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30 Creepy Facts Not For The Fainthearted, As Shared On This Online Thread
The things we find scary differ from person to person. For some, it might be an image of a spider crawling nearby, others are spooked out by ghost stories (let’s be honest, they often sound as scary at 30 as they did at 13). Let’s not forget the variety of creatures under the bed that are waiting for you to throw that leg over the edge.
Sadly, some everyday occurrences can be as spine-chilling as The Shining itself. The online community on r/AskReddit discussed what facts scare them the most. The answers are unsurprisingly grim, but they might be worth pondering over. Warning: some might unlock a new fear.
If these scary facts weren’t horrifying enough, browse Bored Panda’s list of haunting real-life facts you might have not heard before.
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The most well-educated and intelligent people are also those most afflicted with issues like despair, depression, and existential crises. Reality is a nightmare of horrors lying just beneath the surface, and the more aware of how things really work you are the more truly miserable you are, generally.
That's why Eve eating from the apple tree of knowledge is considered the moment where the loss of paradise happens. I'm not religious at all but I'm fascinated by the 'story' about how everything goes to sh!t the more knowledge you have. A scary message to keep the masses uneducated and controlled, but there's truth to the idea that ignorance is bliss.
I logically know I am fine, but my anxiety won’t let me accept that.
That my parents and grandparents are slowly getting older and it's just a matter of time before I start losing them all one by one and there's nothing I can do about it.
Fear might evoke various negative responses, from a weird feeling in the pit of the stomach to complete panic. Yet this emotion developed as a reflex crucial for humans to survive. It’s a natural reaction warning of a possible danger and the need to protect oneself.
Fear is responsible for the fight or flight instinct that arises when we’re in danger. But it's not only physical threats that can cause fear. Our thoughts might do that as well.
Take this list as an example. Reading the scary facts does not put you in actual danger, however, some of the posts are definitely enough to give you goosebumps. A survey from America’s top fears in 2020/2021 found that the death or illness of a loved one—a fear shared by numerous members of the online community—is in the top ten.
70+ million people voted for The Orange Piece of S**t
A two party system is not able to answer properly to the needs of the voters, they can only choose between two extremes and neither is fitting to the needs of the majority. The Netherlands overdo it with 21, it is impossible to make decisions and steer a country if every question needs to be discussed with everybody and every opinion needs to be evaluated. Keep it below ten and offer more than two choices. Germany learnt that lesson, google "Weimarer Republik"
The amount of women and children murder every year in first world countries at the hands of their current or ex spouses. One every 11 minutes.
That since I was born the human population has doubled and the animal population has been cut in half.
That the insect biomass is rapidly decreasing. This is the foundation of the food chain.
Melting permafrost is releasing potentially life threatening microorganisms that humans have no immunity to.
It's likely that my chronic pain is uncurable and I'll have to live with it forever. It's cost me most of my hobbies and taken a huge toll on my mental health and it seems to be steadily getting worse too. That scares me a lot. I don't want this to be my life.
11 years and counting. Every doctor tells me I have to live with it. No medication helps. Doing nothing is my coping response and now I've gained 30 pounds. Chronic pain is no joke. It destroys quality of life.
I’m so sorry :( I hurt my knee last year (ripped my MCL) and it’s the first time I’ve lived with a degree of fairly constant pain - it’s really mild though, and more of an uncomfortable annoyance most of the time, like it makes stairs annoying etc. Still, it’s the only taste I have of life in pain, and as mild as it is, I’ve been so frustrated by it that I’ve been in tears before - I can’t imagine the struggle some people have to live with with pain that is a lot more severe than mine. It really expanded my empathy towards those living in bad chronic pain, and I wish I’d been more aware and empathetic before. It really does destroy quality of life. Sending you love and strength Kevin 🧡
Load More Replies...I'm living with chronic pain. I have two pieces of advice to offer: 1) try to find something that helps you distract yourself from it, and occupies your mind. Try to find a hobby or interest within your abilities. 2) If you don't have a pet, get one. Cats are good, because they don't need to be walked like a dog does. Pets give you undemanding companionship and love, without the need to be "on" the way we have to for other humans. I'm sorry for what you're going through. It sucks, and it's not fair.
