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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily
Plenty of us Pandas are real fans of horror stories, right? Spooky movies, scary novels (hello, Mr. King!), and thrilling, chilling radio plays set our teeth on edge and give us goosebumps that will last all night. But do you ever wonder about real-life creepiness? Reality can often be scarier than whatever nightmarish things our imaginations come up with… and here’s the proof.
Redditor u/Vacancier1807 started up a thread that’s perfect for the post-Halloween period. They asked people to share some very (emphasis on very) creepy facts. Internet users obliged and what follows are some truly terrifying real-life facts that will keep me awake thinking about them for many nights to come.
Scroll down for the creepiest facts, as shared on this r/AskReddit thread.
However, a note of warning: this post and the sense of impending doom it brings with it might not be for everyone. If at any moment you feel like it’s all too much for you, then I cordially invite you to check out my wholesome and soothing gardening article on Bored Panda right over here.
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#1
Bacteria and viruses can be frozen for millions of years and still be viably infectious, and having never encountered humanity before, could have no end of catastrophic results should they be uncovered and manage to infect a person or animal.
Not to worry though, it’s not like millions of ancient pathogens are currently trapped in permafrost which is now melting bit by bit each and every day...
Rissie 4 years ago
Lucky for us we have more than enough living bacteria and virusses in animal and plant reservoirs that will do the trick. And first of all, they will have to encounter a host. Second, their moment of thawing will hardly be ideal circumstances to go on and procreate to begin with, third we evolved on the same planet. They will be vastly different, but also not evolved any further. Other micro organisms will most likely compete them out of existence if any of those two factors end up favorably and if they don't our immune systems were built on their descendants. And we have the advantage of quickly developing techniques to counter effects. So yes, there could be challenges. But nothing larger than we already face.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
To your "advantage of quickly developing techniques to counter effects" all I have to say is look at COVID vaccine, masks and lockdown resistance. Quickly developing techniques are only effective if people are willing to use it.
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Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
That would be a plot twist to the end of himanity. Virus? No. Climete change? No. WW3? No. Velociraptors.
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Corona is just a little taste of what's to come. I hope we learned enough to be able to handle the next pandemic better. Ah, who am I kidding? Don't get your vaccinations people, we're all going to die anyway!
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
Absolutely!! But... climate deniers... Eh, nothing to see here!
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
They have been drilling ice cores out of Antarctica and Lake Vostok for ages, and re-animating viruses and bacteria they find. "They" meaning mostly the Russians, but other scientists from other countries have been doing this, too. I'm a bit stunned that people haven't either been told or don't care, and that it's allowed. As you say, there are things we have zero immunity to and have no idea what "it" would do or mutate into. People have thrown out the conspiracy theory that certain countries I won't name, who sell us everything we buy, are looking for something unheard of and rare to weaponize. New bacteria species have been found. There are over 20 lakes that have been buried under ice and untouched, in Antarctica. It's very scary. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21709225 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12578
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
We're not sure on millions, since after millions of years, they'd be fossils, but yes, there are organisms in the permafrost that can re"animate".
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#2
One reason why crows and ravens are associated with death is because they would often follow armies as they marched into battle. Being both carrion birds and extremely intelligent, they realized that a large group of armed men marching in one direction meant that there would be a tasty meal of corpses to eat soon afterward.
Laugh or not 4 years ago
They are smart enough to know that a large group of humans are going to do a dumb thing.
Rosemarie Fritzell 4 years ago
I personally would associate the humans with death for that reason.
Mateo Buysse 4 years ago
I honestly think this is kinda amazing. And yes, birds are underrated.
#3
The smell of a freshly cut lawn is actually a chemical distress signal released from the grass as it's cut.
You're smelling the souls and screaming of the innocent.
Aaricia 4 years ago
More like vegan taxidermy. The greengrocer is more of a vegan butcher.
Load More Replies... Brendan Roberts 4 years ago
A distress signal? So they're telling other blades of grass to make a run for it?
Question everything 4 years ago
Yes. The blade that runs is called a Blade runner.
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third molar 4 years ago
I was thinking its more like a haircut. If you heard my kids screaming during a haircut, you would be wondering if we are butchering them !!!
Karen Grace 4 years ago
Except when the haircut is done the kids are unharmed. The grass has been sliced in half.
Load More Replies... More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
I'm guessing the ribbon we should wear to create awareness of this travesty is green.
Isabella 4 years ago
Oh mein Gott, I will never be able anymore to to enjoy the smell of fresh cut grass!
Even though these facts aren’t for everyone, a lot of you Readers might be unable to stop scrolling and reading. It’s hard to take your eyes off spooky facts and stories. I recently spoke about our fascination with horror and Halloween with Lee Chambers, an environmental psychologist and wellbeing consultant from the UK.
"The whole ethos of Halloween and the flirting with evil and death is fascinating because it is a place we rarely go as humans, especially in today's safe and sanitized world," Lee told Bored Panda.
#4
Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia at the embalmers.
yeciye 4 years ago (edited)
Sounds like especially dead women are not safe. Honestly, time to die with a strategically placed mousetrap.
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Ksenia M 4 years ago
honestly, that sounds so sensational that I'm gonna need sources. Figuring out the reasons for why ancient cultures did one thing or another is always tricky in the best of cases, and explanation for funerary rites is never simple even today.
Ksenia M 4 years ago
yeah. According to the anthropologist Andrew Wade of McMaster University: "Some believe that the bodies of women were left to decompose for at least a few more days for fear of necrophilia. That, according to Wade, is an ancient urban legend. “The idea of postponing the embalming to deter necrophiles comes to us from Herodotus, whose account has been shown to be little more than an ancient tourist story by the empirical evidence,” he said regarding this rumor. “He also has a lovely account of giant gold-digging ants."
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Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
C'mon! A necrophiliac embalmer wouldn't be stopped by a little rot.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
if this is actually true, it sounds more like a mountain solution for a mole-hill problem
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#5
The bottom of Lake Superior is cold enough that the bodies of dead sailors just...remain. They don't really decompose because it's at freezing temperatures, so they instead get a coating of adipocere, which is liquid body fat, hardened around them.
Theenbypotat 4 years ago
Fun fact: bodies that have a coating of adipocere are often called soap corpses, because of the appearance of the fat surrounding them. The youtube channel ask a mortician made a super cool video on cave diving corpses. It covers some of the science of adipocere.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago (edited)
Adding that place to my "never visit" list. I'd rather not see dead bodies on my vacation.
Foustri 4 years ago
You won't. Lake Superior is 1332 feet or 406 meters deep.
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Jane Thorne-Gutierrez 4 years ago
"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead"...The Edmond Fitzgerald ( Gordon Lightfoot).
Chyppa Homer 4 years ago (edited)
Well, this will give the 'something touched my feet' scare some new depth, come summer. Thanks loads !
Glirpy 4 years ago
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, When the skies of November turn gloomy.
#6
Blobfish in its natural habitat looks like a normal fish, but it lives so deep under water that it doesn't use a normal gas bladder to keep itself balanced. Instead, it has a spongy skin that is slightly less dense than water, which becomes damaged and bloated when fishermen bring it up too quickly.
It's not really the ugliest fish. It has just experienced something worse than one of us being thrown into outer space. Between sea level and space, there's one atmospheric pressure of difference. Between sea level and 2000 feet under water, their upper limit, there's 60 atmospheres of difference.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Because of the pressure it makes the blob fish look like it's been turned inside out. I would say that it's highly unlikely a blob fish would survive being brought to the surface.
Virgil Blue 4 years ago
I'm glad, I wouldt wish such a fate on anyone (or anyfish)
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Slick 4 years ago
Poor thing has suffered an unimaginably horrible death, still gets called ugly afterward.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Why not show a picture of a blobfish in its normal environment? Would help make the point -- instead of this misleading picture of a pufferfish???
Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago
https://www.uniguide.com/blobfish-facts-respect-for-the-ugliest-fish/
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Here is the correct image of a normal blobfish, and what happens to the poor animals for those who don't know. Blobfish-R...eefcb2.jpg 
Biba Little 4 years ago
Poor little fish. Don't get it out of water just to laugh at her, it's so inhumane!
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
When it's pulled out of the water so fast it just... explodes. Imagine being pulled out of the waterand suffering irreversible skin damage just to be called the ugliest fish the the ocean. Rough man.
Psychologist Lee explained that during Halloween we get to explore darker sides without anyone judging us. What’s more, we get to test our emotive responses to fear in a safe, controlled manner.
"We can get the adrenaline rush of being scared, all while knowing we are in control and can exit the situation if it’s too much. We also cognitively know it’s not real, so we can trigger ourselves and test how we respond to threats, giving us the ability to practice coping mechanism for difficult times in life," Lee said.
#7
Rosemary Kennedy was JFK’s sister. She suffered from oxygen deprivation at birth and that unfortunately stunted her mental growth. She had a pretty decent childhood, but as she grew older she began to act out. Afraid that her behavior would risk his political career, her father, Joseph, agreed to have her lobotomized. Her mother, Rose, was against it and forbade him from doing it. So he did it behind her back when she went on a trip.
After the operation, Rosemary’s already low IQ was lowered even further, to the point she could no longer walk or communicate. Her family had her locked up in an institution and basically disowned her. They never visited and never publicly acknowledged her anymore. Rosemary died at the age of 86.
Her mother never for gave her husband for what he had done.
Paul Rabit 4 years ago
Actually this is not entirely accurate. While her father never visited, other family members did. In fact, Rosemarys sister Eunice founded the Special Olympics - in part - because of her relationship with Rosemary, and a lot of funding for, and appreciation for those suffering mental and physical disabilities was brought to light in the 60s because of Eunices efforts (with the Kennedy Family backing). Prior to that time, many of the intellectually and physically disabled were swept under the rug as a matter of course.
ThoughtsAreNotFacts 4 years ago
Thank you for adding this important note! She was not entirely forgotten and Eunice made it her life mission to change perceptions on ability.
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Mich 4 years ago
She suffered oxygen deprivation at birth because the midwife was in attendance but not the doctor. Midwives weren’t allowed to deliver so they delayed delivery until the Doc arrived.
eBaker 4 years ago
Also, as heartless as it might have been, after JFK was done with hiding her and no longer a threat to the family political career, he signed a bill in 1963 to stop mental institutionalization. Mental health patients were no longer treated like prisoners being locked up and more of an outpatient/community based clinic was born. I often struggle to think that move was either an attempt to use his sister once again to gain positive publicity or try to 'ask for forgiveness' for sacrificing his sister by treating her so terribly.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
Hm, the story I was told in school is because she was rebelling against her parents' strict house rules and part of the defiance was dating an "unapproved" boy, so done to not "embarrass" her father. Going to look into it I think.
Jill 4 years ago
I think Bailey Sairan mentioned this in her version of the tale as well. It was the family's response to thinking that she could have sex.
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Jane Thorne-Gutierrez 4 years ago
What is a " natural" death? The other sisters died as older women with age related disease which is not unnatural.
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Lisa Campbell 4 years ago
Rosemary wanted to have a boyfriend and have sex. Completely normal for a young lady. Her father was terrified that the public would find out or that she would get pregnant. He was a monster.
