30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn’t Know
The world is full of facts, and if you are as hungry for knowledge as we are, then we've got a whole menu readily available to you. Here at Bored Panda, we have random facts, mind-blowing facts that are perfect for 5 year-olds, facts that can even change your perspective of things, and facts that sound utterly fake but are totally true.
But this time we rolled up our sleeves and compiled a list we can call “the palate cleanser.” You see, this one is not for the faint-hearted, nor for the ones with high blood pressure and a tendency to have a nightmare or two every now and then, ‘cause today, we're gonna dive into the facts we wish we never knew.
You may wonder, why read them, then? It’s for the same reason we watch horror movies with covered eyes. Getting to know some creepy stuff about the world is hard, but not knowing it is even worse.
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After the Pulse night club shooting, when the cops were investigating, you'd think it was pretty quiet in there.
It was actually a cacophony of ringing cell phones. So many friends and loved ones calling people they knew were there, hoping they'll answer the phone and say they're ok...
Before you die, your last words could be, "I don't feel so good."
I was a paramedic for 15 years and heard dozens of people's final words. The phrase I heard most often, possibly from half to three quarters of them, were some form of "I don't feel so good." I've also heard, "Wait, somethings wrong." "Somethings happening." "I don't feel right." "Wait, somethings wrong." "It's happening." "Oh no, Oh no."
People feel the blood leaving their brain I think. Must be like a rush.
I remember listening to a few 911 calls on youtube when people said these words when they died...those gave me gooosebumps..
Many pets die because their owner dies unexpectedly and nobody comes to check on them in time.
You’re not the only one to get the creeps from scrolling through this post. There’s something about being creeped out that is both chilling and yet impossible to resist. But what exactly is this creepy feeling we all get? It surely can’t be graveyards, clowns, spiders, or horror movies themselves.
Frank McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, has been studying this sensation and made a conclusion after surveying more than 1,300 people that “Creepy is about the uncertainty of threat.”
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at a frequency of 52 Hertz, meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the "loneliest whale on the planet."
The inspiration for the song "Whalien 52". The artists described themselves as the lonely whale in their earlier years because no one seems to hear them and listen to their songs. "Lonely lonely lonely whale Like this, try calling once again Until this song that doesn’t have a response Reaches tomorrow"
On Mt. Everest, you have the rainbow valley, the last zone to climb to reach the peak. Which sounds cute but it's really the colorful jackets of dead climbers who are frozen in time against the white harsh snow.
Also, when close to the peak, the oxygen levels are so low that the body is starting to die. You only have a few minutes to reach the top.
My teacher told this to my class when I was in 5th grade (10 years) and I still remember me going home and crying for all those who died on their way.
More specifically, Frank said, “You’re feeling uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about here, but the signals are not clear enough to warrant your doing some sort of desperate, life-saving kind of thing.” Thus, it’s different from having a fear of something or revulsion.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, when you’re creeped out, your brain and your body are telling you that something is not quite right and you’d better pay attention because it might hurt you. We become more alert and ready to strike whenever the threat turns out to be real.
During the French Revolution, where the guillotine was introduced, the people to be executed fought to be first, as the blade would dull after multiple uses and wouldn't cut a head clean off at the first attempt.
There’s something called “Anaesthesia Awareness” where of certain people go into surgery and they don’t give you enough Anaesthesia, it will look like you’re asleep (eyes closed, not talking or moving), but the patient can still hear and feel everything that’s happening, but here’s the scary part. You’re unable to move, speak or open your eyes. Unless they have a monitor to show your brain activity, you’re stuck with having to endure the pain.
i have read of people waking up in the middle of operations suffering pain but unable to let someone know. Apparently if they notice things like pulse and heart rates will indicate something is wrong
Being the oldest person alive means that every single human being who was alive at the day you were born has now died.
Another thought is - the exact moment you were born, you were the youngest person alive.
When whales reach a certain age they will eventually be to weak to swim back to the surface for air. So they will just suffocate to death and eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean.
But at least when they sink to the bottom of the ocean their bodies will create sprawling ecosystems that will last for a good few years.:)
Most sitcom laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950s, so you’ve probably been listening to dead people laughing.
A professor at my lecture today said that deer will lay on decaying corpses because they produce heat and the deer like that. Basically deer treat corpses as their personal sauna.
In the event of a water landing, flight attendants are specifically required to not allow dead bodies on the life rafts. No saving your dead parent/child/spouse for burial. Yeet that b*tch overboard.
On airplanes they turn off the lights before takeoff and landing basically in anticipation of the plane crashing.
