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According to ABC News, the most common ‘biggest fears’ people have are social phobias, the fear of open spaces, the fear of heights, the fear of flying, claustrophobia, the fear of insects, and the fear of snakes. And while you might be feeling calm and collected if none of those particular phobias afflict you, just keep reading, because something on this list is bound to freak you out…

Below, you'll find some of the most unsettling and disturbing facts that Reddit users have shared, as well as an interview between Bored Panda and Steffany Strange of the Something Scary Podcast, to remind you pandas that spooky season can be year round if you want it to be. Be sure to upvote the facts that unlock new fears within you, and if you start getting uneasy, just remember that all of these facts were true long before you read them. Oops, did that make you even more scared?

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Why am I reading these I already have crippling anxiety, depression and paranoia

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Chiropractors kill more people per year than sharks

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a women in a wheel chair from visiting a chiropractor. He made tiny error and she was paralyzed. I won’t see one because of it even though I hear people say how good they are. Just can’t.

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To learn more about the topic of frightening facts, we reached out to an expert on all things spooky, Steffany Strange, host of the Something Scary Podcast. Steffany was kind enough to have a chat with us about what she loves most about diving into the world of scary. "I think for most of us we can relate and say scary stories help us tap into the unknown or the supernatural," she told Bored Panda. "But additionally, we as humans have a natural tendency to seek out information in the world/society we live in."

"I love that folklore, scary stories (especially ghost stories) bring in cultural and historical elements to better understand our emotions and the essence of being human," Steffany continued. "This makes me think of my grandfather and aunt telling me Salvadorian ghost stories, and it helped me tap into the unknown elements of the supernatural while understanding my own Salvadorian culture."

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled **Someone you love will probably get dementia, and it will f*****g suck.**

The human brain is a machine, and like any machine it inevitably breaks down. Imagine a person you love. Imagine their mind starts dying before their body. They cease to be the person you knew, a little bit at a time. They lose their memories - the cherished and the mundane. Then they start looking at their loved ones in terror because nothing makes sense and everyone seems like a stranger. It's nature at its most cruel.

F**k dementia.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom had dementia. She started showing signs in her mid Forty's. She still had her personality for the most part. But it took a part of her and she knew it but she didn't know what she lost. It was awful to watch her slowly deteriorated. She died in an accident at 62. I miss her constantly but I'm glad she never forgot who my dad, brother or I was. My grandfather died about a year before and she constantly forgot. I would just talk about him like he was alive. I couldn't stand for see the hurt in her realizing he was gone.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled A good portion of spiders shed their exoskeletons occasionally so when you happen to come across a "dead" spider, there's a good chance that it's just an empty husk and there is another, slightly bigger spider nearby.

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We were also curious what sorts of scary things freak Steffany out the most. "The darkness!" she shared. "Your imagination runs wild when the lights go out, and the darkness creeps in. We hallucinate in pure darkness because our brains are biologically wired to fear darkness, amongst other things our brain just does for survival, which I guess brings me to exorcist movies and topics. I think it hits close to home not being able to have control of one's own body."

And as far as unsettling facts you pandas are likely to never forget, Steffany has informed us that glitter can cut your eyes. "And we have so much glitter in makeup, so I'm always weary even if it is safe," she added.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled With enough stressors you can trigger a psychotic episode and never be mentally healthy again.

just_annonymous , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ummm. I'm here to add a voice of hope too. There can and is health after mental health breaks and psychotic breaks. And hopelessness (often a symptom/factor chicken/egg mess) that prevents people from ever returning a state of balance is not to be denied by any stretch. But this statement is too black and white and leaves no room for growth or rehabilitation. If we believe that some bodies can be healed from devastating injuries and equilibrium achieved, why not the mind. With enough of the right supports and treatments? Sadly, mostly inaccessible since (at least for most western culture) we treat health (physical and mental) reactionary instead of preventative. And money drives everything. But as someone who's been suicidal, there can be true mental health after if you live long enough to get there.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Most laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950's. You are hearing dead people laugh.

wootmootLVL100 , Denis Agati Report

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Steffany also says it's "very healthy to be able to experience some form of safe scares within a form of horror entertainment because it can release us from our everyday reality of tragedy, fears, and anxieties better yet help us cope."