#8
If you get a blood transfusion and get the wrong type of blood, one of the symptoms is 'a sense of impending doom.'
juztme 4 years ago
I had 5 in my whole life. Never felt anything like that. You feel great after getting (the right) blood. Red cheeks, healty glow, tons of energie!! I Know how vampires should feel 🤣
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Florence 4 years ago
i already feel a sense of impending doom and ive never gotten a blood transfusion
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
These days it seems if you haven't ever felt "a sense of impending doom", then are you really paying attention?
KatieCoxie 4 years ago
When I was bleeding out I had a sense of impending doom. Possibly to do with blood pressure monitors. But I felt so exhausted and knew without doubt I was going to die. Then they fixed it and pumped me full of blood and Hartmann solution and I stopped feeling full of doom. Weird.
#9
Crocodiles can gallop like horses. I don't like knowing this so I am cursing you people with this knowledge as well. Fortunately, alligators cannot.
fire bug 4 years ago
Sounds like a weird band name... "The Galloping Crocs".
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Imagine the crocboys waving their crocboy hats and shouting "get along little croccies."
Iggy 4 years ago
And when they start teasing and shoving each other, they'll say it's just crocplay.
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glowworm2 4 years ago
Yes! I also thought of Chiquita the crocodile scampering over to say hi! I love that video.
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glowworm2 4 years ago
I've seen a video of a crocodile doing this when being called like a dog. It's actually adorable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78CxqRl7NE
Claudia Coulson 3 years ago
It's all fun and games till it gallops at you... "OH GOD STEVE RUN FOR IT THERES A CROC GALLOPING AT US!"
"We can explore the taboos of negative emotions like fear in a playful way, see where our limits lie, and do it in a supportive environment with other people. Getting scared and mastering our fear with scary entertainment and curated shocks can make us feel like we can take on all sorts of challenges, and can even feel like therapy when we take into account the physiological rush we get and the feeling of having survived."
#10
If the sun exploded right now, you would be blissfully unaware of it for just over eight minutes while the energy travels at the speed of light to get to you.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Of course it would. The whole earth would vaporize instantly.
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Poultry Geist 4 years ago
I wonder if we would get a text alert? My phone texts: 4 min til impending doom My 1st thought: is this from my blood transfusion?
Donkey boi 4 years ago
It's actually a strange paradox, the effects would be both instantaneous and delayed. As the sun expands, it's gravitational force increases as the star collapses in on itself, pulling us towards it at the speed of light. Meanwhile, a shock wave will be blasted out which will travel towards us at the speed of light, so technically, we will be destroyed faster than the speed of light. HOWEVER, we would no longer be looking at time as we commonly think of it, we would then be dealing with space time, which is relative to the forces applied. The density created by the gravitational force of the sun would stretch time and so we wouldn't feel the effect for a millennia but also instantly.
Tinykame 4 years ago
Serious question. Would a shock wave or gravitational pull move at the speed of light? I thought light speed was exclusively light.
Load More Replies... Sheila Stamey 4 years ago
We would have just enough time to say, "What's going on with the darn internet?"
ғɪɴɴ ᴅ. ʜᴀʀᴍᴀɴɴ 4 years ago
Hey Sun, if u explode, don't take the strain to reach us, just.. STAY WHERE YOU ARE!
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
It can't happen at night because for sun to explode it has to be there. At night there is no sun.
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
I'm almost sure it wouldn't explode without some sort of subtle warning...like spending millions of years turning into a red giant that envelops the earth and evaporates it, before collapsing and THEN exploding. So not really something to be worried about.
#11
Elmer McCurdy was a failed old west “outlaw.” His preserved body was put on display in a traveling carnival and years later he was eventually assumed to be a mannequin until he was used on set for the TV show the Six Million Dollar Man. His arm accidentally fell off during the shoot, revealing bone and muscle and that he was a corpse, not a mannequin.
Lisa Samuelson 4 years ago
I totally remember this episode because I lived in Long Beach, CA at the time and that's were the Nu-Pike was located where he was found!! I spent a lot of time at the Nu-Pike because my parents just divorced and there was not much to do for a single dad with 4 kids!!
Gelato Cat 4 years ago
What's interesting is that there was no legal liability for the company, because he was "out of the law"
michael hale 4 years ago
Actually he was on display at the Long Beach Pike fun house for years before the TV show was filmed at the amusement park.
#12
Cockroaches have been recorded eating human flesh, both living and dead, as well as fingernails, eyelashes, feet, and hands. The American cockroach and German cockroach are more likely to bite humans than other species.
Pretty sure Australian cockroaches do something equally creepy, but as an Australian who plans to sleep at some point in the future, I'm not going to google it.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
And for the next few days probably! That was NOT an information i needed to know
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Roaches are gross but I have to admit they are one of the most resilient creatures that ever exited.
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
Just about everything in Australia that crawls, swims, slithers, flies, is out to get you. 😄
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S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
Eeew! Almost like humans.. you know, eating the flesh of dead animals
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
humans and the whole lot of carnivore animals... unless you prefer to eat another being while still alive
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Ara 4 years ago
In Sydney a few years ago, an Aussie friend told me that the Sydney ones are actually German cockroaches. This didn’t really help when I saw them. Big bastards!
Candia Lee 4 years ago
German roaches are only about 1" plus antennae. American "palmetto bug" roaches are 3-4", but Australia has it's own slightly smaller roach.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I can testify to the American cockroach. Malicious little b*stards. My dad once used a shotgun to kill one, and I can't say I blame him for that particular overreaction.
Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
Yeah my aunt (she was in high school at the time) told me they eat eyebrows and I told my little sister. Recently I realized it was probably a joke or something. Nope.
#13
There is a genetic disease called fibrodisplaysia ossificans progresiva. When tissue is damaged, it is replaced with bone.
Growths form underneath their skin and their joints lock solid So over time those affected slowly become encased in a prison of bone just beneath their own skin.
They usually have to choose between sitting or standing up for the rest of their life. By the end of their life they have to drink every meal through a straw and can barely move
Nixxy 4 years ago
Especially since I once thought fossilised skin was so cool, but in truth the dinos with preserved skin probably had this :(
Load More Replies... chrissy goodman 4 years ago
i kno someone who has this. they r permenantly in a wheelchair and cant move multiple parts of there body. they can also never stand up bc they r stuck in the sitting position. she has use of her arms still so she doesnt have to eat thru a straw and she can move her neck but her lower back, hips, legs and feet r all stuck in sitting position. her parents chose the wheelchair option before most of her lower body was effected for her since she was too young to understand wat was going on wen it started. she is one of the most intellegent ppl i kno and even went to med school. she specializes in ppl with her same condition as a researcher. as of right now there is no real way to help ppl like her and her dream is to find a way before she dies. she really is incredible last time i talked to her she told me she was thinking of being her own test subject and had an operation type solution. she didnt tell me details and i kno she hasnt done it yet bc i told her not to rush it. she also is married and has an adopted son and daughter. it is a horrible and slow way to die however my friend is living life just like u and me and is happy and thats wat matters.
Load More Replies... K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia has a couple of these skeletons on display. It's even more disturbing in person.
Jill 4 years ago
The Mutter Museum is so AMAZING! A real undiscovered gem of a place that is well worth the visit. It's basically a Ripley's Believe It or Not ...but with the proof in front of you.
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UncleRussian 4 years ago
The most awful part is that it's a genetic kind of disease, so unlike cancer or any other number of treatable diseases there's not treatment or cure, you just have to accept the fact that you're going to die a very slow and painful death. Which is very f*cked if you think about it
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
Gene therapy is a thing now. Still in its early stages, but there are some promising results already.
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Monday 4 years ago
Most of these people choose to be sitting so they can use wheelchairs, but realistically standing is the better choice since that would allow you to lie down normally in bed as well.
Whatshername 4 years ago
Makes sense. How do you move from one place to another if your legs don't allow you to walk anymore?
Load More Replies... Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Suicide before it got that far. Sorry if this offends, but I couldn't face that. I'd be screaming insane inside.
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#14
It wasn't until 1987 that the American Academy of Pediatrics declared it unethical to operate on newborns without anesthesia. Until surprisingly recently, the medical community felt it would be dangerous to give infants anesthesia and/or believed that they didn't feel pain.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
How awful. Is this for all procedures including things like heart surgery or is this more for smaller things like circumcision? Either way just picturing babies being operated on without anaesthetic breaks my heart.
Brendan Roberts 4 years ago
In a documentary, I saw footage of a newborn baby getting a circumcision without anesthesia. As you can imagine, it's the most horrific thing I've ever seen (I can still hear the scream).
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
Yeah... and some gyno procedures on women are STILL performed WITHOUT anesthesia. (Cervix biopsies, among others)... medical staff not realizing or not caring about other's pain no really new news
Whodathunkit 4 years ago
I am 53. When I was 21 I had a lump in my breast. Doc figured it must be cystic. So he stick a large bored syringe about 2 inches into my breast trying to aspirate. Kept moving the needle around because he couldn't pull any fluids out. It was a solid tumor. His rationale for not using a numbing agent: lidocaine would just be another needle stick anyway, so why not just endure the procedural needle? I remember the pain ( no ptsd from it though) and I remember the horrified look on the nurses face as I squeezed her hand in distress.
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Raena Celis 4 years ago
Same here. I refused to get both my sons circumcised. I had my first son in 2004, and even then I was informed that Anesthesia was not to be administered to newborns. So I said "Then f*** that"
Load More Replies... Steph 4 years ago
My friend is traumatized by an operation w/o anesthetics as a baby - cheilognathopalatoschisis - he cannot remember consciously, but still has dreams about the incredible pain at the age of 59!
Whodathunkit 4 years ago
I can only imagine the ptsd these brutal procedures would cause :(
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 4 years ago
Even worse -- they've since concluded that newborns feel pain much more acutely than everyone else. It's very typical that people just stupidly assume that those who can't communicate don't feel pain.
Kira Okah 4 years ago
They can communicate this though, that is what makes it worse - screaming, flailing, and crying while experiencing pain is communicating that they feel that pain.
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Mount Everest is covered in frozen corpses because removing them is very unsafe and time consuming. They are easily viewed from the climbing routes and some are used as trail markers.
Glirpy 4 years ago
Humans should really stop climbing this mountain. They leave so much garbage up there it’s ridiculous. And now they also leave their own bodies with clothing that doesn’t decompose.
Shane S 4 years ago
Even leaving their own poo. It’s really just not worth it environmentally. But I assume Nepal needs the tourism.
Load More Replies... LONECOOLMAN 4 years ago
GO LEFT AT DEAD JOE AND THAN A HARD RIGHT AT DEAD GUIDE. THEN STRAIGHT TO THE PILE OF DEAD AND YOU ARE THERE!
NoneYa41 4 years ago
Yep. Saw several on my 2019 climb. They are revered and used as points of reference.
PurpleUnicorn 4 years ago
It's also a disgraceful mess of abandoned O2 canisters, tents and other detritus
Matt Upchuck 4 years ago
There is literally a song about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0slanC_XN_Y
Glirpy 4 years ago
You could just climb on his back and use him to sled back down the mountain.
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The Colombian serial killer Pedro Alonso Lopez, who is known as the Monster of the Andes, raped and murdered over 300 girls from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. However, after he was caught and imprisoned for 18 years, he was put in a psychiatric hospital. There he was reviewed, declared to be sane and was set free, in spite of his blatant avowal that he fully intends to kill again. Since he was released in 1998, nobody knows where he is or what he’s doing. ( He is supposed to be 71 years old at present).He is known for being the most prolific killer ever.