Your eyes take time to adjust to the dark, so if the plane were to crash your eyes would be pre-adjusted, thus increasing your likelihood of being able to make it out.
They also ask that window blinds be opened in order to allow anyone outside to be able to see in in order to check for survivors.
The dolphin which most often portrayed Flipper on the 1960s television show Flipper committed suicide.
Kathy was the dolphin who most often played Flipper, and she committed suicide. This happens due to depression. In this case, it was crippling captivity. In another case, it was being separated from a researcher with whom the dolphin developed a strong bond. More on that story here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
Humans have enough bite power to bite off their finger. Bone and all. The only thing stopping us is our brain's natural safety factor.
It is way easier than you would expect to break someone ribs during CPR and it feels really weird. POPPOPPOPPOP like bubble wrap.
Didn't need to compare it to bubble wrap. I will never think of popping those bubbles the same way again.
The astronauts of space shuttle Challenger didn't die until the spacecraft hit the ocean. They fell through the air for almost 3 minutes.
No way to confirm this as true; I worked 29 Shuttle launches. It is more likely they were killed or unconscious from the explosion, or killed from lack of oxygen or G-force. It is almost certain, but no way to verify, that they probably were dead or completely unconscious immediately after the explosion.
Judith Barsi was the young actress who voiced Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven and Ducky in The Land Before Time. She was murdered at the age of 10 by her abusive father, who also killed her mother at the same time. Judith's gravestone displays Ducky's catchphrase, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"
Fatal familial insomnia is a thing. It's a rare, incurable prionic brain disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually, you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.
Aaannd, that is what will pop up in my head when I’m trying to sleep tonight
There's been multiple cases of people actually ending up being eaten by an escalator.
There are only three states in the USA that have outlawed child marriage: New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Your lips are made of the same skin type and texture as your anus.
The song “Baby Shark” is actually the perfect rhythm to guide infant CPR.
If you electrocute someone while they are submerged in water, it won’t leave burn marks.
In Formula 1, safety belts were not mandatory until 1972.
Before then, drivers believed it better to be ejected in a crash, and either die instantly from a broken neck or suffer many broken bones.
The alternative, they thought, was to be trapped and essentially cremated alive should the gas tanks ignite.
Niki Lauda Was famous for surviving bad crash. He nearly was burned to death in his car. he survived to continue his racing career and becomes World Champion. His racing goggles literally melted to his face and most of his ears where burned off. The fact that he only missed less than 2 months of his racing season tells the story of huis fortitude and pain endurance.
There's a zombie fungus that basically enslaves ants for its own benefit until it kills them.
That's pretty scary, the ant literally has a mushroom growing out of its head, like a "cute" little hat. The possessed ant will try to go back to its colony so that the fungi can infect more with its spores. It's like a zombie ant-pocalypse.
There is a parasite called Dracun culiasis, or more commonly "Guinea worm" that can enter your leg through drinking infected water. You won't notice anything until ~1 year later, when a small portion breaks the skin to release larvae. At this point, it's a meter long.
A. Meter. Long.
And it has to be extracted centimeter by disgusting centimeter.
NTDs are the stuff of nightmares.
Not morbid but unnerving, at any time without any warning you can die of a brain aneurysm and there is litterally nothing you can really do about it. Anyone can have one.
Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.
The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime.
If bodies are kept in coffins that are sealed tight enough, such as the in wall type of memorial, sometimes enough gases can build up that the body basically explodes and can spill out onto the ground.
Only 43% percent of the total cells in your body are actually a part of you. More than half of "you" is foreign bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
The second person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel surviving with very serious injuries was Bobby Leach. 15 years later, he slipped on an orange (not banana) peel on the street. This fall caused a leg infection so bad he eventually passed away from the medical complications it caused.
Cockroach exterminators develop allergies to them. This usually prevents them from drinking pre-ground coffee because of the cockroaches that sometimes get ground in with the large batches of beans.
Death by strangulation can turn teeth pink. The stress on the pulp chambers causes it to hemorrhage, so the blood colors the inside
If the sun exploded right now, you wouldn't know about it for another eight minutes.
I heard from someone who works in a morgue that corpses periodically burp, fart, and gasp/groan as gases escape through the mouth and anus.
A body can swell to three times its normal size especially if the person passes away in a bathtub.
You CAN skin many creatures (including humans) alive. They will stay alive for longer than you’d think, even if you’re rough. Longer if you’re careful.
The outer layer of your eye protects your inner eye from your immune system otherwise the immune system will attack the inner eye.
