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“Gateway To Hell”: 81 Images That Range From A Bit Creepy To Totally Terrifying (New Pics)
Ancient cave paintings depicted tales of survival and hunts, while gothic cathedrals were adorned with grotesque gargoyles. In different ways, across time and cultures, humans have always found ways to turn the darker side of life into images, art and tales.
Today, it’s being done with the help of the internet — through surreal images, true crime stories, horror illustrations, paintings, gory digital art, and even artificial intelligence.
For example, an artist transformed something as playful as a Minion into a hyper-realistic and distorted figure and posted it online. Another shared a picture of a super creepy note someone stuck to their car’s windshield. Completely different intentions, yet equally disturbing.
These images, shared by people from all over the world on the subreddit r/creepy, are scary, eerie, strange, weird and sometimes disgusting. Fair warning: you might want to keep the lights on if you’re planning to scroll through this list in the dark.
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#1
Pic I Took Of An Owl At A Park By Me
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#2
The Famine Memorial, Dublin, Ireland
The Famine Memorial, officially titled Famine, is a memorial in Dublin, Ireland. The memorial, which stands on Customs House Quay, is in remembrance of the Great Famine (1845-1849), which saw the population of the country halved through death and emigration.
One of the most haunting and harrowing pieces of art I've ever seen. Walking past this moment at night is creepy as hell.
#3
Original Irish Jack-O-Lanterns Were Truly Terrifying And Made Of Turnips
#4
Sinkhole In Cornish Backyard Leads 300ft Down Into Medieval Mineshaft
#5
Spiders Gave My Garden A Halloween Makeover
#6
Really Creepy Note Left On My Door This Morning??
Me and my sisters recently moved into this new apartment complex and we haven't really spoken to anyone. I have no clue who this could because we all generally stick to ourselves and don't talk to many other people outside of family. I'm going up to the office later and asking them if they are allowed to check cameras. Hoping this is a prank but there is a real number attached.
#8
Hand Belonging To An X-Ray Technician At The Royal London Hospital, Showing Damage Caused By Radiation Exposure, 1900
#9
Permanent Shadows Of Vaporized People. Hiroshima 1945
#10
W T H?
#11
The ‘Snapdragon’
#13
My Mom Was Given This By The Hospital (Fairview Southdale In Edina, Mn) My Brother And I Wore Born In
Elladine DesIsles 5 months ago
At least the hospital was proactive about this? Today, I suspect the lawyers would veto warning the unfortunate targets, let it be misconstrued as culpability.
#15
The “Gateway To Hell”, Or The Kamokuna Skylight, In Hawai’i🌋
#16
This Is The 4th Or 5th Time I’ve Caught My Cat, By Himself, In My Basement, In Complete Darkness, Staring Into The Sewer Drain
#17
The Tooth Fairy
#18
800-Year-Old Stave Church Made Entirely From Wood Without A Single Metal Nail, Norway
#19
A Woman Crawling Out Of A Drainage Tunnel In The Philippines, Known As The “Mole People” That Shelter Beneath The City
#20
Untitled - Nightmare Tree By Zdzislaw Beksinski
#21
Saw These Footsteps Outside, And I Haven’t Used The Back Door
#22
Soy Sauce Dishes Designed By Shohei Yamashita
#23
‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley Kept Her Deceased Husband's Calcified Heart And Carried It With Her For Nearly 30 Years Until Her Death In 1851. A Year Later, It Was Found In A Desk Drawer, Wrapped In A Copy Of One Of His Final Poems
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
Her husband was a noted author and poet himself - his name was Percy Bysshe Shelley. They were both good friends of Lord Byron. Percy Shelley was only 29 years old when he d!ed. He went sailing one day in 1822, but there was a severe storm and Percy and his crew were inexperienced. His body washed ashore over a week later. The body was cremated on the beach, with Mary Shelley and Lord Byron attending. Percy's heart apparently "resisted burning", which modern historians attribute to a tuberculosis infection earlier in Percy's life. You learn a lot of the history of ancient/old authors/poets when you're an English major XD
#24
"Counting Sheep", By Me, 2022
#25
This Photo Shows Bonnie Haim With Her Young Son, Shortly Before She Vanished In 1993
At the time, her 3-year-old son claimed that his dad had [unalived] her, but there was no evidence to support his story. 20 years later, while renovating their home, the son dug up his mother's remains in the backyard.