Eric Mac Fadden 4 years ago
In Brazil the most time you can be in jail is 30 years, and ALWAYS released or escape way before that
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Vlacas12 4 years ago
Fun fact: His entry of being "the most prolific serial killer" in the 2006 Guinness world records was removed after complaints, that it made a competition out of murder.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's sad that raping and killing people are released into society after some time because "that's the humane thing to do." No, the "humane thing to do" would be to protect innocent people from rapists and murderers. But for some reason most laws aren't aimed at protecting the innocent victims, but rather at reintegrating the criminal. Even if they have proven that they are too dangerous to be released into society.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Ahem... 'ONE of the most prolific killers' with 110 proven victims. Luis Garavito had 138 proven victims and is suspected of over 300 more. However the title goes to Dr Harold Shipman with 218 confirmed and as many as 250 more suspected. That being said, Police in Moscow one found a ruined journal with a list of names and locations, but the locations were things like, 'behind the train yard' and '5 yards for the tree in the centre of the park', along with the name of a town. They investigated the names with missing persons reports across all of Russia and found that every name matched a person reported missing. Due to the state of the journal, they searched many of the locations that were legible and discovered remains. The journal contained nearly 1000 names. They decided that it would take too many resources to recover all remains so they just notified families of death if their name was on the list. The Unknown killer is unofficially the most prolific killer in recorded history.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
You wonder if he was "set free" at the request of one of his victim's relatives. Maybe that's why no one can find him.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I have a suspicion he walked out of prison and into a very angry family member of a victim.
Manners are free 4 years ago
Harold shipman is the most prolific killer ever. Sent to prison for 15 murders, investigations confirmed 250 and another likely 250 over a forty year span of his career as a doctor. The coward then committed suicide after sentencing
Jonathan 4 years ago
I'm almost certain he has been taken out by the cartel by this point, especially if one of his victims was a relative of a cartel member which may be likely.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
In prison is the easiest place for a cartel to put a killer in the same room as him. If they cared, he'd not have reached 300.
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Eventually there will be more dead people on Facebook than alive.
Wow thanks for the award.
Ray Martin 4 years ago
That's because it is virtually impossible to delete your account. They will not let you.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
It's even harder to delete someone else's account. Both my parents' FB accounts are still active, because I can't figure out how to delete them.
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
A lot of them will have died of COVID because they were following the anti-vaxx garbage
Verena Abt 4 years ago
Great. Even my grandchildren's grandchildren will see what a boring life I had.
Grant Barke 4 years ago
Just in case of the day of Resurrection, Judgement Day, you might need to update your profile.
Rissie 4 years ago
That's the reason? I can think of many, but it showing that we are living and breathing and dying as individuals is not.
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Sue Sanders 4 years ago
Someone always has my FB info and the ability to delete the account. Very good, 'cause I don't want to hang around after I'm no longer hanging around.
#18
Either somebody knows where Malaysia flight 370 went missing to, or nobody does. Both are equally terrifying.
Michele Viney 4 years ago
Here is an extremely good article laying everything out. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Paul Davis 4 years ago
I understood a lot of the investigation was sabotaged by the Malaysian government out of not only gross incompetence, but the fear that something about the situation might embarrass somebody in government somewhere. Priorities, you know.
Grant Barke 4 years ago
The Australian Prime Minister at the time recently said intelligence he got early in the investigation stated that the Malaysian government suspected the Captain but did not want to admit it publicly probably due to the reasons you posted.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Not really. It's a big watery bunch of nothing out there, and if the fuselage stayed intact, not that much debris or bodies to float up, is my guess, based upon the chat had with a former Airbus 320-330 commercial pilot.
Load More Replies... Jonathan 4 years ago
Serious mandela effect for me here as I could have sworn it was flight MH350. I've looked online and found 2 news articles calling it that but every single other article, page, theory says MH370.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
There were 2 Malaysian flights that disappeared pretty close together. One crashed and was found so that may be it...
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WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
People act like this is still a mystery, but they've got pretty conclusive proof that they know exactly what happened...
#19
If you stifle a sneeze there’s a chance you can damage organs in your head, including eye blood vessels, rupturing your eardrums, and possibly rupture a brain aneurysm. Which means there’s a small chance stifling a sneeze can kill you. Better to be the loud ass with the sneeze that can be heard around the world than a dead loud ass cause someone told you to stifle that sneeze
H Edwards 4 years ago
My dad drummed this one into me as a kid. I had to train my partner not to do it as well, and he now has the loudest sneeze I've ever heard. Still better than stifling it, although he often makes me jump out of my skin.
LazyPanda 4 years ago
As long as you cover your nose and mouth with your weenus. Idk where people got the idea to try not to sneeze...you just have to try not to spread it to everyone.
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DuchessDegu 4 years ago
If you have a cat(s) on your lap and DON'T stifle a sneeze, you have a 100% chance of activating the murder mittens
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Don't stifle! Just have the USGS on speed dial to let them know it's a false alarm/no quake.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
Me too... and I know for years that it's bad but it's very difficult to stop it cause I'm doing it for years and it's a habit
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The first time I had ear surgery it was stressed to me not to stifle a sneeze, otherwise my eardrums would rupture. Just let it out through your mouth. This will prevent that from happening. After 3 surgeries now, on both ears at the same time, it's just habit. I get some looks but no possibility of damage.
#20
More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Another thing to think about is a decimal point can kill you on a script!
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Carla Beck 4 years ago
I worked at a hospital 2 years ago with a doctor who had terrible writing. I was not allowed to ask what he wrote because it would upset his God Complex. I would spend 12 hour shifts trying to decipher what it was he wanted patients to have. It felt so dangerous, I quit.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
I didn't care who they were or how angry they got or how loud they yelled at me. Either tell me and I'll write a verbal order or I'm not doing it because I'm not doing anything I'm not 100% sure about. The law and my college would back me up on this. Get over yourself doc.
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Caroline Nagel 4 years ago
Good thing that nowadays we have computers and printers, so handwritten prescriptions are no longer necessary. My prescriptions are sent directly to my pharmacist.
Earl Grey 4 years ago
I can’t remember the last time I saw a handwritten prescription. They’re either transmitted electronically or printed out on a laser printer for signature.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
There was a study done in the mid 90s where some Israeli doctors went on strike for several months. Over that time the mortality rate for that population went down. Also, because doctors never identify themself as a cause of death, a study has shown that medical mistakes are actually the 2nd leading cause of death in the US.
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
I am not sure how accurate this is. Maybe it once was but with EMRs and everything communicated electronically now, this number seems inflated.
Mary Jeffries 4 years ago
I am always impressed at how much safer electronic charting is. No messy handwriting and nurses scan their patients then the medications before administration. When I think of how we used to do it, it scares me.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
The best thing to happen in medicine is the *printout* of instructions and medications. I've seen handwriting so awful in the profession that even knowing the case, I had no idea what the doc in charge wanted. Was that cypro or cipro? Something HCL or Something BID (and yes, that can look the same in some handwriting!)
#21
In 2015, a young woman began to have headaches. They discovered that she had a brain tumor, and when the doctors removed it, they were shocked to see that it was a lump resembling skin that contained bone, teeth, and hair. But this was no parasitic twin: the mass was called a “teratoma,” or “monstrous tumor.” When the woman was an embryo, some cell tissue fell off and ended up where wasn’t supposed to be, her brain. It then develop hair and teeth while the rest of her grew as normal.
Not A Panda 4 years ago
I have one of these on my ovaries. It has teeth. I think I have the original vagina dentata (yes, yes, I know).
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
Hairy, toothy tumors...yep, sounds about right.
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Heather Bushnell 4 years ago (edited)
I had a dermoid cyst removed from (and including) my left ovary last year. The cyst (we named him Dermot) required two hands to hold it and had teeth and hair.
Fish Boden 4 years ago
"required two hands to hold it" holy moly! I can't even imagine.
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Tinykame 4 years ago
I had one on my brain as a new born and it grew so quickly I was within hours of dying and was rushed into surgery at Duke. Only two hospitals could perform the operation at the time as I was the youngest ever to have one.. one in California and Duke. And fwiw I was always so embarrassed to talk about my scar. This is actually the first time I've admitted to it. 🤷♀️
Boredest Panda 4 years ago
For some reason I think that is so cool. Your story, I mean
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
Teratomas were considered magical artifacts in the past -- actually there are likely people today who still think they are, and will pay big money for one.
#22
There’s a parasite that enters a fish’s mouth, eats the tongue and replaces itself as the fish’s new tongue
#23
It was once discovered that a fir tree was growing inside a human body. Artyom Sidorkin went to the doctors suspecting something wrong with his lungs. The doctors thought they were dealing with a tumor but turns out he had inhaled a fir tree seed which had sprouted and had begun growing in his lungs.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
The same way as any buried seed, using the food stored in the seed until the sprout becomes big enough to reach sunlight and begin photosynthesis.
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kjorn 4 years ago
remember i told my girl to not eat the apple core because the seeds could sprout and tree could grow inside her. one day she was eating an appel and suddendly she start crying... but crying so loud it was scary. She eated a seed by accidents and was terrified. took me a min to stop laughing, get a straight face and told her she would be ok
panda_legerdemain 4 years ago
There was once a story on Discovery channel about a woman who had a pea stuck in her lung and it sprouted.. lungs are warm and humid so it was possible
#24
People don't take their antimalarial drugs when they travel because they hear bad stories about the side effects and they see native people in the areas living OK without taking pills every day. The truth is, populations native to malaria-endemic areas have all passed through pretty intense natural selection for survival and have a host of genes that prevent them from dying or suffering the other worst effects. Also, most of the resistance is built up over time, this is why it's most common for children to die rather than adults. Whatever people have heard about the side effects of the antimalarials, getting it is so much worse. I, fortunately, have never had it, but I study it as part of my work and people have told me about having it and they all say the same thing - it is so awful you can't believe you're even still alive. It comes in cycles, usually 48-hours, and each cycle is agonizing and brings you the brink of death, sometimes it takes you, sometimes is spares you for another few hours until it starts again. And there are forms that, even if you clear the infection with drugs, it still remains dormant in your system and can come back at any time.
Laugh or not 4 years ago
There is an approved vaccine at last! The WHO and UNICEF in Africa will start the vaccination campaigns. While it is only partially effective, it is still such a massive hope to reduce child death on that continent.
Ayley Holsworth 4 years ago
Some folks cannot take anti malarial medication as they are allergic. While not ideal you can take plenty of precautions. Also if you visit regularly they can mask tge symptoms of malaria
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Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
Living in African countries for most of my childhood and teen years, I've taken malaria medication for all that time, and unfortunately caught it as a small child. Because of this, I can never give blood, and my brother's eyesight was permanently damaged. I can also say, that the side effects of one of the types of medication I took caused waking nightmares for some people, luckily for me, it only caused extremely vivid dreams. All this being said, take your malaria meds., because the alternative is much worse.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
Ironically, anti-vax Americans are now taking anti-malaria drugs (hydroxychloroquine).
Paul Davis 4 years ago
On mutation example is sickle cell anemia -- the blood cells are misshaped such that the parasite can't survive in them. Though this makes them less effective at carrying oxygen, so is not a wonderful mutation to have outside of malaria-infested areas.