In other words, the outer layer of the eye keeps the rest of your eye a secret.
Over 1,600 people have gone missing in US National Parks, never to be seen again.
You're more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark.
The Champawat Tiger was a Bengal tigress responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon area of India, during the last years of the 19th century.
You can tell someone is dead dead by trying to move their jaw. It's one of the first body parts to show signs of rigidity.
when you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
In 1518, there was a dancing plague where about 400 people began to involuntary dance for days on end.
As a Stryker saw cuts through the skullcap during an autopsy, the smell created is exactly like Fritos.
There is a phenomenon in the Philippines of people being murdered after singing My Way by Frank Sinatra in karaoke bars.
After a little bit of being burnt alive you will have substained enough nerve damage to not feel any pain before dying shortly
If you were to be pulled into a black hole, the point of gravity from your head to your toes is so powerfully different that the closer you get, you start to stretch and pull apart. It's called spaghettification.
In some cultures, they practice cannibalistic rituals. They believe eating their deceased loved ones is an honor.
It’s called: “endocannibalism.”
If you want to dump a body, it can take up to 2-4 weeks to fully decompose if out in the open, but if you bury it in a casket it can take up to 44 years.
Environment Friendly cremation! Donate to science! Organ donation! Save lives with your death. That makes your life worth it.
Atomic bombs leave shadows after evaporating the victims
Brain-eating amoeba exist and you contract them from swimming in lakes or tainted tap water. They live in the U.S. and U.K.
Your brain can play tricks on you to make you see monsters in the mirror, called the Troxler Effect.
Horses are actually omnivores and consume both meat and plants. They've been known to eat birds and small rodents.
i guess its survival if they dont have what they usually eat they will eat what is available
There is a parasite that destroys the tongue of a fish and then replaces the tongue with its own body.
If you die on a submarine, they put your body in the fridge with all the food. If not, up a torpedo tube.
When you're aware of just how dangerous escalators are its pretty surprising that they exist. If you get caught in one, you just die. It sucks you in. Meanwhile elevators are the safest way of any mechanical travel.
Thomas Hargrove, a homicide archivist, estimates that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large right now.
I've always wondered whether a serial killer has unknowingly killed another serial killer.
Cyanide tastes sweet.
When you die, you will be aware you are dead until the moment your brain fully ceases function. I wish I didn't know this.
I wonder if that's true.. how can they be sure? or is it "just" what's most likely to be the case looking at how a body dies "gradually"??
There's a 1 in 3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.
There are over 250,000 deaths a year due to medical error.
When getting laser eye surgery, you can smell the parts of your eyes being shaved down.
If you plan to donate your body they generally only want you if you are the right size and arent obese... Looking into donating my body to science led to some crazy details. Also your family has to pay for your cremation if you want your body to go "home". Also dont plan on dying far away from where you plan to donate they really dont want to ship you.
Second hand fact, so I’m hoping I’m right. Dying due to being encased in concrete is horrifying. You don’t crush or asphyxiate so much as burn as the concrete sucks all the moisture from your body; also, it lets off heat as it dries. Probably the worst way to go I can think of.
During a sky burial, the deceased is slashed so birds can tear the flesh from the bones. The bones are then mashed and ground into a powder for other birds to devour.
This is a very specific ritual in Tibet and some specific places around it. Not like something you can ask in your death wish list...
I have heard that bears doesn’t kill you. They basically eat you and you eventually die
When you die your stomach will digest itself.
Every year, we unknowingly pass the anniversary of our death day.
On average, you secrete 26 gallons of sweat into your bed per year.
The youngest inmate to have died at Kingston pen (Canadas first prison) was 9 years old. He died of tuberculosis and his crime was larceny in 1857.
There's a parasite in cat poop that can literally control rats' minds, should they eat it.
Every time you swim in the ocean, you're basically bathing in a graveyard.
Well, every time you swim in a public pool, you're basically bathing in a toilet.
When you get burned by electricity, it leaves burn marks shaped like lightning on your skin.
Brushtail possums are coprophagic (they eat their own sh*t). They need their food to go through their digestive system twice to get all the nutrients.
Rabbits, too. And many mammals will eat the placenta after birthing for the same reason. I don't see how that is disturbing.
The male dragon flys scoop out the sperm of their rival out of their mate
A dead body that isn't stiff has been dead for either a short time or a long time. The time of death in found corpses is often gauged by the type of fly maggots and their stage in the life cycle.
So... what if a dead body is stiff? Because then they apparently haven't been dead for long, but they also weren't recently killed.
There's a jellyfish half the size of your pinkie that can kill you.
