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Surfing the web can sometimes feel like going on a night dive, venturing into the pitch-black ocean. You may blindly encounter things that could leave you scarred for life, or, at the very least, trying to shake off an awful, indelible memory.
Suppose you haven’t ventured into those parts of the internet; lucky you. But if you want an idea of how dark things can get, these responses from an old yet relevant Reddit thread should clue you in.
We’ve compiled some of them on this list to satisfy your morbid curiosity. Scroll through at your own risk.
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#1
When I was struggling with eating problems as a teen I googled looking for anorexia help. I was hoping to find sites with advice on recovery etc but instead came across “pro Ana” blogs, and they’re honestly terrifying. They treat anorexia as a lifestyle and actively encourage girls to become anorexic, claiming that all non-anorexic women are disgusting and fat. They’re full of advice on how to avoid the temptation to eat, and you could find yourself an “ana buddy” to encourage you on your journey of anorexia. I’m so glad I never got caught up in that s**t and the anorexics who write those blogs are completely sick in the head.
Tamra 4 weeks ago
Are there any repercussions for people who post stuff like this? I know it's a slippery slope i.e. free speech and all that, but promoting something that causes so much suffering and even eventual death, just seems like there should be some sort of guardrails or something. I swear, sometimes the Internet is the wild west.
Svenne O'Lotta 3 weeks ago
It's really not a slippery slope. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater isn't protected speech either.
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#2
Junko Furuta's Wikipedia page. It may be gone from my browsing history, but never from my mind.
JB 4 weeks ago
A 17 year old who was murdėred. The details are bad. You don't need to know more.
Gadaffi Duck 4 weeks ago (edited)
Horrendous, but they all appealed there sentences & ended up with longer sentences and I believe 3 out of 4 are dead. 1 developed a crippling illness suffered for years until dying (fitting) Another had a fall in the bathroom and choked to death on his own vomit with his head stuck between the toilet and the sink (ha!) And the parents of the ring leader who did absolutely nothing to help despite knowing what was going on had to sell there home to afford the compensation awarded to the victims family.
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hannahbahngswife 4 weeks ago
Female rage is not lip gloss stuck on lips, it's reading what happened to her.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 4 weeks ago (edited)
You all warned me not to look, but curiosity got the better of me. You were right. Jfc. 😔
Barbara Hill 4 weeks ago
Poor baby. I read it. looks like karma came for three of them, the parents and brother should have been jailed. and all six of the POS, should have never gotten out of jail.
#3
I found a site with a forum for aspiring Mermaids (/Mermen?).
One of the posts was made by someone who had been following advice on the forum, such as holding your breath underwater (presumably in a tub) for X amount of time.
Someone replied with advice like "when you run out of air, you just need to breath in and stay under."
#4
Once googled my work email address because customers would post it on forums as someone they could contact to complain to.
Found some dudes blog who had some sort of vendetta against the company and any of the staff he came into contact with.
He’d posted their email addresses, photos of them from any social media he found them on. Pictures of their kids with threatening messages against them.
He managed to find out where one of our employees lived using Facebook and street view. Posted pictures of her house (from street view) saying he was going to pay her a visit. Likely an empty threat but creepy anyway.
We told the police who arrested him while he was on the phone to our call centres threatening our staff.
Crazy guy. Never found out if he went to jail but I assume he did.
Upstaged75 4 weeks ago (edited)
At one place I worked we had a security alert about a (crazy) woman who had been trying to get in touch with a certain staff member. Apparently he had put a chip in her head and she needed him to contact the aliens to remove it. (Or something like that) The building was card-access only so she couldn't get in, but we were sent her picture and told to report her if we saw her around. I hope she finally got some help!
Roxy222uk 4 weeks ago
I feel so desperately sorry for people going through this. Imagine if in your reality you really did have a chip in your head that was controlling your life (or whatever she thought it was doing). Can you think how terrifying that would be? I hope she got help too.
