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It's October, and you know what that means: darker and colder days, the aroma of all things pumpkin spice, cozy evenings with your favorite hot beverage, and, of course, a dose of creepiness. Here at Bored Panda, we're absolutely hooked by the spookiness of October, and we couldn't resist creating another article that might not be everyone's cup of tea, especially if you're faint-hearted.

Introducing "Creepy Knowledge" - an X page filled with eerie facts that might send shivers down your spine. With over 33 thousand followers, this corner of the internet serves as a gathering place for those who crave that exhilarating thrill of the unknown. From men believing they were abducted by aliens to a woman who underwent 67 exorcisms, we’ve gathered the best chilling stories and mysterious phenomena that might keep you on the edge of your seat. Scroll down for the spine-tingling experience. Just be warned, you might want to keep the lights on.

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

They don't pose much of a threat to humans and usually flees when alarmed. Not particularly dangerous to humans.

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Have you ever wondered why October, the month when Halloween happens, feels like a time when spooky things and thoughts about the dead come together? To discuss this, including people's fascination with true crime stories and real-life horror, as well as the benefits of horror, Bored Panda reached out to Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral scientist at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark and a research project manager at Arizona State University.

Scrivner has conducted pioneering research on the psychology of morbid curiosity, true crime, and horror. “Most of my research looks at how and why people can find enjoyment — and can perhaps learn something — from fictionally dangerous scenarios.” The behavioral scientist told us that Halloween is a big reason why October feels so spooky. “Its origins in All Hallow's Eve, as well as related holidays such as Día de Los Muertos, lead to an increased focus on the concept of death. Other factors, such as the changing of the leaves, may also contribute to a concept of eeriness and death.”

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

Because I wanted to know what happened, I looked up her name and apparently the police arrived and arrested the man and nobody was hurt

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Since media, including movies, TV shows, and social media, play a significant role in our lives, we asked Scrivner how these forms of entertainment contribute to our perception of creepy or unsettling themes. He explained that media often reflects what's happening in the world, especially things that grab people's attention. When we watch or read the news or engage with other media, we usually see things that many people find interesting or important. So, media not only shows us what's going on in the world but also focuses on what captures our attention. “Movies, TV shows, and social media probably don't create new creepy or unsettling things, but instead they amplify what we already find creepy,” Scrivner added.

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

I mean if they managed to do that and put in all the hard work to steal it, they probably earned it. That's low key impressive. 😆

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Do you know why so many people are so interested in true crime stories and real-life horror? It's a curious thing – the way we are drawn to tales of real-life mysteries, gruesome crimes, and spooky events. In his research, Scrivner has found that “morbid curiosity is the strongest predictor of fascination with true crime stories and even real-life horror”. However, the behavioral scientist notes that this does not suggest these people are more accepting of terrible things. “They are driven to gather information about them.”

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

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths children have gone to throughout history to avoid eating their brussels sprouts!

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

They also display 'burrowing response' where they crawl into confined spaces - looking like someone has concealed a body..

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Horror stories, found in movies, books, and more, might seem frightening, but could they actually have some positive effects? According to Scrivner, some studies propose that watching horror films or reading scary stories can “help people build emotion regulation skills and learn to overcome their fears and anxiety”.

So, the next time you find yourself immersed in a spine-tingling narrative, remember that there might be more to it than meets the eye—horror stories might just be teaching us valuable life skills in the most unexpected of ways.

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

Forget 0 to 100 real quick. That started at 100 and went up from there.

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

Yikes. Would not be able to sleep for days if I saw a dead body with eyes open in real life.

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

An extreme form of body dismorphic disorder, where the affected person believes that some part of their body doesn't belong to them.

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

Someone forgot to switch off the radio before the Soviet Union fell. Wouldn’t want to see that electric bill.

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

I’d think presenting the actual living actors alive would be more effective to clear the murder charges…

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

Dammit, there is no language construction ‘off of’ and the collocation is ‘based on’

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

Yeah Catholicism can get pretty weird. They probably did this to overturn some of his edicts that had become problematic.

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

Do yourselves a favor, and do NOT look this up. I'm not sleeping tonight, or any night for that matter.

