50 Interesting But Pretty Disturbing Things, As Shared In This Online Community
Nothing gives our brains the same kind of fireworks as watching creepy things. And if you’re not one of the horror aficionados it may be hard to understand the point of the thrill that horror gives.
But scientists say that the fright horror gives us while watching things like American Horror Story and The Walking Dead releases adrenaline, resulting in heightened sensations and surging energy. So biochemistry is to blame. And that thrill is so powerful, it’s often hard to look away.
This corner of Reddit known as “Interesting But Creepy” is a real treat for not just horror fans, but those who appreciate the darker side of our universe. The posts shared on the community range from interestingly weird to curiously macabre and they will surely give your heart rate the exercise it deserves! Psst! More creepy goodness awaits in our previous feature right here.
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Tyrano-Dude: Skilled At Deceiving And Misleading. He Will Bamboozle You
When Sperm Whales Need A Nap, They Take A Deep Breath, Dive Down About 45 Feet And Arrange Themselves Into Perfectly-Level, Vertical Patterns. They Sleep Sound And Still For Up To Two Hours At A Time Between Breaths, In Pods Of 5 Or 6 Whales, Presumably For Protection
A Thunderstorm Can Sometimes Birth A Rarely Seen Phenomenon In Earth's Atmosphere: Red Space Lightning Called Sprites That Look Like Jellyfish
To find out why exactly so many of us are drawn to creepy things, from pictures to stories, both fictional and real, we spoke with Michael Grant Kellermeyer, the editor in chief of Oldstyle Tales Press, an independent publisher based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The publishing house specializes in critical, annotated and illustrated editions of classic ghost stories, weird fiction, and gothic horror from the Classical Era of Supernatural Fiction (1795 - 1935).
According to Kellermeyer, human beings, especially in today's culture, have a love-hate relationship with mortality. “In one sense, Death and the dark side of life are our greatest enemies, but in another sense, it makes life delicious and potent: we are drawn to brushing elbows with death (either in reality - say, by skydiving or doing extreme sports - or by proxy - say, by reading or watching media about people who work in dangerous jobs or who survived disasters).”
Scientist Holding A Basketball Covered With Vantablack, The World's Blackest Substance
Because it reflects very little light, so you cannot see the edges
Load More Replies...An artist bought the rights to the color vantablack, iirc. So another artist made the world’s pinkest pink and made it available to everyone except him.
Anish Kapoor is the artist, he got someone to buy the pink for him, dipped his finger in it, and gave the middle finger to the people who made the pinkest pink. (he's a c**t is Anish Kapoor, and tbh, his art/sculptures are utter shite) Thankfully, there are alternatives to vantablack, and MIT have created a black that is reportedly 10 TIMES darker than vantablack o.o
Load More Replies...That looks like the holes bugs bunny would stick on surfaces and then cross into!!
yes. "Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes, which are tiny carbon cylinders with walls as thin as one atom. These structures absorb any light that touches the surface by trapping the photons until they are almost completely absorbed. This makes it confusing to look at, flattening 3D objects as flat, empty black blobs."
Load More Replies...YES a goths dream come true!!! Finally a colour even darker than black! I’ll have 6 tins of paint in this shade please, i want my room darker than a black hole 😈
A room painted in this stuff would be wild. Like floating in the void of space but with invisible walls..
Load More Replies...Correct. Vanta was also very difficult to produce and use. Anish Kapoor was kinda foolish to buy it.
Load More Replies...Don't you just know there are people out there wanting it on a car and then wondering why someone drove into their car ar night.
How's he holding it? Must be a pretty big basketball. Are we sure that's not one of those cartoon tunnels?
WHOA this is breaking my brain. How does light interact so differently with this vantablack?
lol. I thought it was his hand blacked out b/c he was flipping the bird.
This man works for NASA and that photo of a black hole just ate itself.
An ideal example of black holes.. They look like 2D, but are very much a sphere that absorbs all light thrown at it
You can tell a cop hasn't seen that thing, doesn't have any bullet holes in it
It's like going temporarily and partially blind. It's so cool, but also feels like it could open a portal to the nether dimensions.
If they could make black clothing out of this, I'd suddenly look a whole lot slimmer!