But keep in mind cat litter boxes have to be cleaned! I'm going to have to hire someone because my back pain is limiting my ability to clean/dump/refill the litter boxes.
Load More Replies...Same. It's been 2.5 years since I worked because of it, and I'm 36 years old. I don't want to be in pain all my life. I don't want to be poor. And I do not want deformed joints. I want to be independent again and take care of myself, not needing my parents to cut my food, even pancakes I need help with.
And the doc probably lowered or cut off their pain med. It happened all over the usa a few years back. My ex mom in law weighed about 90 pounds and her whole back hsd pins in it and her hips and she could not even walk. They lowered her dose and mg of pain med by at least 85% because the doctors were getting arrested all over for writing meds. People who genuinely needed it are suffering. They end up turning to street drugs or buying meds off the street because of this. (Not her as far as I know, she just ended up dying on excruciating pain. But others all over.)
I know. That is why, even with chronic pain, i will never go to the ER for a pain episode my meds won't cover. In spite of all they are taught, i am still judged and treated as drug seeking. F***k them.
Load More Replies...Same, started in my twenties and just two decades later I'm staggering around like someone twice my age. Somedays it's overwhelming. I would say tbe worst thing though is not being believed about it for years and still people saying that I look OK so can't be that ill.
Same. Age twenty I was fast and fit. 25 years later I walk like an old man.
Load More Replies...Same. Every year it gets a little worse. I'm basically bed bound at this point.
I am so very sorry! They really need to find other alternatives to pain control that are non narcotic.
Load More Replies...I have been in constant pain for over 35 years and it's hell every day. I go to bed every night knowing that tomorrow isn't going to be any better. All of my many doctors tell me they're doing all they can go me, so there's no relief in sight.
I feel this one. I got double the fun with Fibromyalgia and Porphyria e_e
My mother died at 70 after decades of chronic pain which progressed. As she aged, her doctors pretty much just DGAF.
Fibromyalgia, arthritis, sciatica, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, CIPN (neuropathy from chemo), chronic fatigue, diabetes. None of them curable, most will only get worse, blah, blah, blah. I understand exactly what you mean. All we can do is struggle through the pain and hope for the best
Wait ...so chemo can contribute to neuropathy?! My doctor just spoke over me when I asked about the possibility. VA can be indifferent or ignorant... either way, no answers. THANK YOU for the verification. Truly sorry you're also experiencing this life altering pain.
Load More Replies...I can both sympathize AND empathize with this, unfortunately. I am a 46 y.o. woman and have been living with chronic back pain for half my life. Plus, it keeps getting worse as more discs in my spine herniate (currently up to 15, yay). In addition, I have a seizure disorder, which could end up killing me at any time. I never thought about dying from a seizure until I heard about some teenage celebrity who died from one recently…😳
I know that this will not be applicable to most people. I'm going to write it anyway on the off chance that it could help even one. If you have chronic pain without an obvious physical cause for it, or chronic pain caused by an illness that is diagnosis by elimination; please look into CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome). It's finally getting at least the smallest amount of attention in the medical community, mostly due to research being put in to long haul covid. Most doctors, even specialist's, don't know of it's existence. No matter how many tests or scans you've had with nothing showing up, including MRIs, it won't have been detected. Mostly because it's not just one particular system in your body affected, with each symptom getting treated as a separate issue. Please read about it. Even if you don't think that it sounds like you, at least read until the end. If it doesn't help you, you might be able to help someone else.
There are some articles and discussion of treatment from the Aus website What is the treatment for CIRS? Treatment consists of the low amylose diet in conjunction with high dose fish oil [2.4 grams of EPA and 1.8 grams of DHA per day] to decrease inflammation, pain and dysfunction. Low VEGF contributes to oxygen deprivation at the core of CIRS-WDB. However, it appears to be related to exposure to biotoxins. WHAT IS CIRS? Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) is a progressive, multi-system, multi-symptom illness characterized by exposure to biotoxins. The ongoing inflammation can affect virtually any organ system of the body and if left untreated becomes debilitating.
