The Morbid Curiosity Files: 35 Posts About The Darkest Topics

Anonymous:
A phone call from parents/relatives etc.

doesntmatteryaknow:
The sound of an ice cream van.

New_journey868:
My son was around 3 at the time. Kept refusing to go downstairs as that's where angel man was, and angel man wanted to hurt the family

Elvis_Take_The_Wheel:
Not my kid, but a little girl in my son's kindergarten class told me she lives across the street from a cemetery. I asked her if it was spooky to live that close to a graveyard and she said very matter-of-factly, "Not during the day. But at night they all walk up to our windows and scream."

Slashing Manticore:
The Kraken. I mean, giant squids are a thing

thedankbank1021:
When Romans described unicorns, they described them as hippos with a horn on the face. Not sure how we ended up with a horse with a horn on its face. Some bad translation somewhere. Anyway, unicorns absolutely exist and we currently call them rhinos.
Edit: As it's been pointed out, Hippopotamus means river horse. So if you were someone who had never seen a river horse you would probably think it looked like a horse, but like, by a river. Then if someone said there was an animal like a river horse but with a horn on its head, you would probably come up with something like a unicorn.

Shameful_Ghost:
you can break your back from a sneeze :)

lorjs:
You've probably walked past a few serial k*****s that haven't been caught

duhvorced:
Roger Boisjoly - Engineer involved with the Space Shuttle program who warned his superiors for months prior to the Challenger disaster that launching in cold weather could cause the O-rings to fail.
Care to guess what caused the Challenger disaster?

NauvooMetro:
In 2005, Courtney Love was asked what advice she'd give young, up and coming actresses. She said "If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party at his Four Seasons hotel room, don't go." And for whatever reason, you didn't see her in many movies after that.

Anonymous:
My friend and I were on a road trip a few years ago and needed a place to stay. We both told each other we had a friend in the city we were going through, so we figured we'd be able to crash with one of them. Turns out our two friends were roommates and had both been telling each other that they had a friend coming to town soon.

Anonymous:
This guy I went to grade school and h**h school with, an acquaintance at best. I've seen him in 5 different locations in different countries throughout the last 15 years.
Disney World when I was a kid.
Some beach bar in Thailand.
The Bean in Chicago.
A pub in Budapest.
A library in San Jose, Costa Rica.
We've become friends due our love of traveling, but neither of us post on social media and neither of us communicated with each other our plans to travel. We never talked outside of the random meetings. Now if I se him, its like the world wants us to have a beer together. haha

Entire_Fan_1811:
Putting your feet on car dashboard

NicholasF82:
Having a loose animal in the car. A safety instructor once Cold me doctors had to dig dog bones out of a person after it got between them and an airbag.

themesila:
When your skin becomes red from spending too much time under the sunlight, it's basically because your skin cells are committing s*****e to avoid becoming cancerous.

Aztech06:
Octopus punch fish for no reason

thomas4004:
My father was the most caring man. He loved his family. One day, when i was 6 years old, i came home with bleeding cuts on my legs from the babysitter's beating.
With no warning, he jumps in his car headed to the babysitter's house. My mom had no car so me and her catch a bus to the babysitter's house. By the time we got there, the police were there, the husband was in an ambulance, and some of the living room furniture was thrown out the window. My father had kicked in the front door and beat up the husband. He couldn't get to the wife because she locked herself in a room, so he started throwing furniture out the window. If he would have got to her, he would have k****d her. Never knew my father could get so angry. He only spent two nights in jail because all the police understood. The mother was charged with child abuse. I still have the scars.

MachineElectrical208:
My DNA was connected to cold case. I had no Connection to the crime, a close relative did.

Anonymous:
Pilot here: once had my engine sputter and die for no reason in a small Cessna... refused to start back up.
glided into a landing in a nearby field..checked fluids...checked mix...
everything was fine so i turned the key...it roared up, and I cautiously flew back home.
Had a mechanic tear it apart later that week and couldn't find anything...
I guess sometimes engines just...dont

Flightyler:
One time I was flying a Cessna 152 by myself on the coast of Florida and saw an oval shaped thing flying in the distance in front of me so I got closer and closer 3 and started to f***k out because it looked like it wasn't moving then eventually I saw fins sticking out of it and "Goodyear" on the side and felt like an idiot

ProbatonApololos:
If you're at the beach and the water level drops very quickly, seek h**h ground IMMEDIATELY.

ensenadorjones42:
DYK that mixing bleach and amonia creates a toxic gas that will k**l you painfully. DON'T DO IT. READ THE LABEL.

