A terrifying picture captivates you like a horror movie you never signed up for, but still watch till the end with palms on your face hiding from the screen. You look once, you look twice and then think, “This is enough for me today,” only to realize you’d like to see some more. Thus, we’re going to give you some more scary scenes of unsettling images.
We've listed 50 terrifying images from the scary corner of Reddit known as ‘Oddly Terrifying.’ This community of 2M members has people sharing the weirdest, creepiest, and most unsettling pics of random moments and computer-generated images. These creepy pics promise to fire up your brain with some tingly sensations. So, scroll down through Bored Panda’s new batch of spooky pictures, upvote the ones that you find the creepiest, and frighten your friends by surprisingly sharing these disturbing images.
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The Fun Behind Unsettling Images
First things first, a terrifying picture isn't meant to be a horror scene. Unsettling images capture moments, and places from people in their daily lives that shift our reality’s perspective by evoking a disturbing, scary, or fearful emotion. The fun in oddly terrifying pictures lies in their paradox—although terrifying, it’s also impossible to look away and miss the fun of finding scary things hidden in pictures.
Many people love them, and if you’re one of them, you must read the expert’s insights. To find out what fascinates us about the unsettling photos and videos, Bored Panda spoke with Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures.
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Corn Maze
Best Cinema Ever
This Is True Fear
War Changes You
He was in another post recently, along with a bit of his story. Most of the four years he spent in a concentration camp.
Unsettling Images Fascinate Us. Why?
“It’s hard for us to look away from unsettling photos and videos because they challenge our usual ways of perceiving and cataloging the world, disrupting our sense of ordered reality and even suggesting that reality might be something other than we thought it was,” Lisa told us.
She explained that “these photos and videos tend to revolve around grotesque juxtapositions of things that should not be together; they are objects that defy science and rationality and disturb our sense of scientific category. More often than not, they focus on disgusting bodies that are monstrous fusions of things that should be kept apart.”
The professor added that while these monstrous bodies are usually individual ones, they often suggest a larger universe that is seriously out of kilter as well.
I’m So Disturbed Yet Also Intrigued
This Extremely Disturbing Face Swap
Nope I definitely didn't need to see this. Unsee juice, here I come
Mahatma Gandhi's Statue After Some Prankster Added Red Lights To The Eyes Of It (San Francisco, 2019)
A Terrifying Picture Offers A Different Perspective
The professor states that it’s no surprise that humans are fascinated by oddly terrifying images and that there are whole online groups dedicated to sharing them. “Photos and videos are supposed to give us clear and accurate representations of reality; they assure us that we document and thus know the material world around us in methodical and consistent ways.”
But unsettling images can do the exact opposite, Lisa suggests. “They can undermine our faith in reality: either the camera does not lie, and it has captured some monstrous rip in our own reality, or it does lie, and we have to recognize that we cannot even trust our own technologies to accurately document the world around us! Either way, it’s disturbing.”
This Statue With A Beehive For A Head
This Abandoned Hospital Had A Visitor Last Night
Amazing Halloween Costume
Why Do People Keep Looking at Creepy Pics?
So you may wonder why we keep looking at these photos —and disturbing art in general? Lisa has an illuminating explanation. “Grotesque imagery is part of every culture and goes back to the dawn of civilization. Today, we actively seek out terrifying experiences by looking at grotesque photos, watching horror movies, and even going on roller coasters,” she said and added that “as humans, we seek out these terrifying artistic and cultural experiences for at least two different reasons.”
“First, as designed experiences, terrifying art and culture give us a way to engage with things that are disturbing, uncanny, and even utterly monstrous from a safe distance. Our psychological and mental categories for understanding the world are temporarily turned upside down, but we’re not directly, physically threatened by the grotesqueries we are looking at or experiencing, and we know eventually everything will return to normal,” Lisa explained.
Biblically Accurate Angel
This Is What Running Birds Look Like
The Black Crack, A 65-Foot-Deep Fissure Along A Trail In Canyonlands National Park In Utah
The Impact of Photos With Disturbing Backstories
Lisa argues that it leads us to a second important point. “It’s the pleasure that comes from looking at disturbing images: they give us an opportunity to exercise our minds and to play with reality ourselves. Suddenly, we become storytellers asking ourselves and each other: Where do these grotesque images come from? Who is behind them? How would I react if I encountered this object or situation in real life?”
The professor suggests that at their most provocative, horrifying images can even inspire real-world change: “And how do these images make me see my own reality differently? What do I need to do in my own world to make sure this never happens? Terrifying and grotesque events are part of the human experience, and encountering them first in safe artistic and cultural spaces provides us with excellent ways to prepare for them,” she concluded.
Sears Tower During A Blackout
Woke Up Scared Stiff Last Night When I Noticed A Victorian Ghost Floating At The End Of My Bed. Took Me A Few Minutes To Realise It Was My Clothes On The Door
Oh my god.. This is why I don't have anything hanging from my doors or have dolls, whose eyes seem to always glow in the dark...