The Vantablack controversy is the juicy gossip of the art world, and I drink it up like a fine soda. XD If you're curious, look up the feud between Anish Kapoor and Stuart Semple.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say it’s not censored. Looking like that is the point
The "flat" basketball and other objects covered with Vantablack: https://canyouactually.com/vantablack/
If he's actually holding it, why can't we see his fingers? Is he palming the basketball?
Don’t Make Eye Contact
This Is An Intact Human Nervous System That Was Dissected By 2 Medical Students In 1925. It Took Them Over 1500 Hours. There Are Only 4 Of These In The World
He explained further: “While in previous generations, death was ever-present - certainly not a good thing - 21st-century Westerners are much less likely to have ever seen a dead body (even the majority of funerals either tend to be cremations or closed-casket), so as much as we do not long for more death in our worlds, we do certainly have an obsession with this part of our existence which we are all fated to encounter, but which is so tidily hidden from us.”
Thunderstorm From 30,000 Feet In The Air
Four Horned Hebridean Sheep. They Look Simply Bad A**
Spanish Dancer Sea Slug Spotted In Australia
Kellermeyer believes that as a result, “psychoanalytically, we try to touch hands with this stranger who is destined to make our acquaintance by poring over true crime podcasts, horror movies, and spooky artwork.”
The editor in chief added that “we love horror (which is by definition an artform concerned with the gradual approach of death, whether natural or supernatural) because it allows us to vicariously experience something that is so taboo in our culture, but which we all - at the final moment of our life - are destined to encounter.”
This Amoeba I Saw Through The Microscope
A Handheld Side-View Mirror
What Michael Jackson Was Supposed To Look Like
Kellermeyer argues that a good, creepy story should leave a great deal to the imagination and should focus on insinuations which leave the imagination primed but wanting more.
So he gave one such example: “The great British horror writer M. R. James was a master of the chilling tease, knowing just what to expose in order to pique curiosity, but holding back enough that we can't get a good look. In a story called ‘Wailing Well,’ he has a shepherd describe a family of zombie-like ghosts to a group of boys: ‘Rags and bones, young gentlemen: all four of 'em: flutterin' rags and whity bones. It seemed to me as if I could hear 'em clackin' as they got along. Very slow they went, and lookin' from side to side.’ One of the boys asks what their faces looked like: ‘They hadn't much to call faces,’ said the shepherd, ‘but I could seem to see as they had teeth.’”
Mummified Monk Revealed Inside 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue
Racoons Reaching For Cat Food Under A Table
Skeleton Of A Pregnant Fruit Bat
The key here is that we get a teasing taste that tells us something about their nature: “they aren't right - they're ragged and bony and move about in a wobbling, unstable manner,” Kellermeyer told us. Moreover, “they are malicious - they are clearly searching for something and while they have no faces to speak of, by God do they ever have teeth to tear with. A good horror story piques the imagination but lets it suffer in suspense,” he explained.
Someone I Know Has A Glassed Over Well In Their Kitchen From The Mid-1700s
Seeds Germinating In A Tomato
The Poison Garden (Alnwick Garden) Contains About 100 Plants That Can Actually Kill A Person
I love Alnwick Gardens! They're so beautiful. The poison garden is fascinating.
As a scholar of 19th and 20th-century horror, Kellermeyer can definitely say that the sources of collective fears are both basic and unchanging and very subject to fashion and the cultural moment. “All fears essentially boil down to four things: fear of losing control; fear of the beast within ourselves; fear of the beast in other people; fear of oblivion and mortality. But the way these fears take shape has changed: in Victorian literature a major source of fear was insanity or losing civility in some manner: become more animalistic.”
The editor in chief explained: “For instance, a truly chilling trope in Victorian literature was a ghostly man seen roaming the countryside without a hat or coat. This may seem silly to us, but to them - in a society where a sane, healthy man wouldn't be walking outside bareheaded in his shirtsleeves - the way that death has made this man's ghost so forlorn was truly frightening: his fate has left him vulnerable and stripped him of his propriety.”
