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This Disturbing Account Shares Facts To Freak You Out, Here Are 54 Of The Scariest
Your body loses fluid, your brain shrinks. It starts pulling away from your skull, causing the membranes to stretch. Then comes the intense pain... It might sound like something from a horror movie but it's not.
It's actually a common occurrence for many people if they don't drink enough water. And it's one of many creepy explanations featured on the Stories After Dark TikTok account. The page is packed with facts to make your skin crawl and the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. It's the type of content that might have you wanting to look away but getting so engrossed that you keep scrolling anyway.
Bored Panda has put together some of the best posts for you to scroll through if you're sick of getting enough sleep, or just want to give your brain a bit of a fright.
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What is it about scary or creepy stories that many of us want more, while wanting to look away at the same time?
“Horror stories do different things to different people. In some cases, they act as cautionary tales; in others, they allow us to explore things that feel transgressive and gives us a safe space to do that,” says Dr Helen Marshall, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland (UQ).
Safe being the operative word...
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Panda Kicki 6 days ago
Yes, often in the form of projetile p**p vomitimg. Happens sometimes in senior care if staff has been neglient on residents constipations.
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
Alivia Jordan. She was autistic and had a seizure disorder, and her mother just left the apartment and never came back. The little girl wasn't found until months later, and the cops were apparently called multiple times before they found her body.
Marshall explains that when you're choosing to consume creepy content, you have some control of the experience.
"You can turn off the TV or close the book when you don’t want to engage anymore," she adds. "But you can also share that experience with other people, and that gives you a better way of processing it.”
And while we might think otherwise, some experts say that forcing a bout of fear onto your brain can actually be good for your psyche.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 5 days ago
Before formaldehyde, some rich people were buried with a string that led to a bell in the cemetery office. If the person woke, they were supposed to pull the string, ringing the bell. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a short story about a cemetery night guard. He was in the office, and the bell began to ring.
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All Things Vibes 5 days ago
Watch the documentary about the tree children lost and found in the Colombian manigua. It was a miracle they managed to found them, literally. The whole story is like a movie script.
Dr Will Harrison, head of the Visual Cognition Lab at the School of Psychology at UQ even likens watching horror movies to an accessible and entertaining form of therapy. The expert explains that consuming scary content can help us process stress, anxiety, fear and other negative emotions.
“What we understand about the psychology of dealing with stress is that sometimes to process feelings of negativity, we have to understand where those feelings are coming from," he says. “Typically, stress comes from all kinds of factors that can be hard to describe. But when you watch a horror film, you know that the movie is the direct cause of the tension."
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Bob Brooce 5 days ago
That's not creepy, but it is potentially very useful for financial reasons.
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
I mentioned this earlier under the post claiming that Amber Alerts were named after "the first person to get reported missing/kidnapped." Etan was one of the reasons missing children's photos were printed on the side of milk cartons.
The team over at Newport Healthcare agrees. They say that horror-based content offers a safe way to practice fear.
"By noticing our fear, riding the surge of fear, and then feeling relief, we strengthen our ability to cope with everyday stressors," explains the site. "Even if we never have to live through a flock attacking our town like in The Birds, these mini 'fear workouts' may train us to stay emotionally steady when life throws a very real challenge our way."
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Similarly, watching or reading scary stories can act as a mental rehearsal for real-world threats.
"While you’re unlikely to be trapped in an abandoned prison surrounded by zombies... you may learn from the actions the characters take in those dire situations," note Newport's experts, adding that it's sort of like simulation training.
"Watching characters navigate high-stakes scenarios encourages us to review a series of 'what if' scenarios that help us to respond thoughtfully to threats around us."
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
I've never cared about this. If it keeps my cats alive until my body is found, then let them eat me.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 5 days ago
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Like with many things, consuming scary content can also have a negative side. If you've ever struggled to fall asleep after watching a horror movie, or scrolling through a listicle of creepy facts, you'll know exactly what we mean.