Creepy-Desk-468:
A patient once looked at me with a completely calm face and said, 'I know you're trying to help me, but I'm going to die today. I've made peace with it, and you can't stop it.

Helpful_Intention_20:
One of the most gut wrenching moments in my career was when I was treating a 9-year old boy who was the victim of significant blunt force trauma. He was unstable But awake and talking. With terror in his eyes he started thrashing around in his bed and screaming, "Don't let me die! I don't want to die!". It made us all nervous and tense. He went to the OR and survived but that was 5 years ago and I can still see his face.

Anonymous:
I was at my desk, working. Suddenly this absolutely piercing scream erupted. This sound was so loud that it hurt my ears even when I cupped my hands over them and pressed as hard as I could. Several of us exited the office and ran down the stairs, but that's where the sound was coming from.
Turns out, one of the pipes exploded off TWO 2000-gallon air accumulation tanks pressurized to 200psi by an industrial s***w compressor. This thing made a train whistle sound like a whisper. I physically couldn't get close enough to turn the ball valve- it hurt too much. One of my coworkers was practically deaf, so he just walked up without a care in the world and shut it off.

BoredPicking Username:
When my baby was a couple months old. She was in the crib next to the bed I was sleeping in. My 2 dogs were on the bed with me. I woke up to the normally quiet (well quietER dog) sitting straight up next to my head. She was growling this low, long growl. So mean and scary. I never heard anything like it before. I look to the bedroom door and I see a round shape coming in the door. Like human head height. Holy frig! It was a balloon (from having a new baby a couple months prior). It had started to lose its helium and travelled down the hallway right into the bedroom. Scared the c**p out of me! My heart still races when I think of it

Whind_Soull:
About ten years ago, I was looking out my grandmother's back door. Two squirrels were playing in the yard.
A hawk swooped down and grabbed one. As it was batting its wings and gaining altitude, the other squirrel raced up a nearby tree, leapt off, rocketed down into God's Own [...] From Above, and rescued his friend by curb-stomping the hawk out of the air.
They both ran away and the hawk limped off in confusion.

tjeepdrv2:
I was about to walk in the front door around midnight and saw an explosion way up in the sky. The flash was so bright that for a fraction of a second everything went daylight. I called a few people that I knew were still up and out, but nobody had seen anything.
A couple of weeks later, I mentioned it to someone and he said "That's funny, someone was telling me how a satellite exploded a couple of weeks ago and it was an explosion with a bright flash."

ianmichaels:
Medical doctor here (neurologist)... Capgras delusion.
The patient is convinced that a family member has been replaced by an imposter who is completely identical.
For example, the patient will tell you the person sitting across from them looks exactly like their spouse, sounds exactly like their spouse, has all the memories of their spouse. But... "that's not actually my spouse".
And the patient oftentimes isn't overly distressed by this imposter.
In 20 years I've only seen the condition twice.

Seddonpark:
A psychologist here. Not someone I worked with, but I did observe someone with Alien hand syndrome. The patients left hand would stroke her hair and pat her face but was not under her contro Each episode would last for about 20 mins. Turnec out the cause was a tumour. Amazingly it didn't seem to cause her any distress.

Imposter_Syndrome:
"A child who does not receive warmth from the village will burn it down to feel it" - African proverb
c***** environments are always a lose/lose situation to be in

ZeStriker310:
"I don't know what weapons will be used to fight world war 3. But world war 4 will be fought with clubs and stones"
Albert Einstein

OSUJillyBean:
Growing up I had a recurring nightmare set in my grandparents backyard looking at the back of their house. There was just something "off" about the house. Something mildly sinister. I dreamt this over and over, < many times over the years.
In 2018, my dad (who now owned the house) went into the backyard to that spot and k****d himself.
I haven't had the backyard dream since.