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Parmeisan 3 weeks ago
I worked a very small game studio (sub-20 employees) and we had one person who was office admin, game help/support, community/marketing, and the like. As basically the "face" of the company and always the person explaining why X bug would not be fixed or enforcing the rules on the social media sites, she saw a lot of hate. A *LOT* of hate. Picture this guy, but focused entirely on one employee, and a new one every 6-12 months. Luckily she lived in a very remote location and so even if they found her personal social accounts etc, she was not too worried about them actually physically finding her. But the death (and other terrible gross things) threats were disgusting. I think going after these guys would almost be a full-time job in and of itself, but we probably should have gone after them anyway. You shouldn't be allowed to threaten someone like that and then just carry on doing whatever.
#5
The 9/11 recaps of people willingly jumping off the building to escape the fires. Watching that as a 13 year old got me good.
to old to care 4 weeks ago
there were two French journalists (something like that) that just happened to be in NYC and filmed everything. Their documentary was aired a little after 9/11 and this really tore my heart out. To this day I still remember certain things.
Nikole 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I had just turned 22 when it happened. I was watching it live and didn't realize I was crying.
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Samantha H 3 weeks ago
I worked for NJ Emergency Medical Services and we were dispatched to Hoboken (the opposite side of the river. Our Ambulance was there for many many hours and we treated patients who were brought over by boat. Still engraved on my memory for ever, I saw the 1st Tower implode, I can't find the words for it.
Apachebathmat 4 weeks ago
I had my nearly one year old son in my arms, packing cases to go to Italy the next day and was genuinely thinking it was a film trailer, still hurts to imagine
Barbara Hill 4 weeks ago
I watch the day of after I got home from work. haven't watched again. refuse too. I watch the remembrance ceremonies some years. But never need to watch the news stories. Never.
#6
Back in the ebaumsworld days i found this video called evil bunny tap dancer. very skinny woman tap dancing on weird old film something about it just terrifies me.
Barong 4 weeks ago
Oh I remember ebaumsworld, I had sadly forgotten all about it. Along with SomethingAweful, crunchyroll, icanhascheezeburger, photobucket, and Friendster. The internet was fun the terror had already started.
Nikole 4 weeks ago
I watched it... Weird feeling. I looked her up and she was a disabled, trans entertainer.
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#7
A girl on TikTok recently posted a video 2 days ago of someone breaking into her apartment while she was making a video. She was on the second floor of an apartment complex, and a random guy climbed onto her balcony and opened her balcony door. She was asking him to leave and ended up running out of her front door. The guy did leave where he came in, but she asked a neighbor if she could come in and her neighbor let her in to call the police. According to the comments, the guy was arrested but released on bail.
Update: turns out the guy had been stalking her for months, but she had no idea since he lived in a complex across the street and he stared at her. He had made uncomfortable come ons to her, but she assumed he was “just a creep”. He had cut several Christmas lights that were hanging outside and climbed up the balcony that way. He’s currently out on bond while awaiting trial and the girl is asking that if anyone else had been harassed, stalked, or assaulted by that man to please speak up.
#8
This article shows how much you need to save to retire. $1,250,000 to generate an annual income of $50,000. That is by far the scariest thing I have encountered.
David Paterson 4 weeks ago
Those "you need $X to retire" are total rubbish. I was so worried when retiring early about whether I'd make it through the next year. Since then I've bought a second house and a new car on my retirement savings.
Michael Largey 4 weeks ago
Whether $50,000 from investments is enough depends on how much you're getting from Social Security and your pension (if any). Also whether you still have any house, car, or other loan payments.
Ripley 4 weeks ago (edited)
This appears to be assuming that you have a fixed amount making a fixed interest. 4% (interest) of $1.25M is $50K. In Australia we have a compulsory superannuation fund that your employer pays into, and that accumulates deposited funds and investment earnings. The idea is that you end up with a nest egg that you draw down from. if you just drew down $50K from $1.25M you would get 25 years out of it, and that's with no interest or investment earnings at all. That article sounds like it must be BS.
