Few things are more subjective than what we find interesting or appealing; some people might spend countless hours looking at cat memes or videos of babies laughing while others would rather enjoy a rerun of The Shining. And no person can prove that one is better than the other; yet one is creepier, that’s for sure.
Even though there is plenty of online content for both of these camps of internet users, today’s list is dedicated to the fans of all things creepy. We have gathered some of the best pictures shared by the ‘Cursed.Aesthetic’ Instagram account, so if you’re interested in some rather disturbing—or confusing, at least—images, wait no longer and scroll down to find them below.
Bored Panda addressed the Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University, neuroscientist Shirley M. Mueller, to get a better understanding of why people enjoy somewhat disturbing or even disgusting content; you will find her thoughts in the text below.
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Better than the maze here. They send out starved pigs every night after close. If you're still in the maze, the pigs will eat you. A hungry pig can eat a 200poud man in about 3 hours. Send out more pigs and you can clean up the stragglers before midnight. The only hassle is the pigs get indigestion from the hair and teeth sometimes. Happy Halloween
Load More Replies...It took me a minute to realize they weren’t finding 2/3 of a body. I thought maybe they were finding headless bodies or something.
So last year we went into a corn maze with my then 13 and 15 year olds. I thought it was a circle where you came back out the same way. We got lost, got mad at each other, there was some cussing and I had to pee. My son was right, there was a second exit. I have not lived this down. We may go again next month.
Our wallets would become much lighter. Or our wallets will not have owners anymore.
Load More Replies...Psst, if you believe in birds... just another reason proving that birds aren't real. Because how can it read AND only take the correct part of the flyer if it's an animal? WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Started in 2017, the ‘Cursed.Aesthetic’ Instagram account has accumulated over 1.8k posts over the four years of its existence, each one creepier than the last one. But considering the number of internet users and how many of them likely enjoy such content, it is safe to assume that people are waiting for more.
Statista revealed that as of April this year, there were nearly 5.2 billion people using the internet (4.8 billion of whom reportedly are social media users). To put it into perspective, that’s roughly 65% of the entire global population, or the equivalent of people of over 15 USAs put into one.
For the students. I wouldn't have gotten through middle school without the stuff!
Load More Replies...Yeah. Prepping lunch packs, packing gym clothes, remembering to check out if there are any notes the kids forgot to mention, helping with homework....etc. it requires more than a cup of camomille tea.
Load More Replies...Well, where I live there's a liquor store not far from the high school.
There are also have great cakes, socks, candles, etc to celebrate your divorce as well! Divorce attorney here
Load More Replies...It’s not easy to explain why some people are more prone to viewing disturbing or disgusting content. According to neuroscientist and author of Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play, Shirley M. Mueller, humans vary in their predispositions to disgust. In a recent interview with Bored Panda, she suggested that this individual susceptibility depends on several factors, one of them being underlying anxiety or emotional distress.
“It is also affected by early environmental factors where parents responded strongly to pathogenic cues, which were then imitated by the child who carried it over to adulthood,” Mueller pointed out, adding that the level of disgust is also regulated by an extraneous parasitic environment to which the individual is exposed.
Say pizza say no, to drugs to yessss
Load More Replies...no matter which way i read it i still can not find out the original text
I believe it supposed to say No to drugs. Yes to pizza. But somebody somehow messed up real bad.
Load More Replies...... or spike it - while at it anyway, make it magnificent!
Load More Replies...I don’t see a human face? What part looks human?
Load More Replies...Lookin like Bill with 4 kids with a woman named Susan that mows his yard every Wednesday and says "howdy neighbor"
There is a hidden village behind that and a dragon! Also a portal to a hell dimension...
That looks interesting. I would walk in there to see what and where it leads to.
You might still be wondering who enjoys viewing images as weird, disgusting, or horrifying as the ones on this list, or why. And, even though providing an exact answer is difficult—if at all possible—researchers have found what influences people’s inclination to a certain kind of horrendous content.
