50 “Interesting And Absolutely Terrifying” Images That Are Not For The Faint-Hearted
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Spooky season may have come to an end, but have no fear! (Or perhaps, have lots of fears!) The real world has no shortage of terrifying and disturbing things year round. And one place on the internet that knows that better than anywhere else is the Terrifying as [Heck] subreddit. This online community is dedicated to sharing all things creepy, crawly and disturbing, so if that’s right up your alley, you’re in for a treat.
We’ve gathered some of the most unsettling pics from this terrifying subreddit down below to provide you with your daily dose of nightmare fuel. If you’re easily spooked, this article might not be for you. But if you love learning about the darkest parts of our planet and you can stomach seeing frightening photos, we think you’ll enjoy this creepy list. Keep reading to also find a few interviews we were lucky enough to receive from the moderators of this terrifying subreddit and from horror photographers Joshua Hoffine and Rick Jones. Be sure to upvote the pictures that freak you out the most, and then if you’re looking for even more dark and disturbing pics, you can check out this Bored Panda article next.
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Man Shielded Many Women And Took All Pallets Shotgun On Himself During Anti Hizab Protest In Tehran
The Terrifying as [Heck] subreddit (whose name we’ve censored) is certainly one of the most frightening and unsettling places on the internet. I can handle gore and violence in films no problem, but seeing a photo of a gruesome event taking place in real life? That’ll keep me from sleeping tonight. And as you’ll see from this list, not all of the pictures are explicitly dangerous or frightening. Some photos are more disturbing due to what they say about society or just seem creepy due to the context. Terrifying as [Heck] is a reminder that scary things are happening all the time.
To learn more about how this frightening corner of the internet was formed, we reached out to their moderator team on Reddit. "The subreddit was created a long time ago, but the creator left, and it remained closed until February of this year, after we requested it from Reddit employees and reopened it," they told Bored Panda. "It's exciting to see it grow to over 400k members in 10 months, exceeding our original expectations."
Bone Chilling Story About Jean Hilliard
People In Iran Are Protesting For Her, Videos Are All Over The Internet
When it comes to why audiences are drawn to this subreddit, the moderators told Bored Panda, "People I believe, are drawn to this type of content for a variety of reasons. People enjoy seeing terrifying things; we're all wired to notice anomalies in our surroundings. A defining aspect of the sub is regardless of socioeconomic, ethnic or cultural background, there is a relatability in what truly chills an individual to the bone... Another reason is that seeing morbid and terrifying content helps us see the darker side of reality, making us appreciate what we have even more."
We also wanted to know what the moderators find most frightening. "We all have different things that scare us, and for some, it's things that cannot be explained, such as unknown diseases or things deep in the ocean about which we know very little," they explained. "Others love videos of gruesome and morbid incidents. Those are the kind of thing we find the most terrifying and like to see on here. We've been terrified several times, mostly due to unexpected gore posts or this sub's specialty, pitbulls mauling humans or other animals."
The Shining Eyes Of Gators In The Everglades
A Soldiers Face Before And After War
Just A Glimpse Of A Female University In Afghanistan
And when it comes to why the moderators love Terrifying as [Heck] so much, they told Bored Panda, "We love this community for the same reasons its members do: strange content that makes you want to shiver." But the group is still an acquired taste. "In terms of moderation, this is probably our most hated sub, due to extremely toxic and upsetting comments and frequent gore posts popping up here and there," they shared.
But if you are a huge fan of the content in this article, be sure to head on over to the Terrifying as [Heck] subreddit after reading this piece and join their 440k members right here!
These Two Boys Had Been Exposed To The Same Smallpox Source. One Had Been Vaccinated, The Other Hadn’t
And don't cause Autism or any other disability. It's very rare to have a severely adverse effect from a vaccine, though it is possible.
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Now, let's just have a moment of contemplation for the many humans that were medically experimented on without having a say in it. We owe them.
