People Are Posting The Threatening Signs They’ve Encountered, Here Are The 50 Best Ones
Regular drivers have no doubt encountered signage that made them do a double take. From strange symbols to truly ominous texts and warnings, some drivers have likely wondered “What the hell happened here?”
So people from around the world have documented the most scary, weird, and threatening signs they have encountered in the wild. From warnings against ghostly sounds to truly demented facial expressions, oddities can be found everywhere. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples, and comment your thoughts below.
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Warning Sign At My Work
Just Saw This Sign At The Theater When I Was Leaving
These Pedestrian Crossing Signs Look Like Pedestrians Crossing The Street
The number one place where one might encounter signs is in and around a road system. Indeed, you basically can’t even go a mile without a handful of them in most places. These date back to the establishment of road systems in general. Throughout Europe, North Africa, and parts of the Middle East, one can still find the old Roman milestones, telling travelers just how far they had gone.
While many early signs were set up by the administrators of cities, a significant number started as a way to assist hobbyists. Early cyclers, who wanted to explore the country, would often end up going down hazardous roads without knowing it. So local cycling clubs began to put up warnings, some of which were no doubt as “threatening” as the examples here.
When You Buy The Old Neighborhood's Drug House
This Sign Above The Human Cadaver Lab At My University
Ominous Sign At A Disused Nuclear Bunker In Essex
Business signage has a pedigree just as old as roads. Indeed, the proverb "A good wine needs no bush," likely comes from a Roman tavern. For less literate citizens, certain symbols would be used, which we might still see today, for example, the white and red of a barber’s pole and three circles for pawnbrokers.
Bucklin Trail - Killington Vermont
The Racoon's Choice
Light Blew Out On A Canadian Wendy’s Sign
In Chicago Near The Former Site Of The Argonne National Laboratory, An Early Site Used For The Manhattan Project
These Have Always Been The Scariest Signs To Me. Those Markers Aren’t Even Close To The River. Great Falls, VA
Mt. Sentinel in Missoula, Montana has lines across it from the various water lines of the glacial lake that formed behind ice dams. Dams broke, massive wall of water flooded Washington. Missoula was 1000 feet under water 10000 years ago.
My Science Teacher Put This On His Door For Lab's Safety Week
I Wish This Sign Had "Aaaaaaaa!" Caption
When It's So Bad You Need A Sign
Weird "Are You Dreaming" Sign Found In A Psychologist's Waiting Room
Look at your hand. Our brains are stupid and can't make a hand. If your hand looks weird you're probably dreaming.
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Try reading something or using your phone. You will almost certainly be unable to.
Here to say this. Read something then try and read it again. It's usually enough to wake you up, because it's never the same thing twice.
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That's highly inaccurate. I usually don't look like "me" in my dreams. Even my gender is random but it always feels like that it is me.
I can't due this considering I never have vivid dreams and I can't control my dreams
Has anyone looked in a mirror while dreaming and if so, what did you look like? This also does not work when on a bad acid trip
I had a dream where I looked into the mirror and was an average looking larger black woman and I remember being completely happy with what I looked like. I grew up in a town where white people were the minority and so I didn't want to be white because of how I was treated by many kids. I think in the same dream or it was around that time where makeup was put on me to make me black and I was so much more beautiful though it magically altered my bone structure too. The dreams were when I was an adult so it's a long lasting thing to not be happy with your own skin color when you get bullied because of it.
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Don't ever do this. You will enter a lucid nightmare is you are asleep. Here are a few better options: look at your hand. Plug your nose and try to breathe. Look outside, wait a few minutes, then look outside again. Has the time changed? (The last one also works with clocks.
It’s good advice, though probably aimed at a specific population. It’s called reality testing. I’ve used it with clients who are awake and exhibiting symptoms of paranoia. I’ve used it myself when I used to experience sleep paralysis. I never looked in the mirror but I used to pinch my arm and when I realized it was a dream I would shut my eyes and push my arms into my chest, both as tight as I could (this worked 100% of the time). I experienced sleep paralysis nightly for about 4 years, so I got pretty good at waking up. Before realizing what it was, it was terrifying. Super fun times 🙄
Actually, if you want to control your dreams, knowing that you dream is the first crucial step. Asking yourself frequently, while awake, if the details add up right, will make this question to yourself a habit that will eventually expose dreams as dreams, and thereby enable you to have some sort of control over what happens. But, it's not like you could just wish yourself into whatever you desire, it's ... different...
one time i looked at my face in the mirror in a dream. it looked normal. well. relatively normal, i was having a weird week where i was creeped tf out by everything including my own face. glad i quit that medication LMFAOAOAO
Different compared to what? How do I know what I think I look like is actually from an awake state or a dream state?
Just before the alarm went off and scared me half to death this morning, I dreamt I was looking at myself in the mirror. I had black hair and dreamt it was my natural colour but still felt something was "off". (I did not realise I was dreaming. Maybe being blonde had something to do with it...)