TheUnfunOwl:
I have unusually good night vision, extra cones/rods (I forget which is for low light) which means I walk around in what other people consider complete darkness, able to see just fine. Add onto that I'm 6'10" and very large, basically a cryptid

ofsquire:
A moose can dive underwater down to nearly twenty feet in search of food

Riverdoggo21:
It took humans more time to go from bronze words to steel swords than steel swords to nuclear bombs

diannaellis:
That there are people rich enough to disappear. There must be some billionaires we've never heard of

TbhldekMyName:
Celebrities aren't actually giving their kids absurd names, they just aren't publicizing their legal names.

Gubble_Buppie:
A man, Michel Lotito, ATE an entire airplane. It took him 2 years.

dang_dude_dont:
Clouds weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds, full of water, effortlessly floating above our heads. No support, No structure, just weight, floating around above us and we're like, yep totally believable, because they're clouds, duh.

duskhelm2595:
In order to conserve water, a camel's urine comes out as a thick syrup.

patricksaurus:
One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety Sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure.

forlornjackalope:
The farthest point on the planet you can be from civilization in any direction is a blip in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. If you were stranded there, you'd be thousands of miles away from help and it would be very unlikely you'd be seen or rescued as cargo ship routes don't go near it. To put the distance into perspective, the closest people to you would be The crew on the ISS.

Apple02ish:
Rabbits will eat their own young if they're stressed enough.

Tom_Zarek:
When I was about 3 we had a cat that had still born kittens. I asked my father if we could make crosses for them, which he did. As he was making them I asked:
"aren't those too small?",
Dad: "What do you Mean?"
Me: "aren't we going to nail them to them?"
Dad: (after several moments silence) "we're not going to do that"
Me: "oh"

UnfortunateBirthMark:
I was tucking in my two year old. He said "Good bye dad." I said, "No, we say good night." He said "I know. But this time its good bye."
Had to check on him a few times to make sure he was still there.

chooooooool:
One time, me and my dad were discussing his friend while out driving at night without many other cars on the road. As we were talking, we pulled up to a red light, and the car waiting in front was my dad's friend. He didn't even live close to there.

kor_hookmaster:
My wife and I were looking to hire a caterer for our wedding and when we met, my wife and her started talking about their lives a bit.
Turns out they had both literally grown up on the same street, in a city of 10 million people, on the other side of the world. Both had left the city around a decade before immigrating to our current country.
They knew the same people, had hung out at the same coffee place, attended the same church. They even used to grab mangoes off the same large tree that hung over the wall of one of the large houses in the neighbourhood.
But they had never met one another until meeting on almost the exact opposite side of the planet, in a small town of about 50,000 people.

Kaptainkarl76:
It has m******d more people than you will ever know

Victor_IMayBeWeird:
When a whale dies, it creates a whole new ecosystem

Daemon T5544:
Carthaginian Civilization existed for well over 600 years. They controlled large parts of North Africa, Spain, Mediterranean Islands, and had trade networks going All over the Mediterranean and even explored the African coast. They were powerful enough to bring Rome to the brink of defeat in two massive wars.
Romans won, and as a result, not a single Carthaginian primary source exists.

Stu_Thom4s:
The Philippines right now is an example of history being rewritten to ensure victory.

Historical Heart:
I was home alone when I was 11. I had just fallen asleep and someone tried to break in the front door. I called 911 and hid in the pantry in the bottom shelf. They came to the door next to the pantry and tried to break into that door too. The police got there and one of them picked me up and held me until my mom got there. I wouldn't let go and he made sure I felt safe. I'm 27 and haven't stayed home alone much since. The day I signed a lease for my first apartment I got a dog so I wouldn't be alone. It's pretty traumatizing when you're that young.