Load More Replies...Same I've fibromyalgia but because I choose to work people esp family assume I'm faking it or if I'm as bad as I say i am I wouldn't be working , my job is my happy place im a cleaner in the evenings for 6 hrs each day 5 days a wk , on goes my headphones and podcasts/music and I zone out ,plus it helps to have an amazing boss who understands my illness
If it were curable it wouldnt be chronic, I have chronic pain and you do learn to live with it over the years. If you let it consume you you will spend your life in bed or on a couch. My spine is fused to my scrolic joint and will progressively fuse all the way up. My disks in the bottom 4 lumbar are either non existent or bulging on one side and arthritic on the other, they're wedge shaped. One day i will require a wheelchair for mobility. It is my lot in life so I may as well learn to live with it
There are pain institutes where I live that just take cases to cure constant pain.
I tried one (USA) but it turned out to be bogus. Will try again when finances allow - those copays add up quickly!
Load More Replies...Yep. Now that I'm retired, my arthritis prevents me from walking more than a few steps, or doing needlework, or any other activity or hobby I wanted to enjoy during these years. I can barely use my computer and remote anymore.
May I suggest acupuncture? It helped a couple of family members.
Load More Replies...Same - this is what it does. It takes away those things that you can do one by one until you have fewer alternatives left for employment or even fun. Meanwhile doctors treat you as though you have a painkiller addiction. Pain is one of those things that can't be seen and is therefore disbelieved quite readily..
I feel ya. I have had chronic pain since my 20s and now I'm in my 60s. It sucks. Now my joints are going. My back is long gone but I still need to work. I'll get a spinal fusion when I hit 70 most likely. Can't get one while still working full time.
Find happiness how ever you can. I've been living with chronic pain for 20 years and it's hell but you'll find different hobbies. Trust.
Please consult with a pain management practice, preferably one that offers interventional procedures and access to psychology and physical therapy. Chronic pain is treatable.
Having my knee give out due to my work ethic has kept me down for three months. I weathered a back injury for years with a brace and listening to my body...but this... I am a notorious wanderer, and work very hard at my physically demanding job... And to not be able to do that has sent my OCD and anxiety into /high/ gear.
I have a family member who has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and it’s a chronic illness as well as a connective tissue disorder, you’ll have to search it up bc it’s hard to explain, but it’s caused her to have to give up certain family fun activities like bowling and stuff. There’s also a huge amount of other factors that go into that and it causes her a lot of pain, and I have it too.
Same here. I have 2 bad awful knees. I'm walking (somewhat) on bone on bone here. Yes it hurts
Chronic pain is a bu&&er, but you really CAN learn to live with it. Have you tried a 'pain clinic' ot CBT?
I'm sorry you're going through this, and my sincere hope is that you somehow find a way to a life worth living.
My chronic dyslexia is incurable and reading sucks but it's my favorite hobby so I invested in e-books. Game changer!!! But still hurts it's hard to read a real book.
I hear you. Me too. Chronic daily pain is so much more than “just” pain. It undermines everything from, ability to sleep to your body not working as it should. It’s vile.
I'm living with chronic pain also. It really bothers me when people say "have you tried eating gluten free?" "What about your sugar intake?" "Vegan?" "try kr@t*m, it's an all natural opiate..." "you aren't taking opiates are you?" I recognize people mean well, but I don't think they understand. Pain has stripped away so many things and activities I enjoyed, I'm unwilling to give up anything that brings me joy --even if it's something simple as a slice of toast.
Get ready to suffer more. The government is so worried about solving the opioid crisis and stopping overdoses that they severely restrict any medication that people with real pain need. I have gotten worse over the last 6 years and with little relief, the pain has now taken most of my quality of life. I wish you luck and wise, brave doctors who will fight for their patient and not just follow rules like sheep.
Yup, right there. There is no cure and I can't get the disability that I have paid into all my life. The pain is real, so is the depression. Work is getting so much more difficult.