I never seem to have a mirror handy, but trying to read seems to work. It’s hard to focus and I notice that the words I’m not immediately trying to focus on go back to nonsense.
I've never really recognized myself in the mirror, so maybe I've always been dreaming.
Seriously? I have to pass a mirror on my frequent trips to the toilet (I'm old. This is my life now.). I look different each and every time I glance up.
I'm told that my looks are very different. And yes, the mirror always confirms that.
Reminds me of some of the posters found in the game "control" warning that you might not be having a deja vu but have slipped into an alternate space and similar things.
I just had a nightmare a while ago, looked into a mirror and i looked absolutely normal, so i dont think this sign helps
I dream the most nerve-wracking nonsense every night and also have sleep paralysis. BUT as far as I can remember, I've never looked at my reflection in a dream. That's probably kinda respectful, I think...🤭🙋🏽
Michigan Tech Strikes Again
The Numbers Are Exaggerated, But The Warning Is Valid
Found One In The Wild
Door At Calarts
Crematorium Sign
Some Good Advice In The Big Island Of Hawaii
Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, Canada
A Sign At My Local Nursing Home
"Stop Extreme Heat Danger" Warning Sign, Death Valley National Park, California, United States
You'd think the fact that it's called Death valley would be warning enough.
This Warning Sign
Good General Policy
But I have such impulse to touch everything, ESPECIALLY if I am bleeding!
Found On An Abandoned Building 20+ Miles From The Closest Town
This Sign At My Local Hospital
It's a sign in a UK hospital, there is a big issue with some public building being discovered to be made from crumbling concrete. Schools, hospitals etc. are at risk from concrete used in the 60's that we've now realised it not very safe. Here is an article from the hospital where this sign is from https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/crumbling-concrete-in-our-regions-hospitals/
I Go Camping Here Every Year. There Used To Be A Lake Behind This Sign But The California Drought Took Its Toll
On A Commercial Waste Bin
Sadly people don’t always follow this. When I was 15 there was a 17 year old kid who ran away in the ICU next to me. He fell asleep in one of these and the garbage truck didn’t see or hear him and began crushing the garbage, and him. Both his legs had to be amputated below the knee. Be safe people.
Found In A Small Rural NZ Town
There's A Story Behind Every Sign
In my state, the department of transportation was required by state lawmakers to put up signs that read "Do Not Drink From Toilets or Urinals Non-Potable Water" in their rest areas at one point. They had the sings made and put a few up before the law was rescinded and they were required to take them down. I now have one of these signs that was never installed in my living room because I find it amusing. Maybe there's a story or maybe it's just somebody trying to cover their butt so they have no liability if a story does manage to come about.
McDonald's In Malaysia Is So Scary
Sign Posted At Staples' Office Supply Store
Was At The Flower Shop With My Son Today And Saw This Sign. Let's Just Say He Didn't Leave My Side
Don't Feed The Squirrels In Zion National Park
My grandmother told the story about the time a squirrel fell out of a tree onto a little girl’s head. The squirrel freaked out and so did the child. The squirrel began clawing at her scalp and hair. My grandmother said she would never forget the little girl’s screams. The doctors had a hard time closing her scalp. She had so many stitches and staples and she was scarred for life physically and emotionally.
Sleeping Bear Dunes
A Sign From A Local Lighthouse. And They Still Get Tourists Falling In The Ocean
Something's Telling Me Not To Eat Here
Wittenoom, Western Australia. Previously An Asbestos Mining Town
Looks Legit
Sign I Found On The Inside Of A Security Door Of A Fast Food Restaurant
Hawaii Volcanos National Park
Squash Courts Don't Play Around
Found This Halfway Through A Nature Trail
I suppose children would be useful — you could just run away and leave them to the gator, quokka style.
This Sign Near The Top Of The Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
This Sign In Yukon
There's a sign on the West Coast National Road (N7) in South Africa which says an emergency phone is just 97 km away.
This Sign Was At A Truck Dealership
Stop, But Do It In A Goth Way
screws not painted, someone took the time to do the painting elsewhere and Then install the sign. i'm not sure how/if the painters tape is involved.
Road Sign Near My House Is Both Blank And Covered In Bullet Holes
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An awful lot of these test your internal "wet paint? I'll just see if it still is" intrusive thoughts.
All of those "do not pass this point" make me want to go juuuuuust past that point. A step or two, no further. Just to rub the sign's nose in it.
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I saw this one on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/idunn_it/827776053/) 827776053_...004b9b.jpg 
I do love the implied threat that if you haven't, your car gets pushed in!
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An awful lot of these test your internal "wet paint? I'll just see if it still is" intrusive thoughts.
All of those "do not pass this point" make me want to go juuuuuust past that point. A step or two, no further. Just to rub the sign's nose in it.
Load More Replies... I saw this one on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/idunn_it/827776053/) 827776053_...004b9b.jpg
I do love the implied threat that if you haven't, your car gets pushed in!
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