According to a 2020 study, individuals with strong beliefs in paranormal things gravitate towards horror media related to supernatural phenomena, while those less fascinated with paranormal activity tend to choose natural content-based horror media.
The study also revealed that people who enjoy sensation seeking and are of high intellect and imagination are drawn to the intellectual stimulation and challenge that comes with the initially aversive effects of horror content. They face the aversive side of viewing such content in order to simulate threats and receive a positive response from coping with it and adapting to it.
It was at that moment, the cat knew something had gone terribly wrong with his brilliant plan!
POV: the birb pulled out a uno reverse card and the cat got stuck in the birdcage
Cutis verticis gyrata is a medical condition usually associated with thickening of the scalp. The condition is identified by excessive thickening of the soft tissues of the scalp and characterized by ridges and furrows, which give the scalp a cerebriform appearance. wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutis_verticis_gyrata
That was an interesting read, thank you for the link.
Load More Replies...The idiocy on this site is absolutely breathtaking. IT'S A SATIRE POSTER, GENIUSES!
Load More Replies..."Every evening a pepper falls down the chimney" Well, this takes skill, and practise. I want to know more!
I can't even be mad, I'm just impressed with that accuracy.
Load More Replies..."I have never made enemies" says the person who speaks like they ONLY make enemies.
Another reason why it’s difficult to answer what kind of person enjoys horrifying content is because the latter is very diverse. Let’s take movies, for instance—different people might enjoy different aspects of one and the same movie.
“I prefer horror as a genre because of how broad it is,” the co-director of the annual Abertoir International Horror Festival, Nia Edwards-Behi, shared in her TedX Talk. “The types of experiences that one can have watching a horror film are varied and they will themselves vary from person to person as well, of course.
“I can watch a horror film and be scared, sure, but I can also watch a horror film and laugh, or be moved, or be disturbed, or be inspired; the best films, of course, are those which can elicit a number of these reactions, if not necessarily at the same time, then throughout the run time of the film.”
" You can check in any time you'd like, but you can never leave."
Load More Replies...One more of these on Park Place and your sister won't talk to you for a week
Not practical? Cigarette smoke (any smoke in fact) is deadly to airborne bacteria. It's a functioning antibiotic. This has been known in the medical literature for a very long time. During the plague, smoking was made compulsory for boys at Eton college, to fumigate the place. I don't know if it works for viruses, but it might.
Load More Replies...I was looking for this exact comment. Knew it would be here!
Load More Replies...In the Netherlands we have a saying: "He/she smokes like a chimney". Apparantly, somebody wanted to portray this :)
“For me, it’s the potential to be frightened that’s more important than the fear itself. Fear, of course, being a thoroughly subjective sensation,” Nia Edwards-Behi pointed out.
The way we perceive fear and the effect it has on each of us is indeed a subjective matter, but there is one thing in common that arguably plays a part in why we enjoy fear-inducing content; it’s our ancient ancestors.
Verywell Mind revealed that, according to the scholar Mathias Clasen, humans of the ancient civilizations had to constantly be vigilant in order not to become the prey of someone or something bigger. Nowadays, individuals live in a safer environment, which is why they don’t encounter scary situations as often, which results in paying more attention in the somewhat rare cases they do.
I’m not from NJ. But I know the answer, you’re supposed to say ‘it’s a jersey thing!’ And act like they are aliens and uncultured swines
Load More Replies...I lived there for 7 years (which was really 7 years too many) and whenever I drove to Pennsylvania to visit family, I'd have to pay a $1 toll when crossing the state border into PA. I always thought of this as the 'leaving New Jersey tax'
You know why New Yorkers are always in a bad mood? Because New Jersey is the light at the end of their tunnel.
You must actually USE the equipment to look like SpongeBob, kids!!
THAT is how we should have been keeping them from staring at themselves in the mirrors?
Looking in the mirror serves a purpose, to check you are lifting with correct form.