Their are many ways to control pain, besides medication, their's yoga. Meditation, hypnosis to name a few, I hope, if you haven't already, you'll look into these.
Just read new treatment for pain: Green Light, full spectrum at 10 lux, has shown great potential for pain relief. From US National Institute of Health: Green Light Analgesia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5242385/
There's an illness called fatal insomnia.
You stay awake until you die, There's literally no cure and can't be predicted, you lose your mind slowly and you can't do anything about it.
My grandpa died slowly from it.
That outside of our planet, zero of our achievements/history/language/currency matters. It can all be erased in a second and there would be no knowledge of us ever existing in the first place to anyone else in the universe. We are meaningless outside of this sphere.
The amount of child abuse the catholic church got/gets away with
That Dopplegangers exist. They say that there are at least a couple people in the world that look exactly like you without being blood related and I met mine.
He was a f*****g criminal and got into trouble so many times with the law that I myself had been mistaken for him three times. The only difference was me having sleeves. My tattoos saved me from being mistaken for him who sexually assaulted a woman. I was brought in and put in a line up and she said herself, “that looks like him but he doesn’t have a single tattoo”. 4 hours later they found him and the sheriff’s department was dumbfounded that we weren’t twins. Like looking in a mirror. I was released and a more than needed apology was given by the chief of police and arresting officer.
More than needed? Granted they had the wrong man, but putting you in a police line up is the police doing their jobs correctly, acting on all information available to them. Had you been arrested and held in cells while they waited days for DNA to exonerate you, then it would be much needed. Blame the AH doppleganger - the police were doing thing right here, it's a creepy set of coincidences that they got the wrong person originally.
Any day, you could have a stroke and lose all your autonomy and become as dependant as a baby.
My dog is gonna die at some point...
I feel that 😨 I hope I die before my cats, turtles and dog dies, but that would be selfish to hope right
That one day will be the last of something and you have no idea until that day is over. It's surreal to me that their was a day in my life when my group of friends all hung out together having fun and then never again. There will be a last time I will see the ones I love and not even know. It's painful.
After 4 years of Donald Trump as President, half the country wanted more.
Trumphumpers are so disconnected from reality it's frightening. Since they all worship Putin they should move to Russia and volunteer to fight against the Ukraine. But the gun loving trumpers are wimpy wannabe soldiers. Pathetic losers.
That poverty, homelessness, orphans exist, yet people continue to reproduce at an alarming rate and this will only get worse and worse and worse…
Fertility rates in developed countries has actually plummetted. We just need more available and reliable contraception in developing countries. I live in Brazil, and the number of teenage pregnancies is staggering.
The fact that the past 10 years of my life have flown by, and it means I got about a decade before I become the same age as my parents when I was born. Meaning that I’m just slowly going to age till it’s time for me to pass. And I still don’t even know why I’m living or what I want to do, or even feel like I’m happy.
In view of the coming changes caused by the climate, I would like to have at least a little bit of meaning in life with my small permaculture garden project. the multiplication of people does not help us and I will definitely not contribute to that - I think many people have children because they believe that they will then fulfill a meaning in life. I believe that the proliferation of small oases can hopefully make a difference and I would like to support animals and plants - which ultimately, if many participate, can possibly also help humanity.
That something someone can do totally beyond my control, will impact me in a way I could never recover from, or my family. Accident, violence, mismanagement etc, they’re the scary things
The number of people older than me will never increase.
Some states are totally okay trying to censor LGBT people. I only worry about what's to come.
This deeply concerns me for my sister's kid. We're in Ohio, and my sister is researching and making backup plans should they need to leave the state. That kid has enough internal struggles; it scares me what can happen when the struggles are just too much. Too many kids don't make it out alive.
We still don't know how exactly anesthesia works and yet every day about 60.000 people are having surgery under anesthesia. And about 1 in 1000 patients wakes up during surgery and is often traumatized for life.
But we do know how it works. It stops the nerves from passing pain signals to the brain...
How much our brains trick us "for our own good".
