The world can be a scary place. That’s why learning more about the darker side of humanity and history can be educational. Other times, it can satisfy our (in some cases morbid) curiosity. So if you're a fan of mysteries and the unknown, you've come to the right place.
Once again, we're featuring the Creepy.org X account here on Bored Panda. It's a place to explore the darker corners of the world. The page features "weird videos, historical oddities and unexplained mysteries." So scroll down and see the newest additions from them. That is, if you dare!
Bored Panda sought out the creators of a podcast about strange, bizarre and unexpected phenomena. Kat and Jethro Gilligan Toth host The Box of Oddities show and are the recipients of the Webby Award. We had a chat with them about what makes people interested in the mysterious and the unknown. They also told us about their research process and shared their favorite stories from the podcast. Read our interview with Kat and Jethro below!
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They hired a hit on her back in 2017. She passed away after being shot 12 times in front of her house. She didn't fear death. Her goal was to get justice or die trying.
Geez, this story just keeps getting more insane. A tragic end to a badass woman.
Load More Replies...There is a movie already - "'La Civil", 2021: https://www.proceso.com.mx/reportajes/2021/7/3/la-civil-una-mujer-indomita-la-violencia-tamaulipeca-267129.html
Load More Replies..."Ole sus huevos!!!!" (Ole her balls = Well done!!!) Sorry I couldn't help it. People like these have to pay for their crimes.
Yes, but in the end the cartel killed her. RIP https://www.nytimes.com/es/2020/12/13/espanol/tamaulipas-desaparecidos-miriam-rodriguez.html
Oh, man! I was hoping that wouldn't be the case. May she and her daughter rest in peace.
Load More Replies...The Creepy.org account has almost 600k followers. That is a lot when you consider it's not even 1 year old – its inception was in February 2023. Bored Panda wrote about Creepy.org back in May and we even had a short conversation with the creator.
They were kind enough to tell us the backstory of the page. "I have a great passion for creepy things in general, but what inspired me to create a community in this niche was when I bought the domain name http://creepy.org last year through an auction."
"My first thought was to create a site about morbid curiosities and oddities, but due to lack of time, I abandoned the project and focused on a Twitter account instead. That's how the 'Creepy' Twitter page was born, and now I use the http://creepy.org domain to redirect to it," the creator of the page told us back then.
F**k fundamentalists of every religion on Earth. They are the best proof God does not exist. If there were a god, s/he would not let these monsters speak in his/her name.
F**k fundamentalists of all kinds. Let's not forget how the statedly atheist communist regimes under Stalin and Mao killed tens of millions.
Load More Replies...This is so sad! It was very courageous of him.Unbelievable that someone had to die like that because of extremists' desire to not only kill people but destroy historical artifacts.
I read about this guy. He seemed like such a sweet, genuine devoted man. I was so sad to read about his death. When I first read about him, I thought how his life would make a great book/ film.
i hate the use of ISIS for thoses... things (not even human for me). Isis she is a goddess to me
Probably is but he is okay. Most likely the blood is from the wolves since doggy is wearing a spike collar
Load More Replies...I have pet sheep and they are so sweet, intelligent and funny. When people come to visit and realise how clever get loving our sheep are, they are shocked. Same for most animals, they are way more intelligent than most humans give them credit for!
Don't worry, he's wearing a spike collar. The blood on his neck is most likely from wolves that tried to bite his throat and got their snouts impaled instead
Load More Replies...Not creepy at all. That’s their job. Courageous every one. My sheep farmer friends have had and do have some wonderful loyal, not puppers. They’re really large dogs. And now, having learned more than I ever expected to know about sheep and being around them, they’re amazing.
Even then, the creator was taken aback by the success of the page. "I think I was kind of lucky that my page became so popular because many big accounts started following me and retweeting my posts right from the beginning," they said in May.
The 'Creepy' owner also talked about how they find content to post on X . "I must say that I'm an avid Redditor and also a moderator of some large subreddits, and from there I choose most of my posts."
Both the purpose and the outcome. It looks awskme even without real animals 😮
Load More Replies...The best part is they don't have to limit themselves to extant animals. They could feature mammoths, smilodons, ground sloths, dire wolves, to say nothing of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. And why not feature fantastic animals like unicorns, griffins, dragons, etc.?
Load More Replies...The holograms escape and watch us when we sleep
Load More Replies...So many good reasons to go see this. Cruelty free, no animals exploited and cool tech for example
Not creepy. Acknowledging circuses exploit these beautiful intelligent animals who genuinely suffer in a life they should never have to live and in no way deserve it. Let’s treat those people in the same way they treat the elephants. Get a taste of their own cruelty.
Never before have I wondered what Parkinson's smells like... but now I do.
Looked it up: "Joy has a heightened sense of smell and noted what she describes as a musty, musky or yeasty scent on her husband long before his Parkinson's diagnosis. She later noticed the same scent among people in his PD support group"
Load More Replies...The most chilling part is that she correctly identified an extra person who ended up being diagnosed with the disease.
I completely agree with you. It's one helluva gift/ curse to have this awareness of other people's lives. The weight it must carry and social stigma; do you ask every person that you smell the odor on about their history of Parkinsons in their lives? How could you possibly ignore something as important as that? Reactions to someone telling you this information may not be accepted warmly or graciously. It must be a heavy weight for her to carry.
Load More Replies...This is not nearly as dramatic, but I started developing severe migraines when I was around 11 or 12 years old. My mum used to say she would know I had one without seeing or talking to me because I had a strong smell of vegetable soup about me - so strong she'd smell it just walking by my room. I thought she was a bit nuts until my brother started smelling the same.
Flu has a smell even before symptoms show. I know a few days beforehand when my family is going to have a rough go of it.
You should contact a scientist working in the field and let them know. This lady's contribution to the medical field has been huge, because it identified something that was entirely new to science and has opened the doors to new diagnosis methods and potential new treatments. You could be the missing link that saves millions of lives.
Load More Replies...I can smell when my kids are getting a cold, I know before they start showing symptoms
Yep! To me it smells like faint vomit and halitosis.
Load More Replies...She's such a sweet lady too. This video has more info https://youtu.be/XB0QgwVffvk?si=awQs11Yw6uUPPiG1
Amazing story on NPR! https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di
Cancer has a very distinctive smell. I could walk into a room and tell by the smell that the person had cancer. This was either in the hospital or when we were taking them to hospice care, not before they were diagnosed.
Load More Replies...I can tell on hand of my body odor changing ever so slightly that depression is on the way. I smell it befor I feel it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who smells different
Oh wow, that's really interesting. I hope you're doing well ☺️
Load More Replies...1 month ? i'm still in recovery position a month after banging my toe in a piece of furniture
The surgeon is amazing. He also saved all bar 1 of her teeth too! https://news.sky.com/story/girls-jaw-hung-by-1cm-of-skin-after-horse-riding-accident-11830691
Great work by the surgeons! Eventually the scar will fade. She has a pretty smile
And owning any large animal is dangerous. Remember Christopher Reeves too. I love horses to death but if you ride and compete with them, your life is on the line.
The creator must know the secret to why morbid and scary things are so on the rise right now. They had a theory about why we like creepy and scary things: "It happens because when we are terrified, the brain releases a hormone called dopamine, which some people find thrilling."
"Also, creepy stuff is often intriguing: is the devil real, are ghosts real, does hell exist? Humans have a tendency to find solutions to everything, but these are questions humans don't have a definitive answer for yet," the creator concluded.
