If morbid curiosity is the name of the game, then the subreddit r/WTF is the cheat code that unlocks all of its levels.
As you might've already understood from our first publication on this online community, it has plenty (and I mean plenty) of things that you probably haven't seen before.
Only this time, we'll focus on the macabre. Like an octopus with 32 tentacles. Or a huge sinkhole opening up in someone's living room. You know, the kind of stuff that nightmares are made of.
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Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset
Seagull Riding On Another Seagull. Wait What?
Author and behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner, who is a research fellow at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University, and has pioneered the psychological study of morbid curiosity, says that our initial instinct is to avoid looking at these things because we fear that what we see will not be pleasant.
But just think of horror movies. There's a jump scare and the bad guy is on the screen. Half the audience covers their eyes in terror, while the other half is glued to the screen. However, even the people that are covering their eyes peak through their fingers from time to time to keep an eye on the killer.
Why do we do this? Why do we subject ourselves to fear and anxiety?
A Small Herd Of Cows Found Their Way Into A Newly Built Home In Montana And Lived Inside For About A Month Before Being Noticed
A Guy Comes Back From Work To Find This In His Living Room
I Am Not In Danger. I'm The Danger
To understand it, Scrivner suggests starting with real situations. "The car wreck story is a bit old and tired, but it's a good example because it's something that almost everyone has experienced and can intuitively understand," he writes.
"It's true for almost everyone that you don't want to see someone injured and you don't hope anyone died in the wreck. But, if they did, you do feel compelled to look at it."
I Freaked Out A Little When I Met This While Cross Country Skiing
My Dad Cleans Out Hoarders Homes After They Pass Away. He Discovered This Collection Under All The Trash
Fell On A Gusset Plate At Work Years Ago
Sleep Outside, They Said... It'll Be Fun, They Said. I'm Never Sleeping Again
They are completely harmless. I played with them as a kid. You should be much more afraid of mosquitoes or ticks.
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These are called Daddy Long Legs in the U.S. They are actually named Harvestmen and though they are arachnids they are not true spiders. There are over 6500 species of them and all of them can bite humans but none of them have venom glands. They rarely bite humans but if they did it would be painless. Cellar spiders are also called Daddy Long Leg spiders and are true spiders and actually have venom but it's very weak and not considered poisonous to humans. Their fangs are plenty long enough to bite humans, though they rarely do, but their venom is too weak to affect humans adversely. Some people call Crane flies Daddy Long Legs but they are not poisonous and not bite. Learn something. Look it up and be somebody.
Yup can confirm. I've been tent-camping exactly once in my life. Woke up to a congregation of daddy long legs above my head of the outside of the tent. They were presumably congregating above the body heat? Anyways... I screamed, ran out of tent, took tent down and shook it vigorously to fling those f*$#ers off, and wouldn't you know they all came running back to me/my tent! First and last time I'll ever go tent camping!
what did u do when they came after you!!!!!!!!!
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Daddy long legs. Don’t worry, you’ll get at least one on your tent every time you go camping (hey, it’s better then the wolf spiders)
wolf spiders aren't TOO bad. it's funnel webs that scare me!
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Harmless, ‘Daddy Longlegs’, not even a real spider & can’t bite anyway.
They belong to the Harvestmen / Daddy Longleg species, but have not yet been formally described taxonomically. They are invasive in Central Europe and are thought to have spread by importing goods by ship. When I lived in the Ruhr Area (Germany) there were lots of them on the walls of my balcony. An old industrial ruin there is infested with them. They form clusters as you see in the picture and when they feel threatened they start bouncing. I was very happy to move to another region!
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Fun fact: daddy long legs are one of if not the most venomous spiders. Don’t worry there fangs are too short to bite humans.
I would just leave my tent and everything in it and never go back...
You know daddy long legs pre date dinosaurs. They’re fascinating creatures.
I'd be on my way home in seconds and leave the tent to the spiders ... Daddy long legs are flies not spiders and these look nothing like the UK ones ...
That was my thought too, UK daddy long legs fly,not crawl, and they come out of the ground.The larva ( leather jackets I believe) eat the roots of your lawn, hence sometimes you have dead patches in your grass.
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Why is everyone saying they're daddy long legs?! They are not daddy long legs!! I have no idea what they are but it's not daddy long legs!
Way back when we had a tent trailer for a few years. Folded down to travel and up to camp. If we stayed more than one day anywhere the inside became spider heaven. So, reading a few pages of a paperback to get sleepy and spiders run across the pillow. I used to spray the whole inside with bug killer every day that we were stopped. Inside my house they can live untouched, but not in my camp bed. Nope.
I've not seen Daddy Long Leg spiders since I was 13 & my parents had a house built in the country. They are WAY more terrifying in person!
Grandaddy longlegs are harmless albeit creepy. When I was a kid I would sometimes grab a ball of them and throw them on my older sister as a joke. Sorry Sis!