Tabitha Martel 4 years ago
Came here to say this! Such a weird mutation. Here, you can't pass oxygen through your blood as well as others but, you can't catch malaria so you're welcome.
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Kobus Loots 4 years ago
This is true, I live in South Africa malaria is quite common in the north of our country. most of us who where born there get malaria take two days off and then we are fine again.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
Even more disturbing: They used to purposefully infect people with malaria as a treatment for syphilis. The fever caused by malaria suppressed the syphilis for a while. It's called pyrotherapy, and the guy who invented it won a Nobel prize for it.
Krista Selig Paradowski 4 years ago
I lived in Zaire, now DRC, for 11 years, took the antimalarial medicine and still came down with malaria about every 3 or 4 months. It was just like having the flu most of the time, but there were a couple times when I ended up at the doctor's house. I contracted it again when I went back to visit 9 years ago. Thankfully, my family doctor here in Canada is from South Africa, so he knew what it was and gave me the meds I needed right away as the lab didn't recognize it.
#25
It’s quite common after you die to burp a lot as you have more gas build up. Dead bodies can also sit up on their own sometimes
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
My Granny was a trainee nurse back in the early 50's and she told me of a corpse that burped when she was moving them to the morgue. She screamed and ran like the wind haha.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
The worst is the ones who twitch. My brain knows it's residual neural discharge, blah blah blah. The rest of me wants to wet my pants and scream. *sigh*
Load More Replies... Kyle 4 years ago
And bodies can explode from gas buildup in sealed coffins, which sell for more because they keep the body “fresh”.
David Feder 4 years ago
A friend's father was one of the guards of the Holocaust mass murderer Adolf Eichmann and later on the team that executed for his war crimes. He had described Eichmann as the very definition of evil, creepy in the extreme and having "dead shark eyes." The guy was 19 at the time and had to take Eichmann's body down after the hanging. When he loosened the rope from the neck, Eichmann let out a half burp half groan and it scared him so bad he dropped the body and started screaming. The colleague helping him started laughing and explained what was going on. (They then cremated the body and disposed of the ashes in international waters in the Mediterranean in case anyone is wondering.)
therarestbanana 4 years ago
They can not sit up. Yes, they get rigor mortis where the muscles stiffen. But it's not that extreme and goes away after a while as decomposition progresses. I recommend the Ask A Mortician videos on YouTube, she has a lot of interesting information!
bonnyatlast 4 years ago
They can moan. I had an Uncle who worked as a beautician for the dead for a while. Make up hair cut for open casket funerals. He told us they moan to release air built up in their lungs.
#26
In the Czech Republic, there is a church called The Sedlec Ossuary that has decorations made entirely of human bones. This happened because there were too many people in the cemetery to bury everyone, and the church leaders claimed that if their bones became part of the church, it only made them closer to God. Nice propaganda spin there, guys.
Alberto Alves 4 years ago
"Capela dos Ossos" Évora, Portugal. Here there are at least six more capela-dos...3958ce.jpg 
F. H. 4 years ago
Bad explanation. Every old European cemetery had an ossuary, as the space in which you were allowed to bury dead, was dependent on the size of the church. Small cemeteries had to be cleared of bones for every burial, and those went into an ossuary. In Sedlec they just decided to make art out of the bones in the 19th century, probably after seeing similar older examples in Italy. It was more or less a tourist attraction from the start.
January Tempis 4 years ago
I totally want my bones made into wind chimes after I die. I'm weird, I know.
Deep One 4 years ago
Graves used to not be permanent. You'd be buried and eventually your bones would be dug up and thrown in the boneyard. I imagine they worked the grave yard in rotation the way a farmer rotates fields so by the time they got to that section of the cemetery you would have had time to rot away to just bones. I think they also threw stuff like lime in to hasten decomposition. I know sarcophaguses were originally made of limestone for that purpose and the word sarcophagus means flesh eater. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcophagus
#27
From Atlas Obscura by Foer, Thuras, and Morton: Necropants (Reader's discretion advised) In Iceland, a long ass time ago (17th c), friends followed complex rules to obtain a dead man's skin to turn them into pants. You had to get permission from the dude to use his skin after he kicked the bucket. You would then wait until burial formalities concluded. You would rob the s**t out of your buddy's grave. You would cut the waist and peel the bottom half of the body off in one perfect flay. You would then steel a coin from a poor widow, preferably your bud's. Place the coin in the scrotum of the necropants to attract cosmic s**t, specifically more wealth in life, and leave the groin full of coins at all times. Pass that s**t down to your kid. Fun fact: The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft has a pair on display for all of us sickos to gawk at.
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
the steps involved with making a pair of trousers from a dead man's skin , and why you would want to, and where to go to see examples of the art
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Requiem 4 years ago
thats because its a different religion than what he follows
Load More Replies... Not A Panda 4 years ago
It is highly unlikely these pants ever existed outside of folklore and the pair in the Museum is a replica, not real.
Requiem 4 years ago
Nope, Ive worked in a museum like Ben Stiller in that movie. Theres some creepy s**t in there. things made out of humans isnt unheard of. These are like leather pants Axel Rose wears
Load More Replies... Rannveig Ess 4 years ago (edited)
Nábrók (calqued as necropants, literally "corpse britches") are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man or woman, which are believed in Icelandic witchcraft to be capable of producing an endless supply of money. It is highly unlikely these pants ever existed outside of folklore. In other words, reading spell books and Grimoires really need to know it's mostly bull sh1t. So no, they're not real. Never happened. Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns, either. :)
RoseTheMad 4 years ago (edited)
They're known as "Nábrók" and it is in fact very unlikely that this practice existed outside of folklore legends. , the pair on display in the Museum is a replica of what a pair would look like, they were made by an artist: Árni Páll Jóhannsson.
#28
The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger most likely didn’t die until they hit the water miles below the initial explosion.
Jonathan 4 years ago
Where was a group of Karens when they were needed most?!
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
They were, most likely, unconscious on their way down. That's a little consolation.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
Almost certainly. Rapid decompression at 46,000 ft altitude.
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A friend I worked with came to work a few days later and told us she dreamt they were at the bottom of the ocean still in their compartment, that it remained intact during the explosion. We told her that wasn't possible. That's exactly how they were when found. Creepy.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
I was reading about a plane crash from years ago recently. They've been trying to do an emergency landing but at one point they've realised that they wouldn't make it. The last recorded words from the pilot were along the lines of „This is it. We're dying. Goodbye.” I still get the chills.
J.L. Martin 4 years ago
I was in middle school in FL. We'd have fire drills so we'd have an excuse to watch a daytime launch. I was a stone's throw from Cape Canaveral. We all watched it explode, and then had to go home where the news just kept playing it on repeat. I still get nauseous when I think about it. </3
Catherine Miles 4 years ago
My older sisters both watched it too in school. We were all born in Miami, FL. But crazier still is my Mom had dreamed about the explosion weeks before. She told one friend about her horrible dream. Her friend was calling her frantically when they saw it on the TV. At that time it was unbelievable that such a thing would or could happen. In my Mom's dream she saw the explosion just like they showed in on the screen against the blue sky, the after that she saw the Concord Jet plane sitting on the ground then it exploded too. Thankfully the Concord jet never exploded. But when she learned about how they didn't die fully til they hit the water, she learned the Teacher who was on that flight was from Concord CT. It still creeps us out.
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Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Worse still is the fact they probably regained consciousness before they died, which means they had a good few seconds of knowing exactly what was coming and having absolutely nothing they could do about it.
Trina Selleck 3 years ago
38 years old, and whilst I’ve heard of space shuttle challenger, I’ve always thought it was the name of a space shuttle in some Hollywood movie… am about to google it…. How shocked will I b about whatever happened to it will be nothing in comparison to how dumb I must seem to fellow pandas 🫤
Sue Sanders 4 years ago
As a sub teacher at a small town high school, I watched a class of about 15 students stand up and cheer when I announced this had happened. No, I don't teach now.
Martha Higgins 4 years ago
I was watching that explosion from the cockpit of a DC-8 while flying from West Palm Beach (PBI) to Atlanta (ATL) that morning. So very sad.
#29
There are upwards of 300 active serial killers in the world
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
I've made this comment before, but I wonder whether a serial killer has unknowingly killed another serial killer.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Yes! Pedro Rodrigues Filho, from Brazil, was a serial killer who, thanks to circumstances, found his focus to be criminals. Found guilty of 71 murders, but he claims there were many more (over 100), including 3 active serial killers.
Load More Replies... Monday 4 years ago
This isn't counting normal murderers though. If we chuck them into the mix the figures would be higher.
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Jill 4 years ago
I wonder if this a Fermi question to be honest sort of like approximating how many people in a city might be plumbers.
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CNN has had a pre-recorded broadcast from the 90’s which they will premiere during the end of the world
yeciye 4 years ago (edited)
"Ladies and gentlemen, please pause your looting and orgies for a quick announcement. It seems that this is actually the end of the world. I'd say it's been an honour but it hasn't. Sod off. Yours sincerely, CN - Our Stocks Will Now Go Down But We Don't Care - N." (fanfare)
Rockstar 4 years ago
Plot twist: it's every vine and meme ever. Starting in the 90's and they just keep adding to it. That way you can die disappointed in humanity.
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
Actually I would like that. A last laugh before the world ends
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Meaghan Stewart 3 years ago
Oh my god could you imagine, though? Like, it’s the end of the world in 2040 and then this gets played and you’re thrown back to the ‘90s in your head and you’re all “oh come on… I have to think about the ‘90s as I die!?”
#31
1 in 100 people are psychopaths.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Which is evidence that being one is not an excuse for being a murderer or serial killer. Psychopaths still know what's right and wrong and can choose to stay on the right path. It's just a much more conscious and continuous choice than for the rest of us.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Did you ever read about the neuroscientist James Fallon? Really fascinating story. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814/
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Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
Psychopathy gets a bad press. There are many benefits to having psychopaths in our society. In any case . . . . . stop beating up on people just because of their differences!
Donkey boi 4 years ago
A worldwide study put the figure at around 4.5%. The official figure in the united states alone is between 0.2% and 3.3%. A study of the prisons in the U.S found just over 35% of inmates were clinically psychopaths.
mentally unstable rat 4 years ago
probably me :) most definitely have psychosis,, which rlly suck but like im f ine
#32
You're more likely to be murdered by someone you know than a stranger
HorrorEyeArcade 4 years ago
hate to be that person but you probably mean asocial. anti-social behavior generally is characterized by aggressive, harmful, reckless, and even criminal behavior
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Wise beauty 4 years ago
Helpful hint for many people, if you get in some Uber or a taxi or something, give them an address like a block or so away from your house
burntmarshmallow 4 years ago
I can understand that, people that ticks me off the most are usually my closest friends and family.. rarely strangers 😐
#33
Serial Killer Richard Chase took any unlocked door as an invitation to come inside.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Yup. When you locked your door, you had nothing to fear from him, he wouldn't attempt to break in. Polite serial killer, probably part vampire.
Viv Justviv 4 years ago
I have NEVER understood when people state with pride "We never even lock our doors!". Dude. It takes an extra second to turn the lock & you're already that much safer...in one second. Lock your doors!
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
He was nicknamed The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains. Fun at parties. Really bad parties.
