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Not everything in nature is as beautiful or as hilarious as we're mostly used to. It has a dark side, too, and I'll completely understand if this list by Bored Panda forces you to build a pillow-fort in your living room and avoid going outside for a week.

From a mama centipede protecting its babies to a wasp colony building a nest around a discarded doll, these pictures feature some of the scariest things Mother Earth has to offer. Scroll down to test how brave you are, and vote for your favorite entries.

#1

This Lava Pit Looks Like It's Sucking The Souls Of The Damned Into Hell

This Lava Pit Looks Like It's Sucking The Souls Of The Damned Into Hell

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#2

Hermit Crab Using A Discarded Doll Head For A Shell

Hermit Crab Using A Discarded Doll Head For A Shell

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#3

Wasps Build Nest Around A Discarded Child's Doll

Wasps Build Nest Around A Discarded Child's Doll

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Derpicorn
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*throws arms up and runs in circles* NOOOOOPE NOPETY NOPE NOPERS

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Emma Striano
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of the movie Alien 😯 I'm just waiting for the chest burster!

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Zori the degu
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasps' nests are terrifying enough even without a doll for a structure. P.S. Am I the only person here wondering how did the doll got there?

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Emily Softley
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I commend them on the design but this is so many different kinds of no.

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James Shank
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How'd the doll get up in the tree. And how big is it, since it looks a lot like a baby doll but it looks huge.

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egracec
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like the perfect opening shot for a horror flick.

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Christina-Marie Moxie
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, wait... the child who the doll belonged to was "discarded"? That makes the wasps way less creepy, somehow...

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Tammy Chapman
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is an island overseas somewhere, can't remember where. A little girl died there or near there once. There is an old hermit who lives on that island. In honor of the little girl, he hangs dolls in the trees all the time. There are hundreds to thousands of them. He does this to try and keep her spirit happy, as she haunts the island. I. WILL. NEVER. GO. THERE!!!!

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Pomm
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spooder man powers needed! And we can all get some unsee juice after that.

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Hanike Treisce
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now you know where Japanese horror mangakás take inspiration from!

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Adrian Morales
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This only happens because humans pollute the environment. The forest is not your trash bin!

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Petronius Arbiter II
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ho-hum. You'd have to be some kind of serious wimp to be actually frightened by most of these. Even the tongue-eating fish parasite is... very disgusting, yeah, but it's not going to prety on you or me, 'cause, like, we're not fish.

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Pattie Kelly
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now we have "CHUCKY" the Wasps nest when will this horror end?

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Allana Rose
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally weird, again I would not want to be the one to find this!

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Charlene Brickey
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ewww! It is worse. Come on Flavia's continue the story from the hermit c**p with this one. Bet it could get even better. This looks more natural though. Amazing what nature can do.

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Buenny Fry
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same looking doll head as the hermit crab. Do all discarded dolls eventually look horror movie creepy?

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Pamela Grove
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks like something from the haunted island in Mexico where people have left hundreds of dolls for the ghost of a little girl.

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ethel
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

mommy? help me mommy. ... help me go back to hellllllll

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Pi...
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know.... i actually think this is quite stunning! I could stare at it for hours.

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Emma Striano
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It reminds me of the movie alien 😯 I'm just waiting for the chest burster!

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Nini
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, this thing definitely got a first rank role in my next nightmare.

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Davide Poddighe
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remind me of a very scaring manga Franken Fran, there were an episode that, no, I don't want to remember it...

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Cassiel Magem
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nature, am I right? I wonder if this would happen if the wasps found a real human skull or ribs... would they do the same? It's a mystery.

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Sanchit Jain
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am glad that bees are not synchronized fliers, else they would have flown this doll and half the town would have crapped their pants! - rest half are drunk and sleeping.

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Nancy E
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Downright creepy .... I think a nightmare would follow this sight.

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Neeraj Jha
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is more horrifying than Annabelle. Both the parts combined.

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Bobbi de Haan
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the vine growing out of the doll's eye and nose (or mouth, can't tell which)

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#4

This Frog Was Found All Dried Up And Withered Outside The Store In The Morning. The Store Manager Said, "Let's Try Splashing Some Water On It," And Holy Sh*t It Came Back To F*cking Life

This Frog Was Found All Dried Up And Withered Outside The Store In The Morning. The Store Manager Said, "Let's Try Splashing Some Water On It," And Holy Sh*t It Came Back To F*cking Life

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#5

An Abandoned Hornet's Nest My Dad Found In His Shed That He Hadn't Been In For A Couple Years. The Head Is Apart Of A Wooden Statue It Fused With

An Abandoned Hornet's Nest My Dad Found In His Shed That He Hadn't Been In For A Couple Years. The Head Is Apart Of A Wooden Statue It Fused With