"I think there's something about watching scary things or listening to ghost stories and coming out of it much braver and reassessing 'what would you do'? Or 'how would you reassess it'? Fear is survival, and that means coming out more courageous and letting go of unnecessary fears," the host added.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Human a******s can stretch out to 7 inches without tearing and a raccoon can fit in a hole as tight as 4 inches.
You’re welcome

ThatDudeCraig , Marieke Tacken Report

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You have walked past someone who was spending their last day alive.

Ricjack99 , Brett Sayles Report

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"There's always something about horror and ghost stories that bring us together through culture and I'm so excited to see what this generation brings as I continue to see more diversity and different voices that bring in new perspectives," Steffany says. "Including myself, being able to be part of something where we can share each other's cultures and bond over our fears is beautiful underneath the facade of just horror."

If you'd like to hear more from Steffany about all things horrific and spooky, be sure to check out the Something Scary Podcast. You can listen to the show right here and find their YouTube channel where they release weekly animated videos, alongside the podcast, right here!

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#9

Some of your friends might just pretend to like you because you are useful to them and you don't realize it because they're just great at hiding it!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this has happened to me way too many times. i suck at making friends. the friends I have now are nice though :)

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Lake Superior has dead bodies from the 1920s.

With freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen, bodies don't decompose at the rate they would under normal conditions. Sure, they don't look as "fresh" as the day they died (in fact they're covered in bodily fat from saponification), but they can be recognized as human remains.

In fact, there's been this ongoing debate because of the ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald that sank in the 70s, because scuba divers wanted to explore it but the families of the deceased were upset because this is basically a mass grave.

There's a YouTube channel called Ask a Mortician that just did an episode on this, and I really recommend it. She goes a lot more in-depth about the facts, and even went out there to talk with a surviving Fitzgerald relative.

HumanityIsACesspool , Chaz McGregor Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy...

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled An aneurysm can happen at any time to anyone for any reason

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband had one when he was 32. He fell asleep watching TV and I woke him up to say it was bedtime. He said he had a headache and that he'd rest there for a while. I didn't think anything of it and went to bed. Our kids found him when they got up early to watch TV before school and they woke me up saying daddy was sleeping on the floor. People rarely survive aneurysms and they usually do so by getting immediate medical care. It's a miracle that he survived and is with us today.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Youve probably walked past a murderer

Delphox66 , Nikita Broutman Report

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Katie Lutesinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walked past? The guy was our waiter at the local Italian restaurant and went to school with my sister. She hated him, which felt very justified indeed some years later when he abducted and killed a local man and dumped his body in a national park.

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Amy Foley Clark
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the time but I work in a prison. So yeah, lots of murderers.

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Old Roadie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walked past? Pfffft. One of my former in-laws was just not good person. Worsened with age. Had to visit him in prison... he was so much scarier than Tex Watson, his cellie.

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Chiara Lago
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I attend 12 step meetings and a person I was quite friendly with was the nicest guy. Always polite and courteous. One day, he relapsed and caused a minor traffic accident and because he was on parole, was put in jail. While awaiting sentencing, the powers in charge decided to perform a random DNA screening and he was a match for a very horrific murder committed years before. I never heard from him again.

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HogHedge
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depends on which country you live in and the homicide rate. In my country it's quite rare.

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Nonna_SoF
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also where in the country you are. If you live in a city you walk past a lot more people than someone who lives in the middle of nowhere.

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Katy Cordeth
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to know a murderer. Google 'Mitchell Quy' if you're interested. Killed his wife and cut up her body with the help of his brother, then got rid of the wrapped-up parts by dumping them in garbage bins around town. They never found her head.

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StrangeOne
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a manager who used to work at my old job before I did. He got transferred to another city working at the same company. He ended up killing his wife. No one was allowed to talk about it. One of the team leaders shushed my friend when she was telling me about it, saying we were not allowed to talk about it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked with a guy for years. He was fun, the life of the party. The kind of guy who made you feel seen and valued, you know? We used to dance to Party Town every Friday morning at work. It was such fun,. He moved to another city, and a couple of years later bludgeoned his wife and two children to death. And then killed himself while awaiting trial. You never know who people are, really.