Absolutely justified. Love is the most powerful motivator, and there are few things stronger than a mother's love of her child.
Eh I gotta go with not yet here - we have laws, and they apply to everyone. If the law failed her, like the lady above who went to town on those cartel gangsters, yeah. Justified. She only applied justice. But this woman prevented justice from taking place. As understandable as her deed was, it wasn't justified.
I think there is a difference between justice in the legal and justice in a moral, personal sense.
Load More Replies...Justified? I don't know. Understandable? Absolutely. I do not condemn her actions.
A professor once told me...are the consequences worth the action? I think about that. I think for this mother the answer is pretty obvious.
Background: the guy had been convicted sexual violence against two other girls. The courts failed to protect the third victim… in this case “justice” failed twice before.
Possible but not likely. The only radiation that would have caused other materials to become radioactive (as opposed to being covered in radioactive fallout) is neutron radiation. That is much more easily attenuated and didn't spread a far from the accident site. It also isn't produced from radioactive fallout, but a nuclear process, so it would be limited to near the elephant foot. Probably enough rain in the area that i its actually mostly safe
Load More Replies...Poor little car. (I have an annoying habit of attaching feelings to inanimate objects. Totally irrational, but here I be...)
did a bit of googling and apparently the sister that was pronounced dead had an epileptic seizure and was incorrectly pronounced dead. she was buried the following morning. there is a snopes page about it and its been unproven as to whether the story is true or not.
Problaply right. My grandmother had a friend who where pronounced dead and woke up in the morques waiting-room.... thats why morques have 6 hours waiting-rooms.... This was SO common before scans etc. - we have evidence of coffins with marks from peoples nails etc....
Load More Replies...If I were Essie Dunbar's sister, I would've probably jumped off my skin. At the same time, I'm happy that Essie was able to live for another 47 years.
Thank goodness she was late! Woman might still have been unconscious has she viewed her body and been running on time! I hate being late and am often early as a result, going to remember this for the next time I panic I'm running late!
Like, this woman would've been buried alive had sis been there with everyone else? And waking up in a coffinand just smiling, no freaking out? I find this hard to believe
Can you imagine though, if this were true? The chaos at the funeral lol I bet several people would have passed out!
But what do The Box of Oddities hosts have to say about why we're into scary and unusual stories? Kat says it's likely because it's a way for us to escape from mundane everyday life. "I think a lot of people are not particularly wowed by the everyday small talk that we end up having on a day-to-day basis," she says. "They want to get deeper and see what makes us, as humans, tick."
Jethro seconds her: "We're drawn to the things on the fringe of society because they are interesting, they’re the things we couldn’t learn at school or that we shouldn’t talk about at the dinner table."
Imagine living there...knowing what's up once the cat visits you at night. Would have been interesting to know though how often the cat visited patients that didn't die.
You're not usually conscious at that point.
Load More Replies...Oscar would be an angel in disguise... Easing the souls to bliss and beyond.... Not all angel have wings, some have fluffs and toe-beans
He should have trained a kitten to continue his job and when the kitten realises the older cat was dying and was staying by his side, Ocar would have been like 'I trained you well little one...continue my legacy'🥺
A person I know had a dog who was old, and their other dogs were more attentive to the old dog the day before it passed.
I had a cat that passed away while I wasn't home. My friend was checking in on her & the others; when he walked in that day, he found her passed with the other 4 cats sitting around her in a perfect square, like they were having a little wake for her 💙
My cat died recently. When I carried him down the paddock to bury him, I was followed by 5 chooks in single file. Felt like tget were part of tge fuberal procession
Load More Replies...I came to see if anyone had commented on this
Load More Replies...i have a kitty named Oscar he is big floof who loves him a bit of fuss
A chronic care hospital in Toronto that also had a unit for people who were in the last stages of life had a bird in the lounge at the end of the hallway. If ever it started chirping and kept on for a lengthy time, someone had just passed away.
Stephen King includes a cat like this in his novel "Doctor Sleep", whish is a sequel to "The Shining".
Most people have no idea how fast technology develops and that we can see a lot of it coming. This is the president of a phone company in 1953, not some schmo making off-the-cuff predictions on things he knows nothing about in 1884.The video phone goes all the way back the 1930s; D**k Tracy was wearing a communicator watch in comic strips in 1931. A regular person who isn’t involved in the world of mass communication is amazed by how accurate this prediction is but we were already heading in that direction even if it took a while to get there.
Load More Replies...Many authors of Science Fiction have predicted future inventions. If Science was a religion these would be its Prophets.
Most of the things they “predict” already exist in some form, they just aren’t well-known to the public so they appear as if they made some sort of out-of-the-blue prediction.
Load More Replies...In 1987, at breakfast the day after I graduated high school, my granddaddy said "One day we will not need cash and we will have satellites in our homes." He died almost 30 years ago. He knew. He built his company's computers and wrote programs that insurance adjusters still use a variation of. He was definitely ahead of his time.
This is really cool, but what about the flying cars prediction? Me thinks they dropped the ball on dat one.
It's more likely that they haven't figured out a way to let people actually operate them safely, judging by how they operate land vehicles.
Load More Replies...Predictions like these are just ideas that inventors have planned to bring life, in time
About teeth-decay: Although in movies it is usually the poor who are displayed with bad teeth in pre-world-war times, it was usually the rich who had bad teeth. As Francois mentioned, the rich were the ones who could afford sugar. That's also why having bad teeth was considered a sign of wealth, just like pale skin, long nails and smooth hands. The poor usually only had bad teeth if they were also sickly. The mouth is quite good at cleaning itself, as long as we don't wear it out with eating (or drinking!) too much sugar, too often.
That's it I want to be buried with a wreath!!! Also.... those teeth are whiter than mine.
his eye sockets look like hes' trying to do the smolder look. "hey..." "Sup..."
This person clearly never ate sugar. I wish I hadn't. Those teeth are so much prettier than mine.
If you haven't clocked it yet, Kat and Jethro are married. The couple says that the contents of their podcasts are things they would end up discussing with each other at the end of a day.
"These are the kinds of things that intrigue us and we'd end up talking about at the end of the day," Kat says. "Things like 'Did you know they found a 12,000-year-old fossilized Viking poop in York, England?' is kind of our 'pillow talk,'" Jethro steps in with his quick wit.
7yr old me opening a new box of Legos and insisting I don't need the instructions be like
Load More Replies...I now want to see an artist's impression of what this thing looked like well alive.
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Load More Replies...It feels somehow surreal that something appears in the depths of the Internet that is about 1500m as the crow flies from my current location...
THE GREEN PIECE GOES THERE!!! me: but the puzzle is black. BUT BUT BUT IT FITS THERE PERFECT !!! me: yes but the puzzle is black! BUT BUT BUT!!!
That's just people! All those who were there should be charged with manslaughter.
Load More Replies...Really sickening the greed this photograph shows. Is that greed really worth a life?
Please note the photo is of people in a UK supermarket - we do not have Walmart. Whether or not they're acting in a way we all find acceptable is one thing, but don't link them to those who trampled Jdimytai Damour.
