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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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.
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."
Never before have I wondered what Parkinson's smells like... but now I do.
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.
Raped and killed. And yes, I support her. Especially back then, men like that often got shockingly lenient sentences.
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.
It may not have been "justified" by legal means, but I'd do the same thing, 100 times over. Monsters don't deserve to live.
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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.
There's a strong argument that this is not murder. This is justice.
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Mob justice is no justice. Can't say I don't understand her motivation, but if we start letting victims choose how and when to seek retribution we'll end up with lynchings and even more lives lost, including thousands of cases of "oops, didn't know that. Too bad, too late"
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just give her some community service work tbh, eye for an eye is what she did
Knowing that there was a risk of the man either getting a short sentence or none at all thanks to idiotic justice systems and would therefore be free to commit horrible crimes again, I'd say it was justified. Sure, he could have gotten life too but I've seen too many scums not getting what they deserve so I am cynical (Not saying he would be free or get a short sentence but I have seen worse cases get off lightly)
Child murderers and predators should be put in a room handcuffed for 10 minutes with the parents to do what they please.
Yes. They have failed at the basic task of being a vaguely decent human. They don't deserve protections.
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Im a bit more sadistic than her if some1 raped n killed my kid i wouldnt kill em but i would do some serious torture so they were wishing for death i would accept my fate after kids are defenceless we should protect them iv known peodos come out of prison after hurting kids n reoffend at least my way would put him off and he wouldnt have his manhood to leave with i would die or do time for my kids so yea imo i find her justifiable
I don't understand the censoring of words like "murder" and "killed." Why does BP think we need protecting from these words? Do they think people are so sensitive that even seeing these words will cause one to hyperventilate and go into shock?
Completely justified it's just too bad the guy couldn't suffer longer. Anyone who chooses to harm or kill an innocent child deserves the worst we can give.
There was a case in the UK, a drink driver ran over and killed a child, he had previous convictions for drink driving. When he turned up to court the girl's father shot him in the kneecaps with a sawn off shotgun and told him "you won't be doing it again". The judge who tried the father said "I'd have done the same thing", the case was acquitted.
Justified? Well I don't necessarily agree with her actions, but I understand them, and I can't really say what I'd do in the same situation.
She shot eight bullets and hit him six times. It was a really big deal in germany back then. Everybody was talking about it and had an opinion. I say: she could have easily killed an innocent bystander since she was an untrained shooter. I condemn her action.
A pistol small enough to smuggle in like she did is difficult to hit even a person sized target if more than a few paces away. The fact she connected 75% of those shots with her intended target one handed tells me she was a better shot than most police. I don't condemn her actions, she didn't shoot an innocent man or bystanders, she shot a man that did not deserve to live. Who knows if she saved more little girls from the fate her daughter met, thankfully we don't have to wonder after he was released to do this again.
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Well, I would have done the same as she did, what was she charged with, she should have the lightest sentence possible, especially, often the killer doesn't serve enough time, also, often get early released, the law at times doesn't serve justice, many laws need to change !!!
The question here is: how was she allowed to bring a gun in court? Quite low security standards back then, I guess
I remember reading about this case some years ago. The man who raped and then murdered her child had previously been convicted of sexual assault on two young girls. He opted for chemical castration but then went on to seek out hormones to reverse the castration. He said that he murdered Anna, her child because she was going to tell her mum and then they would blackmail him. Almost certainly a lie. She said years later that she decided to kill him so that he wouldn't tell lies about her daughter and, I think, because he'd got around the law before and she thought enough was enough. Not justified but understandable. It was right that she had to serve time in prison. She was given six years for manslaughter and released after three years.
I do not approve of vigilante Justice. I get it but too many lynchings happened in this country to ever approve of such behavior.
Spending the rest of his life behind bars would have been worse I think.
Absolutely justified. An adult male killed her little girl; hardly a fair fight. People who kill children deserve the same, and then some. (BP, why do you censure something you allow to be posted about? If someone is that delicate they wouldn't have read the article. - Stop already.)
I think in this case as well as avenging her daughter, she was protecting future victims.
I sure do think it was justified. What isn't justified is the misery she would then have to go through. Better to wait and extract her revenge later.
Oh thank god the bp censors were added in the nick of time! I almost lost my innocence!
jus·ti·fied - adj 1. having, done for, or marked by a good or legitimate reason. 2. declared or made righteous in the sight of God. Is she justified? 1. Yes, she had a legitimate reason to want him dead 2. Ask God.
He took a life. I like the idea of getting punished by the person who life you destroyed. I know not what most would say was justice but I think it would be cathartic.
Absolutely justified, the only complaint would be the .22 is too impersonal. Use your hands, make em suffer. If you're going to go to prison, you might as well get your money's worth.
100000% justified. A life for a life. That man did not deserve to live after murdering ANYONE let alone a child.
Justified. She whacked her daughters murd erer. The guy was probably gonna die anyway. I kinda think the victim's family should have the opportunity to push the plunger/pull the switch/whatever on his last day. Any adult that goes after a child should either be sterilized or executed depending on how severe it is.
Abso-f*****g-lutely justified!!! Should have shot him in the d**k first, then the head.
I would say justified. Harm my family, and I'd be willing to do time...
Depends how / why he killed her child - if by accident then it wasn’t the right thing to do but if it was on purpose then we’ll, if given a chance I’d do the same.
As a grieving mother , she did right , in the eyes of the law ( mainly men ) then no
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.
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."
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.
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."
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a room with a mosquito" — Dalai Lama XIV.
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
This looks like a scene from a kids movie or TV show, I can’t believe this is actually real
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
I went to a similar place, and I hated it. Spent just over 5 minutes in there before it was too much.
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."
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.
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.
And it's not just a podcast about creepy phenomena. The hosts Kat and Jethro approach each episode with humor and provide entertaining commentary. If you're thirsty for more weird and unusual things, give them a listen!
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...
Frogs also push down their eyes to help them swallow, if you want another creepy frog eyes fact.
I feel like that’s a pretty decent trade, just stay away from boats
Let me see if I can get a copy of the xrays of my best friend's back. Hers was shaped like a slightly stretched out "s". Six surgeries, 4 titanium rods and 40 years later, the rods are disintegrating, she's got an implanted morphine pump and a motorized chair. (Apparently, titanium rods have a 20year shelf life.)
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)
I’ve never liked when dares go too far, but this just breaks my heart.
Phineas Gage survived something similar. It did change his personality though, perhaps unsurprisingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
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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
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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
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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