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

I can't stand watching any TV show with a laugh track anymore. Everybody loves Raymond ruined me. Ray Romano is so not funny and the laugh track just makes it worse. I was literally counting the seconds between LOLs and bored as hell.

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

These don't necessarily belong to children. It's more likely that they belonged to the Liquidators who went in after the area was evacuated. Don't forget, the Soviet government didn't even tell the people of Prypiat and the surrounding areas about the severity of the incident, and when they did evacuate, the people were encouraged to believe it was for 3 days. Almost no precautions were taken with the safety of the public until then. The gas masks were likely abandoned by the Liquidators when they were released from duty, they could have been using the school as a base of operations. They left most of the equipment behind, from gas masks to clothing to the fire engines and helicopters because they were too radioactive to take from there.

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

The strangest thing about this is that while premature burials were extremely rare, the fear of them was not. It was something close to mass hysterics at the time, helped by stories and novels like Edgar Allan Poe's "Buried Alive" and similar. Doctors at the time sometimes carried a "heart knife": If they pronounced someone dead, they afterwards stabbed him to the heart to make sure he did not wake up in the grave.

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

Doctor:He’s dead Lady: are you sure? I think he’s still breathing- Doctor: *stabs him* yep he’s dead!

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

Wikipedia records some recent events of people prematurely believed dead. One in 2001, two separate events in 2014 and one in 2020.

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

No, that's a boxing term referring to the end of a round, particularly for someone doing poorly.

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

Tbh should be standard that’s like my biggest fear

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

i wanna be buried in these when i die, cos i have an intense fear of being buried alive. Like, i know i won’t be alive but it’ll still be cool

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

I've heard that people have been buried with a telephone in their casket.

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

I always thought this was where “dead ringer” originated, but I looked it up and it’s actually a term related to horse racing!

Remi (He/Him)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should be made standard for comics characters considering how often they bounce back. Bet Jason Todd would have liked a bell or a panic button or something instead of having to dig himself out

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

I feel like if I go into a coma and is pronounced dead, and if I’ve lived to a reasonable age and is sick or something, pls CREMATE ME FOR GOD’S SAKE

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

I have this fear to a degree and my grandmother really had this fear. Her orders on her death were to embalm her to be sure she was dead. My order upon my death are simple, let me start rotting before you throw me in a hole, and preferably throw me to the wild animals so they can have free food instead of throwing me in a hole.

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

I think you can still find some old graveyards with these bells, I remember someone told me they'd sen them on a ghost tour

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

Hence, "For whom the bell tolls", or the comment 'Dead Ringer'.

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

The problem with this system is it's dependence on somebody standing near enough to hear the bell when it's rung. If you come to at 3AM, (or at any other time, when there's no one around) you're SOL.

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

My Mother had Catalepsy. It's a condition where, for all intents and purposes, a person appears to be dead. Body function decreases to such a slow degree, that a mirror held up to the cataleptic's nose has no moisture. No discernible pulse or evidence of life. Also, the cataleptic experiences a state of hyper-awareness. I was 5 the first time I saw this, and I clung to her hand hysterically repeating 'catalepsy' even into the ambulance ride. The protagonist in "The Premature Burial" suffered from this. Poe had a form of complex partial status epilepticus.

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

plus in some areas some one would sit above the grave for three days in case the body was still alive..

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

Not gonna happen to me, I have a organ donor card and they can take anything they need out of my corpse. Maybe that would help getting more people to donate their organs, if they would use this fact for a commercial. Any suggestions on a catching ad?

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

And that is why cemeteries have night watchmen. They are there to listen for any bells ringing, indicating someone had been buried alive.

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

And none of the people sucked into paying extra for that feature ever used it.

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

Apparently this is where we get the saying, "saved by the bell."

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

Since the nails appear to be close together, wouldn't this be similar to the bed of nails, more entertainment than torture?

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

And still nobody has ever been able to prove the existence of ghosts...even when they know where they live. Curious.

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

The Brazilian presidential energy wasn't good from 2019 to 2022 either, and that completely without ghosts.

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