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50 “Oddly Terrifying” Pictures That May Leave Your Bowels Dropping In Fear (New Pics)
While there's still a good chunk of the year left before we get to spook each other during Halloween or until another internet sensation like Skinamarink provokes a two-week-long bout of insomnia, the internet is not short of supply when it comes to oddly terrifying material.
If you're one of those daredevils who takes great pleasure in horror films and reading creepypastas (alone in your apartment!), then you'll be right at home in the Oddly Terrifying community. From mysterious fingerprints on one's ceiling to creepy, abandoned churches in the middle of nowhere, this is pure nightmare fodder that will surely give you the heebie-jeebies. And in case someone asks, you'll find us under a well-lit blanket coloring our mandalas, trying to return to our happy place. Hopefully, there's no creepy forests on the way back.
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Astronaut Bruce Mccandless II Floats Completely Untethered, Away From The Safety Of The Space Shuttle, With Nothing But His Manned Maneuvering Unit Keeping Him Alive. The First Person In History To Do So
Under the glass case inside a trapper’s store called the Banff Indian Trader Shop, an unsuspecting-looking wooden cabin located at the edge of Banff, Alberta, lies a mysterious creature. A half-fish, half-terrifying "man-beast of the seven seas," presumably caught in the waters of Fiji in the 18th century.
In broad daylight, this mummified monstrosity looks exactly what it sounds like: a dried-up monkey stitched up on top of a giant fish à la merman. Something you'd imagine a 16th-century sailor spinning tall tales about to scare the bejeezus out of other sailors. And sure, it looks kind of comical under normal circumstances.
But leave me alone with it in the wee hours, and I'm pretty sure you'd find me rocking back and forth with my arms around my knees. Even though it was probably me and no one else who decided to go seek out this monstrosity, despite the possibility of a sleepless night - something that r/oddlyterrifying is excellent at, often making others like myself question why we come back here time and time again in the first place.
A Month Ago I Became Friends With A Crow. Today He Brought Me The Skull Of Another Crow
Created in 2013, a few years after creepypasta's Slenderman took internet by the storm, r/oddlyterrifying today boasts 2.6 million community members, ranking among the top subreddits for horror-related content. Honestly, it's not difficult to see the appeal, since there's only a few (safe) places on the net where people can act both as digital curators and consumers of a cornucopia of spine-tingling, possibly cursed imagery.
Of course, considering that 71% of Americans under the age of 35 enjoy scary movies, it's not entirely surprising why some horror enthusiasts might look for an extra thrill either on r/creepypasta or its frightening cousin, r/oddlyterrifying.
I Don't Know About You, But This Feels Weird
This Ad From 1996 Was Prophetic
Hi There
According to acclaimed horror novelist Stephen King, horror films often act as a "barometer of the societal anxieties that plague our collective subconscious." While this perspective may romanticize the genre, Clark McCauley, a research professor of psychology, suggests that one prevalent reason why young adults, particularly men, seek the thrills of horror movies is to display their courage and bravado.
"Young males often compete to watch horror, to show 'I can take it,'" McCauley explained to Bored Panda in an email, noting that desensitization to feelings of disgust tends to occur faster than desensitization to feelings of arousal, leading to an increased fondness for horror among this demographic (which statistically ranges between 15-25).
Chicago Metra Up-N Track, Carries 34,000 Passengers On 70 Trains Across This Bridge Every Day
Civilians Taking Care Of Zoo Animals In Their Own Homes During WWII
When A Kangaroo Feels Threatened, It’ll Submerge Itself Chest Deep In Body Of Water To Lure In The Threat, Then It Will Ferociously Drown It By Holding Its Head Underwater And Biting It Until They’re No Longer Putting Up A Fight
In his 1998 essay 'When Screen Violence Is Not Attractive,' McCauley argues that there are two key factors that influence the enjoyment of horror films (but are not limited to moving pictures). "First is that enjoyment of horror depends not upon the balance of positive and negative emotions elicited," he wrote, "but rather upon excitement and involvement that can be associated with either positive or negative emotions."