Ah I see they sprang for the new NOPE! Pinata, too bad they did it over the tent
JESUS THAT'S A LOT OF SPIDERS- I doubt they're venomous though. They look like Daddy Longlegs.
That's mainly due to the simple fact that our ancestors lived in dangerous places. "The world today can also be dangerous, but even the most basic treatments that are available today can severely decrease the seriousness of an injury. If you got injured 10,000 years ago (or even 100 years ago), your chances of surviving were far less than they are today with modern medicine," Scrivner explains.
"Even if the blood loss didn't kill you, an ensuing infection might. This placed a premium on avoiding danger—or at least avoiding the consequences of danger."
John Wayne Gacy Did Construction For My Grandparents And We Found His Business Card While Going Through Some Stuff Today
Absolutely Chillin
I Have Been Losing My Mind Over How My Work Shoes Are Always Spotless In The Morning After Being Out On My Porch Overnight, I Wore Different Shoes To Work Last Night And I Found Out Why When I Came Home
Coconut Crabs Are Attracted To The Smell Of Food
so what the actual hell are you doing sitting there those mfs ate amelia earhart
But to avoid danger, you must first know something about it. You have to recognize it. After all, the more you know about something, the better you can predict it. And the better you can predict it, the better you can deal with the consequences if it does occur.
"This is where curiosity steps in. I don't want to be in a car wreck myself to find out how bad a car wreck is. I also don't want someone else to be in a car wreck. But if they are, I do want to know how bad it is. This could inform my current decisions and behavior," Scrivner says.
The Aftermath Of Recent Flooding In Germany
All The Brown You Can See Is Spiders
Just Learned That Standing This Close To A 380 Feet Waterfall Is A Thing (Devil's Pool - Victoria Falls)
The Actual Wtf?
For example, if the car wreck is particularly gruesome, it might cause a person to slow down or be extra cautious the rest of the day, which will decrease the chances of the same unfortunate event happening to them. (If it's just a fender bender, it may not affect their driving behavior very much.)
Found In Random Estate Sale Box - Pile Of Notepads Full Front And Back Of Obsessive Notes On The Next Door Neighbors Every Move. Meticulous Detail. Several Times A Day For Years
Found In Downtown Fresno, Ca. Someone Covered A Geo Metro With Pennies. Possibly Doubled The Value Of The Car
Not Just What The F**k But Why The F**k?!
How About No?
"The consequences of threats have left their mark on our psychology and influence our behavior in response to 'morbid' situations," Scrivner says. "This has resulted in most of us having some morbid curiosity, and some of us having a lot of it."
This psychological tendency has also played out in large-scale human behavior numerous times. Whether we're talking about the Roman gladiatorial games or the presence of death in rituals and religion. The spectacle of public executions. Or the massive fan base surrounding the true crime and horror genres. Coloring each of these phenomena, according to Scrivner, is a tendency for humans to be morbidly curious.
Martin Laurello Could Turn His Head 180° & Was Known As The Human Owl. He Was A Sideshow Performer Who Lived From 1886 To 1955
A Postman With A Baby In His Mailbag, When It Was Legal To Send Children Through The Us Postal Service, 1913
A Bear Chasing A Skier
What? How?
So now we know that the best way to avoid the consequences of a threat is not to simply avoid it. "Avoidance might get you away once or twice, but it's not a good way to deal with future encounters," Scrivner explains. "It's more efficient and more productive to first learn something about the threat. This way you can know how to identify, avoid, or deal with it in the future."
Garter Snake Mating Ball Found In Manitoba, Canada
The Beginning Of A Disaster?
Someone In Oregon Caught This Ling Cod, Complete With A 'Belly Full' Of Octopus...
An Octopus With 32 Tentacles
Met This Guy Who Had His Wife's Eye Professionally Turned Into A Ring
It Is Made Out Of Cat Hair
Opened Up A Tin Of Peas
The Window
A Shoebill Visiting You Literally Sounds Like A Shootout At The Arcades
Coax Cable Removed From A Man's Bladder. "It Had Become Encrusted With Phosphate And Had Coiled To The Anatomical Curves Of The Bladder." Only One Way It Got Up There
Saharan Sand From Africa Covering Snow In Europe
Found A Scorpion Under A Gas Hob In Our Kitchen (Photo With It Under UV Light)
Someone Shot My Car On The Highway
Finger Turned White After Staying Out In The Cold Rowing
Reynaud's syndrome. I have this, it isn't fun - but more numb than painful
Just Moved Into A New Apartment And Happened Upon What I Thought Was A Piece Of Painted Over Tape Stuck To A Bookshelf. Peeled It Up To Find It Was Concealing A Mystery
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Nightmare fuel most of these! And I have to sleep in a half hour 😭😭😭
Nightmare fuel most of these! And I have to sleep in a half hour 😭😭😭