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Agnes Jekyll
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was on the same subway as a murderer who was on the news later that night because she'd been released. What's worse is that I recognized her, and she recognized me recognizing her.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walked past one? I gave several lifts to a guy who turned out to be a serial killer ... He was arrested for the deaths and dismemberment of at least 3 women, but his kill list is believed to be much, much higher...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to work at a university and one of the students in our program murdered his wife. Then he folded her up in a suitcase and dumped it. I found out when they showed his mug shot on the news. He had seemed like a very nice guy. So scary.

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sally
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m going to stop walking after reading these posts… walked past a murderer now and a person who was living their last day 🤪

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Paul Bernardo is one of the most infamous murderers and rapists in Canadian history. After he was caught his picture appeared in the newspapers. My mom was shocked when she realized she recognized him. For awhile he had been living and working at a small gas station, restaurant where she used to get her car filled up. When I heard her description, I remember one time when I had been home visiting, I distinctly remember that summer day we were getting her car filled up and I was sitting in the passenger seat. This tall young man with blond curly hair, a white baseball cap and white t-shirt was cleaning the windshield. I realized I had been sitting in the car around one foot away from Paul Bernardo.

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fortnite kid
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not just walked past, my sister went to school with a murderer. he killed her best friend. they were only 16.

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Id row
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a quadruple murder in the house next to my mom's where I grew up. I think about the fact that she was sleeping while about 40 feet away, 4 people (2 of which were kids) were getting brutally killed. They never caught who did it.

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Lee Banks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vice principal in middle school strangled his lover for threatening to out him. Was the nicest guy. Also, I don't ask questions about friends with certain affiliations.

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Di Walata
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to work at a jail, so this is fact, for me. At least in jail, you know who they are.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I am aware I go to work. /j even if this is a kind of messed up thing to joke about

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My cousin dated a guy (17) for 2 years that killed a man (30) because he lost a fight over a woman (45) and some drugs. They started dating a few days after the murder. He came to her house not even an hour after going to the guys home, knocking on the door, then shooting him with a 12 gauge shotgun. Due to his age the court was "lenient", sentencing him to 6 months in county jail with 1 month off for time served and 3 months spent in a hotel at a popular east coast beach with my cousin and his therapist as part of his "rehabilitation". He even got to attend their graduation and senior prom. It made for a very memorable end to the school year since it was a very small town and the victim had a lot of family members in the school and graduating class. This happened in 1991. I can't recall if the guy is in prison now for drugs or died from drugs. I do know his younger brother was killed over a bad drug deal.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

walked passed, chatted to, made eye contact with, taught, instructed, advised, worked with, hung out with, dined near by, had delivered something to and vice versa, bought from, sold to, rented to, servesed, f**ked, stood inline with, helped out, smiled too - yeah that list is endless and frightening

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not me, but my dads friend. When she was little, Ted Bundy babysat her a few times. Also an ex's mom almost got abducted by Gary Ridgeway. He ended up abducting and killing her coworker.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to see a very distinct car on my daily commute home from work. About a year after, I saw on the news that the guy was arrested for two cold case murders from 20 years prior. I only knew it was him because they mentioned his car.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've met one. He came for a job interview. I asked him what he had been jailed for. Ooooooooh.

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1 year ago

You've also walked pass people who have been molested or raped as children. 🥺

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LemonHead
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i saw a tweet that said this guys dad used to work at a university with ted bundy and every Friday the dad would say "see you Monday bundy"

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JR
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My son's high school friend murdered his girlfriend.

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Claire Elise
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walked past a murderer...that's NOTHING: I grew up with a r¡pist. There are people who deserve to be murdered...

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Riley Quinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Went to school with one, worked with another, and I'll bet a couple more simply went unnoticed.

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Ron Man
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You've likely done a lot more with a murderer than walked past them. You'd be surprised how many murderers are out there. I've had 2 as roommates.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So many of the people here who know a murderer, it was the wife that was killed, which I think is much scarier than walking past one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dunno about walking, but I do know I have cycled passed one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had one live next door to me for 6yrs. He'd moved there after serving 16yrs for killing another boy when he was 18. He knew a lot of dodgy people and i heard he was a drug dealer but never saw any evidence of this. He was quiet and kept to himself, I never had any issues with him.

