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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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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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...

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are smart enough to know that a large group of humans are going to do a dumb thing.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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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.

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"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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like especially dead women are not safe. Honestly, time to die with a strategically placed mousetrap.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

C'mon! A necrophiliac embalmer wouldn't be stopped by a little rot.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if this is actually true, it sounds more like a mountain solution for a mole-hill problem

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

haha, now that is a nasty fact! If it is true tho.. I mean, how do they know?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Men are the god damned worse. I fully support a Y: the last man scenario.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, there ought to be really nasty roaches in the land of NOPE...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was informed a few years ago that necrophilia is a huge thing and if you know the right mortuary company, you can pay to play. Yuck!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Q: how did the necrophiliac lose his girlfriend? A: she finally spilt on him.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily If you get a blood transfusion and get the wrong type of blood, one of the symptoms is 'a sense of impending doom.'

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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"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."

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily Eventually there will be more dead people on Facebook than alive.

Wow thanks for the award.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's because it is virtually impossible to delete your account. They will not let you.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily Either somebody knows where Malaysia flight 370 went missing to, or nobody does. Both are equally terrifying.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here is an extremely good article laying everything out. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have one of these on my ovaries. It has teeth. I think I have the original vagina dentata (yes, yes, I know).

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily There’s a parasite that enters a fish’s mouth, eats the tongue and replaces itself as the fish’s new tongue

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All those saying it isn't harmful to the fish are misinformed. Eventually the parasite detaches leaving the fish unable to eat and it dies.

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger most likely didn’t die until they hit the water miles below the initial explosion.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily There are upwards of 300 active serial killers in the world

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily CNN has had a pre-recorded broadcast from the 90’s which they will premiere during the end of the world

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 1 in 100 people are psychopaths.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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You're more likely to be murdered by someone you know than a stranger

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily Serial Killer Richard Chase took any unlocked door as an invitation to come inside.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily 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.

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Polar bears are the only animals that are thought to actively hunt humans.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds more like zombies rather than vampires. Aren't vampires more associated with the symptoms of rabies?

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily When you happen to be murdered there is only an about 40% chance that your murderer will be found and punished.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So...if I murder someone there's a 60% chance I'll get away with it? Asking for a friend.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily There's a spider that gives you an hours-long, very painful boner before you die from its bite.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily A single tiger has killed over 436 people in India.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

436 people got too close to a tiger, you mean. It's human moving into tiger territory that's the problem.

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Hearing is the last thing to go after you die. You just might hear the paramedics and firefighters call off CPR...

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#47

Cannibals find the palm of the hand the tastiest

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cannibals also have an aversion to smokers. Nicotine taints the meat.

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily Since 1900, over 13,000 people have been murdered by serial killers in the USA.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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in 1975 the CIA had a heart attack gun, it kills people and then the dart denigrates. just imagine what is classified now.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imaging now a dart being denigrating as it kills you -- just adding insult to injury

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50 Very Spooky Facts From Real Life That You Should Avoid If You Get Scared Easily Ducks become cannibals due to boredom , of all reasons. They can only be stopped by cutting off their "mouths"!

bob_rob_III , Felipe Borges Report

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