Seabeast 4 years ago
Breaking in leaves evidence. He probably just didn't want to take a chance on something being traced to him.
OhForSmegSake 4 years ago
No he thought that if the door was unlocked it was a sign from God that he was meant to murder the person inside.
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The Vampire of Sacramento. This guy was sick. He drank their blood. He drank the blood of people's pets he would steel and torture too.
#34
Your brain can play tricks on you to make you see monsters in the mirror. This is called the Troxler Effect. It's an optical illusion that affects how you perceive things, both visually and mentally.
Monday 4 years ago
Most people can easily trigger this by staring into a mirror in a dark room. It's a fun pastime if you're really bored and the power is out.
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
You and I have very different definitions of 'fun pastime'.
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Sky Render 4 years ago
A similar phenomenon causes night terrors. That's when you wake up suddenly and find yourself experiencing a "living nightmare" of some sort. It's especially eerie since it doesn't necessarily happen when your higher reasoning is incapacitated; you can be entirely aware that it is all fake and still be unable to "wake" from a night terror.
Jill 4 years ago
Night terrors are really scary because the person in question has their motor skills enabled which is something that is disabled when sleeping. (Sleep walking is also another example of the same phenomenon.) So a person who is experiencing night terrors can attack someone because they litterally think they are being attacked. It's been used as a defence in several cases both legitimately and less so.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 4 years ago
Fun fact: if your own family frequently tells you such things as that you are a disgusting abomination, then you always get to see a monster in the mirror.
Lila Wells 4 years ago
I remember playing this VR game due to my cousin harassing me similar to this. You stepped inside a metal room, hit the light switch, and stared at the giant mirror covering a wall. After a few minutes, you would slowly see a shadow move behind you and come into focus because it's revealed that it is, in fact, the character you are playing. So, you. Then your suddenly grabbed and yanked through the mirror into the rest of the game (a mystery game on how to find your way out). It was quite terrifying but I didnt realize it was based on something real (ish).
#35
Your eyes have a separate immune system from the rest of your body. If they get damaged in such a way that it affects anything other than your eyes, your regular immune system can attack the damage and will not recognise them, meaning your own body can permanently blind you.
What's worse, your body cannot tell the difference between either eye. If one of them gets infected or damaged, your immune system can attack your healthy eye and take away your sight entirely.
Leesquee 4 years ago
This post is misleading. Your body develops specialized white cells for ALL your organs (which is why people with auto-immune diseases don't suffer system-wide organ failures). The eye is part of a protected system (called the blood-brain barrier, if you'd like to google) that includes your brain, too...and if that barrier is damaged, you have WAY bigger concerns than your eyes. Also, it's not that your body 'can't tell the difference between your l and r eye'; it's because antibodies are blood cells and part of the bloodstream...and, because they're specific to the eye, can pass through the blood-brain barrier. There is simply no way for the body to 'target' the infection. If you gave the person antibiotics topically, orally or intravenously it still wouldn't target 'just' the infected eye.
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Yes, lovely. My neighbour just had this happen. From 100% vision to blind in both eyes in 3 weeks. Some kind of auto-immune disease that suddenly attacked his (perfectly healthy) eyes and nothing else.
Becky Moore 4 years ago
This just happened to my friend but thankfully only one eye! This is scary as s**t!
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Anna Snorrepot 4 years ago
just let the marketing department spin it as a feature.
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Bill Kratz 4 years ago
I really didn't need to put this on my anxiety list, but thanks for the info!
#36
Polar bears are the only animals that are thought to actively hunt humans.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
It is believed that a man-eating tiger only becomes one when natural prey is either unavailable or too hard to catch. Unless we have guns, we humans are pretty defenseless.
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TitanFoxX 4 years ago
If you encounter a polar bear when hiking with a friend, you don't have to outrun the polar bear. You just have to outrun your friend.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Not true. Mountain lions will too, they just go after the smaller humans..like children. When I lived in Central Washington State, we had a mountain lion that was stalking children at the school bus stops. The parents had to escort the kids to the bus stops with rifles until Fish and Game located and put it down.
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
Not true. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-preys-on-humans-34332952/ (I really enjoy my "job" looking up facts people post and finding tons of actual information on the internet. Imagine!) :)
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
its the only land animal known however any animal would actively hunt humans if they r starved or have no other food sources. there is actually a story about a woman who hoarded cats and ended up not being able to feed them all so they went after her. when the family hadnt heard from her in while they went to check on her and found the cats using her as food. the autopsy report showed that she was alive wen the cats attacked her due to scratch and bite marks still visible and the fact she bled out. so any animal will hunt a human if they have to.
#37
If you begin to display symptoms of rabies, you will go crazy and die. There's no cure. Your brain will slowly melt until you're dead.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
There has only ever been one person that survived. There's a documentary on it. I think it's literally called The Girl who Survived Rabies.
Monday 4 years ago
Yes! She's not quite the same as she was before rabies, but she can live a normal life.
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Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
Successful treatment is however possible if started before the onset of the symptoms.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Vaccinate against rabies. Also, get the treatment immediately if you get any bite that came from an animal whose vaccination status is unknown. Include neighbors' pets in this category of "unknown". Better the treatment than death.
Richard Portman 4 years ago
The cat brought a bat into the house. It was squeaking loudly. I grabbed it out of her mouth and threw it out the door. That was a mistake. If this happens to you, keep the bat so it can be tested. I examined my hands and saw that it had bitten me. There was no blood but it had broken the skin. This happened late at night. The next day i called the Health Department. They said you need to get the shots, come in as soon as you can. The rabies shots these days are not as scary as they used to be, but you need to take a series of them. I had no serious side effects but there was soreness and swelling. I wasn't worried about the cat because she was vaccinated. We will never know if the bat had rabies because there was no specmen to be tested.
KT 4 years ago
Well, if you catch it early you can beat it with a series of treatments and people have survived rabies
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
I thought only one person has ever survived rabies?
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Wednesday 4 years ago
There is a vaccine, and there are people who have survived. NPR did a doc on it. Evidently, you have to have a resistant gene... and usually undergo a coma and terrible effects of the disease. Anyway - too long to write about - https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4186205
Sue Sanders 4 years ago
Crazy seems like a less painful way to die than by certain other maladies.
Jaybird3939 4 years ago
Our area (Northern Calif) had a young girl who got rabies and survived. I guess it was a pretty incredible thing!
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
There are only 29 reported cases of rabies survivors worldwide to date; the last case was reported in India in 2017 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266186/
#38
The origins of vampires as we know them. Basically your body has gas build up when you die. I’m not medically inclined enough to explain why. Basically the gas has to escape somehow, and so it would pass through the vocal cords in the throat. This creates the low “moan” that makes the body sound as if it was in pain. The people back then had no idea what was happening and random bodies would just start “moaning” in pain. And thus they believed that the bodies were rising from the dead. And when stabbed, the gas escaped otherwise. Thus leading to the belief that the only way to stop a vampire was to stab a dead body in the chest. This also led to a lot of strange burials, I.e the man that was buried in a stone wall to prevent him from rising from the dead. I can’t really blame them. I’d be freaked out too if a corpse suddenly started to make sounds. Creepy for some, but I find stuff like that fascinating. There’s documentaries on YT talking about it. I highly recommend them!
MiriPanda 4 years ago
This sounds more like zombies rather than vampires. Aren't vampires more associated with the symptoms of rabies?
Romenriel 4 years ago
The original Eastern European vampires were more like zombies than vampires as we imagine them now.
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Gæ Trash Panda (she/they) 4 years ago
I learned in a podcast that some people would be buried face down if they were thought to have a reason to rise from the dead. The logic was, if the person were to wake up, they’d begin to dig forward to get out of the grave. If they were buried face down, they’d just start to dig themselves deeper into the earth. Podcast was LORE by Aaron Mahnke, ep. 167: Deviation. Awesome show if you like folklore, creepy stories, or true crime.
BloodyBun 4 years ago
Gums retreat = Vampire fangs / flesh on finger strings = claws that grow / and even hair seems to lengthen / that s**t IS creepy
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
And rigor mortis will wear off, so corpses examined after being dug up were nearly as pliant as a living creature.
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Ozymandias73 4 years ago
Another burial "tradition" to prevent the dead from rising was that they'd bury the dead face down. So when they "woke," they would climb downwards further into the earth thinking they were clawing their way towards the surface
Phoneixstudios 3 years ago
zombies are from hatia and were slaves and did not eat your brains MiriPanda
Leah Dickerson 4 years ago
Can you imagine how wild it must have been to be alive before medical science had been around long enough to explain lots of different terrifying things!
#39
Remember that bath salts cannibal guy from a couple years back? He wasn't high on bath salts when he did that. That was just media speculation and bulls**t. They only found pot in his system during the autopsy. We still have no idea why he flipped out.
John L 4 years ago
This is very vague, which guy?. I remember some guy in Florida that was high and started attacking and biting people like he was a movie zombie. Some people legitimately thought for a short time is was the start of the zompocalypse and some local news, led with that.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack Here's a link to read about it.
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
Rudy Eugene (the perpetrator) had been dealing with issues of aggression for decades. Heavy marijuana use can cause paranoia in some people, more than likely there were multiple issues going on with him.
Evan Martin 4 years ago
I would bet the farm he had a lot more underlying mental health issues that were the main contributor to what happened. Maybe exacerbated by drug use
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
I just watched this on Monsters and Mysteries in America. They were calling him a zombie.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Not sure about the "Chinese developed" part. Yes supplies of the raw materials are almost always from China, but the vast majority of "designer drugs" have been designed by Dr. Zee in Amsterdam (not an actual doctor!).
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The men of the ship Essex (the true event that inspires the story “Moby Dick”) avoided islands after being shipwrecked for fear of cannibals. The islands were settled and landing there would have brought salvation to the survivors. Ironically because of this bypass, the men ran out of food and were forced to eat each other for survival.
GaeFrog 4 years ago
I hope they at least ate the people who died of natural causes first instead of fighting each other to the death for survival
Scott 4 years ago
They did eat those who died of natural causes first, but once they were gone they drew lots as K. Kobayashi stated. I'm actually related to Owen Coffin and George Pollard, so have the unique claim to being related to two known cannibals as well as someone that one of them ate. Owen drew the lot to be killed and graciously accepted it, and his cousin, George offered to shoot the first person to touch him and eat them instead. There's an amazing book about it "In the Heart of the Sea" which was also turned into a movie by the same name (never saw it so I can't say if it's good or not).
Load More Replies... January Tempis 4 years ago
The intuitively knew that they cannibalism would be their end. Crazy!
buttonpusher 4 years ago (edited)
Went out on 3 separate lifeboats I believe. Only a handful survived. Two, I believe, who decided to stay on an island because one had TB, and found civilization. Best decision ever. I think the guy recovered from TB too. The rest would eat their dead as they drifted along looking for help.
#41
When you happen to be murdered there is only an about 40% chance that your murderer will be found and punished.
Monday 4 years ago
So...if I murder someone there's a 60% chance I'll get away with it? Asking for a friend.
Orillion 4 years ago
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that there's a 40% chance you'll be caught.
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Earl Grey 4 years ago
I need to know “when” so that I have it on my calendar.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
though there is a more than 50% chance its someone in your immediate family or a romantic partner
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
That depends on the country in which you live . . . . before you die.