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Shelby Rinck
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, look how many people have walked past me... Wait, delete that OK?

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Shelby Rinck
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, look how many people have walked past me. Wait, delete that OK?

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Shyla Bouche
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True. In fact, the gated community where I was, was so exclusive people would kill to get in.

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Cerridwn d'Wyse
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a wee one one of the neighbors daughter was who would watch me when my parents went out. Her brother went to San Quentin death row

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Bruce Horton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There have been 3600 murders over the 45 years I've lived in my home city of 2.5 million. So actually, probably not.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a record 13 last year (city:420,000). You are not a murderer until it happens, and most perps are gonna be known straight away or some top themselves. So also unlikely.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to high school with Paul Bernardo. Him and his wife, Karla Homolka, labelled the Ken and Barbie Killers due to their good looks, raped and murdered her sister and at least two other women (she was only convicted and has long since been released for her part in her sister's murder, we made the deal with devil with her to get to him). Funny thing, at school, I just knew him as part of the stoner crew, nothing special at all. Once he left high school, he quickly grew into the Scarborough Rapist before meeting Karla. He raped at least a dozen women before graduating to murder. Nasty stuff and he was right under my nose.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't know it but you could be that murderer later in your life

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Doggo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude I lived NEXT to a crazy guy. Thankfully he’s selling his house. We caught him staring at our doorknobs…

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Kirstin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine was a sub teacher at our school. Even had him as one.

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Benita Valdez
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Related to one. Though in fairness, it was self defense but he still was charged with manslaughter; not really a murderer but my uncle did kill someone

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Supposedly on avg u can walk past 16 murderers in one's lifetime

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Nizumi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please - he was the father of my childhood best friend. Was also the neighbourhood predator. Rot in jail and then rot in H*ll, meatsack.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew Harry Delaroche who killed his whole family in 1976. I was not in the least surprised when it happened. He wasn't right at all. Friends of mine were mean to him and used him b/c he'd drive us places if we asked(we were cute girls a couple years younger with no licenses.) I would never do that and if I was with girls who did, I'd be super polite to him b/c he creeped me out, I didn't want to get on his bad side.

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Carrie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I personally know 3, another by acquantance and 1 more by proxy. All independent crimes ranging from manslaughter to 1st degree. Sometimes you do not even register the depravity in others because you just cannot fathom it. You have probably encountered more murderers than you think.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worked with a murderer, actually ended up firing him because he refused required mental health treatment due to his concerning behavior. He moved out of state and ended up killing a man. He's now in prison, I believe.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, i used to work with one. Really great guy who had served his time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would've warned the other guy from the post above if I knew he was a murderer.

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Jude Kay
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always wonder how many people are out there that COULD murder an innocent person if the right situation or opportunity arose.

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Jane Cortez
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve read about this, a person likely passes two or three murderers in their lifetime. More if you live in a bad area…

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Sleep helps your immune system fight off those cancer cells, just think of that when you're up at 4AM.

feedayeen , Ivan Oboleninov Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah i see you all.. GO TO SLEEP!!! STAY HEALTHY!!! (i know its hard but u can do this!)

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Not exactly useless, but there have been quite a few men who have died at the Grand Canyon because they thought it would be cool to take p**s over a ledge, only to lose their balance.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Your body produces a cancerous cell about once every thirty minutes.

Your immune system is usually very, very efficient at finding and immediately neutralizing them.

But it's very possible that thirty minutes from now will be the time your immune system slips up and allows it to reproduce.

GeraltofOuterHeavia , National Cancer Institute Report

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You may already be dying, many fatal diseases have no symptoms until it's too late. You're welcome.

zerbey , Adrian Swancar Report

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled By you winning the lottery you increase your chances of being murdered by a family member or any other person close to you.

Miakaiana , Peaton Hugo Report

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you know nobody fully. you only see the sides they choose to show you. the only person you really, truly know is you, and even then, there's your subconscious.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes I can confirm this, as I do this. I'm not even the same on different social medias- Here I'm a bat, somewhere else I might be a tree or a loaf of meat. My parents Don't know i'm a furry and my Friends Don't know that I actually hate one of them. Nobody knows me whole, maybe I don't even know myself.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled How much do you know about your great grandparents?