#9
A true crime site had a piece on the moors murderers - Ian Brady and Myra Hindly. They were serial killers in the mid 60's
part of it was a link to a recording they had made - later used in court evidence - of them torturing one of the victims. It was a young girl (about 10? I am not going to look it up) weeping and asking for her mum, saying she wouldn't tell on them. it was profoundly disturbing.
when ever they got mentioned on the news (Brady only died a couple of years ago) I could not help but think of hearing that recording.
otiose 4 weeks ago
Why in the world / how did that ever get released?? Why do people have the right to listen to that? If she were my relative, I would have hunted down the person who let that recording be played by people for 'entertainment'! She was a human being! No wonder it was 'profoundly disturbing' to listen to! It's what that girls torturers / murderers heard! I am disturbed just hearing about it!
KnightOwl 4 weeks ago
The recordings were horrific, only about few small snippets were made public and only to show how evil the killers were. The recording of the young girl was released because both killers could be heard mocking her and laughing at her as she cried and sobbed for her mum, while being SA'd and tortured. Myra Hindley denied knowing about the SA but recordings like this one proved that she not only knew about it but actively participated. I'm sure the parents of the victim would have been consulted and given their permission for the recordings to be made public.
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Lobotomy procedures. Please don't go and search it around. Still gives me horrid dreams as I am a depressed individual who has been struggling since quite long and found out that it was one of the treatments that used to "cure" depression and "crazy" in the US in the 1960's or something.
Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
They did this to poor Rosemary Kennedy even though at worst she could’ve been mildly autistic. According to the doctors who performed the operation, they kept her awake throughout the procedure without anaesthetic and made her say the Lord’s Prayer as they kept working in her brain. They stopped the procedure once she became incomprehensible
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 4 weeks ago
They did this to ''cure'' homosexuality back in the day too. Absolutely vile and heartbreakingly cruel.
Upstaged75 4 weeks ago
I just read a book called My Lobotomy by Howard Dully. Really good read! He is the youngest transorbital lobotomy survivor. It happened when he was 12. And he wasn't crazy - he was just a rambunctious kid and his step mother hated him. He had a rough life and was treated quite badly. Very sad story.
#11
That one video where the car was driving down that mountain road and you had to pay close attention and then it turned out to be a screamer.
Howl's sleeping castle 4 weeks ago (edited)
A colleague of mine sent it to my outlook account. I opened it and of course I screamed. Shocked the whole department.
Multa Nocte 4 weeks ago
No. It just shows a car driving for a while and then out of the blue they give you a jump scare.
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I stumbled on some forums and there was a thread about people who felt like they were being followed. Like, an example: some woman said she dropped her wedding ring down the kitchen sink and couldn’t retrieve it, then years later, after moving to a different house, she was home alone and found it on her floor.
KatWitch57 4 weeks ago
Being followed IRL is terrifying and frequently leads to a*****t, The OP is not talking about social media 'followers'.
#13
I once found my email address listed on a website with my password. This was back in the days when hotmail was king and everyone had just discovered messenger!
It wasn't a simple password either ... had 2 upper case letters, 4 lowercase, a couple of other characters.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 4 weeks ago (edited)
I use this completely random selection of numbers and letters as a password i10v3@na1
Nikole 4 weeks ago
Oh, yeah, you gotta. Now if you'll excuse I have things to log into.
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Jay Gee Bee 6 days ago
Back in the early days of the internet...when GOOGLE was the new, gee-whiz toy that everyone was talking about...I Googled my Social Security number (without dashes). It showed up on a trillion Russian Language websites or at least Russian-seeming websites. Scared the heck out oof me. I continued to look it up once or twice a year until about 10 years ago i searched and came up with nothing.