Load More Replies...People can be so unempathetic when removed from the situation. For example, I was travelling to an event the other weekend on train and suddenly we all had to get off at a station and were told that we couldn't travel any further as someone had jumped in front of the train in front and died (it was a high speed 100+mph train). Most of us were understanding and whilst a little annoyed at being delayed, felt sympathy for the poor person who thought jumping was the only solution and also towards the poor driver who would have had no time to stop (if he even saw the body) and the team who had to go and recover the body. Yet I saw some awfully rude humans that day only thinking of themselves. Though one old lady who spat at a worker when he told her that she could take a bus that whilst longer than the train, was running unlike the train, did so as the BTP walked past. So arrested her. Karma in action.
I will never be sympathetic towards someone who chooses to go out traumatising a driver who is just trying to make a living and takes care of all of us.
Load More Replies...Or online only. If you couldn't get the discount because it sold out and you smashed your computer/phone, that's purely on them.
Load More Replies...I remember this. Black Friday fatalities were an annual thing for a while
Ive never been happier to live in an area with black friday shoppers who have actual humanity and although they get up at unhuman times they will atleast not push and shove to get something they could get for the same price tomorrow...
Load More Replies...I need to see the whole text. That poor man. How irresponsible of Walmart!
They don’t care about their employees AT ALL. The rot goes far deeper than just “irresponsible.”
Load More Replies...I was thinking the same thing... These are the same people that would record an accident instead of helping
Load More Replies...I read about this. He thought his team (Arsenal) were doing well as he couldn’t see a thing and thought they were at the other end of the pitch! He kept himself moving as it was very cold, by doing starjumps!
Kat and Jethro say that they rarely have trouble finding stories for their podcast. Even after 600 episodes! "There are so many things that fit into The Box of Oddities," Jethro says. "Because the world around us is composed of the bizarre and the paranormal, we have no problem finding incredible things to talk about."
I could be in Alaska in a blizzard and a mosquito would find me and attack.
I just bite them back and spit the corpses on my shoulders as a warning
Try vitamin B tablets. I have only been bitten once by a mozzie in ten years and it was when I went off vitamin B for a while. Previous to starting it I got bitten a lot.
Load More Replies...wtf....did he open a jor of a billion gold coins and when he was in africa? "There's no reason only rich people should have the experience"
My cousin's almost died of malaria when they were 10 and 8 it's a horrible disease.
That's the face of a goat who has had enough of your s**t and is done taking orders.
Black Phillip, Black Phillip - A crown grows out his head - Black Phillip, Black Phillip -
To nanny queen is wed. This movie was excellent. But watch it with subtitles. whatdostth...a7ef45.jpg
Right. Kicked off his last set for repeatedly yelling "Stella!" out of context.
Load More Replies...He's such a handsome boy! I think I read somewhere that the director said in spite of the difficulties of working with Charlie, he was easier to work with than the two small children playing the youngest kids in the movie.
The process of research is organic for them. "We each choose a topic to surprise each other and we both have our own research and writing style," Jethro tells Bored Panda. The pair tries to balance more outrageous stories, leaving the more lighthearted ones for the ending.
"[We] decide, if one of us has a particularly rough story, that should 'go first' so as not to leave the listener with a bummer topic," Kat says. Jethro calls himself more of a believer of the two. “[Kat] says sometimes my topics require more fact-checking,” he chuckles.
I wonder if this means they could grow these kinds of mushrooms to absorb radiation when needed
I checked on Wikipedia. Replace the words "several mushrooms" with "some 200 species of fungi". The mechanism utilises the very ordinary pigment melanin. Ionising radiation replaces UV light in catalysing certain important chemical reactions using melanin.
Fungi are definitely one of the least appreciated kingdoms of living things
Does this mean that we can figure out how to use harmful radiation for energy?
if you eat it, you become mushroom man mushroom man just whatever a mushroom can
The tree sponge fungus does that; it uses melanin the same way a plant would use chlorophyl, only it uses it to convert the energy from radiation to sugars and/or other organic compounds. The downside is that in Germany these fungi have absorbed so much radiation (left over from the Chernobyl radiation cloud of 1986) that the boars who feed on these fungi are now radioactive too and they can no longer be hunted for food in Germany.
So, if you ever walk down a sidewalk in Berlin and you all of a sudden find ourself getting trampled flat by a horde of boars you will know why.
Load More Replies...This looks like a scene from a kids movie or TV show, I can’t believe this is actually real
I don't remember Paddington being so big!
Load More Replies...In 2002, he adopted an orphaned grizzly bear cub, Brutus, from an overcrowded wildlife park named Yellowstone Bear World where the cub was destined to spend his life in the park; the bear lived in a sanctuary Anderson built just for him near Anderson's home, until February 2021 when he died at 19 years old.
Wild grizzlies typically live 20-25 years, 35-40 in captivity. I wonder why he died at 19.
Load More Replies...I'm waiting for the line 'Brutus then murdered the entire family during heat'
Tbh bears are one of the safer wild animals to adopt- not in danger levels but in loyalty. Not saying "go adopt a bear" because it is stupid, but its not the worst thing you could adopt
Come join me for thanksgiving, it will be very low key with the family. Aunt Bertha makes the best turkey. My uncle will be there, my sister and nephew, the 800lb grizzly bear, mom and pop. Just a regular low key thanksgiving dinner 🧡
He actually lived with them peacefully in a sanctuary made just for him near the Anderson home. He died in 2021, aged 19, and was mourned both by the family and the local community.
Load More Replies...The superpower of staying alive long enough to swim again among your donors' families?
Load More Replies...I wonder who figured that out. Friend: Ouch I'm burned. Dr: Here, slap some fish on it. Friend: (sign of relief) Ah, much better
I guess this is more creepy to look at if you're a fish or a mermaid...
It reminds me of an episode of the Australian tv series Round the Twist, where a boy falls in love with a girl who is slowly turning into a mermaid. She had legs that looked like this.
Load More Replies...This is actually a really neat idea. I also heard that it starts looking like human skin when it heals I think?
I think it is being used as a barrier to infection as the burn wounds heal and human skin develops underneath it.
Load More Replies...Saw saw an episode of Critter fixers (Nat Geo I think) where they attached tilapia skin to a dog who had a severe mouth (bite from another dog) injury. It worked and he survived
It's called tilapia. Pretty common fish here in Brazil, where I think some of those studies are based.
Load More Replies...Jethro shares a story that left a deep impression on him. "One of my favorite topics was about Cheddar Man, the oldest complete human skeleton ever found in Britain, dating back over 10,000 years to the Mesolithic period. The skeleton was discovered in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, 1903."
I'll get downvoted, but he was an idiot for going out there without proper preparation. Darwin Award
He came from a really abusive family and just wanted to get away. There's a great podcast called You're Wrong About which discusses stories like these and how we get the wrong impression of what actually happened. He was pretty well prepared but encountered some bad luck. The media dragged his name through the mud
Thanks for mentioning "You're wrong about". I'm listening to it now. Just from the book, I was/am someone who thinks of him in a positive light.I had a certain admiration for his bravery, courage, and adventurous spirit. Much more so then for most of us that sold out on our dreams, and live an unfulfilled life. At least he tried.
Load More Replies...I read a really good book about this guy, Into the Wild. The author was also an extreme adventurer and he kind of delved into the psychology of young men who make choices like this. It was interesting. And Chris lasted a lot longer than a normal person would and even knew what likely killed him. He ate a bunch of potato seeds which were basically poisonous. He also was using the wrong meat saving technique that works better in more tropical climates.
After reading "Into the Wild," you should read "The Wild Truth" by Carine McCandless, Chris McCandless's sister. It provides way more personal insight into the why's behind some of Chris's decisions and provides a more full "human" picture of him.