Because in 50-100 years, that will be how much the world knows about you.

Edit: for those of you stating that information storage and accessibility will allow everyone to easily look back into the past, I challenge you to run a game designed for Windows 95.

Point being, information storage is not a ubiquitous system and as the architecture of software and hardware changes there is certainly a possibility that some systems will require specialised tools and equipment to acess.

Furthermore, social media is the highlight reel of history, not the story. Very few people show their true selves in their twitter or Facebook feed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My great-grandfather died in 2017:( Though I was only 7, I remember he told stories about how he fought in WWII and how he shared the chocolates he got for christmas with my sister and I :)

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Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong.

Ever since then I get super paranoid whenever a fly goes anywhere near my face because of the scary fact that something like this could possibly happen to me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doctor here: fly larvae can only feed on necrotic (dead) tissue. Therefore, these parasites only arise in already injured structures (previously infected by bacteria). If a fly oviposits on healthy tissue, said larvae will starve to death.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled [Komodo Dragons](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) poison their victims and then follow them for hours on end. Then once the victim is throughly exhausted and poisoned, it tears it to shreds and eats it alive.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They aren't actually poisonous, it's their saliva has deadly bacteria and the dragons can then follow the scent of your flesh being destroyed by that bacteria. It's in order to not waste energy chasing prey.

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There are some parts of the Universe that we’ll never, ever be able to see. No matter what we do. They’ll always remain just out of reach

Edit:I never had this much upvotes, Thanks to everyone

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of the universe is out of our reach. We can only go till the Local Group (the group of galaxies which our galaxy is also part of). It’s impossible to go past the local group into the next group because of how the universe is expanding. There will come a time when the light from other groups beyond ours will be shifted to such long wavelengths that it would be impossible to detect them. Our galaxy will be lonely and any future species won’t be able to figure out how the universe started or how it will end. Our galaxy will slowly grow darker and darker as the last of its stars slowly start dying and fading away

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled According to some research a human head may remain conscious for up to 30 seconds after decapitation. Most notably, a man named Dr. Beaurieux did a series of experiments in the early 1900’s where he yelled at recently decapitated criminal’s heads and saw a response.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The response was probably pain from having their head cut off and smash onto the floor

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#24

The sun could have exploded 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know about it.

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#25

The bubonic plague is still alive and well and thrives in such places as Africa and the western United states.

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#26

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Kiwis and pineapples eat your mouth...

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled If you begin to display [severe] symptoms of rabies you will go crazy and die. There's no cure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There has only ever been one person to survive the rabies virus without having received immediate medical attention and the vaccine. She was bitten by a bat when she was 15 and doctors put her into a medically induced coma to allow her immune system to fight it off. She does a lot of stuff now to educate people. https://www.wbay.com/2022/09/28/rabies-survivor-shares-story-educate-others/

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When people are crucified, they rarely die from bleeding out; instead, they die from asphyxiation, or suffocation. The way their bodies are hung makes it almost impossible to breathe unless they physically hold themselves up instead of just hanging there, and after some many hours it gets to be to much, resulting in oxygen deprivation, unconsciousness, and death.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no particular reason to bleed out. In the Bible, Jesus was nailed to the cross. But my understanding is the normal practice was to tie people to the cross. So you were stuck there, but not bleeding.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled If you’re murdered theres a very high chance you knew your killer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got a pretty big shock when I watched a True Crime story and it turned out the victim's boyfriend who was acting super suspicious WASN'T the killer. She was killed by a total stranger and the boyfriend was acting shifty because he was involved in a major drug deal and therefore didn't want cops looking at the contents of his phone.

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The possibility of conscious anaesthesia paralysis

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This happened to me when I was intubated 3 years ago. It is indeed as utterly horrific as it sounds.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Alright I collected some of my favourite scary facts from an app I really like called Thunder Dungeon.
They have all types of memes and facts and stuff so it was all written in pictures I had to manually write them down.

1. There's an episode of sesame street that had to be pulled off the air in 76' cause it was so scary, parents complained their children are screaming in horror at the TV.