Even back then there were people spreading propaganda that you can get cow like features if you too the vaccine...nothing has changed.
Today it is so easy to be an anti-vaxer; because since the majority of people are vaccinated, one doesn't see the consequences anymore. It would be different if your neighbour's kid was sterile due to mumps, the child down the street has a permanent disability due to polio or the other child died of diphtheria. I believe that if they made a HIV vaccine, you would find many of the so called anti-vaxers would be lined up for the shot.
We're starting to see the consequences, though, because more and more people are becoming anti-vaxxers. Small-pox, measles, and polio are all showing up again. And look what happened with COVID. It would have been stopped before it became as huge a pandemic as it was (is) if there hadn't been such a huge number of anti-vaxxers.
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YOu can be at risk of death (and believe me, the kid on the left? Secondary infection from the pustules is possible)... or you can live with less disease symptoms and damage. Cinch. Vaccinate!
actually, they would probably ask which is the vaccinated one TBH
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Let's not argue about vaccines. Literally no one is going to change their mind!
When I was a baby I got all the required vaccinations. There were a lot of them back in the Sixties, plus boosters. Never had a bad reaction worse than a sore arm.
Anyone not vaxing their kids, maybe ought be charge3d with " Child; Abuse".
This breaks my heart. He must had a lot of pain when the pic was taken😰 please vaccinate your children!
not them vaccinating one child so that the sick one has to watch the other one be healthy, and the healthy one has to watch the kid that couldve been him get sick. horrific
If COVID would disfigure one's appearance like smallpox does, I'm quite sure that the vaccination rate would be far higher than now.
... when people still had polio, smallpox and all that, and everybody had a classmate who disappeared, came back months later, in braces and hardly able to walk, if at all, at half the speed of a year before ... they see them climb the staircase they need a minute for in half an hour ... well, what you saw yourself, you can't just stupidize out of your mind, at least it's not easy to perform.
This should be plastered everywhere, to show visible proof that vaccine works. Apparently, just the fact that small pox polio and others have been mostly eradicated since vaccinations became widespread, isn't doing the job.
That photo should be shown to every parent refusing to vaccinate their child
Why will people always naysay vaccines? Is suffering preferable to cure
As for Covid I have had five vaccines: the first was done in two doses (Pfizer) and then three boosters. Not much point in refusing; my husband had to get them in order to keep his job.
The look on the vaccinated boy's face... A lifetime of survivor's guilt right there.
This and other pics need to be included on Vaccination pamphlets, posters, online, and through the News Media.
This should be hanging in every doctor's office waiting room and exan room..... and every hospital lobby....
Vaccines are alien blood and the government is evil ! - Karen. Like shut the f**k up
Show the anti-vaxers this. Those lesions leave scars called pock marks, mainly on the face, that disfigure a person for life, btw.
and everyone that says screw vaccines has been vaccinated back in Elementary school , lets here all the hypocrital bullsht now
And yet the Trumpster would have us all believe vaccines are an Evil Plot ... Science Every Time.
This should be shown to every anti-vaxxer and ask them if they want to choose.
At least the kid on the left didn't catch autism from being vaccinated, so there's that. /s
Part of me wonders if the boy on the left knew he was going to be exposed to smallpox, because that's some serious s**t and I wouldn't want to be exposed to it if only to prove a point. Hope he healed well
Looking at the age of the photo, this was likely around 1940 or 50, when smallpox still was around. Don't assume evil, here, because that's something you would never intentionally expose your kid to. Smallpox was the first vaccine to be figured out and it was huge because smallpox is a killer. The last death from smallpox was in 1979 when a researcher accidently exposed herself in a lab. She was 29, and even then - young, strong with modern medicine, she died.
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Some parents got their kids vaccinated, some didn't. There have always been some anti vaxers.
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I know someone who passed in a car accident although they were wearing a seatbelt. Obviously that means seatbelts don't work.
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Unless you are immunocompromised (for live vaccines) or legitimately allergic to a component of the vaccine, there is no valid reason.