Load More Replies...He ate a plant that stayed in his digestive system that prevented his body from absorbing the food he ate. He essentially starved to death.
I note the school bus shelter thing he was living in got moved...too many people going to see the "shrine" and ending up dead themselves.... While I admire the idea of isolation, this man was just a fool. No man is an island.....
I don't think you can be called an adventurer just by walking somewhere and starving to death!
So you're not familiar with his story. There was soooo much more that he did/experienced before he ever went to Alaska.
Load More Replies...It's sad he died but I think g e had some serious mental issues going on. The media needs to stop glorifying him and his death.
I went to a similar place, and I hated it. Spent just over 5 minutes in there before it was too much.
What about it was so unsettling, if you don't mind my asking? Is it something you can describe (I'm just very curious as I literally cannot wrap my mind around this level of silence.)
Load More Replies...I just wrote almost the same thing. Great minds and all that!
Load More Replies...Smithsonian: "The quietest place on earth, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, is so quiet that the longest anybody has been able to bear it is 45 minutes. Inside the room it's silent. So silent that the background noise measured is actually negative decibels, -9.4 dBA."
Sounds (pun intended) like a torture chamber. What would happen if you lock someone in there for an entire day
Load More Replies...There was a famous experimental composer who spent time in a space like this, and was surprised and frustrated to realise it wasn't "really" silent, though he did come away with the useful thought that maybe there's no such thing as "true" silence, which he used as inspiration for his very weird music. Damn, what was his name again? Oh yeah, John Cage! The guy who went on to compose a "piece" which was literally four minutes and thirty three seconds of the pianist just sitting in front of the piano without ever touching the keys. It's all just too highbrow for me, unfortunately.
It's not just sitting there not touching the keys, it's actively not playing. Focussing upon all the things you can hear that aren't the piano. It's kinda an interesting way of making people focus upon the now and their surroundings.
Load More Replies...*mom goes in* "Ah, 5 minutes should be fine" *10 seconds later, family comes in* "Where's my {object}, What's for dinner, I'm bored"
That entirely depends on how large this room is. If it would be small enough to touch the walls and ceiling from a normal standing position, say like an elevator, hell to the no. It's be having a panick attac in no time with those spikes - which are probably soft, but the look of them is horrible!
I think the shape swallows the soundwaves instead of reflecting them.
Load More Replies...I suffer from pulsatile tinnitus- I can hear my own heartbeat in my head. The more anxious I am, the louder and freakier it sounds.
Yes it’s the worst. It’s tinnitus to a rythym and it never stops and only gets louder under stress.
Load More Replies...I would want to go in for a bit while wearing medical recording equipments I measure what how my body reacts to such silence. For science!
And the one taking the photo… they must’ve died only a few days after
Load More Replies...If you watch the miniseries “Chernobyl”, it gets at the truth of it all. I highly recommend you do. Appalling , cruel, covering up the stupidity and guilt of the of the supervisors and the Soviet government (Led by Gorbiceve (spelling?) at the time). They lied to the world to cover up the guilt of the Soviet Union. Two men went into the most radioactive area to turn the control valve to stop the incredibly radioactive water from continuing to flood everywhere. They both knew they’d likely never make it back. They’d die a quick but agonizing death from radiation poisoning. One of them absorbed more than the other. His coworker tried to help him back. He told him no, to go on and save himself. Scientists who tried to expose the truth at the time, one thrown in jail for it. So many “criminals”. But so many heroes.
This was such a great miniseries, although difficult to watch at times. The scenes of the aftermath and the poor men who were affected by the radiation...watching those miners go into the reactor, knowing what would happen...so upsetting. But absolutely worth watching.
Load More Replies...iirc, the guy in the photo was a photo developing mistake (he wasn't actually in the photo). the way the photo was taken was that a man with a camera got to the room and just stuck the camera in, as exposing himself to the Elephants Foot would mean pretty much instant cancer.
I think it would mean instant lethal dose of radiation.
Load More Replies...IIRC this was taken years after the meltdown; the reason for the blurry man in the photo is that it was a long exposure shot, and the man was moving around while it was being taken.
those glowing spots and scribbles in the photo are distortions of the film in the camera
The story had a breakthrough in 2018 – experts conducted a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Cheddar Man's remains. "It revealed that the 9,000-year-old skeleton had a living relative named Adrian Targett," Jethro continues. "Separated by nearly 300 generations, Adrian taught history less than a mile from where the skeleton was discovered."
It was the only way, because Mother Nature and every Diety on Earth had failed.
Load More Replies...As someone navigating Behavioral Health situations myself, this is important: a *major*, if not the #1, contributor to Mr. Hemingway's torture was his belief that he was being constantly monitored. He was dismissed, made fun of, gaslighted into thinking it was him. In his head. His paranoia grew to epic proportions. In the relatively recent past, closer to now than then, this was verified undisputingly. Takeaway: more than we think of what fuels our "issues" comes from our difficulty dealing with *external* environments, rather than internal ones. We ought to listen, really listen, to each other more. Not easy, but critical. And prioritize empathy and open-mindedness over diagnosis.
Load More Replies...My polydactyl cats say thank you to Snow White for carrying that toe gene <3
What the hell happened to him that he got all of those sicknesses and injuries?
And here I am complaining about my daily headaches and weak ankles.
He used to go to church, flip the Jesus on the cross the middle finger, and say "He! Missed again ya b*stard!"
The Mythbusters tested whether an ice bullet would actually work and the answer was no. The act of being fired made it instantly melt well before it would have hit the target.
The speed of the Mythbusters gun was too fast. You need a special slow gun. I've successfully fired balls of ice from an air cannon. The ice stays cold for long enough to fire it, because ice is a poor conductor of heat.
Load More Replies...They "revealed" it? As in.....they were manufacturing it? it was suspected in an assassination attempt? they were writing far fetched fiction novels? a captured spy had it? maybe the TSA discovered it? I need more to this story.
And how does it keep the unfired ammo cool? Not enough room of a compressor and Peltier devices are rather inefficient and require fairly chunky heat sinks
Unfired ammo? I would think you only have to fire one bullet to do the job.
Load More Replies...Mythbusters debunked the frozen bullet thing - it is simply not possible
I remember reading about someone stabbed with a big icicle. No weapons left on the scene
Aww, all those adorable little skeletons that look way too humanoid.
We also asked the hosts whether they've ever encountered a story that they deemed too heavy for the podcast. "There's not been anything that we COULDN'T put in the podcast, but there have been many topics we've chosen not to," Jethro admits.
Kat says that they've perhaps become more selective over the years. "We have changed as people, our topics have changed. For example, there are events that we've talked about in earlier episodes that I think now I maybe wouldn't have abandoned, but certainly might have approached differently," she reflects.
And it's only a tiny part of an even more beautiful concept! Platon describes how first all human beings were like big "ball shaped beings" with 4 legs, 4 arms, 2 heads. After splitting them Zeus pulled together the skin over each wound, thus creating a belly button for each new "single being". Plus, after the separation, those new "single beings" were/are constantly searching for their counterpart and want to cling to them, no matter which sex (some hetero-, Some homosexual in all variations), depending with who they've been forming a full entity before. How nice is that: Homo/hetero completely normal because of"previous soulmate" (no demonization of homophilia), a nice explanation why everybody has a bellybutton and searching for love in one fell swoop 😍 ?! // Source: It's part of Plato/Platon's work "Symposium"("Das Festmahl"). It's very short and absolutely wort reading!