The "Snow" In The Wizard Of Oz Movie Was 100% Pure Asbestos
A Woman’s Glove From 1850’s In London, Used For Self-Defence
My Friend Is A Bus Driver In Portland, Or And Sent Me This
Fear, it seems, holds as much significance in human existence as basic needs like food and water, manifesting itself in various forms such as movies, roller coasters, and unexpected tragedies. Or, in our case, the chilling images on r/oddlyterrifying.
The ability of these uncanny images to provoke reactions, then, suggests that our response to them is influenced more by our individual identities than the authenticity of the images themselves. In other words: there's nothing wrong with you, whether you seek folkloric 18th-century mummified monstrosities or stare at the darkly-lit abyss that is r/oddlyterrifying for cheap thrills.
A Friend's Printer Broke, Here's The Result Of Him Printing Off A Picture Of Nicolas Cage
The Human Eye
Thought I Heard A Noise Coming From Outside My Window A Few Nights Ago But Brushed It Off. Noticed This This Morning
An Octopus With 32 Tentacles Found Off The Coasts Of South Korea
A Crocodile In Australia Was Caught That Kept Eating Cattle
A Rickety Old Foot Bridge Leading Into The Misty Distance
Just Imagine What They'd Do To You
Climber’s Shelter At The Middle Of A Cliff
Microscopic Image Of A Tape Worms Head
Signature Evolution In Alzheimer’s Disease
This Foot Two Days After A Rattlesnake Bite
And Those Are Just The Ones The Tape Caught
What Rat They See That They Had To Make These?
This Post Box
Manute Bol, Tallest Ever Nba Player (7'7"), Swimming
Weird "Are You Dreaming" Sign Found In Psychologist Waiting Room
The Italian Fascist Party’s Headquarters (1934)
A Drained Swamp. Really Pretty But Kinda Creepy
Won't all the trees die? What happened to the other residents depending upon the swamp?
Kidney Stone Surface As Seen In An Electron Microscope
Fortune Cookie
The last fortune cookie I will ever open said, "You will soon be crossing the great waters."
Graffiti Artists Tagging A Bridge In Mexico
They are either too dedicated or too stupid to get there in the first place
Basalmic Vinegar Is Not An Appropriate Substitute For Poached Eggs If You're Out Of White Vinegar
My Walk Home
TV Turned Itself On At 3am To ‘Update’. This Was The Loading Screen
Archaeologists Discovered The Claws Of A Moa, A Bird That Went Extinct 700 - 800 Years Ago
The largest moa species reached about 3.6 meters (12 ft) in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about 230 kilograms (510 lb).
While Filming The Exorcist, Linda Blair Was Rigged To A Mechanical Bed That Shook Her So Violently She Fractured Her Spine. The Shot Was Used In The Final Film, And Her Screams Of Pain Were Real
Apoica Wasp Nest
Bodies Are Probably Infected. That’s My Guess
This Dark Obelisk In The Desert
Staying At My Grandmother's House For A Bit, Opened Up The Toilet And Was Greeted By This
Burn house, burn grandma, run to the woods, run from the woods, burn it
Nope It's Not A Skull It’s A Fly Infected By Cordyceps Fungus
Someone Anonymously Sent This To My Neighbor
My neighbours have 2 dogs. One starts barking which sets the other off. Then its constant barking for the next 8 hours. It can be just as annoying as someone playing unacceptably loud music. Sometimes, just sometimes it can really get to me.
Load More Replies...What happened to cutting magazines in order to make a way cooler letter?
Didn’t want to be that person—thanks for doing it for me :)
Load More Replies...This is so sad. I can understand how frustrating it must be, we all know how annoying a barking dog is, especially if it happens all day everyday. But for the person's who's dog this is, it is very hard to control especially if this person is working full time. A dog that loves barking is a difficult thing to deal with, difficult to break that habit.
Then only someone who is hopelessly irresponsible, or a simpleton, would keep a dog... Oh, wait - that describes about 60 % of dog owners...
Load More Replies..."If something bad happens to my dog, you're going to find out what your intestines look like."
Does anyone know what I should do if there a dog barking constantly? Like should I talk to the owner or call the council or send a (more nicely worded) note?