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No, the photo is exactly whats claimed. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/one-vaccinated-one-not-smallpox/
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Likely The Most Frightening 30 Minutes Of His Life...
Suicide Nets At Apple Sweatshops In China
To gain more insight on the topic of terrifying photos, we reached out to horror photographer Joshua Hoffine, who has made a career out of shooting the most frightening pics you could imagine. We were curious how Joshua became inspired to enter the field of horror photography in the first place. "I've always loved horror movies, and all things scary," he told Bored Panda. "Around 20 years ago, when I was a young photographer working at Hallmark Cards, it struck me that there was no such thing as 'horror photography'. There are horror movies, and novels and comic books and video games - but why not photography? This realization inspired me to begin staging photographs deliberately designed to upset and frighten the viewer. When people asked me what I was doing, I called it 'horror photography'."
A Creepy Looking Nun Watch Natives Children In Prayer
From 1880 to 1997 Canada forced indigenous children into residential schools to assimilate them into Canadian society. An estimated 6k to 25k died or went missing . Almost 2000 children have been found in unmarked, mass graves in Canada so far.
Forcing Religion And Also Forced Marriage, Amazin
This Road In Northern Ireland
"I love horror because it is about spectacle," Joshua shared with Bored Panda. "I love the aesthetics of horror, and the surprising depth the genre allows. Horror is, at once, psychological, metaphorical, and existential in nature."
"Horror is ultimately concerned with the imminence and randomness of death, and the implication that there is no certainty to existence," he explained. "The experience of horror resides in this confrontation with uncertainty. Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that the monsters are all around us."
Poor Lady
Windsor Lore
Rosemary Kennedy And Lobotomy
We were also curious about Joshua's process of creating incredible frightening photos. "I stage my photo shoots like small movies, with sets, costumes, elaborate props, fog machines, and SPFX make up," he shared. "I seek out common and universal fears as subject matter for my images. The fears that interest me the most are the ones we all share. I want to find the monsters hiding in our collective subconscious and drag them out into the light of day."
And when it comes to what Joshua personally finds most terrifying, he told Bored Panda, "My biggest personal fears include death, the loss of a loved one, and the loss of self. My work covers an array of fears and phobias, but these core fears show up again and again. There are still many fears, such as nuclear holocaust or mass shooters, that remain to be made."
Acute Radiation Poisoning
And when it comes to why we're attracted to these types of photos, Joshua shared, "Fear is part of the human condition. Horror never ceases to be relevant, because we never cease to be afraid. Confronting our fears is the only way to control them."
If you'd like to see some of Joshua's amazing and unsettling work, be sure to visit his website right here.
Frank Goldsmith, A Survivor Of The Rms Titanic Disaster, Ended Up Living Near A Baseball Stadium In Detroit
He hated game days, because the sound of the cheering crowd reminded him of the screaming people in the water during the sinking.
He survived and so did the trauma. I hope he found happiness in life.
Assisted Suicide Pod Approved For Use In Switzerland. At The Push Of A Button, The Pod Becomes Filled With Nitrogen Gas, Which Rapidly Lowers Oxygen Levels, Causing Its User To Die
I'm all for something like this for terminally ill people. They should absolutely be allowed to choose this then suffer with whatever sickness they have if there is positively no chance of recovery.
We were lucky enough to also get in touch with another horror photographer, Rick Jones, or the man behind Horrify Me, the UK's leading award winning horror portrait photography studio. Rick told Bored Panda that he's loved horror since a very young age (some might say too young, he added). "I recall being about 5 or 6 years old drawing monsters with blood-drenched fangs and chopped limbs, and I always watched any monster movie on TV that I could," he shared. "The horror photography grew from my lifelong passion for horror and my fine art background. It was a way to bring the two things together. I do most of my own makeup and sculpting, painting, and staging as well as lighting and photography so it's great that I get to smash all those practical skills into my genre passion!"