2. There's a disease nicknamed Ondine's Curse, which causes suffers to die if they fall asleep.

3. On August 26th 1968, every TV in America shut down for 25 seconds, there was a murmuring sound coming from the TV and people reported hearing a demon.

4. In 1994 a man was arrested for dressing as the grim reaper and standing outside old people's homes.

5. It only takes about 7 pounds of pressure to rip off an ear.

6. There is an island in Italy that is supposedly so haunted that the government forbids the public from visiting it.

7. There's a syndrome called Charles Bonnet Syndrome that have been called "a window into a parallel universe". People who has it are prone to seeing bright lights, weird shapes and scary faces. The thing about this syndrome is that all those who suffer from it are almost exclusively blind or vision impaired.

8. When a bear attacks you, he will most likely start eating you alive rather than killing you first.

9. At any possible moment, Earth could be hit be a Gamma Ray Burst which will extinguish most if not all life on the planet.

10. A woman in St.Louis was watching a TV documentary about a serial killer who tortured and killed women, when she realized she was living in his former apartment.

11. There's a Caterpillar so poisonous, just brushing your finger on to it can cause internal bleeding in your brain.

12. In 1942, a man known as the phantom barber would break into people's house while they were sleeping to steal a lock from their hair. He was never identified.

13. There's a fish called a Stone Fish, it's so venomous that if you step on it you could die in 20 minutes.

14. According to a recent study, 1 in 5 CEOs demonstrated psychopathic traits. Another population with similar proportions of psychopaths is the prison population.

15. There was a guy from New York who owned a car with the license plate 5V 1732. He died on May 17, 1932.

That's all folks!

Edit: fact number three, the time of the shut down was 25 seconds, not minutes.

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#32

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You never stop watching with your eyes, even when you close them.
Another one: This topic will be dead in few days O.O

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can see someone's eyes move behind their eyelids. Watch someone sleep when they're going through REM sleep. (Rapid Eye Movement)

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled There’s such a thing as “hair splinters.” Hairdressers deal with it all the time after cutting particularly coarse hair, the small pieces can stick in you like a splinter and pose risk of mega infections if you’re unable to get them out.

I’ve seen a stylist friend of mine lose a whole finger due to one tiny sliver of hair.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Bed bugs can survive for up to a year without feeding under the correct temperatures. As adults the females can lay 300 eggs in their lifetimes. You could be spending thousands of dollars and eventually just get infested again. And bed bugs are making a comeback after almost being eradicated.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In addition whenever they become ‘stressed’ by spraying they go dormant. Bedbug eggs are also sticky, so are notorious hitchhikers. Places like behind baseboards, electrical outlets, electronics, inside furniture, crevices in the floors, the places that they can fit into and multiply at an astonishing rate are endless. They are becoming immune to insecticides. A combination of pyrethroids, diatomaceous earth, bagging every and storing outside after laundering, keeping bed legs in containers with baby oil, vacuuming 2/3 hours per day for months might, might with diligence eradicate them. Frying anything that can be fried in the dryer. Beware of scavenging, seal second hand clothes tightly in plastic bags until you can dry them in high heat for 30/35 minutes. Secondhand purchases need to be sealed with clear varnish, steam cleaned or put I to the dryer to kill the eggs, nymphs and adults is critical.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You can have a heart attack and die at any second because of a heart problem you never knew about. There's one called Brugada syndrome which has no physical evidence and most people aren't diagnosed with it until they drop down dead and testing is done on immediate family members (it's genetic) and one of THEM is diagnosed with it. Happened to my father. We found out because I'm the one tested who has it, my uncle and brother got the all clear, chances are my grandad has it too (4 heart attacks since he was in his mid 40s)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your grandad has survived 4 heart attacks after his mid 40s? I feel like he's both unlucky (for having so many) and extremely lucky (for surviving)

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#36

There are several species of mushroom that implant their spores into insects, creating a kind of zombie that will lose their mind, wander off, die and their corpse will be used as fuel for the next generation of mushroom.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled When someone dies, the last thing the dying person senses is the sense of hearing, then touch, smell, and taste.

The first sense that is usually gone is sight.