For instance, your brain does not record input from your eyes as they move. So if you are looking at object A and move your eyes from object A to object B, it does not record the motion blur as your eyes move.
Moreover, it accounts for this gap by taking the image you settle on and backfilling it in your memory, so you think the time your eyes spent in motion was actually spent looking at object B. The causes several optical illusions. Most notably, why a blinking light will seem to stay on or off longer when you first look at it. That's because your brain backfilled the image of it being on or off in your memory. It's easy to experience this. Just find a blinking light and look away, then look back at it. Unless it's timed just right, you will appear to observe the light being lit, or not, for just a split second longer than it should be.
The brain will also backfill details that are missing from your memories, sometimes making them up completely. It really makes you wonder just how much of what we see is actually real.
I just hope I’m not actually dead right now and my brain is making everything up
That we’re hurtling towards an ecological geological disaster the likes of which humanity has never seen at breakneck pace and a massive number of us can’t seem to do much about it.
That, is because global warming is a hoax, and Trump wanted to save us from the lizard people who rule over all people unless they drink a potion of bleach and rat poison that has been sanctified by a tanning bed. If you cannot tell that this is sarcasm, you are lost to me.
That any of us could have a brain aneurysm right now and not even know it's coming.
When I was 17 I had been dealing with a mystery headache condition and was become "mysteriously ill". Doctors couldn't explain it.
I was told by a prolific doctor that they'd be shocked if I "lived past 30." It struck me like a train, and not much bothers me. The doctor apologized but said they couldn't lie to me.
I turn 29 soon and I've been diagnosed with an aggressive autoimmune disease, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, ADHD, and OCD.
I've never been more sick in my life, and as we speak my heart is pounding so hard it's shaking my bed. My wife who is used to me being ill is legitimately concerned, so yeah, doc may end up being right after all.
That we have an elderly stockpile of nuclear weapons that could erase most of life on the planet several times over. There have been some scary near misses on our history with nuclear weapons and I believe it's only a matter of time before there's a horrific accident.
Thanks. That’s quite enough internet for me today before my rotten luck decides that since I’m aware of the possibility, why not let a huge disaster come and wipe out everyone except from me and let me die with injuries 😐
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I could only get to #15 before I had to quit reading. So many people tied up so tight in so many knots. And there's no way I can help any of them.
Load More Replies...This was the first BP post I’ve read that actually stresses me out LESS the closer to the bottom I scrolled. 😂
wow, what a great way to start my morning. I just read a article about puppies and now this???
Oh are you talking about the article with the Frenchie puppies dressed up as little French fries?? Cuz that was ADORABLE
Load More Replies...here is a cute cat to make up for this depressing post. cute-cats-...a30de3.jpg
and another one because i can only attach one image cute-cats-...91a79c.jpg
Load More Replies...Making people scared is the biggest tool people in power have and it's working unfortunately
Happy fun facts- trees make friends with other trees. Humpback whale population has gone from 450 in the 1950s to 25,000 in 2019. Norway knighted a penguin. Octopi make little ocean gardens. The hole in the ozone layer will be fully healed within the next 55 years. Norway donated 1 billion USD to help save the Amazon rainforest. Bees do little dances to tell other bees they found food.
Heck with the others... Norway knighted a penguin! Even better... he's Mustang, having come through the ranks from enlisted to officer.
Load More Replies...This list is just doom scrolling and 90% of it is a fear of dying
I wholeheartedly agree with all your points! Also to add, real idiots are those who have the ability and resources to read, understand and fact check but still refuse to do so and keep pushing their stupid logics on others!
Propably when we had to cut hours because of covid. My mind went from cutting hours to unemployement to a lot of money related fears like losing the flat, the pets, ...
Sum this all up as reaping the results of godlessness.Throw in a few kilos of 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' for flavor.
Well, I was sort of okay happy before I read that and now I’m back to being low-key anxious and depressed. Where’s my pupper and kitties when mama needs hugs?
I got to the post about "my dog dying"....and had to stop reading. Just utterly useless and depressing.
Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be! Doesnt depres me, gives energy
It always blows my mind how random our existence is. If a particular spermatozoa did not fertilise a specific embryo you would not exist. It is totally random.
Considering this list of possible catastrophes can't be all inclusive, how has this human race survived this long? How do we manage to drive to point A to point B without being hit by a Mac truck, having a blowout, being hit by a stray bullet or a chunk of metal falling off a truck impaling us... I could go on. You will drive yourself insane if you try to anticipate and worry about every potential outcome. If it happens, it happens and then you deal with it. If you die, you better have made your peace with your Maker cause it will get worse from that point on for eternity.
#31 everybody will die some day, that´s the way of life, so don´t worry about, just accept your mortality
woohoo thanks for filling my head with all the anxiety I need for the rest of the year! Seriously I'm shaking and I had to stop reading once it got to #22 which is currently the LGBTQ+ rights right now. That scares me so much.
Welp, my day is f****d now. Anxiety at a 10 after reading this. We're all worried and tense enough, we don't need to read stuff like this.
Amazing that laws exist only to protect those that normally would have been taken out by natural selection. And yet we wonder why the world is the way it is.
I could only get to #15 before I had to quit reading. So many people tied up so tight in so many knots. And there's no way I can help any of them.
Load More Replies...This was the first BP post I’ve read that actually stresses me out LESS the closer to the bottom I scrolled. 😂
wow, what a great way to start my morning. I just read a article about puppies and now this???
Oh are you talking about the article with the Frenchie puppies dressed up as little French fries?? Cuz that was ADORABLE
Load More Replies...here is a cute cat to make up for this depressing post. cute-cats-...a30de3.jpg
and another one because i can only attach one image cute-cats-...91a79c.jpg
Load More Replies...Making people scared is the biggest tool people in power have and it's working unfortunately
Happy fun facts- trees make friends with other trees. Humpback whale population has gone from 450 in the 1950s to 25,000 in 2019. Norway knighted a penguin. Octopi make little ocean gardens. The hole in the ozone layer will be fully healed within the next 55 years. Norway donated 1 billion USD to help save the Amazon rainforest. Bees do little dances to tell other bees they found food.
Heck with the others... Norway knighted a penguin! Even better... he's Mustang, having come through the ranks from enlisted to officer.
Load More Replies...This list is just doom scrolling and 90% of it is a fear of dying
I wholeheartedly agree with all your points! Also to add, real idiots are those who have the ability and resources to read, understand and fact check but still refuse to do so and keep pushing their stupid logics on others!
Propably when we had to cut hours because of covid. My mind went from cutting hours to unemployement to a lot of money related fears like losing the flat, the pets, ...
Sum this all up as reaping the results of godlessness.Throw in a few kilos of 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' for flavor.
Well, I was sort of okay happy before I read that and now I’m back to being low-key anxious and depressed. Where’s my pupper and kitties when mama needs hugs?
I got to the post about "my dog dying"....and had to stop reading. Just utterly useless and depressing.
Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be! Doesnt depres me, gives energy
It always blows my mind how random our existence is. If a particular spermatozoa did not fertilise a specific embryo you would not exist. It is totally random.
Considering this list of possible catastrophes can't be all inclusive, how has this human race survived this long? How do we manage to drive to point A to point B without being hit by a Mac truck, having a blowout, being hit by a stray bullet or a chunk of metal falling off a truck impaling us... I could go on. You will drive yourself insane if you try to anticipate and worry about every potential outcome. If it happens, it happens and then you deal with it. If you die, you better have made your peace with your Maker cause it will get worse from that point on for eternity.
#31 everybody will die some day, that´s the way of life, so don´t worry about, just accept your mortality
woohoo thanks for filling my head with all the anxiety I need for the rest of the year! Seriously I'm shaking and I had to stop reading once it got to #22 which is currently the LGBTQ+ rights right now. That scares me so much.
Welp, my day is f****d now. Anxiety at a 10 after reading this. We're all worried and tense enough, we don't need to read stuff like this.
Amazing that laws exist only to protect those that normally would have been taken out by natural selection. And yet we wonder why the world is the way it is.