Clanker Detector 4 weeks ago
The people in this comment section are not clankers and just have no sense of cyber security.
#14
Salad fingers creeped me out.
Stan 4 weeks ago
God, I hated Salad Fingers. I've never hated ANYTHING as much as I hate Salad Fingers. 😡
#15
That video of the decapitated wasp where it picks its head up and flies away.
No snuff flick or murderporn or crime scene photo or creepypasta I've seen online can ever truly encapsulate the horror and dread that particular bit of video filled me with.
#16
That video of the Station Nightclub fire. The sight of all those people stuck jammed together at the exit was haunting.
There was also something a few years ago, I don't remember all the details, but it was an elevator accident on a cruise ship. A technician (?) was working on an elevator when it started moving, wound up crushing him. There's video of someone walking into the lobby to the sight of blood just flowing down the outside of the elevator.
Mahiera Etsuhae 4 weeks ago
I saw the video of cruise ship elevator. It took my brain a moment to register that it was not special effects, then the horrible reality hit me. That poor man.
#17
At one point a couple of years ago, someones voice just popped up in my computer headphones, speaking a different language. Sounded like he was asking me a question Like "You there?" then when i responded they started talking in a creepy low voice. Sounded like hindi or maybe a middle eastern langauge (it was a while ago).
Thought it was some audio from a website so i quit everything and i could still hear it coming through. I think I quit skype and it disappeared. No call was active or anything. I have no idea how it happened, but i instantly ripped out my network cable and rebooted. Ran like 4 virus scans and a malwarebytes scan. Found nothing. Never happened again. I freeeeeaaked out.
EDIT: I dont believe in the supernatural
EDIT: My headphones are fibre optic, this wasn't caused by my cable picking up radio transmissions. Although we used to make that happen with my brothers guitar amp when i was a kid. Fun times.
Edit: for the record this happened a couple of years ago on an older machine.
hannahbahngswife 4 weeks ago
The fact that it was a language they couldn't understand is the scariest part
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The recordings of the Toy Box Murders. Its literally on YouTube. Horrific, to say the least..
#19
For sheer stomach churning gore, a hand degloved by an industrial papershredder. It was sort of satisfying in its uniformity and neatness. Mechanical precision and all that.
For sheer existential terror, a short video of a boy dying of rabies. Hes delirious and sick and it's just sad. But then for a second or two he locks eyes with the camera and snarls in a perfectly, quintessentially animalistic way. And you realize how easy it is to lose yourself and become other - to become reduced to just base instinct and bodily functions with no *you* left. Yeah, rabies is a splashy version of that, but I think a lot of old age illnesses - how we are all increasingly more likely to die - isn't so different. And the ultimately terrifying thing is that its all so much worse to watch that and know we are potentially next than to live through it.
#20
Marble hornets gave me the biggest spook back in early high school.
Klo Stein 4 weeks ago
From Wikipedia: Marble Hornets is an American pseudo-documentary found footage web series created by Troy Wagner, Joseph DeLage, and Tim Sutton, based on the Slender Man online mythos.
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#21
I’m currently trying to find this video talking about some mystery that a YouTuber was trying to solve, except he wasn’t very popular so nobody was keeping up with it. The narration itself was chilling, but the last message he found was linked to some ye olde English type stuff, leading him somewhere to the Northwestern part of the UK (the guy was from somewhere on that land mass, can’t remember where). Anyways, the last message had letters with different colors. If you took all the yellow ones it spelled out “I’m so lonely” or something similar, but the guy didn’t know this. A couple days later, only one body was found in a field in that area, but the question remained whether it was that YouTuber, or a potential killer that had been k****d in self-defense.
Jess Barbosa 3 weeks ago
you ever read one of these and realize you have NO IDEA what it actually says? what is this word salad?
