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“Humans are inherently morbid, whether they like to admit it or not,” Lauren McMenemy, a professional writer, journalist, and experienced writing mentor and coach told Bored Panda. “We are fascinated by death - by avoiding it, by cheating it, by embracing it, by understanding what comes next.”

“And I think the last bit is really why we love the creepy stuff; ghosts and skeletons and vampires and other creepy things help us to explore what comes after death. As for mysteries, well, who doesn't love a good mystery! As well as being morbid, we are also inherently curious creatures,” McMenemy explained.

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Zephyr343 1 year ago

Awwww my bday and I missed it?

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SydneyGirl 1 year ago

Bloody huntsman. Those dinner plate sized ones creeping out from behind a picture on the wall do tend to create stained undies.

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Mahayana 1 year ago

That’s good! I’m going to try that with the next ice cream truck I see!

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McMenemy argues that it's what marks out humans and has helped us to grow and develop over generations and millennia. “We want to figure out the things we don't understand, and when we can't figure them out then some of us become obsessed by them.” McMenemy still remembers her own childhood obsession with the Bermuda Triangle, and who didn’t have one!

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

I am sorry but this is funny 🫢

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Zephyr343 1 year ago

Yuuuuuuuppppppp

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Boy loved jazz

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When asked whether horror as a genre is becoming more popular lately, McMenemy said that it definitely feels like it. “A large part of that is down to social media and the growth of self-publishing. The 'establishment' publishing houses still don't seem to like much in the way of horror - though serial killer fiction used to be considered horror, once upon a time! - but there is a huge online horror community, and they love to share discoveries,” the writer explained.

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Minath 1 year ago

Happened in South Africa as well. Two Orcas called Port and Starboard turned up and after they killed and ate the livers of a few Great Whites, the sharks moved out. There were a few years with basically no sightings of the sharks.

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Na Schi 1 year ago (edited)

If I'm not mistaken it took also a toll on the local economy which was widely focused on providing shark watching trips to tourists. (Edit: Not blaming the Orcas).

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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago

With fava beans and a nice bottle of chianti.

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Jessiebean 1 year ago

Poor sharks. Humans hunt them for their fins and now the orcas are hunting them for their livers.

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Mrs. EW 1 year ago

From what I’ve heard orcas only really eat the liver of the great whites and then leave them for dead.

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Jilltdcatlady 1 year ago

That sounds like a deep rabbit hole and i will definitely be going down it.

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Rob Williams 1 year ago

I think that's the one they had drone (?) footage of, mental stuff!

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Norah Reilly 1 year ago

So, who's the badass, huh?

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My O My 1 year ago

Did the orcas take over biting the sufers after the sharks vanished?

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Pete from Cali. USA 1 year ago

So... no normal person can tell which Orca is which?

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Triv 1 year ago

I remember an episode of, I believe, Captain Planet where they were hunting the sharks in a beach area, and because there were no more, or so few, anyway, predators to bother them the stingray population got out of control and they started attacking humans that got too close to them. I've always kind of wondered if that was a real possibility.

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Baali Venomax 1 year ago

Good survival instincts

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Seabeast 1 year ago

Did they eat the livers with fava beans and a nice chianti?

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

apparently the orcas enjoy their livers. Tththththt with fava beans. https://www.livescience.com/killer-whales-attack-great-whites-video

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Wintermute 1 year ago

You don't survive several mass extinctions without a pretty good survival response.

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

"Soo.. yeah.. I'm outta here"

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Phobrek 1 year ago

Epic beasts have epic NOPEs

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Greta Kolding 1 year ago

Forget about free W***y. Orcas are actually vile. They will eat the tongues out of humpback whales and play volleyball with seals.

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Upstaged75 1 year ago

I guess that's why they are called Killer Whales rather than Well Behaved Whales. :)

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norabest321 1 year ago

They are so mean. They will purposely drown the humpback calves to eat their livers it done tiny part of the baby. Also they are the only moose predators. BECAUSE MOOSE SWIM! That's even more scary. So, moose, orcas, and sharks in the water, possibly all at once. I'm never getting in the water again.

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TheAnimalLady 1 year ago

🐬Yeah, like with dolphins! Most people idolize them, never realizing that they gang rape the females (& will try with humans) and get high by harassing Puffer Fish, among other things🐬

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raincloud the whalien 1 year ago

I love my Cetacea, but they can be...unsavory? That's why I stick to unarguable whales. They're the best :)

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

Why do you feel the two pastimes should be mutually exclusive?

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CORGI QUEEN 1 year ago

I am terrified of orcas

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CD King 1 year ago

Soooo, the Orca is the oceans apex predator.

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LapCat 1 year ago

“PEACE OUT ✌️” - Great White that dove 500 meters and swam to Hawaii

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BobTDG 1 year ago

The only explanation I can think of is fear. Idk though someone who knows more than me will probably correct me.

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K- THULU 1 year ago

There are pods of orcas that specializes in preying on sharks in various parts of the world ( one group in south Australia, where I am..) They use a technique where they tip the shark upside down which disorients the shark making it unable to swim... Local companies that do cage diving tours have noticed the presence of orcas usually means that no great whites will be seen for weeks..... So the sharks definitely know when they're on the menu!!