And when it comes to what Rick likes to capture in his photos, he said, "I shoot whatever I think is cool. Sometimes that's a popular character such as Freddy Krueger or Valak the nun, and sometimes it's something original that came from my own head. My favorite themes are my own unique twist on a popular theme - for example I once shot an art nude model as the Bride of Pinhead, and she was fully covered in pins all over her body. It was a wild idea, but fans loved it."
A Lone Scientist Descending Into The Radioactive Darkness Of Chernobyl In 1986
Americans And Their Firearms Collections
We also wanted to know what Rick actually finds scary (if anything!). "I find real life things more scary than fantasy horror," he told Bored Panda. "Vampires, zombies, demons etc - I am utterly fearless. I don't actually believe in anything supernatural anyway. But real life crime, serial killers and that type of thing is pretty scary because despite my passion for gory horror flicks, I don't actually like 'real' horror. I have created a few shoots which depict murder victims and realistic gore but when you are creating these images you are so engaged in the art form, and detached Savefrom the reality, that it doesn't feel disturbing. Other people have found this work very disturbing though. One person actually threatened to phone the police about my photos. Maybe they thought I was a murderer? I don't know."
A Post On R/Mildyinfuriating
It's quite grotesque how the OP posted this as "Mildly infuriating" as if he wasn't apparently living with violent, unstable and abusive madman.
Chicago Metra Up-N Track Carries 34,000 Passengers On 70 Trains Across This Bridge Each Weekday
I Think Normal Fire Won't Even Work On This...thing
When asked why people are drawn to these photos, Rick says it comes down to "morbid curiosity and fascination". "At least that's what draws me to it, so I can only assume it works for other people too. Photos are different to film because you are forced to study one static moment forever, so disturbing images can be far more confronting in stills photos than in film."
"I grew up during the 1980s in the UK during the 'video nasty' era, when horror films on home video were relentlessly censored and banned," Rick shared. "Now, as a horror artist myself, I experience this censorship often. Trying to showcase dark works of art on social media can be a thankless and frustrating task, at the best of times. For those of us who love this stuff - and there are a LOT of us - we absolutely relish it! We don't want to force it on people who hate it so there's endless calls for artists to be given better tools to be allowed to show their work rather than just face flat-out bans all the time. The horror genre is populated by some of the nicest people in the world, and it is a vibrant, friendly community. I kinda hope that the tech platforms figure this out one day and give us a break."
If you'd like to check out Rick's terrifying and amazing photos, be sure to visit his website Horrify Me right here!
On October 29th, 2013. These Two Maintenance Workers Embrace Each Other Before Dying After The Wind Turbine They Were Working On In Ooltgensplaat, Holland Caught Fire
Oh I just watched a video about this and it was heartbreaking. When the turbine caught fire older two of the four workers jumped through the fire and escaped but the younger workers being only 19 and 21 were afraid to do so. By the time they were convinced the others had made it out, it was too late for them. They came together in one final embrace and one of them then jumped off while the other died in the fire
A Disease That Has No Cure
Flyers Posted In Vancouver’s Dtes
Truth is stranger than fiction, and apparently, reality is scarier than fiction. We hope you’re not feeling too spooked from this list, but if you are, you can always check out a wholesome article from Bored Panda next (like this one!) as a palette cleanser. If you do plan to continue through this list, though, be sure to keep upvoting the pics that introduce you to new fears and let us know in the comments what the most terrifying thing you’ve recently seen or experienced was. We can keep spooky season going all year round!