#22
My friends and I once found a website with a challenge where you had to watch a series of videos each worse than the last, and if you made it all the way to the last video you won. Very disturbing stuff, I felt sick the whole time. I completed the challenge, but I didn’t feel like a winner.
edit: Some people have reminded me that the challenge is called "Run the Gauntlet," if anyone is feeling particularly brave.
quentariel 4 weeks ago
I've watched them too, as a young adult and I still can't forget some of them. They start from quicker, deathly accidents like aspiring escape artist drowning in a bathtub, go through some maggot infested wounds and end up with sickening violence and m****r. The last videa lasts like 20 minutes and I wish that I've never seen that. (It involves a person being hammered with some weapons until they don't even resemble a person anymore, but person recording keeps shoving how they are still alive for the most part of it all). So please, don't watch this challenge. and if you start it, please don't go through the end.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 4 weeks ago
But why? It's not like you'd even get anything by being a 'winner' - besides nightmares for life, maybe.
Nicole Weymann 4 weeks ago
I'm reminded of the "there are two kinds of people"-saying when reading your comment and (directly below at present) @Chilli's.
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Svenne O'Lotta 3 weeks ago
So you think snuff films are cool? Interesting.
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#23
I saw photographs of a Japanese man who’s DNA literally melted. The images scarred me.
Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
Guys, a lot of photos online that claim to be of him are not his photos but rather from a burn ward in Texas
Roxy222uk 4 weeks ago
I’m not sure what this means. His DNA melted but the rest of each of his body cells didn’t?
Becky Samuel 4 weeks ago
It's very poorly written and not explained at all. Hisashi Ouichi was exposed to a massive dose of radiation. He was kept alive for 83 days to study the effects on his body. The ethics of this situation are extremely difficult, and it is hotly debated as to whether consent can truly be given in such a case.
Load More Replies... Jihana 4 weeks ago
That dude died the most horrific death in the history of our species. He was victim of massive exposure to radioactive radiation, over twice the lethal dose. So from the very beginning it was clear he had no chance whatsoever of survival. Yet they kept him alive for 83 days to study him.
#24
911 calls that just sound so scary . Like the call about the woman who got attacked by a chimp.
otiose 4 weeks ago
Sound scary? Wasn't the chimp eating her face? That IS scary! 911 is REAL PEOPLE, not some kind of entertainment!
Upstaged75 4 weeks ago
It's a horrifying recording. I don't recommend listening to it if you're sensitive to violence. The call was from the owner of the chimp. In it she's begging the police to shoot the animal while she watches it attack her friend.
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#25
A guide on how to groom children. It was several pages long. I read the first couple before leaving to see if it was real. The most shocking part was just how casual it was.
Jeff Hunt 4 weeks ago
I thought it was QANON. Can’t keep my conspiracies straight.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 weeks ago
If you need a guide, you're doing it wrong.
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Ben Drowned got me good when I first saw it! Still freaks me out to this day, but not as severe!
#27
I saw a guy literally stick 2 spoons in both eye sockets, he would put it first in his left eye socket and try and take/rip his eyes off.
He did it with his left first then his right, i watched up until he was on his right. I went off it but it was way too late, i had and still remember the events of that video and to this day i remember it.
I don’t talk about it as it makes me think about that video instantly and it’s not a very nice memory to have as you probably could guess. The scariest part tho was that i stumbled across this on google, it wasn’t the dark web or deep web or anything just regular plain google.
The internet is far more scary and dangerous than people think.
#28
There was some girl back in 2008/2009ish who used to post really cringy videos on youtube. she had some weird disorder where her mouth didn't move and her eyes didn't blink. she posted a lot of final fantasy cosplay stuff. I vividly remember a video where she was dressed like Tifa Lockhart. it was unnerving to say the least.
#29
Old creepypastas and fake ghost cams used to terrify me when I was younger, now not so much.
Apatheist Account2 4 weeks ago
The child-catcher (Robert Helpmann) in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang still gives me shivers. I was 6 when I first saw it.