So, the picture shows the hetero version of it and I imagined them more like Siamese twins connected at their belly/stomach area and looking towards each other, so that the "belly button as plaster" would make more sense.
Load More Replies...Fun fact, most ancient mythologies refers to 12 "lesser" gods and one main god, sounds familiar? Also most older civilizations refer to a "great flood" and some sort of Ark. Not dismissing anyone's beliefs...you do you. However, as a wise man once told me, when you have studied every religion out here and found one that suits you, only then commit to your beliefs and NEVER try to convert anyone, tell them what you believe share your thought by all mean, but NO ONE is lesser than you because they believe something different
I’ve heard of this myth before. This is what a “soulmate” is actually.
I watched a YouTube video about this just yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. It must have been so terrifying. I can’t see the appeal in trying to go through such small spaces in the dark.
I don't know if it's the one you watched, but the one Fascinating Horror did is really well done. Factual without sensationalism. Sidenote, as an extreme claustrophobe, just the words "Nutty Putty" send a shiver down my spine.
Load More Replies...I know it's horrible and I really sympathise with his death but what a total idiot he is, doing this. Know your limits. He did this constantly and he should have known that this was too much and the space this time was far too small. He died needlessly and because of what? The need to squeeze into small cave spaces as a hobby?
Yup. I sleep well at night knowing I will never mess around with caves. His death upset a lot of other people and used local resources. Very selfish.
Load More Replies...What makes it even worse is that they *almost* managed to get him out of there but the thing the rope was attached to suddenly broke and he slid right back in and perished. In the end they left his body where it was and sealed up the cave. He left behind a pregnant wife. :(
I’m not claustrophobic but it is my very very worst nightmare - for some reason I became afraid of being stuck upside down in a hole when I was little and this is my version of hell
Load More Replies...My literal worst nightmare. I can't even begin to imagine how traumatic and scary it must have been. Being that panicked for 27 hours in itself must have been awful.
And he’s still there. The cave has been closed off and is now his tomb. Very sad.
Yeah, I think it caused cardiac arrest in the end.
Load More Replies...On one attempt to remove him they almost got him to a point where they could free him just for the rope to either break or slip off his feet just to send him even further into the hole. At that point he was wedged so firmly that there was essentially no hope. This is up there with some of the worst ways to go but at least he had rescuers to keep him company in his final moments.
That looks like rebar. How the hell did he not die of blood poisoning?
Steel and titanium not poisonous. Iron very poisonous.
Load More Replies...The ultimate 'Stick Up His B*tt' Glad he survived though I bet he could sh*t like a flame thrower after that
Don't hesitate to check out Kat and Jethro's podcast on your preferred platform. The Box of Oddities podcast covers everything from strange medical conditions to unsolved mysteries, from the paranormal to unusual cultural practices.
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I got a mild case of smallpox as a child from the vaccine. I've been told I was the last recorded case of it in NJ. Can't vouch for that. But it was fun watching the health teacher deal with my family. My older sister said I had it and the teacher said I didn't, so my mother wrote a note. Next year I said I had it, teacher said I didn't, so my mother wrote a note. Four years later my little brother said I had it, the teacher started to say I didn't, stopped, said you're from that family, right? OK. Yea, he had it.
Officially, these samples are for vaccine research only. But they're kept in military laboratories so it's safe to say they were at least considered as a bioweapon once.
I remember getting mine as a kid. Everyone had to have it. Had to have it. There was no refusing. It was pretty gross because where the doctor put it, usually by a tiny cut in your upper arm and put a drop of the stuff on it, an actual pox grew. You had to protect it to prevent it falling off too early. I got quite a fever from it and boy oh boy did that thing itch! Way worse than chicken pox. After, you were left with a small round scar on your arm. BTW, this was in Canada. That’s how serious they were about eradicating it.
Now, due to anti-vaxxers, all these almost eradicated diseases are coming back. The biggest disease in this country is stupidity. And, unfortunately, we can't cure that.
And are most likely fully vaccinated themselves by their parents.
Load More Replies...I love how the minute we talk about vaccines the idiot orange turd worshipers come out and say I got sick the vaccine doesn't work freaking idiots for real 😠
And that last case was due to an accident in a lab where the virus was being studied, not in the wild.
The bookmark came out of the top and the bottom was connected to a wire that went through a loop to the trigger. Pulling the bookmark down/towards you would use the books binding as a pully and then the loop would act as one too making it easier to pull the trigger mechanism. Highly inaccurate so it was used close to the target
Load More Replies...and the Catholic church (and Christians) keep professing peace... although truthfully they've killed more people over the centuries than some dictators
Repeated & prolonged exposure to radiation.
Load More Replies...Like ar what point did she think to herself that it needed to be looked at. Random, but Madonnas mom died when she was 6 from cancer and also was an x-ray tech.
I'm sure the x-rays being used back then were also used differently (higher doses/longer treatments) and no adequate, if any, protective gear used.
Spouse is an x ray tech. Prolonged exposure to the radiation emitted from the machine does in fact cause mutations in the cells thus leading to cancer. Which is why many medical professionals wear protective gear and patients do not. The miniscule measure of time to take the image is not long enough to cause radiation poisoning. However, it is important to note, x ray technologists, technicians and doctors are all required to take a state licensing exam because of the fact that x-rays do alter the human body at the cellular level.
I had that epidural procedure for my back pain a few years ago. They do it while looking at the x-ray in real time or something. When I walked into the room to have the procedure done the doctors and nurses had on special aprons, gloves and hats. I asked one of the nurses if it was dangerous and she said yes....a little. She said that it can also damage their eyes. I don't remember if they had special glasses on. Anyone have this done? I'm sure someone else can explain it better.
I have been present myself during these procedures (former nurse). We had to wear a full, very heavy jacket and thyroid protection. If the procedure took a long time those jackets got very uncomfortable. Both that and the thyroid protection around your neck, we got so hot we would sweat like crazy.
Load More Replies...There's a reason the technician goes into a separate room when doing your x-ray.
The scatter of radiation is a lot lower now than it was...but taking pet xrays still involves wearing lead aprons and thyroid protectors and we do have xray goggles and especially use gloves. Its a bad thing to have a glove show up on the xray film and really bad to see human bones
Folks, don't believe everything right away, because the German is far too modern for the 17th century...the oldest still legible engraving dates from 1616, but this engraving is from the 20th century...this »hunger stone« is located in the town of Děčín in the Czech Republic...
I question most of these "you didn't know" type pages.
Load More Replies...... so you can read it by standing on the bank and looking down
Load More Replies...Frogs also push down their eyes to help them swallow, if you want another creepy frog eyes fact.
Well you have a choice, Honduras v El Salvador, 1969; caused a four day war between the two countries, then you have Red Star Belgrade v Dynamo Zagreb, 1990; this was the first of a number of footballing incidents from Croatian clubs and fans which added to the tensions that would erupt into Yugoslavia ripping itself apart. Then you have every time Rangers and Celtic play a derby match. The most intense rivalry between two football clubs anywhere in the world. Their hatred for each other is off the charts. A 15 year old lad was killed in the street one day by a 35 year old man one day. Why? The lad was wearing a Celtic shirt and the man supported Rangers.
Load More Replies...Love it! What a great way to stop wasting money on deadbeat criminal murderers!