The experts explains that scary media triggers a real stress response. This means your body gets flooded with adrenaline, and your brain stays on high alert long after the credits roll.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 5 days ago
I'm always being watched, just in case I should arbitrarily open a can of tuna.
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Bob Brooce 5 days ago
Your body consuming itself is the only way to lose weight, other than liposuction or some other surgery (or becoming dehydrated). What it consumes depends on what your reserves are and how deficient your caloric intake is.
"And for horror games, the blue light, social interactions, and highly stimulating activity make it that much easier to keep playing deep into the night," they add. "The curse of it all is that the next day you’ll feel sluggish and be more prone to mood swings."
Some people with anxiety or trauma might want to steer clear of scary content altogether. It could trigger them or leave them replaying a disturbing scene over and over again.
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Spencers slave no more 5 days ago
That would be 5 of the Sodder children: Maurice 14, Martha 12, Louis 9, Jennie 8 and Betty 5, Christmas morning 1945. The local Fire Chief admitted to fudging the fire investigation, including planting "evidence" that the children perished in the fire, he also claimed the phone not working was because the wires melted in the fire. According to the phone line repair man, the line was cut by someone who scaled the telephone pole and reached out ~3 feet onto the wire to cut it. A local eventually confessed to cutting the line, claiming he thought it was the power line and wanted to cause a power cut. The parents hired an independent pathologist to investigate the human vertebrae found in the ruins of the property 4 years after the fire because they never believed the Fire Chief's comment that the fire completely cremated the children, and they were right. There's so much more information for anyone who wants to read the Sodder childrens disappearance theories.
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Howl's sleeping castle 6 days ago
Leonarda Cianciulli aka Soap-Maker of Correggio. She m******d three women because she believed that human sacrifice could keep her favorite son safe when he was drafted into World War II. The victims' remains were boiled with caustic soda to dissolve the fat, mixed in cologne, and molded into soap. For biscuits, she dried up the blood, ground it into a powder, and mixed it with other ingredients.
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But others with anxiety or trauma could actually benefit from consuming scary content. That's because horror can act as a type of recreational exposure therapy.
"It gives them the chance to face fear in a controlled way, and sometimes can help them build emotional skills to manage it in real life," explains the Newport Healthcare site.
The important thing is to know your own limits. The line between having fun, conquering fears, and feeling distressed is deeply personal, say the experts. "For anyone, scary content should be managed based on how it makes you feel, and if it’s too much, hit pause."
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Michael Largey 5 days ago (edited)
Felt Presence? I thought it might be called the Norman Bates Syndrome.
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
I'm not sure which specific case this is referring to, but there's a few different cases like this, and a few where someone promised a pregnant woman baby supplies only to kill her to steal the baby. It's called fetal abduction, and there are cases where the baby lived.
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Bored Jellyfish 6 days ago (edited)
I’ve experienced this a few times. It happened when I was just falling asleep. It’s weird, but not a big deal.It’s bangs and explosions, not screams.
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Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 5 days ago
So just in case, no more ice cream ever for elderly people, pregnant women, and newborns. Especially newborns, since they obviously are one of the major purchasers and consumers of ice cream.
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Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 5 days ago
And they can even become secretary of health or president if they live in the US.
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Gracie Jay 5 days ago
I don’t wake up when I d*e in a dream. I just respawn:) thanks to having night terrors for years, I learned to be aware when dreaming so I just respawn:)
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Bob Brooce 5 days ago
Real fact: If your heart stops and there are doctors close enough for you to hear them and you don't have a DNR they're going to spend enough time trying to get your heart started that your brain will have plenty of time to start dying before they pronounce you. If they do pronounce you it's extremely unlikely that you're going to recover and confirm hearing them do it.
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🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 5 days ago
We live in the worst game world. Someone playing my character is playing like sh1t.