#30
Don’t know if it still exists and never want to find out, but there use to be a website specifically to have the most disturbing photos and stories or gore that I use to look at once a week. The worst photo I saw was an old stand alone bathtub containing the remains of a man in his 80s that turned into human soup because he had a water heater connected to the bath water, he died and over several weeks his body cooked and slid off his bones creating a brownish liquid soup like material.
What do you think ?
otiose 4 weeks ago
Thank you for making me laugh after that! I really needed it!
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After watching the grand tour where JC sees someone “enjoying” a donkey I didn’t believe it. There’s a 15 min Vice documentary on YouTube, I got 4 mins in and decided that was enough internet. Nothing graphic or gruesome but just watching two 14yr old kids talk about who’d had more “girlfriends” was enough!
Natalia 4 weeks ago
someone shoved their phone in my face and there was an actual b********y video playing, messed me up a bit for a long time. He thought it was funny.
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PandaPadi 4 weeks ago
There was a time where these videos were easily available on the net. I can clearly remember when I was 16/17 which was around 2006/2007, people were sharing these vids just for the thrill- Mostly t*****e/self t*****e vids, vids of people taking their own, lives or things that you see on the dark web. Thank god, nowadays, there are some levels of censorship. I dont even remember which one of them terrified me the most at that time. But the one that terrified me recently is a video someone took of an aftermath of an accident that took place and shocked the country for the way it happened and for how young the people were. The video showed the bodies of those who were already dead and a few meters away one of them holding on for his life but succumbed a few minutes later. The loud scream of one of their friends who was in another car which was following the one that crashed. It was terrifying not only for what the content showed but it felt so close to home.
jasper 4 weeks ago
Years ago, watched the beheading of Daniel Pearl. Horrific, but I felt I needed to see it to understand what the jihadists were doing to people. I actually think that people need to be aware how horrific this is and stop being sympathetic to the nutjobs that are in the Middle East.
Svenne O'Lotta 3 weeks ago
Oh shut the fúck up. You were already a gross racist and felt you needed justification. "The nut jobs that are in the Middle East" suck my actual díck
Load More Replies... otiose 4 weeks ago
Thank you for making me laugh after that! I really needed it!
Load More Replies... Boris Long-Johnson 4 weeks ago
After watching the grand tour where JC sees someone “enjoying” a donkey I didn’t believe it. There’s a 15 min Vice documentary on YouTube, I got 4 mins in and decided that was enough internet. Nothing graphic or gruesome but just watching two 14yr old kids talk about who’d had more “girlfriends” was enough!
Natalia 4 weeks ago
someone shoved their phone in my face and there was an actual b********y video playing, messed me up a bit for a long time. He thought it was funny.
Load More Replies... PandaPadi 4 weeks ago
There was a time where these videos were easily available on the net. I can clearly remember when I was 16/17 which was around 2006/2007, people were sharing these vids just for the thrill- Mostly t*****e/self t*****e vids, vids of people taking their own, lives or things that you see on the dark web. Thank god, nowadays, there are some levels of censorship. I dont even remember which one of them terrified me the most at that time. But the one that terrified me recently is a video someone took of an aftermath of an accident that took place and shocked the country for the way it happened and for how young the people were. The video showed the bodies of those who were already dead and a few meters away one of them holding on for his life but succumbed a few minutes later. The loud scream of one of their friends who was in another car which was following the one that crashed. It was terrifying not only for what the content showed but it felt so close to home.
jasper 4 weeks ago
Years ago, watched the beheading of Daniel Pearl. Horrific, but I felt I needed to see it to understand what the jihadists were doing to people. I actually think that people need to be aware how horrific this is and stop being sympathetic to the nutjobs that are in the Middle East.
Svenne O'Lotta 3 weeks ago
Oh shut the fúck up. You were already a gross racist and felt you needed justification. "The nut jobs that are in the Middle East" suck my actual díck
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