alone at home, your pets might eventually start eating you. Especially cats.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 week ago
My cats are welcome to eat me if I drop dead at home. I have no friends and my brother doesn't give a F about me so no one will miss me except the cats. Feast on, my darlings!
#37
You have millions of mites, known as demodex, living on your face.
PeepPeep the duck 1 week ago
And if you’re lucky to have an over population of them you’re blessed with the gift of really sore cystic acne 😂 I started the pill at 34 and it changed my life, like I wasn’t happy about going grey and having acne etc
#38
That death is inevitable and sometimes comes in unwanted/unexpected ways like natural causes or by intention.
#40
That the ocean is full of dead bodies.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 week ago
The usual mixture of genuine facts, the bleeding obvious and stuff which someone just pulled out of their a**e
Tucker Cahooter 1 week ago
The usual mixture of genuine facts, the bleeding obvious and stuff which someone just pulled out of their a**e
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