Somehow this is more creepy then watching a ordinary x-ray with just the bones.
To me, this one is actually pretty interesting. I wonder, what they would be looking for with this technique?
This is why when there is danger of nuclear accidents or war people ingest iodine tablets. Iirc there has been a race at buying them when Russia invaded Ukraine
this almost made me cry for some reason. it's the collective hole-shapes. They freak me out. The fact itself is cool but I just- AH
I'm glad my transplanted corneas were real. As traumatizing as the whole ordeal has been. I'll have to research this more, see if those spots stay there or eventually go away.
Played just recently a operation game with that surgery but the end result in game didn't show the little holes I had to make during the surgery, so now I'm here like "the holes do in fact show through!!!".
I feel like that’s a pretty decent trade, just stay away from boats
On the contrary. A boat is the best place to be if you can’t swim 😄
Load More Replies...So, there's some truth in "I'm not overweight, I just have dense bones"
Only if you're thin and heavy, not if you look like an office ball...
Load More Replies...I've got that but at a slightly lesser extent, about 6 times density. Found out when I was hit by a car at speeds that should have killed me and all I got was a broken big to on my left foot, lots of cuts and abrasions and wrote off the car that hit me
I don't know if I should applaud you for writing off the car or be concerned for the sh#tty workmanship of the car
Load More Replies...Oh, that's so cool! Swimming is overrated anyway, I'd take unbreakable bones anyday
Hang on: I can swim and I just walked away from a car accident that should have been fatal. Just a couple of scratches. On me. The car is a different story: total write-off.
not necessarily - if the joints aren´t mobile anymore, there is no pain. you are just crippled and trapped
Load More Replies...My brother had rods put in to treat his scoliosis. His spine was S shaped. After the first surgery he had to go in again because the rods had slipped down.
Just had a nine hour surgry for scoliosis, , got to back for further surgery, due to a compressed fracture.
Imagine the person did not live happily or comfortably with such a degree of the condition... It must cause pain by putting stress and strain on internal organs as well as other bones, tendons and ligaments.
My grandma did the same... during the Second World War, my grandfather went to the front and left my grandmother with three children. she made a vow to the Madonna that if her husband returned from the war, she would cut off her finger. My grandfather came back and the finger is in the jar at her house...
What…what point was she making by cutting off her finger? 😳
Load More Replies...I was nervous about my MRI but when the procedure started, I thought it sounded like Pink Floyd Welcome to the Machine. So I just grooved to it.
Isn't that from an MRI scan? CT scans and MRI scans are not the same thing. I developed claustrophobia after an MRI scan. I
I’m also claustrophobic. I always need a mild sedative to have an MRI completed. I’ve compared it to stuffing a fat guy into a shoe box. 🤷♂️
I was able to watch a movie which helped distract me during my MRI. I chose The Wedding Singer. Big mistake because they instructed me to 'not move' but the movie was funny. I lost it when Jon Lovett began singing 'Ladies Night' 😂
They had to narcotize me for MRI but CT device is a very thin circle. Distressing.
OMFG. I thought this was gonna be some kind awful of disease again.
I'm 58 years old. I never knew I was claustrophobic until I went into an MRI machine. I wasn't even all the way in and I started screaming "Get me out....get me out". I ran out of there and got to my car and started crying. I had constant flashbacks of the experience for months afterwards. CT scans aren't bad because the opening is so much bigger. Never again will I go near an MRI machine! Whey can't they make them bigger???
I love that "killer" has to be censored but showing the partial remains of a dead person is totally fine.
This one should be removed or have an advisory. This makes my stomach turn
For once, something that actually needs censored, and it's not.
Load More Replies...I hate to say this but in his case the point was to dress up in a "woman suit" made out of real women. Yes, that is where Silence of the Lambs got the idea.
Load More Replies...Ohhhh no... Now I have sciencey-type questions, but I don't want to go research the answers. This is horrifying.
Actually, it's quite interessting. I went down that rabbit hole a bit
Load More Replies...There’s a song about that guy by bloodsucking zombies from outer space https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJqjyVDqps
I HAD to look this up because having cared for patients with some pretty rare things happening to them I couldn’t resist. I went to the NIH site. Best one to go to for anything medical. Type I is found mostly in men of Mediterranean heritage and history of high alcohol consumption. It’s mostly located in the areas you see on this man. Of course always exceptions. Type II occurs in men and women it can be anywhere on the body. High alcohol consumption is not a factor. The most effective treatment with minimal recurrence is to just go in and remove all the fatty tissue and remove loose skin so the neck appears normal. It’s a good day. We all learned something.
A SKIN condition? Can't doctors do anything to help this person be more comfortable?
Probably severe breathing issues at night. Probably had to sleep sitting up so as not to suffocate.
Poor guy that is so horrible he must be in so much pain. I hope they’re able to help him.
Being intelligent doesn't make us humans better than other animals. It just makes us a lot better at coming up with creative ways to be horrible to each other. :(
It actually makes us worse than animals in many respects... :(
Load More Replies...I wonder which "skills" this poor man learned according to Floridians.
According to DeSantis. I don't hold all Floridians responsible for what comes out of that bilge rat's mouth.
Load More Replies...Let's make a replica and force Ron "Benefits of Slavery" DeSantis wear it for a week.
I don't have any idea if this is fact, but I truly hope he did.
Load More Replies...This is the pics that todays kids needs to see so they are aware that it was inhumane treatment and never repeated again. When you get rid of controversial things we lose the significance of why it's important not to repeat.
Couldn't agree more! In the words of Kae Tempest: "The lessons will come again tomorrow if they're not learned today..."
Load More Replies...And people in the U.S. today still want to celebrate the Confederacy as if nothing was wrong with it.
Less and less, fortunately. Last year I witnessed the destruction of a Confederate monument when I was visiting Asheville, NC. Statues honoring Confederate generals and leaders are being taken down and either relegated to storehouses or melted down.
Load More Replies...Fox News needs to see images like this the next time they try to justify slavery as being "good" for them.
They don’t care! Sociopaths created and maintained the system. Have you ever seen crime documentaries where the r*pists snd murderers mocked the families of their victims? Yeah, most wyt Americans for the last 450 years.
Load More Replies...for anyone who is wondering, this is done so that they can blame the pope for bad behavior and the church gets off scott free. EVen though it is the church's policies that are evil in the first place. Religion is evil folks.
The best part is that an earthquake happened in that area at the same time, and they still kept going. Ask A Mortician has a video about this and it's funny as hell.
Hydrocephalus is a condition in which an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) occurs within the brain. This typically causes increased pressure inside the skull. Older people may have headaches, double vision, poor balance, urinary incontinence, personality changes, or mental impairment. In babies, it may be seen as a rapid increase in head size. Other symptoms may include vomiting, sleepiness, seizures, and downward pointing of the eyes. (wikipedia)
Can't they put in a shunt or something to remove excess fluid and relieve pressure?
Load More Replies...Can't doctors drain the extra liquid? This is inhumane! Both for her, whose "life" must be hell, and for her caretaker, who is probably her mother and has to see her daughter suffer without being able to do anything.
Honestly, I think many things were better in the past. She may not have survived more than a few months after birth. If we can't help them, at least to live a painless life, why keep them alive?
Load More Replies...Always a pleasure to have a photo of yourself described as 'creepy' and 'bone-chilling'.