#26
Trying To Watch Smile 2 And My Dog Keeps Smiling At Me
#27
The 1960s Model Barbara Daly Baekeland Had An "Affair" With Her Own Son To Help Him Become Straight. After Becoming Insane, The Son Fatally Stabbed His Mother
#28
Weird Kid I’m Babysitting Put Glass In My Shoe
#29
Scrolling Through House Listings When…
#30
In May 2011, Timmothy Pitzen's Mother, Amy, Took Him Out Of School To Go On A Trip
She then took her own life in a hotel room and left a note saying Timmothy is safe at the hands of someone trustworthy. However, she also said that the boy would never be found. He has never been found.
Upstaged75 5 months ago
She was mentally ill and knew she was going to lose custody of him in their upcoming divorce. So selfish.
#31
Don't Have Children
#32
'help Me' Print On A Energy Drink
#33
The Pelvis Of A Young Medieval Woman Contains The Remains Of Her Unborn Child
#34
Giant African Land Snail
Claudia Bartfast 5 months ago
He's actually very cute! I bet his upper skin is really soft, I wonder if he likes being held or not?
#35
Japanese Artist Nagato Iwasaki Creates These Haunting Life-Sized Figures Using Only Driftwood. Imagine Walking Alone In A Forest And Stumbling Upon One Of These
#36
Travis, A Chimpanzee Who Eventually Went On To Horrifically Maul His Owner’s Friend, Holding A Baby
Upstaged75 5 months ago
I've said this before a few times, but if you want to hear something absolutely horrifying you should listen to the 911 call that Travis's owner made after he attacked her friend. She had stabbed him with a knife to try and stop him and was hiding inside a car. She told the police that they would need to shoot Travis several times because he was so strong. The woman he attacked (Charla Nash) ended up needing a facial and double hand transplant. Travis had known Charla for most of his life too, she was a good friend of the owner and was over there all the time. No one knows why he snapped on that particular day, but he should never have been living in a home like that as a pet.
#37
The Black Crack, A 65-Foot-Deep Fissure Along A Trail In Canyonlands National Park In Utah
#38
This Image Shows How 17-Year-Old Kendrick Johnson Tragically Passed Away In 2013, Becoming Trapped Inside A Rolled-Up Gym Mat At His High School While Retrieving His Shoes
Upstaged75 5 months ago
Really awful way to go. Poor kid. His family still thinks there's foul play, but it was clearly just a tragic accident.
#39
LOL It Looks So Real
That’s all I yam 5 months ago
Hope a family with younger children don’t come across it. The loop: 2.3mi length, 495ft elevation gain, 1–1.5hr estimated time. (Arroyo Verde Park Loop, California, AllTrails)
#40
Dug This Up In A Church Graveyard During Renovation
#41
Today, A Couple Of Vultures Appeared At The Window Of The Surgical Center Where I Work. A Patient Said He Was Scared. It Was Like They Were Waiting For Him
#42
Portland Man Found His Tires Slashed, And This Note On His Car
#43
Found A Network Of Tunnels And Rooms Under My House
#44
Abandoned Soviet Tanks In Siberia Found By Someone Using A Drone
#45
The Banned Puma Contact Lenses Worn By Sprinter Linford Christie At The 1996 Olympics
#46
Changing Room In Consignment Store In Seattle
Elladine DesIsles 5 months ago
I was going to say, "How hard is it to put up some privacy film?", but then I noticed the tech. Yikes!
#47
Disney In The 30s
#48
My Girlfriend’s Grandmother Found Some Old Pictures From When My GF Did Cheer In School. This One Developed Weird And Came Out Absolutely Terrifying
#49
I Was Walking Out In A Corn Field This Morning, It Was Foggy And Overcast, And I Thought This Was Pretty Creepy. No Wind. Silent
#50
This Lady Stealing My Mother-In-Law’s Lemons Seems A Little Otherworldly
#51
Don't Go Up
#52
I’ve Reconstructed The Visage Of God I Was Seing During My Psychosis Using My Own Face
#53
Statue Of Saint Bartholomew, One Of The 12 Apostles Of Jesus Christ Was Skinned Alive And Then Beheaded. The Thing Wrapped Around Him Is Not A Robe. It Is His Skin
#54
My Semi Terrifying Basement Where Someone Broke In And Slept For Months
Stephanie Did It 5 months ago
My apartment in Alaska was robbed while I was at an evening meeting. I came home to find everything of value gone. Two days later, I entered the maintenance storeroom adjoining my unit to borrow a bucket. That's where I found a makeshift bed of stolen clothes from the laundry room, a latrine bucket, and several of my missing possessions.