issamurcle:
I used to sleepwalk when I was a child. We lived in a rough neighborhood (Decatur, GA) and I would wake up outside in the middle of the night, not knowing how I got there, and would have to walk home and walk into the darkened doorway I had left wide open for whoever might be lurking around. However, the time that scared me the most was when I was about 9 years old. I woke up and found myself with the bedroom curtains drawn back and staring out the window. As I came awake, I noticed a very large and completely hairless man (no hair, eyebrows etc) staring at me and slowly inching closer to the window and closer to my face. He was looking bewildered like he wasn't sure
what he was seeing. At that moment, I realized what was going on and I started screaming uncontrollably, frozen in place and peeing down my leg. The man freaked out and screamed, did a tumbling move, and then ran off in a weird zig-zag like he was trying to dodge bullets. My mom woke up and thought I probably had a nightmare. The next morning we found a s***w driver on the front porch and damage to the door jam and door handle.
I still just about pee my pants when I tell that story, but now it is usually from laughing. I will never forget the look on his face when I started coming to life and screaming or his h**h pitched scream or his duck and roll and dodging and bobbing all the way down the street.

jdward01:
1/3 of US m*****s go unsolved.

Didsterchap11:
If given access to it, butterflies will happily drink b***d.

pi-N-apple:
The picture for your funeral program may have already been taken.

Anonymous:
Cannibalism is pretty common in hamsters.

Rook_45:
A kid said he didnt want to go to church because "my invisible friend says he cant follow me in there"

Anonymous:
My eldest told me that his imaginary friend misses me and wishes he could have been with me longer than a month.
I lost his big sister to SIDS a month after she was born the year before I had him.

ezzysalazar:
Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia, 1975-1979.

Shadow948:
Genghis Khan k****d so many people that he actually decrease the carbon footprint during his lifetime and r***d so many women that if you're Chinese there's a decent probability that your a descendant of his.

rahajaba:
It took humanity approximately 4 times Gonger to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.

AustinCynic:
When NASA pitched the idea of the Voyager missions to Richard Nixon with the idea of touring the outer planets, he was told that the last time it was possible, Thomas Jefferson was in the White House.
The particular planetary alignment that Voyager 2 used on its journey occurs only once every 176 years.

InThisIllusion:
Brandon Lawson. He ran out of gas on the highway in the middle of the night and called his brother to come help him. Shortly after he called 911 and reported that someone had chased him into the woods and that he needed police. Eventually his brother and one police officer arrive at the scene and find his truck abandoned but no sign of Brandon. Brandon calls his brother and says he's bleeding and is 10 minutes away from his truck. That was the last anyone ever heard from him and searches of the area turned up empty.

ffff:
The Jamison family
-The Jamison family (2 adults, 1 young daughter) was interested in purchasing a plot of land in Oklahoma
-They drive out in their pickup truck to check it out
-Truck is later found abandoned
-$32,000 cash found in truck, along with the Jamisons' IDs, wallets, mobile phones, and a GPS.
-The family dog was also left in the truck, and was extremely malnourished.
-A camera is discovered, the final picture was of their daughter, 6-year old Madyson, who looks somewhat distressed.
-Security footage is uncovered, with the family appearing trance-like" and not speaking to one-another.
-The Jamisons' skeletal remains are found years later, dumped less than 3 miles from where the pickup truck was originally discovered.
-Remains show no signs of struggle.

Affectionate Escape13:
I once had a nap on my couch, a few hours before I had to go to work.
I woke up, checked the time, and started to get ready for work.
Realized I was still dreaming.
I woke up again. Checked the time. It was a little bit later than the first time. Again, I started to get ready for work.
I was STILL dreaming.
I went through that 5 or 6 times, until each time I "woke up", I was panicking since I didn't know if I was awake or still sleeping, but I still got up and started to get ready for work. The last 'wake up' cycle, I would've been late for work.
Creepiest dream I've ever had, even more than my sleep paralysis

batmanineurope:
A year or two ago I stumbled upon a subreddit that was populated by quite a few members, but the posts were absolutely nonsense. But they commented on each other's posts as if they all understood what they were talking about. I kind of lurked for a little while, then got bored and forgot about it.
A few weeks later I was talking to someone via chat and mentioned the subreddit to them, and out of nowhere I started getting chat requests from the members of that subreddit. I accepted a few of the chats and they were speaking to me, very aggressively, with similar gibberish that filled their sub. I blocked them all and never heard from them again. I don't know what the h**l it was all about, but it made my skin crawl.

BuckshotShow:
Penguin eggs turn transparent when hard boiled.

neptuneenergy:
alexander the great, mussolini, napoleon, julius caesar and hitler allegedly suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.