Load More Replies...Another theory of why we enjoy horrifying content presented by Verywell Mind is excitation transfer theory, formulated by an expert in communication and psychology, Dolf Zillmann. Based on this theory, horror media evokes a certain physiological arousal, which then provides a euphoric high when relieved.
Hey it sends a clear message, it's important to appreciate what you what.
What is the message, "I am having a stroke, call an ambulance"?
Load More Replies...As a dad, I get this. It just means you have to what the appreciation for what you what when you're being the what. Couldn't be clearer.
Couldn't have said it better myself! (Because I don't know what it's trying to say)
I didn’t even realize what those were at first, that would be painful
Load More Replies...Great, so when I get older not only will my t*ts sag towards my ankles, my arms will too.
I was going to say “run,” but it looks like this thing is designed to chase you
In an interview with NPR, researcher Coltan Scrivner delved deeper into what makes scary things so appealing to some people. She suggested that there are three types of horror fans: the adrenaline junkies, the so-called white knucklers, and the dark copers.
The first group includes people who enjoy being afraid. They enjoy the built-up tension (likely because of the euphoric sensation after it is released, coming back to the excitation transfer theory), which is why they seek it again and again.
Sounds like a bunch of jibber-jabber to me
Load More Replies...I have recurring nightmares with this sort of "bridge". Honestly this terrifies me
I have had nightmares with a freeway just like this. With massive traffic.
Exactly. Would be just my luck I’d get stuck behind a tractor hauling s**t and traveling 20 mph under the speed needed to clear this bridge.
Load More Replies...The white knucklers, according to Scrivner, are people who tend to clench their fists in fear when presented with something scary; going through a haunted house, for instance. “They get kind of a learning experience from this,” the researcher suggested. “So horror, whether it's a movie or a book or a haunted house, kind of offers them a chance to push their boundaries and learn the limits of their fear and really learn, like, how they respond when they're afraid.”
The third group of horror fans—the dark copers—use horror and dark themes to work through certain existential problems or emotional states, such as anxiety or fear.
This looks like the backrooms mixed with something I'd see in a fever dream
Creepiest playground in the world hey lets go, hey lets go...we're happy as can be
Its weird core the point of it is to make you feel like you've seen it before
Presumably a filming set. And a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes.
Load More Replies...I'm thinking it's a new eight foot section for a new product and the paper is showing where each flavor goes.
It's not a grocery store, it's a shelf store and this is just a demonstration of how the shelves could be used.
Whether you’re an adrenaline junkie, a white knuckler, a dark coper, or a unique sort of fan of all things horror, you might want to continue your journey through the bizarre depths of this type of internet content; and don’t worry, we have you covered.
You can find Bored Panda’s previous edition on ‘Cursed.Aesthetic’ here, enjoy a dose of all sorts of confusing content on this list of disturbing images, marvel at some more cursed pictures here, or browse these pictures scary enough to increase your heart rate.
A sudden scream that ends abruptly. In the wall, a face appears. Slowly freezing into place with an expression of fear, shock and pain. The wall walker waits for his next victim. He turns his head and looks at you as he steps out of the wall
Your an author? I love authors! Here, take this follow! 🙂🙂🙂
Load More Replies...Is that for tantruming toddlers to hold on so you drag them while you walk?
That sounds awful...they find enough bodily handles as it is lets not build them more
Load More Replies...'Cause when you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you........ (but only YOU burn)
Load More Replies..."You can not destroy me!, I'll come back, and I'll be even stronger!"
I'm guessing this is China's revised globe, depicting their territorial borders for 2023? 🤔
When the hairdresser shows you the blow dry and you lie and say it’s lovely…
I'm going straight home home until my husband comes home and we can both laugh at this
Load More Replies...Dog: “I’m gonna s**t in your mouth while you’re sleeping for this, Karen”
Depending on where you live this was probably more expensive than just buying candy
I was just about to say, there’s about 60-90$ aus worth of them
Load More Replies...Maybe. It's really a Romanian car, the Dacia 1300 break, but the poster on the wall looks Turkish. I presume some Romanians bought garlic from Turkey to sell it through Romania for a much bigger price. And no, Dracula was never from Transylvania, but from Wallachia (the Southern part of Romania).