John L 4 years ago (edited)
It's shocking how punitive the US justice system is. I watched a documentary about how most people accused of a serious crime get convicted, even if the evidence isn't there. It's due to the fact that juries want to punish someone for the crime and assume/trust that authorities did their due diligence. Unfortunately we see that not being the case, all the time.
F. H. 4 years ago
That's about how the medieval and early modern European criminal justice worked. They used more torture, though.
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#42
There's a spider that gives you an hours-long, very painful boner before you die from its bite.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Just abdominal cramps, hypothermia, blurred vision and convulsions. And death.
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Verena Abt 4 years ago (edited)
Most spiders are pacifists, however, and hope you'll leave them alone, just like they do it with you
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Will need a species name here though. There's not many that can kill you, and their lethality isn't super high.
Sian Edwards 4 years ago
Certain types of wandering spider found in central and south America.
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#43
A single tiger has killed over 436 people in India.
Iggy 4 years ago
436 people got too close to a tiger, you mean. It's human moving into tiger territory that's the problem.
BananaJo 4 years ago (edited)
I feel like that's fair enough, considering there are only around 3890 tigers left in the wild
CaptainDinosaur 4 years ago
This is the Champawat Tigress. She had been wounded in the jaw by a poacher's bullet. She could no longer catch her natural prey and so turned to humans. Mostly small women and children but not exclusively. I have spent HOURS reading about this particular tiger and the circumstances of her rampage and death. Fascinating stuff.
Elin Stenqvist 4 years ago
Yes, and worth mentioning is that she was finally shot in 1907, so it's not exactly recent.
Load More Replies... VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
I mean, that’s fair. If it can kill us, we’re killing so many of them. I’m gonna get downvoted, but oh well. We suck
#44
Hearing is the last thing to go after you die. You just might hear the paramedics and firefighters call off CPR...
Monday 4 years ago
From people who were successfully brought back and through studying the brain as it dies, seeing what areas stayed lit up the longest.
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Well, the first may be true, the last isn't. You'll be dead for a while before they call off CPR. Long enough for your hearing to have gone as well.
Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
Probably not, because the paramedics would attempt to revive you for a long time after your body actually dies. We're talking tens of minutes here.
ApexScavenger 4 years ago (edited)
In a way this could be nice to have a loved one's voice be the last thing you experience. Or horrific in most other circumstances
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
This is what terrifies me. In Manitoba you're considered officially dead when you're brain dies even if you're heart and other organs are still going.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
That's everywhere. Braindead = dead. You don't have to worry about still hearing things, it's not a coma, the brain is dead. There is no activity. It's impossible to return from braindead. Unlike a coma, where you can wake up from.
Load More Replies... Me Gravy 2 years ago
...i did a college thesis on "N.D.E.'s" - near death experiences - everyone that 'came back' from death said they could hear the whole time. I was most fascinated by all of the stories of being at this amazing peace and feeling love, seeing dead realatives, etc. I could only find 3 or 4 people to interview that 'went to hell' all the others felt they were in heaven. The few that did end up in 'h€ll' said they changed their lives for the good soon after bc it was absolutely terrifying! 😬Cool $#+t!!
#45
Tarantulas can swim.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Jumping. Swimming. It's a tarantula. It's not a tarantula. To me, it's one big flying hell nope.
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Tracy Sellars 4 years ago
How cute, they are the kitties of the arachnid world. I had a little sling, but unfortunately he passed away.
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Slick 4 years ago
Well, there is a flying wasp that hunts tarantulas called tarantula hawk. I'm sorry to have shared this information.
Mazer 4 years ago
And jumping spiders are adorable!! BTW, most spiders can deal with water very easily because they are lightweight and the tips of their legs don’t break the water surface tension
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
NOPE THEY CANNOT I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS NOPE NOPE NOPER NOPE
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kath morgan 4 years ago
My friend saw a tarantula “swimming” in the wild last year. I was not happy to hear about it but it is kind of cool that they can do that.
#46
The US has lost 6 nuclear warheads in total
Sian Edwards 4 years ago
That they will admit to losing. Try not to think about how many nuclear weapons almost certainly went missing after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russians would never admit to something like that.
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K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
"Lost" in the sense that they were dropped into the ocean and never recovered. Jettisoned by a bomber before making an emergency landing, sank in a submarine, dropped overboard from a ship, etc.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Unable to be recovered for use. Every nuclear power has lost at least one, if not more, at some point ------ we lose non-nuke weapons all the time, too, in the sense of "the boat sank, the plane crashed, the load was dumped", etc.
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DoomsdayDuck555 4 years ago
I listened to a podcast about these, they are called broken arrows. One was accidentally dropped, but only the non-nuclear explosives in the bomb went off.
#47
Cannibals find the palm of the hand the tastiest
Kimberly Young 4 years ago
Apparently Jeffrey Dahmer said that tattooed skin was gross as well. So every time my mom harasses me about getting a new tattoo, I just tell her I'm adding to my cannibal defense system.
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Rage of Aquarius 4 years ago
Cannibals can be interviewed. I hear the foot has some good parts too.
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
Cannibals also often suffer from encephalitis, usually from dining on brain matter. The same situation which resulted in Mad Cow disease. Cows were fed the remains of other farm animals (never a good idea), the meat they were fed was tainted with brain matter infected by encephalitis in goats, called scrapies, a condition where a goat constantly rubs its head, usually on a gene post. It took a while to track down the causes of mad cow disease in people. Viruses can not be killed through freezing or heat.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
You are thinking of prions, not viruses. It's a protein particle. Also, encephalitis is inflammation of the membrane around the brain and can be caused from different viruses and bacteria. The prion disease that cannibals suffer from actually causes neurodegeneration. A well known type of this disease is called Kuru
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 4 years ago
I always imagine the thumb to the wrist being like a chicken drumstick… hehehe .. what ?
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 4 years ago
There was one who only ate fit people because he thought fat victims where bad for his cholesterol. I go to hell for laughing probably.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I would argue that taste is subjective. Some might prefer fattier meat.
Emily Graves 4 years ago
I always thought that my palm looked the most meat filling, at least the lower squishy thumb part. I plan to get a tattoo in that spot, which also taints meat to cannibal(s).
Gurlgetoutmyfaceurbreathstank> 2 years ago
I thought the eye was bc i read this and it said the eye was.
#48
Since 1900, over 13,000 people have been murdered by serial killers in the USA.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
The peak of the epidemy was the 1970s. There's a pretty strong correlation with the lead in fuel (both growth when introduced and fall once phased out, with a delay --- lead exposure during childhood has well-demonstrated mental effects).
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Most serial killers are white men. Very rarely a person of color or a woman. Strange?
#49
in 1975 the CIA had a heart attack gun, it kills people and then the dart denigrates. just imagine what is classified now.
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Imaging now a dart being denigrating as it kills you -- just adding insult to injury
GlipGlop 4 years ago
since hearing is the last sense to go, as you descend into blackness... "you worthless b*tch, every single person you knew hated you..."
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
A denigrating dart: “you worthless corpse, just look at you lying there achieving nothing!”
PebbleBoy Gaming 4 years ago
Now I'm wondering how many people have died from that and not a real heart attack
#50
Ducks become cannibals due to boredom , of all reasons. They can only be stopped by cutting off their "mouths"!
Jacin Larkwell 4 years ago
Poultry in general tend to begin picking feathers off flockmates when they're cramped or bored (that's why birds in factory farms are debeaked as chicks usually), kinda like how people sometimes pick or chew their nails when anxious or fidgeting, but in each other usually. They pull feathera, some bleed, which attracts more attention to the area because it's now 'different' from the rest of the animal, and the cycle just continues until the animal is removed to heal or is killed.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
This is missing most of the information. It's not really due to boredom. It is mainly done when the ducks are stressed like overcrowding, poor ventilation, poor hygiene and food sources. It is more commonly seen with ducks in captivity. Also some duck breeds will participate in infanticide by smashing open eggs and eating the babies.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Don't forget the rapist tendencies of the common mallard! Including male rape. And one scientific report of male necrophilia got an IgNoble prize if I recall correctly.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Yeah, this doesn't refer to ducks in the wild. This refers to poultry being raised in an industrial setting where they are crammed together, stressed, and unable to act out their natural instincts. This is what leads to them pecking at each other. What is the response of the industry? To cut their beaks in half. If only people would refuse to buy any poultry that wasn't raised with higher animal welfare standards, but apparently buying takeaway fried chicken is far more important.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago (edited)
Yes, don't forget to add this happens due to how we 'breed' them, for food... "Although cannibalism can begin in ducks of any age, ducklings over 4 weeks old are more prone to develop this vice. The underlying reasons for birds turning to cannibalism are not known, but it is associated with boredom and is aggravated by: overcrowding, lack of ventilation and faulty nutrition. The only known way to stop it is to remove the rim at the front of the bird’s upper bill. Commercial beak-trimming machines are available. They have heated cauterising blades and run on electricity or butane gas. Beak trimming should be performed only by a competent operator and only when it is essential to reduce damage and suffering in the flock."
buttonpusher 4 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of something horrible I saw as a child. We were visiting a duck pond and there was this poor little baby duck with strips torn out of it. Other larger ducks were attacking it. It was horrendous to see. It kept trying to rejoin them and then they would pull at it again. It literally had bits hanging off it. The poor little thing. I was crying and begging my parents to help save it but I was told "that's just nature". I also had to be stopped from jumping in myself. Still brings a tear to my eye thinking about it.
DonnerDinnerParty 2 years ago
Chickens are cannibals too! Usually caused by being cooped up, overcrowding, or stress. The colour red sets them off too! One lady in our flock was bleeding from their toenail and all 10 other hens were pecking at it relentlessly! Thankfully we noticed soon enough and were able to stop the bleeding. We put blue food dye over the blood stains on the hen and everyone else left her alone and she was able to heal
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
It's not boredom, it's usually due to overcrowding, and it's not just ducks, either.
#51
A black mamba is the fastest snake which can slither at a speed of 12.5 miles an hour (20km/hr). They have neurotoxins which are fast acting. The venom shuts down the nervous system and paralyses the victim. Its venom is able to kill 10 people and it repeatedly bites. To add onto this, there is an almost 100% kill rate and can kill in 20 minutes.
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
However, a bite to the face or torso can bring death from paralysis within 20 minutes. The amount of venom that can be delivered from a single bite can be gargantuan. You know I've always liked that word gargantuan?
Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Yep, and Australia still has at least 7 snakes more deadly than this :-)
#52
After getting stung by a cone snail, you don’t feel the sting for a little bit. There is no antivenin and it can be lethal. Treatment is basically keeping the victim alive until the venom wears off.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I'm sure my dad had a shirt with that exact same pattern back in the 1970s.
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Tweetysvoice 4 years ago
Interestingly enough, the venom is now used as a non-narcotic pain killer called Prialt. I was on it for several years and it has a funny side effect of hearing music coming from afar. Every room in my house had a different genera - my bedroom was jazz and I heard salsa music in my dining room.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Whilst it is one of the most venomous creature in the world, in 90 years there have been aporox 40 deaths associated with the Cone snail.
#53
In the US if someone is kidnapped and not found within about a day then there is a 97% chance the kidnapped person is dead.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Those are not good odds at all. Makes me feel even more relieved that 4yo Cleo Smith was found this morning alive after being abducted 18 days ago.
kasa alex 4 years ago
I was literally just thinking this before I read your comment. So relieved
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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
That's why authorities say fight with all you've got to prevent a potential kidnapper from removing you from wherever you are.