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#6

Mama Centipede Protecting Her Babies

Mama Centipede Protecting Her Babies

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#7

Somebody Responsible For The Lake Found The Fox (Which Drowned) In The Ice, Cut Him Out And Put Him Back On The Ice To Keep People Off The Ice

Somebody Responsible For The Lake Found The Fox (Which Drowned) In The Ice, Cut Him Out And Put Him Back On The Ice To Keep People Off The Ice

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#8

Cymothoa Exigua Is A Type Of Parasite That Enters Fish's Gills, Eats Their Tongue, And Then Replaces It

Cymothoa Exigua Is A Type Of Parasite That Enters Fish's Gills, Eats Their Tongue, And Then Replaces It

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#9

Husks Of Dead Flowers In My Garden. Look Like Skulls/Plague Masks

Husks Of Dead Flowers In My Garden. Look Like Skulls/Plague Masks

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#10

Devil's Fingers Fungus

Devil's Fingers Fungus

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#11

Smiiiittttttthhhhhers

Smiiiittttttthhhhhers

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#12

So Many Bees In The Wall That Their Honey Is Leaking Through An Outlet

So Many Bees In The Wall That Their Honey Is Leaking Through An Outlet

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#13

Antarctic Worm Species Called Eulagisca Gigantean

Antarctic Worm Species Called Eulagisca Gigantean

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#14

Snake Head Caterpillar

Snake Head Caterpillar

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just hope that the butterfly doesn't have a snake head. Flying snakes, that's what we need.

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#15

This Busy Owl Killed 70+ Lemmings And Surrounded His Nest With Their Fresh Corpses

This Busy Owl Killed 70+ Lemmings And Surrounded His Nest With Their Fresh Corpses

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#16

A Centipede That Was Devoured By A Viper, Ate Its Way Out

A Centipede That Was Devoured By A Viper, Ate Its Way Out

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#17

This Tree In Nebraska Was Struck By Lightning And Burning Afterwards A Day Later

This Tree In Nebraska Was Struck By Lightning And Burning Afterwards A Day Later

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#18

Lizard Growing Another Foot On It's Tail?

Lizard Growing Another Foot On It's Tail?

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Cassiel Magem
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha! And you though only cells could reproduce asexually. One day... one day.

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#19

Fireants Create A Floating Island Of Themselves To Ride Out The Houston Flooding

Fireants Create A Floating Island Of Themselves To Ride Out The Houston Flooding

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Aunt Messy
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone who's been bitten by those little tidbits from Hell, it would not be a problem for me if a wave took care of them.

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#20

Was About To Show My Kids That Cicada Shells Aren't Gross And Scary When

Was About To Show My Kids That Cicada Shells Aren't Gross And Scary When

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Daria B
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It did it on purpose. Waiting for the perfect moment to prank on you.

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#21

These Reticulated Pythons Self-Segregated Themselves Based On Color Just After Hatching

These Reticulated Pythons Self-Segregated Themselves Based On Color Just After Hatching

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#22

Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus) Bull Showing Antlers That Are Shedding Velvet, North America

Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus) Bull Showing Antlers That Are Shedding Velvet, North America

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#23

A Beehive Built Around Wind Chimes At My Friend's House

A Beehive Built Around Wind Chimes At My Friend's House

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#24

The Sheepshead Fish Has Human-Like Teeth

The Sheepshead Fish Has Human-Like Teeth

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#25

Wingless Fly Penicillidia That Attaches To Bats' Heads And Never Leaves Its Body

Wingless Fly Penicillidia That Attaches To Bats' Heads And Never Leaves Its Body

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#26

This Gecko With Three Tails

This Gecko With Three Tails

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#27

Ant On My Porch Carrying The Head Of His Vanquished Enemy

Ant On My Porch Carrying The Head Of His Vanquished Enemy

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#30

My Mussel Contained A Tiny Half-Eaten Crab

My Mussel Contained A Tiny Half-Eaten Crab

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've found a half eaten worm in my pear once... guess where was the other half.

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#31

My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work

My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work

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#32

A Venus Fly Trap Getting A Huge Meal

A Venus Fly Trap Getting A Huge Meal

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#34

Arachnids Aren't Safe From Cordyceps Fungus Either

Arachnids Aren't Safe From Cordyceps Fungus Either

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#35

Battle-Scarred Hippo

Battle-Scarred Hippo

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#37

Millions Of Fire Ants Floating In Flooding From Harvey

Millions Of Fire Ants Floating In Flooding From Harvey

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Sanchit Jain
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't even want to imagine the agony of creatures that will come in their way!

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#38

Lightning Struck This Fishing Rod

Lightning Struck This Fishing Rod

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Brave Patriot Bald Eagle Takes Down Wimpy Canadian Goose

Brave Patriot Bald Eagle Takes Down Wimpy Canadian Goose

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is nothing wimpy about a Canadian goose! But size and talons make the difference.

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