Load More Replies...When they ask for two cloves, this is how much you should actually add.
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Awww, isopods!! ❤️❤️ Hard pass on putting them in my mouth, but I am happy to help them into some cozy leaf litter.
Rollie pollies- the only bug I would pick up and gently play with. I'd let em roll up and wait for them to relax and unroll.
was a fake funeral. They say was legit but was used in a PAN (political party) eventt where the MORENA president was. No much details but was fake, no corpse.
Guess this is one way to turnstile jump. Seems a bit excessive imo.
I loved my tinkertoys! Not once did I ever think about creating this monstrosity!
So many sore fingers from trying to unsnap them only for them to whip you
Load More Replies...“I have a new dad that’s way cooler than you!!” - kid arguing with his dad, probably
No matter how many times I see this (it being a regular on many BP lists) I still see that chin shadow as a mouth.
I had to take another look; it's very difficult to see the actual mouth. So I guess I just see it the same way.
Load More Replies...Some supernatural entity trying to break through the veil of dead and alive.
Justin Bieber can fly...Justin Bieber can touch the sky
Load More Replies...They want to bring back old Smosh and a new food battle is in the making
Load More Replies...Chad regrets asking for a life sized Justin Bieber helium filled plushie…
I would have never guessed they like The Used with those haircuts. Glad the poster was there to confirm.
Of course it is rust .Because everyone pisses on that part, either on purpose or by accident, thus causing rust to appear.
Load More Replies..."Whats that smell? It smells like meat roasting..... AHHHHHHH *dunks butt in bucket of ice*" I can imagine Snotlout (from the episodes of how to train a dragon) doing that. Did I spell Snotlout correctly tho?
Load More Replies...As it happened, Spring Equinox occurred on a day when I had both plenty of eggs and plenty of time on hand.
There are at least several people who got very angry when they saw this..
I'm not sure that they had wiring in mind when that place was built.
None of that froo-froo Art school for me. I went out and learned a trade!
*David Attenborough voice* "And thus, they gather in a circle around the edges of the nest, heads tilted back, screaming like someone skinned them alive and dipped them in salt, the young demand to be fed, while the mother stalks the streets looking for eyes to pluck out of a passing victims skull"
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Dwight Schrute- *cuts off face* "Hello Clarice! Thwp thwp thwp thwp thwp"
I would half bury this on a beach so it looks like a giant was under the sand
Thank you sign, for bestowing your wisdom and knowledge upon me! I feel so much smarter now! 🥹
As a bird owner and parent - what is that 😂 it’s cute but wtf is it
Load More Replies...When your evil soul takes form and runs at you from under the credenza.
Haunted like it will play me a little tune, or haunted like a demon will jump out of it and wrap piano wire around my neck? I really need more details if I'm going to rehome this haunted antique piano.
It plays a tune by itself at midnight. It plays "Feelings" over and over and over.
Load More Replies...I can't play, so a haunting works for me... I'd give the whole lot a good fine sanding and a beeswax treatment.
This wind turbine went through a tornado in Texas on 14 June 2021 causing a fire after a blade broke apart and hit a transformer.
"Feeling tired, rundown, listless? Talk to your doctor about Erectifan. Warning: extended use of Erectifan could cause impotence."
Just needs re-inflation... image_2023...380345.png
As I walk through the field where I harvest my grain.....
Load More Replies...Let me borrow your car and I'll make it happen
Load More Replies...It would seem that someone attempted to recreate The Italian Job. 🙍♀️
everybody involved in this situation is going to have the worst day ever. Where do you even begin to make this go right?