Kay blue 4 years ago
According to a detective I once knew, child abduction outcomes work in thirds. 1/3 found alive, 1/3 found dead, 1/3 never found or heard from again. It's scary odds and I almost wish he hadn't told me, especially as my daughter was young at the time.
G R 4 years ago
If if makes you feel better the vast majority of abducted children are kidnapped by family members, often as part of a custody battle. Someone I know was abducted by his mother after his dad got custody, and brought here to the UK. He's still in the UK and technically he falls into the "not found" category but he's fine and is now in his 40s and living his own life in the UK. I'm assuming the 97% stat refers only to stranger abduction, which is a little misleading given how rare stranger abduction is.
Load More Replies... Rage of Aquarius 4 years ago
How long would you keep someone you kidnapped? Keeping them alive is a liability.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Idk why we're supposed to wait 2 days before reporting someone.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I don't think that's true. I might be wrong but I think "wait 2 days to report" is just BS someone made up. Even if it's true I suggest to report or try to report as soon as you become aware someone is missing.
Load More Replies... K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
It doesn't mean you have one day to find them before they die. It means if someone wasn't found within a day, it's because the person was killed right after they were "kidnapped."
#54
The stonefish, an incredibly venomous fish living in tropical waters mostly off the coast of Australia and parts of US, can cause pain that only escalates with time. Eventually the pain will subside but even after the barb is removed, patients have reported increasing pain 12+ hours later. Without antivenim or denaturing the venom with excessive heat, the pain builds and builds until the patients request euthanasia. Its spines hold the venom, hidden in its dorsal fins.
Aboriginals living around the Great Barrier reef have "corroborees," large gatherings, and will during these gatherings hold reenactments of people being stung by this monster (for what I assume is either amusement, learning, or both).
NsG 4 years ago
So we can extend the list of things in Australia that will kill you to include quite a lot of the marine life off the coast too. Got it.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
It's the top end you need to worry about. They have most of the dangerous marine life. It's the drop bears you need to worry about.
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
My brother stepped on a dead one and it still put him in hospital in agony.
#55
Every year you live through the future anniversary of your death.
whodunnitfan2013 4 years ago
Honestly, I find myself wondering when, how, and where I'll die. Like a morbid curiosity.
Sky Render 4 years ago
That is the most literal example of "morbid curiosity"!
Load More Replies... Slick 4 years ago
Death is just a part of life. I have no problem with it. I didn't choose to live, and i should not think i can evade death. It just be like that.
Rissie 4 years ago
It took me having children to realize that fact. Now I don't care about dying myself, but having gone through it twice, do dread the feeling of my kids having to go through it.
Load More Replies... Anna Snorrepot 4 years ago
reason to have cake every day since I don't know the exact date yet.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Not only your death but the death of everyone you know. I can't wait for my death. I can't wait to see what happens next.
Iggy 4 years ago
Oh, for the love of all that's holy! Find something to do with your time! 'Future anniversary of your death' ! Waaaaaaayyyyyy too much time to think.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I personally don't see the point in fearing death. It's gonna happen whether you like it or not. It's the only guarantee in life. Now the actual process of dying I understand, that is scary and definitely something I fear.
NsG 4 years ago
Death is the complete cessation of consciousness and function and technically happens instantly. Any pain that occurs immediately prior to this is perfectly fine to fear - it's pain that happens while you are still alive. The rest of the fear of death relates to a weird mix of ego and empathy - how *other people* will feel and react to your death.
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#56
That very distinct “vacuum smell” (like that smell from the content you vacuumed up) comes from dead skin cells.
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
It's a common myth house dust is mostly dead skin! It's two thirds dirt from outside, the rest is pollen, plastic particles, clothes fibres, hair. Only a small part is skin.
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
Posts like these perpetuates the myth. Not like it's serious or anything, but it's just not how dust works :^)
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 4 years ago
My skin smells dusty. Most dust is my skin. Wow, it all comes together.
#57
A Fire Whirl can go as big as an EF3 tornado. In 1923, such happened in Japan during an earthquake. The son of a b**** killed 38,000 people in less than 15 minutes.
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
And as for the fire storm in Tokyo during WWII which resulted from Allied bombing . . . . . .
#58
Ah, another creepy fact is that one can die from drinking water. It has to be nine liters of water at once and you are a dead man. ( please don't try it)
Mazer 4 years ago
This has been an issue with hazing at colleges, basically ingesting too much water at one time flushes out all of the electrolytes and sodium in your blood which also impacts the brain
Kanuli 4 years ago
In a short amount of time. And there’s even 2 reasons how you can die from that: 1. Electrolytes, drinking too much water will damage your system and alot of functions of your organs due to electrolytes being diluted so fast the body cant keep up. And 2. Your brain cells might swell from too much liquid intake in a short amount of time, until there’s no way to go and you die. At least the newspaper brought stories with both before.
H Edwards 4 years ago
The most famous case in my country (UK) was Leah Betts, a girl who died in hospital after taking ecstasy. Her story and the photograph of her on the ventilator were widely used in a government anti-drugs campaign. In fact the real cause of her death was brain swelling after excessive water drinking (MDMA also makes you less able to urinate). If she hadn't been pressed to drink lots of water by worried friends and family (she was at a house party in her own home and started feeling unwell, told her mother she had taken a pill) then she may well have been fine.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 4 years ago
I think you'll find it can be as little as 7 litres, as anyone in the UK during the 90's will tell you. We all know the name Leah Betts!
Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
Ugh, this became known after that radio station competition, does anyone remember? The contest was having to keep drinking water over time and you can't pee. If you go pee, you lose. Poor woman died from it, just awful
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
That depends on a few factors like the person's size and metabolism etc. It can actually be less than 9 litres and not necessarily in one go. A woman drank around 7 litres in 3 hours and died of water intoxication. And that's just one case. Even 3 litres can be too much for some and whilst it may not cause death, it can cause illness.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
The amount should depend on body weight, just like alcohol, or kcal needed.
#59
This might not be very creepy, but there are no laws against cannibalism in the USA. You might be arrested for something else, but not for cannibalism.
Rennie they/them/theirs 4 years ago
Actually, because of the donner party, it's either Iowa or Idaho that cannibalism is illegal.
Jessica Cifelli 4 years ago
If there were laws against cannibalism, the Donner Party would he criminals, instead of just people who got lost and had to go to extremes to survive
Orange is aging 4 years ago
So I could eat someone as long as I wasn’t the one who killed them? Asking for a friend, of course
Mazer 4 years ago
states have enacted laws that indirectly make it impossible to legally obtain and consume the body matter. There is a case of a guy in Germany who met someone who wished to be killed and eaten, he did just that, dined on the person and froze the rest for later dining. He was arrested for manslaughter
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
But that's not the only way to obtain human flesh.
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#60
According to Abe Lincoln's body guard Crook, he said Lincoln had a dream about his own assassination 3 nights in a row before he was killed. Crook told Lincoln NOT to go on that fateful night, and all Lincoln said was "Goodbye, Crook" before he went to the play. This was VERY ODD as Lincoln always said, Goodnight NOT goodbye.
Kevin Gerke 4 years ago
I invite everyone to look up the story about when Lincoln was challenged to a duel.
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Crook is the only source for this story, which didn't appear in print until 1910. We know Lincoln recounted a dream to his staff on the day he was killed, but it was a recurring one he regarded favourably.
#61
Sometimes an AMBER alert causes kidnappers to panic and kill the kid immediately.
#62
There are more creatures in your mouth than there are people on earth
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
And they hold the most interesting conversations. A little annoying when I'm trying to fall asleep though.
Orange is aging 4 years ago
I’m constantly reminded of this due to it being everyone’s “interesting fact”. It freaks me out every time
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 4 years ago
So basically you are saying we are living apartments for millions upon billions upon trillions of microscopic creatures and organisms? Fun!
#63
Unborn babies have a layer of hair around them (to regulate body temperature) called Lanugo. They shed it, eat it, then poop it out after birth.
Charlotte A. 4 years ago
Quick Google: What Is Lanugo? Lanugo is soft, feathery hair that can grow all over the body, most often on the back and shoulders. Fetuses grow lanugo during the end of pregnancy, and newborns usually lose their lanugo within a week or two of being born. Experts don't really know what causes lanugo.
Enea 4 years ago
They don't really eat it, however. Is is shed somewhen before birth and swims in the amniotic fluid, and this is what the fetuses drink. After birth, they poop out the amniotic fluid rather than the hair. Some newborns still have some lanugo hair, e.g. on their back or their ears.
DaVo 4 years ago
Fun fact: If you starve your body enough, like with anorexia, it will start growing lanugo again.
#64
chicken are so dumb they can accidentally peck each other and if one of them feels meet in the other chicken then all chickens will peck that chicken to death and eat it
Juliet Hadaway 4 years ago
we once kept chicks as well as chickens. they chicks were eaten alive by the adults.
memyselfandI 4 years ago
We once found a rat in our chicken coop — dead — and only the back half. That was a little disturbing, because the chickens were the only things that could have killed it. Oh, and also, if you start with a flock of all similar colors and then introduce some of a different color, chickens are racist and will peck the new ones to death. So that’s why pretty much all residential flocks are mixed colors, even if some lay better than others.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
It's not because they are dumb, it is because they are omnivores and if they are not getting enough nutrients from their feed they will peck at weaker members of the flock.
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
This is only when they’re battery farmed packed in tightly in a building and cant get away from each other they do it out of extreme stress?? 🙁
Mazer 4 years ago
Yeah, no. This can happen anywhere, it is especially prevalent these days because chicken feed has mostly vegetable proteins in it, not insect protein
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Roach are natural burrowers. They also can’t walk backwards. There have been cases where they burrow into people’s ears but cannot get themselves out.
Joe Berger 4 years ago
This happened to my coworker a few months ago. He had to go to the hospital where they pulled it out in pieces.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Why did you have to say that?! I was eating!!
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8Yorkies-and-63cats 4 years ago
Reading the first sentence, my brain was: "Where is this going?". At the second sentence I'm thinking: "...wait for it... wait for it....." Yeap! Ear plugs tonight!
#66
There was a speech made for Apollo 11 if they were to die on the moon. Side fact - if it were to happen, people would look up at the moon knowing that, that crew died there, and their bodies would rest there till the end of time. Not forgetting that the ocean is somewhat like this, many people died there too, at the very depths of the sea.
LuckyL 4 years ago
or you die in a lake that is to cold to decompose and you're in a layer of cooled down fat...
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#67
Imagine being totally aware of someone preforming CPR but you physically can't move or respond. Well that's what happens when you get bitten by a blue ringed octopus, you have approx 6minutes between being bitten and someone starting CPR to keep your heart and lungs functioning to ensure you survive, all whilst being totally aware of what is happening to you. Neurotoxins are fun!
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
There have only been 3 known deaths from a blue ringed octopus and bites are rare.
Kay blue 4 years ago
There was an episode of Bondi Vet where a dog had an encounter with one, I think it survived though.