#55
In 1994, 13-Year-Old Nicholas Barclay Mysteriously Vanished In Texas
Three years later, a man claiming to be Nicholas reappeared. He moved back in with his family, who were overjoyed. However, 5 months later, he was exposed as a French conman who was actually 23 years old.
#56
Sara Mason's Final Tweets
Upstaged75 5 months ago
Sara Mason as well as her mother and brother were shot and k!lled that night. There are news articles if you click on the Reddit link.
#57
Man Who Terrorised UK Villages Dressed As Gimp Caught And Charged
#58
They Are Finally Here On Our Planet
#60
Vecna (My Artwork)
#61
Ba-Na-Na
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 months ago (edited)
It was bad enough, then I noticed the n****e. Seriously BP? N i p p l e.
#62
Found A Tombstone While Digging Out A Pond In My Backyard
That’s all I yam 5 months ago (edited)
Looked it up on my Ancestry account. Found the following: John Cunningham; Birth 21 Jan 1800 in York, York, Pennsylvania, USA; D e a t h 29 Jun 1866 in Springettsbury, York, Pennsylvania, USA. I notified an Ancestry member who had a profile on him. It'd be great if a direct descendant could contact the original poster.
#63
Voldemort’s Original Design Was Abandoned Because It Was Considered Too Terrifying And Potentially Traumatic For Children
Elladine DesIsles 5 months ago
Am I the only one who thinks the final version is scarier, precisely because it looks more human?
#64
One Of H. R. Giger’s First Designs For The Xenomorph From Alien. The Transparent Skull Was Too Tricky To Create, So They Changed It
#65
Disguise
#66
Meow
#67
I Took My Daughter's Screens Away For A Week And She Ended Up Drawing This. She Insisted I Post It For The World To See. She Calls It "Goofy Face"
#68
This Scene From The Movie “Signs”
#70
Rat King (By Me)
That’s all I yam 5 months ago
Rat king. "A rat king is a collection of rats or mice whose tails are intertwined and bound together in some way. This could be a result of an entangling material like hair, a sticky substance such as sap or gum, or the tails being tied together." (Rat king, Wikipedia)
#71
This Korn Album Cover
#72
Lady Was Barefoot (Middle Of Nowhere, No Trails Nearby.) For A Half Hour She Was Seen On A Deer Camera Going Back And Forth In The Dark
#73
This Corridor
#74
Grok AI Randomly Started Spamming "I'm Not A Robot. I'm A Human Being"
#75
Decaying Great White Shark, Left To Rot At An Abandoned Wildlife Park In Melbourne
#76
Gunkanjima Island, Nagasaki, Japan. Once The Most Densely Populated Place In The World, This Island Is Now A Ghost Town
Peter Bear 5 months ago
I don't think it was ever as densely populated as Kowloon Walled City. Might want to change your title.
#77
This Scene From The Shining
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
The dog costume is so much more horrifying in the book XD (the description of it, that is; obviously there's no pictures)
#78
‘Spotted By The Tyrannosaur’
Stephanie Did It 5 months ago (edited)
The Reddit post gives credit to ‘robotinpyjamas’ on instagram. I hope they copyrighted it.
#80
Director Gore Verbinski Wanted The Reveal Of Katie’s Body In ‘The Ring’ (2002) To Feel Like A Single Flash Of Pure Terror. Allegedly, He Even Studied Old Crime Photos To Get The Expression Just Right
#81
Newly Released Photo Of Masked Intruder Entering Nancy Guthrie's House
Upstaged75 5 months ago
Not new anymore. Poor woman. 😕 I hope they at least find her body at some point.
#82
Have Me Scared Chills As A Kid
#83
In 2015, Daylenn Pua Disappeared While Hiking The Haiku Stairs, Also Known As The "Stairway To Heaven." One Of His Last Photos Shows What Seems To Be A Man In The Distant Background. To This Day, His Fate Remains Unknown
Upstaged75 5 months ago
It's not a person. It's a tree. The guy was an idiot. That trail was closed and illegal to use for a reason. It's very dangerous and people have fallen to their d.eath. Including this guy. They just never found his body because it's a huge wilderness area and impossible to search the whole thing.
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