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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.
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 😐
Terminal Lucidity: when a person with dementia suddenly remembers everything all at once and then dies
This is so scary for me. My grandmother has dementia, and she is struggling so much (she can't even remember me and my family members).
That most people are completely oblivious to the danger of deep fake technology.
We have tons of companies collecting our biometrics right now by gamefying the collection of our data, and we just give it away freely.
Add AI art that can create a picture of anyone doing anything, and it's just mind-boggling to me more people don't see what's coming.
This is seriously the biggest threat in human history.
Cranberry Bogs
To effectively keep bugs off the cranberry plants the farmers put wolf spiders in the fields. When it's time to harvest the cranberries they flood the fields and the spiders sit on top of the floating cranberries. Wolf spiders will seek out the highest spot to get away from the water. Guess what happens when the workers walk waist deep in the cranberry bogs?? Thats right, they become the highest dry spot and the wolf spiders climb them.
You could have rabies in your system for years and have absolutely no idea until your minor headache develops into intense fear, hydrophobia, and tremors
You were dead when you felt the headache
I joined the military at 18 as I needed a paycheck due to being nearly homeless. I've learned just how truly fragile humans are both physically and mentally.
That something like close to half of murders reported in the US are never solved. That’s just of the reported ones….
You're never as safe as you think you are. Don't ever think something can't happen to you because it can
I heard once that all of our senses(sight, hearing, etc.) are only capable of perceiving one millionth of reality. That always weirds me out when I think about it.
People don't realize that safety guidelines for food is actually way more lax than it should be. For example, there is a guide for an acceptable amount of bugs/bug parts, and rat fecal matter in the ground beef most stores sell. The amount that is allowed would surprise you. Even something like drinking water that was deemed "safe" can contain enough harmful contents to cause serious damage to your body, but because it does this damage over the course of 20+ years, its completely fine by industry standards.
That sudden deaths have gone up by a lot and nobody can give a straight answer when asked why it’s happening
That you never really know the people in your life.
You could marry a woman and have no clue she will poison your chicken sandwich in the future
You could have a child and have no clue he will fire a .45 acp bullet into your head in the future
You could have a best friend since childhood and have no idea a minor argument could lead to you being strangled to death
For some reason, the fact that you poop/pee yourself when you die. I know that it won’t matter because I’ll be dead, anyway, but I’ve always been weirded out by that.
That not everyone will find love. Not everyone will find that special person. There is a very real possibility that life may move forward and you’ll never spend it with someone.
Wish people would stop pushing this "love is the most important thing" rubbish. If you have a great love, fine for you, but this idea that unless you find one partner who you are passionately in love with and spend your life with, your life will be somehow empty and incomplete is BS. All it does is make people grow up to feel something must be wrong with them that they have not found someone, or that they are failed in some way. Plenty people have fulfilling lives without a partner, and have connections with different people at different times in their life.
Housing is more expensive than ever.
Rent is completely unreasonable. There really needs to be some kind of cap on rents in an area based on the income (net, not gross) of the jobs in the area and even on the property itself. An area where jobs pay minimum wage or slightly above where rent is 3k a month is ridiculous. And they can charge that on a property that has not been updated or there are serious problems with no real oversight. A single person who can only afford a 1300 a month rent (you'd need to make 42k to afford that), is now living in a place where 6 drug addicts are living upstairs in a 2 bedroom apt partying all night because they only need to come up with about 200 bucks a month each. So they party all night, are loud and generally make their neighbors all miserable. And we're stuck in it because we can't afford a 3k apartment where there are stricter rules and the landlords care a little more about what happens to the property and are more choosey about the people they let live there.
That at some point we have all likely had cancer. Usually, your body deals with the cancerous cells before it can be any more than an undetectable mutation. Until it misses one.
One or more of my cells were missed...fact is, it may or may not come back. Living one day at a time.
When I die, I will be able to hear what people are saying, my last bit of brain activity will be processing those words or sounds and they will be echoed into my forever dream…hope nobody says anything f****d up.
According to recent studies, auditory stimulus is the last sense to be lost, it's anticipated that people actually listen long enough to hear they’re pronounced dead.
A lot of what we are able to observe in our universe could have died or been destroyed thousands of years ago and we would have no idea.
The only one. That I have a brain tumor that might grow, it might shrink. But if it decides to kill me i won’t be around for my wife and boys.
1/3 of adult Americans can't read. The fact that those idiots can vote is even scarier
Every time you smell something tiny particles of that thing are going into your body. That sounds good when you think of stuff like cotton candy or fruit but when you smell stuff like sewage or dog poop it's awful
Yeah, best not to think about the microscopic world. Disturbing stuff happens there. (I'm looking at you, eyelash mites.)
Pretty much impossible to survive any kind of impact from a semi
My mom told me a story of why she quit emt. A friend of hers head on'd a semi at about 35 mph so slow speed and...
The engine was in the woman's lap, the transmission in the back seats, the driveshaft snapped like spaghetti, the front end of the truck was gone and the woman... had to be scraped out of the truck, a job left to my mom.
Don't think she sleeps still it was almost 13 years ago.
I have a CDL (Bus driver, not trucks). Ordinary drivers do not realize how massively large some of these vehicles are. We need a lot of space to operate safely, and more importantly, stop. Leave lots of room, don't tailgate, and most important - don't cut me off.
You can spend half your life working your a*s off and sabotaging a social life for education, money, wealth and success and at the end of the day most people who focus that kind of lifestyle I feel are not completely satisfied or happy with their lives or with the work they put it, and at the end of the day its kind of all for nothing, when you die no one truly know if theres an after life or if its just a state of non existence but I’m willing to bet on my left kidney you cant take those riches and success with you, idk sometimes just being alive is absolutely terrifying but so incredibly beautiful at times the words of a poet couldn’t describe the feelings and emotions that come with experiences throughout the journey of existence, like kissing a special someone for the first time, experiencing the welcoming and goodbyes of relatives and friends, cashing your first check, coming home after a long day at work and just that feeling of comfort and peace, also the feeling of not knowing what tomorrow brings is bittersweet, I could die in a car crash on the way to work, I could end up accidentally finding the love of my life, who knows the unknown events of the future is what keeps me goin, making as many beautiful memories as I can is pretty much my goal, Aleister Crowley “do as thou whilst”
When stars explode they release a gamma burst that can destroy everything in its path.
It depends exactly how far away. If a star goes supernova within 30 lightyears, you’re toast. If it goes supernova far enough, the beam of gamma rays can become wider over distance and affect the whole planet. Gamma rays could be the reason we don’t see much life outside the earth because they may be wiping out huge chunks of it
That some street drugs are so powerful that just one pill can kill a person. I worry about people, especially young people, that don't understand that.
I used to take Ativan on occasion - went to a guy’s house for a date once, was nervous so I took an Ativan, and had 2-3 drinks after - he couldn’t wake me up and almost called me an ambulance (he should have) because I was struggling to breathe. My doctor may have said “don’t have a drink on this” but he didn’t make it clear how important this information is or why exactly it’s important (I and most people are always better at following instructions when I know why/what I’m preventing) Please be careful :(
The mad cow disease epidemic possibly hasn't even started, as the disease can lay dormant in the body for up to (50??) years
There are feces in many processed meats.
You don't want to know all the things that are in processed meats.
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.
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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
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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
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