Hiroshima, Japan, 1945: This Shadow That Almost Seems Drawn On The White Of Five Steps, Tells The Last Moments Of A Person. All That Remains Is The Shadow Caused By The Flash Of The Atomic Bomb That August 6th
In 1871, This 10 Year Old Girl’s Grave Was Built With Easy Access Stairs So That Her Mother Could Comfort Her During Storms
Oldest Surviving Diving Suit, 18th Century
Meanwhile, for his generation as an elder Millennial, it seemed like creepy kids were the be all, end all. “I actually am not wild about this trope (black-eyed kids, creepy dolls, scowling little girl ghosts, etc.) because it was just everywhere in the horror scene when I was growing up. But it did something very powerful for folks in the '90s and '00s and even the '10s,” Kellermeyer told us in an interview.
He also noticed that these days, it seems to be relationships that trigger us. “Families and couples (I think of Midsommar, Get Out, Hereditary, The Witch, The Conjuring, Haunting of Hill House, and It Follows),” he named a few. “I think our current cultural moment is very anxious about the intimacy of relationships like those between parents and children or between lovers: it can provide security and love, or it can be very much the opposite.”
A Close Up Of An Ant
Just A Window Lit Up In An Abandoned Hospital
Golf Ball Vs. Doll
Sometimes People Stop In The Middle Of A Conversation To Stare At My Eye. Wonder Why
Lava That Looks Like Melted Bodies
Looks like the Ministry of magic statue in the Deathly Hallows movies
This Is A Flat Hallway
This Is What A Lethal Dose Of Fentanyl Looks Like. 2mg
Church In Louisiana
So Anyways I Found Where The Grim Reaper Lives
This Picture From Venus
Correlation Or Causation???
There are old stories by Native Americans about large red headed humanoid cannibals that live in caves. Wonder if they're still around?
A Disney Gas Mask - Designed To Make Gas Mask "Less Creepy" For Children During WWII
You Want To Hear The Song Now
Rather Creepy, Funny, Interesting And Weird... This Is What Curiosity Does
This is a hoax. They are funny, though creepy and hang up quite a lot of different posters.
A Terrifying Web I Saw Above A Light Fixture A Work Today
This Castle In Spain
Too much effort to name it BP?? Butrón is a castle located in Gatika, in the province of Biscay, in northern Spain. It dates originally from the Middle Ages, although it owes its present appearance to an almost complete rebuilding begun by Francisco de Cubas in 1878. The castle has a fairy-tale look about it inspired by Bavarian castle models
The Cpr Doll’s Face Is Actually A Copy Of A 19th Century Drowned Woman’s Face
The Statue Of Flayed St. Bartholomew Wearing His Skin As A Robe. Milan Cathedral
The Mouth Of A Leatherback Sea Turtle
My Brother Went To Egypt And Saw Some Mummified Crocodiles
Biblically Accurate Angel
No wonder their first first statements are always fear not. I would s**t my pant if that appears to me.
Here Are Some Skin Shoes Worth $10,000, These Are Made Or Silicon But Are 100% Creepy
I wonder who will pay that much money for this abomination. And most importantly why...
Before Days Of Modern Medicine, Many Feared Being Buried Alive. As A Result, Safety Coffins Were Invented In Case The Living Were Mispronounced Passed Away. A String Attached To A Bell Allowed The Victim To Alert Those Above
One Of My Grandpa’s Cows (He’s A Rancher) Gave Birth To This Two-Headed Fella Back In The 1980’s. The Calf Lived For Less Than Ten Minutes, But Have No Fear. Grandpa Took It To A Taxidermist
A Cemetery In Hong Kong
there's a wait list for this cemetery. everyone is dying to get in! (i'll see myself out)
Shark Gills
St. Lambert’s Church In Münster. Three Iron Cages, 7 Feet Tall And A Yard Wide And Deep, Hang Empty From The Church Spire. Once Home To The Mutilated Bodies Of Three Revolutionaries
Titanium Implants Pulled From A Crematory
Geladas Baring Their Fangs
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Man all I've gotta say is holy shart. This is awesome honestly, thank you ☺️
Thank you so much for the upvotes! Also can we get the shark gills higher up? They're like vacuum cleaners on an animal
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Load More Replies...Man all I've gotta say is holy shart. This is awesome honestly, thank you ☺️
Thank you so much for the upvotes! Also can we get the shark gills higher up? They're like vacuum cleaners on an animal
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