I suspect that’s the least of her worries … that much fluid on the brain must be very dangerous
Load More Replies...I think it's sad that Bored Panda shows afflicted people like it's some sort of side show under the aegis of shilling for a sight called "creepy". Jesus fawking Christ. Have you _any_ ethics?
My ex-husband's grandfather had this happen to him but it was caught early and a shunt was put in, draining the excess fluid from his brain to his stomach. He had no memory of the year 1991 because of it. He came to our wedding but didn't remember it at all
My aunt dïed T 2 years old from it, sadly. I was named after her. 😔
oh my god. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that. I did not need to see that.
Somebody dares you to do something you know is foolish, say "I'd rather be a live chicken than a dead turkey!"
Load More Replies...I live where this happened. It's nuts how little education is out there for tourists. People think slugs have to be big too. They can be tiny like a grain of rice and up against the stalks of edible plants. There are lots of hosts too, slugs, snails, shovel head worms, coqui frogs, etc. Have to be careful of catchment too, since slugs drown or chill in there.
I just looked up the full story and now I feel like bleaching my salads, fruits and veggies and definitely all canned drinks and food
This is why we have slug repellent down in our garden. We use Flower Power Richard Jackson Organic Slug & Snail Control because it is pet friendly and Cleo tends to eat anything she does not understand
I know someone who likes eating slugs, and I told him that he might die from eating them and he said he didn't care
When people puzzle over how an evil serial killer could possibly look so "normal" and even pleasant, they're no doubt thinking that it would make more sense if they all looked like THIS. Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Oh thank goodness you blurred that horrible, disgusting word that starts with a M and ends with Urder. Oh my goodness. Just seeing that word sends me into shock and I have to retreat to a safe place for a few hours to calm down. Thank you to sites like this that censor offensive words like m-u-r-d-e-r and a-n-u-s from us who just can't handle negative words. Gasp! even the word n-e-g-a-t-i-v-e is harming me. Help!
Right? Because "unalived" (hello, not actually a word) has different connotations? I don't get it.
Load More Replies...People that were believed to be vampires were executed with an iron nail through the head. The dead that were believed to be victim of a vampire had the same treatment in case they became vampires too. This was done in the coffin before placing the lid on top and the nail went into the ground to hold them there and not allow them to get free by anchoring them to the earth
The teacher at a first aid course I attended told us that she once saw someone spasm like that because of Tetanus. It was the most horrific thing she had ever seen, and she said if we could only remember one single thing from the course it should be getting the Tetanus vaccine.
Same here: the pediatrician of my youngest daughter was a young medicine student in the 1970/80-ies G.D.R. She and her co-students were flocked together one day at a hospital to see such a spasming man caused by tetanus infection. "I don't wish to see anything like that again, or I wish every anti vaxxer would have seen this." (She ALWAYS encourages vaccination for anything and was super glad I am on her side.)
Load More Replies...Those vaccination shots hurt like a b***h but boy am I glad I got them.
true that! I had a lump at the injection site for a week and it hurt like hell
Load More Replies...A long time ago I have read that the doctors, in a certain case, used curare as antidote to tetanus. It is a poison used by the Indians of Amazonia and paralyzes the victim. Of course the patient was breathing via an artificial lung during his treatment.
If you don't remember the last time you got a tetanus shot, chances qre you're due for a booster. It should be every 10 years.
My friend’s horse had to be euthanised to prevent her suffering a lingering death due to tetanus. It started with lockjaw.
Hung up by his wrists for days, then beaten, then stretched on the rack several times.
Load More Replies...It's almost like it's a nickname or something...
Load More Replies...just out of morbid curiosity... how -soon- after torture? Like RIGHT after... yeah, no s**t.
Reminds me of when I went to the Titanic exhibition at the museum in Melbourne (awesome museum, by the way). At the door you got a card assigning you the identity of one of the real life passengers, and at the end you found out whether your person survived the wreck. I got a young woman who was on her way to do missionary work. She didn't make it.
Thats a very creative way to get people more involved, dark but cool as hell.
Load More Replies...Me too. Humbling to know how easily we could have... not existed.
Load More Replies...The Mayflower was an English ship. Everyone on board was English.
Load More Replies...That's why the Conquestadors were so successful, even a bunch of local tribes supported them to get rid of these murder people
I was reading the accounts recently, what surrounding tribes had to say about them was such a shock, so far over the years I mostly read what the conquistadors wrote, considering most people are misstuaght the whole region was into child sacrifice it’s a shock to learn.
Load More Replies...a culture who sacrifice their children is a condemned culture
Imagine a time of horrible drought and this is the only thing you can think of to make it rain.
It's barbaric and cruel, but... I bet you anything it was a powerful deterrent. It was not such a bad idea after all.
In 18th century England, being a pickpocket was a hanging offense. Hangings were in public then, and crowds flocked to see them. In those crowds pickpockets worked their trade. So if you can commit a crime while watching someone be executed for it, how powerful a deterrent is the death penalty?
Load More Replies...You know that Christians were not allowed to collect interest on money exchange or loan? This law (if it existed) targeted non-Christian minorities. So, theoretically, if I am a member of an influential family, I can borrow money from the banker and he has a low chance to get his money back ever. If he goes bankrupt, it's his problem.
Our local government for the city has declared itself effectively bankrupt....
Need we mention that many or most of medieval bankers were Jewish? (The Church at the time taught that charging interest for a loan was committing the sin of Usury. So Jews were permitted to do so because the Church didn't care if they went to hell.) So these harsh penalties weren't about justice. They were about antisemitism.
We still have radiation therapy for cancer. It's largely been superseded by chemotherapy, but it does work.
Load More Replies...I don't why the fact it's needle work makes it's creepy, if it was a photo or drawing I'd find it interesting!
Needle work requires effort throughout the entire image... someone deliberately and purposefully made this from start to finish. That's what makes it creepy, I guess.
Load More Replies...I like to think this could be a woman of an earlier time who wanted to be a scientist and was denied access to education, so she used the only instruments and forms available to her.
It looks small. It probably died due to the deformity. Though, maybe there are deep water octopi that look like that 🤷🏻♀️
Or maybe the mother swam a little too close to Fukushima
Load More Replies...Well, remember that age old question about who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Load More Replies...When I've got a migraine take away that metal bucket and you have yourself the real cure.
Looks more like a drunken idea. Hammer Bloke: ed ache? come 'ere. Put yer ed in that bucket. You in? Good *Hits bucket with sledge hammer* Bucket Bloke: Ow! My ears are ringin'!" HB: Ears ringin' Don' t move... I'l just get me uva amma *waddles of drunkenly* Girls: I would hate to come here for cramps
If you ever have a really really bad headache then you'll try anything.
His middle finger should be registered as a weapon!
Load More Replies...When the middle finger goes from offensive gesture to offensive weapon
I highly recommend the show To Catch a Smuggler. It's incredible what people will do to hide contraband and try to get it across borders! (Drugs, people, wildlife)
Its sad to see how desperate people are. Mexico is not as beautiful as white people imagine it. (coming from a daughter of an immigrant )
True, the girls in Australia have met from Mexico and Venezuela are some of the strongest women I’ve met and so so nice to be around.
Load More Replies...These "fairy" coffins were a funeral/memorial of sorts for victims of a pair of serial killers who then sold the corpses for usage as medical cadavers. Someone in Edinburgh felt bad that the victims were never properly laid to rest and thusly made these to do it by proxy
Interesting to see that it's wearing a collar. (Although I should have assumed that collars came into fashion at the same time wolves got domesticated and got breed into dogs...)