When they embalm people they just dump all the juices in the sewer.
Gilles de Rais was leader of the French Army and a companion of Joan of Arc. He makes the story of Elizabeth Báthory look downright wholesome. He raped and murdered over 80 children.
Freshly deceased people can sometimes expell their stomach contents by way of their esophagus if rolled onto their side. Also it's the worst smelling thing in the world.
Human taste like Veal. And taste different depending on what part you eat similar to pigs or cows.
There are little bugs that live on your face and eat the dead skin off of it.
You swallow one to two cups of mucus every day.
A deceased human body can take between 24 and 48 hours to 'decompress', releasing the remaining blood, urine, and fecal mater, depending on the situation, position, and method of death.
Speaking of skin, you'll shed about 40 pounds of it in your lifetime.
Electrosurgery (Google "Bovie") is common in more vascularized procedures because the instrument parts tissue and cauterizes in the process. A surgical grasper instrument can be electrified to pinch bleeding vessels; the blood boils at the pinch and the vessel is sealed and cauterized. Eventually the operating room smells like barbeque.
As someone who assisted in a couple of surgeries: It absolutely doesn't! You ever burned your hair? That's the smell we're talking about
You have to have a life insurance policy for two years before they'll pay out for suicide.
The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.
In the middle ages, you could be boiled in a pot of lead for certain crimes. What crimes they were I have forgotten, but it certainly was a thing.
The air you breathe in a train station is 15% human skin.
Note to self: don’t read weird sh*t like this again before going to bed..
i am traumatized now.... some were interesting, other were damn disturbing..
To be fair...pigs scream about nearly everything in their lives. If you have to hold them so they can have a necessary medical procedure done, they scream. If you have to move them into a new enclosure, they scream. It's just what they do when they don't like things. You can pick up a baby piglet and it will scream like you're trying to do it the most awful harm in the world.
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Some absolutely dreadful facts. I need to look for a funny post or cute animals to get over these!
What kinda person reads this morbid stuff? I mean besides me. I'm sceptical about quite a bit of it though. However I'm to lazy to research the ones I doubt.
Hey did you know that once, someone sued Mtn. Dew for finding a rat in their soda and they took them to court. Mtn. Dews' rebuttal said that was impossible because the rat would dissolve after a few months. They proved it and won. THIS IS WHY YOU DONT DRINK MTN DEW!!!
Fun fact: female rabbits will think they’re pregnant every year. Why? Because rabbits are literal sex machines. Also, they make nests from their own fur and fur from other rabbits just pulling it out anxiously and running to the nest and make it more comfortable. Even if they’re in a group with females only they’ll do it.
Some of these I already was familiar with and some of these I have to question how they found out
That everest one madre my stomach feel sick for a good hour :( Most of these are so sad
Don't worry, it's their own fault when they climb Everest.
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Well this isnt a gore site, as you rightly say this is bored panda. I don't come here for gore. This article was interesting but freaky. I'm glad it didn't go any further than it did it would be disturbing
Load More Replies... Note to self: don’t read weird sh*t like this again before going to bed..
i am traumatized now.... some were interesting, other were damn disturbing..
To be fair...pigs scream about nearly everything in their lives. If you have to hold them so they can have a necessary medical procedure done, they scream. If you have to move them into a new enclosure, they scream. It's just what they do when they don't like things. You can pick up a baby piglet and it will scream like you're trying to do it the most awful harm in the world.
Load More Replies... Some absolutely dreadful facts. I need to look for a funny post or cute animals to get over these!
What kinda person reads this morbid stuff? I mean besides me. I'm sceptical about quite a bit of it though. However I'm to lazy to research the ones I doubt.
Hey did you know that once, someone sued Mtn. Dew for finding a rat in their soda and they took them to court. Mtn. Dews' rebuttal said that was impossible because the rat would dissolve after a few months. They proved it and won. THIS IS WHY YOU DONT DRINK MTN DEW!!!
Fun fact: female rabbits will think they’re pregnant every year. Why? Because rabbits are literal sex machines. Also, they make nests from their own fur and fur from other rabbits just pulling it out anxiously and running to the nest and make it more comfortable. Even if they’re in a group with females only they’ll do it.
Some of these I already was familiar with and some of these I have to question how they found out
That everest one madre my stomach feel sick for a good hour :( Most of these are so sad
Don't worry, it's their own fault when they climb Everest.
Load More Replies... Well this isnt a gore site, as you rightly say this is bored panda. I don't come here for gore. This article was interesting but freaky. I'm glad it didn't go any further than it did it would be disturbing
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