In my city, you can file noise complaints with the police. There are requirements in order to do so and I would only do so as a last resort. There are a couple of annoying dogs in my area but dogs bark and the owners rarely let them back late at night or early in the morning so I just deal with it.
Load More Replies...As a dog owner, I'm horrified...but seriously, get your dog's barking under control.
Sadly I can relate to this as the sender. Neighbor has no control over her two dogs.
A surveillance camera, a gun, and an already dug grave. Okay. I am kidding. The camera might help find out who the letter writer is though. Constantly barking dogs can be annoying, but they do not deserve to be assaulted, or killed.
Contact the owner and see if you can help, maybe the neighbors can learn the dog's name and make arrangements to meet the dog, and interact with the dog, and their voice can calm the dog down. This just comes (mostly) from dogs thinking they have been abandoned.
Sadly, our neighbour is unapproachable, and 3 of their dogs are highly aggressive.
Load More Replies...I had a neighbor threaten my dogs. It was so scary! We rescue dogs, at the time we had 4. I'm disabled, so I'm home most of the time. My husband walks them every day and we have a double fenced in lot. They didn't bark a lot at all. One was a basset mix so his voice was loud. But they never barked for more than a moment or so as they were always supervised when outside. But when this guy moved in behind us and started screaming at me from his back door that they has better shut up or he 'was gonna have them taken care of', that scared me. He got mad when the neighborhood kids played too loud and would drive up and down the street honking his horn. One day he got out his craft supplies and wrote bible verses on a poster board and 'protested' all day before planting the sign in the ground. He'd yell about god being on his side, that Jesus lived in his yard and no one else's. It was terrifying! Then one day at his job he broke both legs and we didn't see him for like 6 months.
He moved not long after that. The neighborhood was so happy to see him go!
Load More Replies...With some peoples dogs, I get it! I don't condone it, but some people have. I courtesy for others and cops don't do squat unless u threaten to go find the house and address it yourself
This would scare the c**p out of me. I'm getting shaky just reading it. Absolutely call the cops.
Something bad is going to happen to your teeth and balls if I ever discover who you are
Pull writing samples from all the neighbors to find out who used it’s instead of its.
I understand this feeling especially because most cities don't do jack about it. They want you to bother your neighbors to see if the dog barking bothers them a d they will also fill out reports. Had a neighbor who had a dog killed by someone at a prior home and couldn't understand. He bought another dog and I understood the death of his dog... Constant barking. It makes me sad cause it's due the neglect of the pupper. I wanted to kidnap the dog and actually let him inside when it barked. They were horrible neighbors
It’s like some people in the city near here who moved into a flat in a building which also houses a restaurant, and then demanded that the restaurant should close because they were disturbed by the noise. They were told: if you want to live close to other people, you will have to accept some noise. My neighbour has a chihuahua. She barks now and then, but I accept it because that’s what dogs do. That note is probably an illegal threat and should be shown to the police. The neighbour is a way bigger nuisance than the dog!
At least they warned the selfish and inept owner. Not that I think the dog deserves anything bad to happen to it. People that let their dogs bark and bark and bark should be shot.
Creeps everywhere. Sometimes people put poison in meat along trails for dogs to eat.
There is a good chance this dog-owner had no idea about this obnoxious behavior prior to receiving this terrifying note.
I'd feel compelled to point out the grammar error and try to teach them how to tell when to use its or it's. Probably not going to help.
This is messed up and is why I am happy I live in the country with no neighbors.
Imagine finding out who sent the message and sending them back one that says in caps: "IT'S ITS, NOT IT'S. SEE WHAT I DID?"
Something bad is going to happen to you. The dog is in full control of his barking and doesn't need any pointers from me. You don't like barking? I'm going to start a Howling at the Moon party, complete with banjos, bongo drums, and drunken karaoke with all my family. We will ALL be waiting for you to come back onto my property again. Invest in earplugs a*****e.
Sounds like my neighbours. There have been several ‘unprovable’ attempts over the years but the most recent was pork rib bones I had to wrestle from the dog launched in the garden.
I’d be putting up a camera asap then once caught standing outside there door with an axe.