Downvotes are to get unsavoury characters banned, not to blast an opinion... 🙂
Load More Replies...That’s fine. I didn’t ever want to sleep peacefully again anyway.
We must protect this kitten at all costs. We shall take revenge!!!
Load More Replies...*takes out notepad and spins in spinny chair* who's the person and what's their address
That's exactly how I work out! Only, I don't waste my energy taking a chair to the gym... or me... real time saver too
My office gym provides the office chair, but you have to fill out a requisition form, in triplicate, 10 days in advance. Signed by your supervisor. And your doctor.
If the poo isn't real can't they just levitate it outside of their body right into the toilet
Load More Replies..."But we've built it too small, there's no room for a sink!" "Hold my beer."
I do believe, that IS what he's doing... I think he's trying to use his weight and the large jug to "pop" the bow up when enough water is removed...
Load More Replies...Clearly he's not in very deep water and in any risk of drowning. If your bow and stern are still above water then you've not sunk! This guy knows exactly what he is doing and working hard at it. He's clearly brought on ballast with that plastic liquid container. That additional weight at the back of the boat is keeping it level so he can bail it out. Bloody great boatmanship.
I've successfully made grilled cheese on a clothes iron...
Load More Replies...Even if you rearrange the capital letters you still get nonsense Escape Anyone Can Ban Have!
Jimmy Buffett died and it broke the brains of all the Salt Life people.
You want medical advice from a naked robot doctor? What ever turns you on I suppose
Load More Replies...Robot voice: “You have fallen, and you can’t get up. I will poke you in the back. Do not resist.”
I'm struggling to find the right "starter pack" joke. I really just don't know.
School lockdown??? which is not funny!!! I'm going to get so many downvotes 😕 seriously tho living in the US, that's what it brings to mind!
Load More Replies...What makes you think this is American? Because that's who everyone on BP lives to hate?
Load More Replies...why does this make me feel the most uncomfortable out of all of these? i literally want to throw up.
Some of these at the bottom, including this one, should be much higher on this list.
The Allen Carr method actually does work though. He wrote a book and he expects you to continue smoking while you read the book. I got to the end of the book and realised I hadn't had a cigarette for 4 days. Haven't smoked since and that was 14 years ago. Before then I was easily a packet a day smoker and I started when I was 13yrs old.
Same here. The book just explains that addiction to nicotin is very easy to fight as it just gives a vague hollowness sensation. Most of the addiction to tobacco is psychologic and the book helps a lot to go through it, withtout getting mad. I don't know about this game but the book is a must read for all smokers. And there is no religious b******t or other crazy stuff inside.
Load More Replies...I thought it said "Stop smoking with alien care" but I'm not sure a thorough probing is gonna help
I thought that said Alan Carr, and that would be a very different product
IIRC, this was during the height of the BLM stuff in the US and these shirts originally said something like “sorry for being white”
When the cost of a commercial vaping device is just too much...
Oh please don't say fusion.... bad memories of a bad, bad illegal night club
Load More Replies...Ugh, girl! Clean your nails! And "off" is right, you turning everyone Off!
They could have spent that time cleaning from under their finger nails instead
Shoey, shoey, shoey! Jk- I hate the whole shoey (drinking from a shoe, often by music artists on stage in Australia) thing.
Well, they used to drink champagne out of a lady's slipper...why not soup?
"It's best if you try to not think about...it at all!"
Load More Replies...If that's powered, it's a DIY garbage disposal... chop up those chucks before flushing
Yep and I bet some numpty would park so close you couldn't get the door open enough to get in
Seems to be a deliberate trend these days to leave the bottom text like that. Dunno why, but I see it all the time now.
Load More Replies...This is probably super funny if you know what all the words mean. Edit: Thanks guys! It IS funny! 😃😃
I feel like most of this could be put on display in a museum curated by Crispin Glover.
I feel like most of this could be put on display in a museum curated by Crispin Glover.
