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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.
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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.
#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.
#4
You could lose your health at any time and become disabled. Not scary, just unfortunate and sad.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#16
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...
#17
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.
#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.
#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.
#20
Overpopulation, with everything going on (climate change/inflation/diminishing resources), people still encourage reproduction, especially in third world countries.
#22
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.
#23
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".
#24
Today i learned that you can get pregnant while being pregnant. As a woman that scared the s**t out of me.
#25
Some women have reported feeling their organs slowly slide back into place after giving birth via a C-section.
#26
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.
#27
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 .
#28
That before/as we lose our baby teeth, the permanent ones are already inside our skull. Waiting... Watching...
#29
A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.
#30
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.
#31
Snails have teeth.
How many?
15,000 - 25,000
If I remember correctly their teeth are one of the hardest materials on Earth.
#32
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.
#38
That death is inevitable and sometimes comes in unwanted/unexpected ways like natural causes or by intention.
#41
More disturbing than creepy, but people getting shot is not like the movies. They don’t just quietly fall over dead unless it’s directly to the head. Shots to the abdomen and throat, even if fatal, take a bit for the person to die. This period is almost always filled with lots of blood, screaming, urination, and defecation. Even if it is a direct shot to the head resulting in instant death, the only part that doesn’t happen is the screaming.
#42
I saw this on another one but it stuck with me.
If all the bacteria in a block of cheese were to move in the same direction, that block of cheese would move quite the distance in a day.
#45
That whales do not die of old age. They become too weak to resurface and drown.
Or they die by violence.
Those are the only options.
Edit: Correction, suffocating after beaching themselves is a fun and exciting third choice.
#48
That in every fig, a tiny wasp is lodged in its center, it is the one who crawled in there to polinise it.
#50
There are microscopic creatures all over our skin that are being born, eating, mating, and dying at any given moment, and they will never ever wash away completely.
#51
I worked at a cemetery. If you are buried underground the vault and coffin don't keep the water and bugs out. Your body is a sodden bug ridden mess.
#53
I work at a hospital 😫 did you know that dead people can sit up? OPEN THEIR EYES?? Or even cry?!?! Not my department but my friends from there come in pretty spooked sometimes.
#55
When you enter an outhouse or smelly place, you aren’t just smelling the rot. You’re tasting it also.
#58
Anytime I find out some animal or another has a weird barbed p***s or a p***s like a corkscrew (pigs), I wish I didn’t know it. Because it’s often some pretty decent animals that you wouldn’t expect.
#60
Using an acid bath does NOT "melt body's" as claimed by Jessy Pinkman in the TV show, Breaking Bad.
Source - University Of Wyoming forensic report that was conducted for, and used in the South Australian trial in regards to the Snowtown Murders.
#61
It's impossible to know whether every other person you see is actually conscious and not, say, a philosophical zombie.
#64
That no one is ever truly banned or blocked from a website. With the existence of VPNs and multiple accounts, you never know who might be contacting you.
#69
The uncanny valley theorem.
Humans have an inherited evolutionary trait that causes an aversion to things that look human-like. This means that our ancient ancestors developed this fear from encountering beings that looked human, but were not.
#71
The idea that our smartphones are constantly knowing what we feel and then whenever you scroll any social media it will display a lot of videos that can relate to you.
#73
Kolas s**t in their babies mouths to “get used” to digesting a plant that’s basically poisonous to them, which gives them bad diarrhea (so basically they diarrhea s**t in their babies mouths), and they also don’t recognize the plant they eat leaves so they also would literally starve if it isn’t on the tree.
#74
In some places - To help shrimp breed more, they take one of the eyes off the female shrimp/prawn…look it up!! Totally unforgettable.
#75
That embarassing thing you did the other day? Every decision you ever made led to that point, everything your generations of ancestors lived for led up to that point.
#76
If animals could talk, they would sound like a bunch of psycho/sociopaths and no one would advocate for them anymore.
#77
Your body can decide to spontaneously amputate parts of yourself. We don’t know why it does it, or how to stop it once it starts.
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Katja Katze 9 months ago
The list started well, then came jokes, then myths and finally a lot of nonsense. Too bad
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 9 months ago (edited)
Ah, fear mongering, it’s what for breakfast this morning! Well, we all like to safely engage with fear sometimes, it’s why horror movies exist, after all. Some of these made me laugh because they were pretty inaccurate. It always cracks me up that we can discuss probiotics positively and then to freak people out someone will point out that we are covered in living organisms. Yes, you are an entire world on feet with unrecognized citizens all over you, woo hoo!
Katja Katze 9 months ago
The list started well, then came jokes, then myths and finally a lot of nonsense. Too bad
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 9 months ago (edited)
Ah, fear mongering, it’s what for breakfast this morning! Well, we all like to safely engage with fear sometimes, it’s why horror movies exist, after all. Some of these made me laugh because they were pretty inaccurate. It always cracks me up that we can discuss probiotics positively and then to freak people out someone will point out that we are covered in living organisms. Yes, you are an entire world on feet with unrecognized citizens all over you, woo hoo!
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