I would go directly to that neighbor's house yes we all know what neighbor you are if you're the one writing these kind of letters and he may not be walking for the next few weeks months or ever
Something bad will happen to you if anything, ever, for the rest of his life, ever, not one hair on his body, happens to my dog I will **insert Taken speech after daughter is kidnapped... ya know, I have a set of skills and all that** I will find you and you will regret it
The Skull Of Mary Magdalene In St Maximin Basilica In France
It is real....and they've got another one from when she was a child...
Robe And Axe Of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Who Was The Official Executioner For The Papal States From 1796 To 1864. During His Tenure He Executed 514 People
My (28f) Spine
Baby Mute
Michael Jackson’s Bedroom When He Died Had Target Ads Of Babies He Didn’t Know
Looks like there's a watermark in the picture. Not sure I should believe this.
This Is Demodex Folliculorum. Right Now There Are 6 Of These On Each One Of You Eyebrows Hair Follicles
Found My Old Teeth When Visiting My Parents (I’m 33)
Note: this post originally had 87 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
BP will notify me that someone commented on my comment but I can never get back to my comment on the post. How does one navigate this? Of course ods are if someone answers I'll never be able to find it.
This happens when BP trims the original entry count. On this particular post, there were 87 entries originally. It has been trimmed to 50. To view your comment, go the last entry. Right underneath it, there is a note notifying of this trimming; along with a hyperlink to the original 87 entries. Click that link and you can scroll to search your comment there. Edit: The method I explained above works only for web version of BP. I just tested this using adroid app version. Sorry. No such link available. Not sure if IOS app version has it.
Load More Replies...Thank you all so much for your very kind words of support. It means so much to me because I really can't quite articulate to anyone what I'm going through. On one hand, I love being with her and able to care for her. She and I have a totally different relationship than when I was a child. We understand each other differently. But I lose more of her each day. We also have arguments due to not understanding each other and I hate it because I'm trying my best to communicate with her but she gets so frustrated and upset when she doesn't understand something or forgets what she wanted to say. I'm in a really bad position because I can't earn income doing this (I've looked into it) so I'm doing Uber Eats when I can and I watch my sister's children in the afternoon. But I'm not making ends meet anymore and my family doesn't want to acknowledge this. I feel like I have no value or purpose anymore.
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BP will notify me that someone commented on my comment but I can never get back to my comment on the post. How does one navigate this? Of course ods are if someone answers I'll never be able to find it.
This happens when BP trims the original entry count. On this particular post, there were 87 entries originally. It has been trimmed to 50. To view your comment, go the last entry. Right underneath it, there is a note notifying of this trimming; along with a hyperlink to the original 87 entries. Click that link and you can scroll to search your comment there. Edit: The method I explained above works only for web version of BP. I just tested this using adroid app version. Sorry. No such link available. Not sure if IOS app version has it.
Load More Replies...Thank you all so much for your very kind words of support. It means so much to me because I really can't quite articulate to anyone what I'm going through. On one hand, I love being with her and able to care for her. She and I have a totally different relationship than when I was a child. We understand each other differently. But I lose more of her each day. We also have arguments due to not understanding each other and I hate it because I'm trying my best to communicate with her but she gets so frustrated and upset when she doesn't understand something or forgets what she wanted to say. I'm in a really bad position because I can't earn income doing this (I've looked into it) so I'm doing Uber Eats when I can and I watch my sister's children in the afternoon. But I'm not making ends meet anymore and my family doesn't want to acknowledge this. I feel like I have no value or purpose anymore.
babe, we gotchu. 🫂🥺 those of us that read comments know where you are, and what you meant. your Panda community is here if you need us.
Load More Replies...Thank you for sharing such a unique article. Also visit our site to get spider clothes. Shop sp5der hoodies at the best prices in our official store. Street wear brand sp5der hoodies are available every color & size . Hurry up quantities are limited. Enjoy fast & free shipping worldwide!
Thank u for sharing such a unique article. Also visit Shop hellstar Clothing, available T-Shirt, Hoodie, sweatpants, tracksuit & Clothing for men. Save UP to 30% off hellstar hoodie items. Enjoy fast & free shipping worldwide!
I'm glad you enjoyed your trip! Thanks for the great updates throughout. There is so much to discover. Just check on the website US byways and you will find the most beautifull roads of the US. Click Here