The “Empty Box” Void Of A Brain Death
The Danish Special Forces Are Just Militarised Sleep Paralysis Demons
This Emergency Alert Everyone I Know Just Got
Snapping Turtle In Brainerd
Relaxing On The Side Of A Mountain
Jared Leto And His Cult On His Private Island
I’ve Already Seen 3 Videos This Week. As A Parent, This Is Terrifying
This Is Terrifying And Comforting At The Same Time
In 2018, An American Evangelical Missionary Trespassed Into The North Sentinel Island (The Last Contacted Place On Earth) To Convert The Hidden Tribe To Christianity. After Many Unsuccessful Attempts, The Man Was Maimed Through Blunt Force And Succumbed To Death
How To Escape Being Buried Alive
Portland Man Found His Tires Slashed, And This Note On His Car
Department Store Wax Mannequins Melting During A Heatwave In 1929
Neuroanatomical Comparison Of Normal Brain And Alzheimer´s Disease Brain
For me seeing something like that and seeing also People lose themselves in their dementia was the final straw in becoming an atheist. The whole concept of an immortal soul ascending into heaven went basically up in smoke. The brain is the location of the "us". All we are is in there. And if it stops functioning, if it gets sick or damaged, all that is "us" gets affected too. Irreversible. Do you really really think that Grandpa with Dementia, who can barely speak and function by himself will magically be restored somewhere after Death? It is truly heartbreaking seeing something like that.
When You're Camping Your Body Heat Provides A Thermal Spot For Insects To Congregate
Thousands Of People Were Killed In A Terrifying Flood In Pakistan Recently. A Massive Inland Lake Has Appeared, As Seen On Satellite Imagery
Poor folks. My house was flooding a few years back. Didn't get more then wet carpet and an endless trail of water. I'm crying and exhausted at trying to get the water to stop coming in. Then I was watching the news and saw people with houses floods and I felt like a sh*t for crying over my home being wet.
Someone Posted How Low The Fatal Dose Of Fentanyl Is. Here Is Compared To The Fatal Dose Of Carfentani
The View From My Apartment When The Air Quality Is Almost 300
The 1933 Film Of Alice In Wonderland Is Pure Nightmare Fuel. Directed By Norman Z. Mcleod And Well Worth Watching!
Two-Headed Sharks Are Sighted More And More And No One Knows Why
Enough Said
Male chimpanzees can be as strong as 3-4 human males. They can literally tear you apart. I've seen a zookeeper on the verge of panic when it looked like one of his chimps was waking up early from sedation, and the vet didn't seem to be taking it seriously.
Mass Shooters Of The Past 2-Months
Prototype “Economy” Airline Seats, Terrifying If You Have Claustrophobia
honestly this guy is the worst airline and overall reviewer
Before And After Being Lost In The Wilderness For 33 Days
Note: this post originally had 71 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
BP, more posts like this please, not the long uninteresting ones about Reddit problems
Have to admit, couldn't agree more!! This is one of the most fascinating posts in months. I rarely scroll to the last entry but read this one for end to end! Disturbing, depressing... but so much better than someone's life story about a vile relative or malicious compliance at work.
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600-pound grizzly bear I encountered on a cloudy night. Truly frightening. Bear-636d2...9ef703.jpg 
Have a friend in nuclear medicine, in one of the safety lectures they show what the Colbalt 60 source looks like so you know to avoid it incase of damage to the machinery or if any accidents occur. Simple metal tube with Drop and Run stamped into it.
So is the cobalt the tube? Or is it inside the tube? Genuinely curious, don't know much about it. Except that it is NOT to be fúcked with, lol.
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BP, more posts like this please, not the long uninteresting ones about Reddit problems
Have to admit, couldn't agree more!! This is one of the most fascinating posts in months. I rarely scroll to the last entry but read this one for end to end! Disturbing, depressing... but so much better than someone's life story about a vile relative or malicious compliance at work.
Load More Replies... 600-pound grizzly bear I encountered on a cloudy night. Truly frightening. Bear-636d2...9ef703.jpg
Have a friend in nuclear medicine, in one of the safety lectures they show what the Colbalt 60 source looks like so you know to avoid it incase of damage to the machinery or if any accidents occur. Simple metal tube with Drop and Run stamped into it.
So is the cobalt the tube? Or is it inside the tube? Genuinely curious, don't know much about it. Except that it is NOT to be fúcked with, lol.
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