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Lynn Morello 4 years ago
Keeping CPR up continuously until the venom wears off, the individual can be saved,
#68
Since 2007, at least 20 detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the Salish Sea.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Don't fear, there isn't someone murdering people with a foot fetish. Most feet that have been discovered were victims of boat/ship wrecks, drowning victims from accidents or suicides etc. And they are found with sneakers on. It's because the sneaker design kind of protect the foot from being eaten/scavenged or broken down.
Scagsy 4 years ago
You made that sound like you had just chopped another persons foot off and thrown it in.
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Katrina 4 years ago
No not really. As above, they've identified all but I think two of the feet and they belong to people who died from accidents or suicides.
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Humans eyes dont reflect light at night like animals do. I like to say this fact to my wife at a camp fire.
Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
I have lens implants (like contact lenses but behind the iris). If the light hits exactly right light does reflect, though not as nicely as in cats for example. It's pretty strange.
Poultry Geist 4 years ago
My mom has this and he eyes reflect the light too ! It makes her even more intimidating
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They used real corpses in the 1982 film Poltergeist, for the ending pool scene. The actress did not know until AFTER the scene was filmed.
Monday 4 years ago
It was skeletons rather than whole corpses, and they got them from a medical company. They likely came from people who donated their bodies to science.
Load More Replies... Monday 4 years ago
Half true, it was a case of real skeletons, not full corpses.
Load More Replies... Lisa Samuelson 4 years ago
That would have been Jobeth Williams and I would have been PISSED!!
Leah Dickerson 4 years ago
This ones true, the actress was interviewed about it
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some species of spiderlings eat their mothers alive
#72
The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems
XSpooky_Mint 4 years ago
A stout man contains some five quarts of blood, which if you will forgive the boast, I can consume in a mere seven and a half seconds, but you, my dear little wisp, I dare say I shall drink you to a withered husk in less than five
Gaya Knust 4 years ago
They're quoting the movie Dark Shadows, for anyone wondering lol
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Laura Gillette 4 years ago
This is just a Firefly quote. I'm pretty sure Summer Glau improvised that line.
error_404_user_not_found 4 years ago
if you try to touch a bullet with the density of a neutron star, you will create an adequate vacuuming system. Fortunately, you float on blood, unfortunately, you don't have enough blood to survive that experience.
Leah Dickerson 4 years ago
I immediately thought of that schoop sound like the vacuum sucking up a ball or something
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
I can believe that the human body can be drained of blood within seconds but a statement like the above is simply not true. Depending on the body size and body type it for sure would take sometimes more and sometimes less than 8.6 seconds. Something like "within 5 to 10 seconds" would be much more believable.
#73
Its less of a fact and more of an uncomfortable truth but it would be very easy for a determined individual to break into your place of residence and kill you at just about any time that you aren't expecting them. Even worse is that if they do it cleanly and have no relationship with you they stand a decent chance of getting away with it.
G R 4 years ago
I'm 99% certain my flat is intruder-proof. Police had to break in once (long story) and it took them 45 minutes with an axe and they had to chop the doorframe out. The door is the only entry point (15th floor, only Spider-Man is getting near those windows) and front door is reinforced steel core.
#74
There is an insect the size of a human hand, called a Tree Lobster. Luckily it can only be found in Ball's Pyramid Island, Australia.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
There are bigger insects than that. The tree lobster doesn't even make the top 10 lists. But here's an interesting fact, the tree lobster was thought to be extinct but fortunately it has been rediscovered. It is classed as one of the rarerist insects in the world.
Shiro Kuro 4 years ago
It’s a Lord Howe Island Stick Insect(thought to be extinct, then rediscovered in 2001 to Sir David Attenborough’s delight). At least it doesn’t bite like New Zealand’s weta…..they are nasty.
Little Wonder 4 years ago
Reminds me, I must get to the zoo and see one. They were thought to be extinct as a shipwreck meant rats got onto the island and ate everything. They found the entire population of tree lobsters (aka Lord Howe Island stick insect) living in a single tree. There's a breeding programme now. They are harmless babies and should be adored!
#75
The reason dogs like squeaky toys is because the squeak reminds them of small animals dying
Juliet Hadaway 4 years ago
wrong. its much sweeter then that it is the noise that puppys make when there play fighting sibling went too far. it signals for them to stop
just me 4 years ago
My dog has caught baby rabbits. I agree with the original post on the sound.
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Amanita Virosa 4 years ago (edited)
My little Chiwennie guy Stuart absolutely thinks his squeaky toy as prey, he even shakes it to snaps it's imaginary neck.
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
My dog hates squeaky toys the squeak scares him 😂 he just likes to carry his soft toys around and cuddle them, he still has the one from when he was a baby. Hes a bolognese I guess he doesn’t have a hunting instinct he gets along with rabbits chickens and even hamsters?? Our late whippet was the complete opposite and would murder every squeaky toy within seconds 😅, the squeak definately made her think it was a small furry animal 😬
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
Or perhaps they remind them of puppies? Has anybody ever asked dogs to explain their thinking?
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
I think it might be instinct if its a breed of dog bred to hunt? I never let my whippet never kill a real animal but she tore apart any toy that was furry or had a squeak?? My tiny dog now was bred for cuddling not hunting, he loves other animals and is scared of squeaky toys 😅
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#76
Men who are hanged get a death erection, known as rigor erectus. Pretty awkward for the family, I assume.
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
Nail that lid DOWN! But I'm wondering . . . . . . what if the guy had been impotent? Also, most victims of judicial hanging were buried on prison grounds by prison authorities and the families weren't allowed to attend the interment.
Laugh or not 4 years ago
Only if they die of asphyxia, but most people die from breaking the vertebrae when hanged. That's why the execution is done from a high place : the condemned man falls and break his neck.
Victor Botha 4 years ago
Urban legend that persists. It was suicide plain and simple. Stress, depression, overworked and a failing relationship with his girlfriend were all factors.
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When creating the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, they couldn’t create skeletons that looked “realistic” enough, so they used real human skeletons They’ve since removed all of them except one
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
They didn't leave one there. There are rumors that anywhere between 1 and 5 remains are still human, but no confirmation. It's just a scary story to attract more visitors.
F. H. 4 years ago
I don't know. I've seen pictures with the claims and one of them is definitely real. It's in bad condition and you can see that the bones don't look like fake ones inside.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 4 years ago
It's just time consuming to make them correctly -- they clearly didn't want to spend the time and effort if this is true.
Viv Justviv 4 years ago
There IS, though, a massive sinkhole underneath part of Epcot. I was just there on a family vacation & believe you me, I would've been more than a bit freaked out if I'd known that beforehand. I just read about the day after I got back safely to sinkhole free-ish Ohio. One Disney executive who spoke about the sinkhole said that they "never did find the bottom of it." Yep. And that's on Snopes.com if anyone wants to read the details of said sinkhole beneath Epcot.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
I have been to Disney 3 times in my life, and every single time this ride has been closed. The most recent time I went I even planned around the scheduled maintenance, it was still down that day.
LuckyL 4 years ago
or not.... quick google search -> Originally, many of the Disneyland pirate skeletons were reportedly real. Donated from UCLA, the skeletons appeared more real (because they were) than the ones that could be sculpted in the art shop. Faux skeletons of the 1950s and 1960s were “too unconvincing,” said Disney Producer Jason Surell in a Magic Kingdom book entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies. But over time, Imagineer’s ability to sculpt and render more realistic bones coupled with the need for maintenance repairs (and possible decay) resulted in the removal of the skeletons. Proper burials were reportedly given each time a skeleton was removed from the ride.
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A bubble caused by false vacuum decay could be expanding through our galaxy right now, destroying everything it touches. And we wouldn't even know about it, because it travels at the speed of light.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Ah, the old philosophical question: is there a *poof* if there's nobody left to witness it?
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Our graves will be re-used for someone else unless we are memorable which in the 99% of the time we wont be so we better start thinking of badass ways we can be buried. If we're cremated then forget about being remembered past 1 generation unless you name a park or building after yourself.
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Naming something after yourself doesn't make you remembered, it just makes your name remembered. No one will remember you, only your name and perhaps something you did, but that's not really you.
Requiem 4 years ago
NO because places are being name changed because the basic name everyones been used to for a 100 years has been found out the name sake was an asshole or racist. The name gets changed pretty fast
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Jackson Sharpe 4 years ago
What if we have someone plant and nurture a protected species of plant??? Then can we stay???
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
Hehehheh yeah try renaming my grave if its ILLEGAL
Load More Replies... Brendan Roberts 4 years ago
I'd rather someone reused my grave. We're taking up too much room with grave yards.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
I intend to be turned into compost in the George Washington National Forest.
Reginald the spider crab 2 years ago
imma eat a bunch of gunpowder before i die, and invite every single person i hate to my cremation.im goin out with a bang,would even have gold 3-d printed figurines of my cartoon of myself exploding for friends and family who were not in the blast radius
#80
I once read that you should play dead if a bear attacks you, unless they start licking your wounds because that means they plan to eat you. That still haunts me to this day.
Viola Yarrow 4 years ago
Tips for fighting bears; if it’s black, fight back. If it’s brown, lie down. If it’s white, good night. I think pandas count as “black”
#81
Anything to do with parasitic wasps.
Gæ Trash Panda (she/they) 4 years ago
I am personally not okay with the fact that I now know parasitic wasps exist.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
this post is missing the words: "you shouldn't" they are real parasites you know.. real leeches those guys
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Sue Lynn Chan 4 years ago
Whether the facts are true or not, here's ONE good fact: The Netherlands Gifts 20,000 Tulips to Canada Every Year
Seabeast 4 years ago
I wonder what they do with the previous year's tulip bulbs? Those things are usually good for at least three years of blooms.
Load More Replies... Don't Look 4 years ago
*sigh I always go into these thinking maybe I'll learn something new. On the other hand, this sort of thing doesn't ever seem creepy or spooky.... I'm doing it wrong. O_O
Laly Lynch 4 years ago
I honestly didn't think I would be as disturbed as I am right now from reading this. My appetite has been long gone.
justpassingthrough 123 3 years ago
Sorry but #49 is not denigrate, the term you're referring to is disintegrate. Using the wrong word puts a whole new spin and meaning on things.
jk nbt 4 years ago
troops camping out in Iraq in the Gulf War learned to sleep with socks on to keep the camel spiders from eating meat off their toes... Yikes... https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-too-many-camel-spider fake-camel...bf34b3.jpg 
Sue Lynn Chan 4 years ago
Whether the facts are true or not, here's ONE good fact: The Netherlands Gifts 20,000 Tulips to Canada Every Year
Seabeast 4 years ago
I wonder what they do with the previous year's tulip bulbs? Those things are usually good for at least three years of blooms.
Load More Replies... Don't Look 4 years ago
*sigh I always go into these thinking maybe I'll learn something new. On the other hand, this sort of thing doesn't ever seem creepy or spooky.... I'm doing it wrong. O_O
Laly Lynch 4 years ago
I honestly didn't think I would be as disturbed as I am right now from reading this. My appetite has been long gone.
justpassingthrough 123 3 years ago
Sorry but #49 is not denigrate, the term you're referring to is disintegrate. Using the wrong word puts a whole new spin and meaning on things.
jk nbt 4 years ago
troops camping out in Iraq in the Gulf War learned to sleep with socks on to keep the camel spiders from eating meat off their toes... Yikes... https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-too-many-camel-spider fake-camel...bf34b3.jpg
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