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#38

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Your body can kill itself just to get rid of a foreign organism.

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#39

You have almost a 90% chance of breaking a rib by giving effective CPR

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that is completely fine. Effective CPR requires very forceful compressions, much more forceful than what you generally see on TV. The compressions also need to be a lot faster. The advice from the NHS (National Health Service in the UK): Place the heel of your hand on the centre of the person's chest, then place the palm of your other hand on top and press down by 5 to 6cm (2 to 2.5 inches) at a steady rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute. After every 30 chest compressions, give 2 rescue breaths. Remember, it is better to be alive with some broken ribs than to be dead with perfect ribs.

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Pooping can kill you because of a major nerve that is involved in the heart

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There have been 32 reported "broken arrow" incidents in the USA since 1950 (many more in former Soviet countries and other nuclear powers). A broken arrow incident is basically an accident where they lost a nuclear weapon.

Edit: Apparently losing a weapon is called an "empty quiver" incident

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thrasher was lost when I was a little girl. We were at a Navy base and the lady we visited husband was on it when it disappeared. I was around 6 but remember that evening of comforting her. We thought it got stuck on and underwater ledge and couldn't get free causing all the men to starve to death. A few years ago it was learned it imploded for going too deep. They died instantly. It was a nuclear submarine I believe.

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#42

every year you pass your death day but you don’t know when it is

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled There is a theory in quantum cosmology. It is the hypothesis that our universe is actually a 'false vacuum', meaning that it isn't in its most stable possible configuration. Think of a ball rolling on a surface having several local minima (dents in the surface) but there is only one global minima (the dent which is the deepest). The ball may be in one of the dents which is not the deepest one. So, it is stable for now, but, given the chance it will slide to the deepest dent, which is the lowest energy configuration possible, the so-called 'true vacuum'.

Now the interesting part. If our universe is, indeed, in a false vacuum, due to something called 'quantum tunneling', it may 'tunnel' into the true vacuum, creating a bubble of lower energy. Once this lower energy bubble is formed, it expands, engulfing the entire universe, destroying everything we know as is, and creating new laws of physics. The speed of expanding is the speed of light, so we would have no information whatsoever about it before it hits us. We will literally never see it coming.

The really scary and really useless part? There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just feels like a hypothesis rather than an actual fact/stat? If the premise that our universe is in a false vacuum is just a hypothesis and not a fact, everything else is just a conjecture.

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#45

For me, it's the fact that you can go crazy at any point, and even worse, you could have already lost it and you'd have a great chance of never finding out, making it virtually impossible to stop the trip downwards.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. So much this. I sometimes wonder if my husband and kids are real. Or if I’ve lost my mind and made it all up.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled the paris climate accord relies on technologies that do not yet exist, and might never exist, to pull carbon dioxide from the air by future generations. if we reach the paris climate accord goals, including using technologies that do not exist yet, there is at least an 50% chance of staying under the predicted catastrophic temperature rise. Literally coinflipping humanity.


why is this a useless scary fact? because there literally is jack s**t you can do about it in our current societies, beyond voting.

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#47

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled I dunno how useless this is but; You are never 100% safe.

Think about it, no matter what scenario you put yourself in, there will always be some sort of counter measure. Let's say you built a concrete room that is 10 inches wide with no doors and windows underground, an earthquake could happen, a sinkhole could open up, a ravine could open up, etc.

No matter how safe a situation sounds, it can NEVER be 100% safe.

Edit: However, it is good at making people paranoid tho.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds like some teenage logic trying to scare someone. They have been doing probability in maths and learnt nothing is 100% certain

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#48

You can have a heart muscle disease and never know it, and possibly die.

True story, my dad had a cardiac arrest last November (he's 49yo) because apparently he has a heart muscle disease. Never showed any signs, works out regularly, relatively young - and he almost died out of nothing.

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Goblin sharks.

That's it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The goblin shark is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old." - Wikipedia. I couldn't work out how to put a picture in but have a google, they look very cool/terrifying.

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In a couple of billion years the sun will expand rapidly and consume the earth. There is nothing we can do to stop this

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Biillion years into the future, humanity (or more correctly, species that replace us) may have the technological capability to move earth into a safer orbit.

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