Friend, the famous eruption of Mt, Vesuvius that destroyed the town of Pompeii occurred in 79 AD. That was only 1,941 years ago. Dogs were domesticated between 40,000 and 15,000 years ago. Dogs have been wearing collars for literal THOUSANDS of years before the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
Load More Replies...I've seen these casts. The weather was hot and the humidity high, but I had the shivers and goosepimples all the way around Pompeii. It was one of the most eerie places I'd ever visited.
Because nothing says "we're not sociopaths" like keeping random body parts laying around.
Fr, imagine how gross it must have been when it was like freshly decomposing 🤢🤢
Load More Replies...Christianity had always an active commerce of religious relics. 2-3 heads of a certain saint, or 3-4 hands of another saint, a whole forest of True Cross, sanctified sandals or belts, etc.
the relics always make me laugh, I do not know which woman saint had been reconstituted by the church with the relics they had and they ended up with a saint with 5 arms, three legs, a head and a half and a foreskin :D
Here have a piece of a corpse, we swear it wards off evil spirits and illness.....
They grow to about 9inches (23cm) so not as big as that looks but still pretty damn big, noope!!!
Load More Replies...I didn't even see the mom at first, so I'll be having a nice cup of unsee-juice and with a plate of forget-it-nuggets
Word has it that Australian wildlife has collectively yelled "WTF ?" at Malaysia.
No we get bigger bird eating spiders 😂 I hate to say
Load More Replies...The female spider has a leg span of around 8 1/2 inches (22cm) long. It's called the Malaysian Earth Tiger Tarantula.
All of u pls shut up. Shes not hurting anyone. The only reason u hate her and her beautiful children is bc u cant recognize her beauty and instead only see a monster. Every living thing on this planet exists for a reason, and every living thing has a place in this world.
I don't hate her. I merely defer to her the proper fear and respect she deserves. As long as she stays on her continent and not in my living room We can even be friends. Pen pals even. Just not ever extending her an invitation to come hang out. It would be rude, my scream and slap at the skittering things instincts might kick in and that wouldn't be any way to treat my pen pal.
Load More Replies...Imperial Dreadnought and her little Star Destroyers, spider style
The cartel only did this because of fear of retribution from The US government.
The US usually goes for a "proportionate response" in these situations, we just haven't figured out the proportionate part yet. Last time one of our ships hit an Iranian mine we sank half their Navy in an 8 hour shift.
Load More Replies...The cartels are very protective of American tourists in the Gulf region. They don't want that revenue stream to dry up, as they probably have a finger in everything.
The first guy looks like he's thinking "yeah, and I'd do it again, a******s".
And the second one looks as if he'd say: "Well, s**t happens!"
Load More Replies...They both look like they are thinking "I'm gonna be what in prison?" and the left dude is definitely looking forward to it while the right dude is thinking 'but my poor ring is so sensitive'
What the f**k? No seriously, what the f**k?
Load More Replies...Agreed. Have you ever seen the short film "Just Beyond the Golden Arches"? yeeesh
Load More Replies...The smug look on the chickens face though...🤣 The other is just horrific.
So in other words, they tormented a girl with mental issues until her heart gave out, and potentially even set her on fire.
well her heart gave out 7 whole years later but i see your point
Load More Replies...“…the most intimate secrets of the people around. She had extraordinary strength and ferocity, often throwing nuns around the convent rooms and beating them. Two priests later performed exorcisms on Clara, during which her skin “burned” when touched by holy water and her body levitated in front of 170 witnesses. Her exorcism lasted two days and it was said that the demon was forced out of the girl. She died in 1912 of heart failure at the age of 22.” Creepy.org
We already read this, above; why did you copy and paste as your comment???
Load More Replies...i’ve seen this surgery go very well on other people, she probably just gets keloid scars and didn’t let it heal properly or something
Don’t know why you were downvoted. I’ve seen it go well too and probably keloid scaring like you said. People, body modification has been “a thing” for hundreds of thousands of years
Load More Replies...I guess she should have specified which character she was going after.
She didn't do anything morally wrong, it was just a s****y surgeon...
Load More Replies...This has happened numerous times. Males have no business in female prisons.
And here comes the stupid arguments. Cis women can rape women too. (Edit: disappointed in the number of upvotes the comment I'm replying to has, do better BP)
Load More Replies...Now watch this comment section likely become a transphobic debate 👍(to be clear I'm not defending the inmate as the fact it's on this post leads me to assume rape)
I’m going to put this out there, but we need to get a proper definition for what trans means. None of the currently existing labels work
Load More Replies...All prisoners can bang disregarding what gender they have, the only difference is that some can lead to pregnancy, whilst others don't. This isn't special in any kind of way here.
Load More Replies...Shiiiit this comment section is freaking long. But more importantly, why tf was this posted here? 1) This is not a creepy fact or anything. 2) This is post is misleading as the act was consensual. 3) Does BP just do this so that they have more traffic to their site?
Examples like this add fuel to the bigotry. There are a FEW who use being transgender as an excuse to abuse others and makes people wonder if it’s just a cover, so they have the opportunity to abuse. But that goes for any group of society, there are always bad and good and usually more of the latter. And these few examples are remembered above all else. How do you even regulate things like this without appearing to be discriminatory?
and this is what people fear, it's not the transgender person it's the fact that there are this harmful people...
There are a very very small number of people who do this, most trans people are normal, well adjusted humans. You can’t judge the many by the deeds of the few.
Load More Replies...Even prisoners have human rights. Please rescind your comment.
Load More Replies...Unless they have had bottom surgery, they are still male and capable of male things. I’m not transphobic by any means, but come on, common sense?
There were 11 of them. They were beaten & mugged, including the car, but were released the next day on a highway outside the city limits. This was one incident in a string in a battle between the gvmnt and the cartels over what lines each couldn't cross. This was a power move between them over a disputed town.
Load More Replies...I really hate cartels and I’m glad I live in a country where I can openly say it, these people need to get a f*****g real hobby outside being antisocial losers with authoritarian issues.
Don't blame Mexicans they/we get payed not much and we need to do what we need to do to survive this wild world
Please in the future creators of posts like these need to click the 'show more' link and copy that so that we aren't left with half posts and half sentences. Thank you.
Are you using the app? I feel I've always had problems like that using the app and since I started using only the website it's been fine
Load More Replies...I LOVE POSTS LIKE THESE!!!! GIVE ME MORE CREEPY FACTS AUAHJYAGIUYAHGH
What is wrong with people on this site?! A young man decides to go explore the wilderness and tragically dies and people go “oh good another idiot gone” and “well thank god he’s dead. He influenced other people to accidentally get killed. And it’s good that they’re dead! Less idiots!” You people disgust me
Please in the future creators of posts like these need to click the 'show more' link and copy that so that we aren't left with half posts and half sentences. Thank you.
Are you using the app? I feel I've always had problems like that using the app and since I started using only the website it's been fine
Load More Replies...I LOVE POSTS LIKE THESE!!!! GIVE ME MORE CREEPY FACTS AUAHJYAGIUYAHGH
What is wrong with people on this site?! A young man decides to go explore the wilderness and tragically dies and people go “oh good another idiot gone” and “well thank god he’s dead. He influenced other people to accidentally get killed. And it’s good that they’re dead! Less idiots!” You people disgust me