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Goth Mouse (he/they) 1 year ago

Orcas are way scarier than sharks! They’d eat Jaws for a snack

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Kitten’s mom 1 year ago

Stand up to the bullies!!!! Sorry I’m partial to W***y not Jaws

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Carole 1 year ago

Orcas are the bullies of the ocean though? They're pretty darn mean, sometimes just for fun, same for dolphins. Sharks are usually pretty quiet creatures that mind their own business.

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Kitten’s mom 1 year ago

Really?!?!?!??’the name of the whale got blocked…wow….just wow

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My O My 1 year ago

Me too!!! They may be a******s but I like them on a personal level.

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Phyllis Turbin 1 year ago

Got outta Dodge!

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Nolgoth 1 year ago

Been observed that great whites will stay away from an area with orcas for years even after the orcas have moved on to other hunting grounds

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Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago

Does it translate into an effective Great White Shark repellant? Spill a little shark blood and maybe a little Orca hormones into the local water?

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Destiny Kruse 1 year ago

National Geographic had an episode where they tried this. It only worked some of the time, and that was with the bait covered in the scent of a rotting shark. But they posited that an actual rotting shark, which would be much larger, would let off a much stronger smell. But the phenomena has been witnessed in two areas- California and South Africa. If they were able to capture the stench to the extent of a freshly killed fully sized shark, it makes sense that it could be used as some sort of repellent.

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Barbara Forshee 1 year ago

Sea cred

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BasedWang12.7 1 year ago

I was gonna say, when gunfire rings out, do you wanna be in the area......but then I remembered when I heard gunshots I ran to a screen door to see what was up.... dumbass

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Courtney Christelle 1 year ago

"Moving on."

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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

Fascinating

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Jules Young 1 year ago

Fella noped right out of there.

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🤣🤣🤣 (Me while reading bp) 1 year ago

Smart sharks, think I would move to

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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago

😳

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Jessi Lovely 1 year ago (edited)

Awww they were scared 😢 reminds me of Bruce from Finding Nemo

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michael piscopo 1 year ago

Would like to import some Orcas to New England.

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Cool

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Lila Allen 8 months ago

You'd run too if a bunch of serial killers showed up in your neighborhood

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Mickie Shea 1 year ago

Never mess with an Orca, especially while at sea.

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Abby Rexroth 1 year ago

Mic drop...BOOM! Apparently, Jaws is a horror movie to humans, but Free W***y is one for sharks.

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Tracy 1 year ago

Note to self… dive to 500 meters, swim to Hawaii.

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Klopec 1 year ago

How do the whales just remove the sharks liver??

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Jane W. 1 year ago

So those darn great whites can hand it out but they can't take it!

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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago

F*ck this. I'm OUT.

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Jessica Cifelli 1 year ago

There was documentaries about this. Saw it during one of the Shark Weeks last summer

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Missy 1 year ago

Great Whites are smarter than Jaws leads you to believe!

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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago

This was a mother orca and her calf. The orcas in this region* and several others have figured out that if you turn a shark on its back, it sort of hypnotizes them. They go almost completely motionless. She used this technique to tear out the shark's liver and feed it to her calf. It's on YT in its entirety on the National Geographic channel under "Killer Whale vs. Jaws" https://youtu.be/3uBFUumm3Dk When it happened they played an uncut version on the evening news but by the 11 pm news they'd cut out most of the gruesome bits. (this image is the two orcas eating the floating liver) Screen-Sho...71-png.jpg

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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago

*An argument has been made that this counts as them having a culture.

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Dorothy Stovall 1 year ago

That'll learn ya!

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PandaRave 1 year ago

Yeah you show em Orcas!

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tor 1 year ago

Ancient instincts. Sharks are so fn cool

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RMA 1 year ago

WHY WON’T THIS WORK WITH SPIDERS?!?!

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Brian Droste 1 year ago

So is that the sharks know when one of there owns gets killed or is the smell that drives them away? Another thought is it that they know Orcas are in the area so they avoid that area. Interesting to know.

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Madster 1 year ago

Wusses.

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Glenn Slingsby 1 year ago

Nah, they just happened to catch the one with a tag as he was going on vacation.

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Vera Rios 1 year ago

Amazing

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D. Pitbull 1 year ago

Ahh Orcas... aka: Big-a$$ dolphins. Shark nom-nom... Is there a DC character that's a humanoid orca? If so... Nanaue and Orca-King should have a throw down...

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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago (edited)

Will(y) is free so... Will(y) Kill???!!!

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Purple Bayes 1 year ago

Shamu comin!

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Greta Kolding 1 year ago

If they saw the c**p their laughter is used for now they would be turning in their graves.

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BobTDG 1 year ago

If I remember rightly he killed himself with a sword instead.

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Moreover, “Self-publishing has made it easier for people to share their own stories, too. And then we have the visual medium, and streaming services making access to horror much easier. I think the appetite has always been there, but it's just easier to get hold of that ‘fix,’” McMenemy explained.

We were also eager to find out what makes a book or a film particularly creepy. The academic answer to what makes things creepy, McMenemy argues, lies in the concept of the "uncanny", or the psychological experience of something as mysterious and creepy in a strangely familiar way.

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blobby_grrl 1 year ago (edited)

hehheehe liddle evil eye buddy

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lovebooksdork 1 year ago

Is it bad that I’m actually am interested to go there ?

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Saint Thomas 1 year ago

Come on BP, that's at least the 3rd time in 2 weeks that you put this pic in a list...

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BobTDG 1 year ago

That's cool not scary.

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