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Bored Jellyfish 6 days ago
With severe hypothermia, It’s been documented that there’s hallucinations, sometimes accompanying paradoxical undressing.
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Babs Ishkabibble 6 days ago
The only voice I hear in my head is my own. I discuss things with myself. Am I sane, or insane?
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hannahbahngswife 5 days ago
A few posts ago they just said that your brain cannot created voices unless triggered?
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hannahbahngswife 5 days ago (edited)
I feel like a lot of this depends if whether or not you are into paranormal. There was a time where I was hardcore into paranormal, binge watching every channel I could find. Subsequently I got scared and I misinterpreted every sound or shadow as some creature or something, and as the post says, making normal things feel threatening, unfortunately until now even if I do not watch paranormal channels anymore. My dad on the other hand who never got into paranormal or true crime or anything genuinely doesn't give a s**t. We both stay up late a lot, and I am the one with the brain misinterpreting everything.
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StarCrossedFriday 5 days ago
But...mirrors are reversed, sure, but photos aren't...? Either way, I can only hope that the version everyone else sees isn't what I see - especially in photos 😬
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
"The exact reason why dehydration causes headaches is unknown. The brain does not have pain receptors. A dehydration headache is possibly triggered by pain receptors in the lining around the brain, called the meninges. When a person is dehydrated, fluid can shift out of the brain, exerting traction on the meninges, which could stimulate the pain receptors. Another possible explanation is the exaggerated response you might feel to any type of pain when you are dehydrated."
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
From a quick search, the only source for this "fact" is other Tiktoks and "scary" Youtube channels.
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TotallyNOTAFox 6 days ago
We know the limiter - They are called "Telomeres", basically protective end caps for our chromosomes. They get shorter with each cell division and if they get too short the cell will stop reproducing itself
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Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
"The Amber alert was created in reference to 9-year-old Amber Rene Hagerman, who was abducted in Arlington, Texas, on January 13, 1996, and found murdered four days later." She was hardly the first reported missing child. Another prominent missing child who was one of the reasons missing photos were printed on the side of milk cartons was Etan Patz who went missing on the way to the schoolbus in 1979.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 5 days ago
No. Not similar to. Exactly like PTSD because that's what it is!
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Bob Brooce 5 days ago
Real fact: Your entire existence happens in your brain. It's impossible for any of your organs (including your skin) to itch if your brain doesn't make you feel itchy because itchy is simply the brain's response to certain stimuli.
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Theresa Aube 5 days ago
Your brain can and will make up noises, it's called auditory hallucination. Its not dangerous on its own but can be a sign of mental illness or stress
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Howl's sleeping castle 6 days ago
Such an exaggeration! Yes Sun did eject a multi-billion-ton cloud of magnetized plasma but the CME missed earth not because 'something shifted our planet out of the way' , it missed because Earth had simply moved ahead in its standard orbital path, by 9 days. Also the erupting region of the Sun was pointing away from earth. And even if it would have hit us, it would not have k****d everything. Like all solar storms it would have impacted the communications systems and that would have crashed the economy.
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Bored Jellyfish 6 days ago
Creepy fact: these were generated by an AI that still couldn’t outdo a 5th grade girls’ slumber party, with lights out except for a couple of candles, trying to scare each other.
Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
BP, if you want good true crime/creepy facts, then maybe don't look to low-quality Tiktoks with no sources. Try the true crime subreddits, those usually have good context and discussions.
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 5 days ago
This is seriously one of the worst BP articles I have read.
Bored Jellyfish 6 days ago
Creepy fact: these were generated by an AI that still couldn’t outdo a 5th grade girls’ slumber party, with lights out except for a couple of candles, trying to scare each other.
Lukas (alt) 6 days ago
BP, if you want good true crime/creepy facts, then maybe don't look to low-quality Tiktoks with no sources. Try the true crime subreddits, those usually have good context and discussions.
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 5 days ago
This is seriously one of the worst BP articles I have read.
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