280 Million Year Old Fossil Found In Western Australia, Photo By Tom Kapitany
A British Tourist Filmed A 'Monitor Lizard' Coming Out From His/Her Toilet Bowl In Thailand
I feared snakes biting my ass; this is a very big fear upgrade. Thank you.
A Whale Skeleton Found In The Hot Dunes Of Egypt
Mother! I Request Your Soul!
Was Playing Video Games When I Heard A Sounds To My Left. Looked Over And Saw This
He just wants to talk to you about rising energy prices
Fingers Without Nails
Imagine Seeing One In The Middle Of The Road While Driving
Pregnant With Triplets
This comment should be higher!! The human body is incredible & this is a perfect example of that but omg it's still terrifying.
Load More Replies...One baby is bad enough on the body. I can't even imagine multiples.
Load More Replies...Are you any of my parents? I grew up with this line!!
Load More Replies...How did she even stand up without her back breaking… she’s strong for sure
Load More Replies...O MY GOD. But that's not how usual triplet belly looks like. These beasts must be huge! Poor woman, I really hope she survives/survived.
No, she just carried the babies oddly, one in front of the other and nothing to the side. You don't get to choose though... Pretty normal babies, she delivered at 35 weeks and 3 days.
Load More Replies...Obviously because someone pointed a camera at her and said 'smile!' or 'say cheese!' or such.
Load More Replies...I'll sticking with puppies or kittens. I once fit 48 grapes in my mouth and that about it for me. The miracle of life never includes the miracle of man made fabrics that snap back the body.
I would want some kind of scaffolding holding this up. Maybe some wheels.
Load More Replies...This is just horrific. It looks to be very painful, like it could pop any moment. I can't imagine what she'll look like after delivery.
There are photos of Kate Gosselin with her six fetuses inside. Just imagine.
It's very much real. From Denmark - her IG is filippaophelia
Load More Replies...Every pregnancy leaves marks. Many visible, most invisible from the outside
Load More Replies...Wow, that is really gross. But she looks happy is probably closely monitored. Still....*shudders*
This is why every ultrasound I went to I asked the doctor, "Now you are absolutely sure there's only one, right?"
That's terrible... why would want to show that off?.. not to mention now we have to look at it.. looks like a giant goiter..😕
Yeah, no. My cousins have triplets. Not even close. This is Photoshopped to hell.
Give that woman a seat and anything else she wants. She's carrying the Mother-Load and won't take any prisoners!
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Please tell me this isn't real!!!!!? I'm waiting for babies to explode out of her stomach like some alien movie?
It was partly this "baby taking over my body" thing that put me off having children. And this pic is giving me nightmares!! (sorry)
It looks like my childhood fear about swallowing watermelon seeds has come to life
Reason #47 I'm adopting kids and getting my tubes tied
I AM GOING TO JUST..............................................................
if she is pregnant for 27 months should her belly be bigger and she has 27 year old baby's in there
Being a woman and seeing this is crazy! How would you even be able to walk?
Jesus Christ!! OK, this is the most disturbing thing on here! I really wish I could unsee this! My auntie had twins and she was only slightly bigger than she was with her other 2 pregnancies that were single babies. This is disturbing but fascinating too! I have never seen anything like this in my life! This is one of those things that people ought to see at least once in their life.
This is HORRIBLE~Thank goodness all my kids have four-legs or feathers...and I didn't have to birth them!
I had a friend who was pregnant with triplets and she did NOT look like that! The babies are born undersized, to compensate, and usually a bit squashed looking (which disappears after a few days), the mother does suffer incredible heartburn though often throughout the pregnancy, as all her organs are squished all over the place.
So, you had one friend experience this one time, and that makes you an expert on what having triplets "looks like"? People's bodies perform differently.
Load More Replies...If that's triplets I can't image women who deliver quads or more like Mrs. Derrico who has birthday 14 or 15 children mostly multiple births.
This isn't triplets.... am I wrong? Omg. She is a trooper smiling. :)
Did the triplets each pack a bag?? Because that’s WAY too much space occupied in there!! 😱
She delivered at 36weeks+2days. Check her IG- filippaophelia
Load More Replies...I bet you five guineas that more than one person on DeviantArt gets a hard-on for this.
Because they've been lulled into the fantasy that parenthood is the single most greatest thing in life
Load More Replies...It's sad you can't appreciate the fact that a woman's body can handle growing and delivering three babies. Let's go ahead and shame her body for doing something amazing.
Load More Replies...At Vezio's Castle In Italy There Are Lots Of These "Phantom" Like Statues
Eye Injury Causes Man's Iris To Collapse
...I didn't know the iris could collapse and now I'm completely freaked out
Found This In My Apartment While Living In Japan. They Are Fast!
The Tornado Showing Up Because Of The Lightning Strikes
And my father shouting about my driving faults in the adjacent seat
A Webcam Appeared In The Bottom Of My Computer Screen After It Blue Screened
A Creepy Standing Goat.
That’s not creepy that’s cute ! I give it kisses , ere come ere I giz you kisses 💃
The Remains Of This Caribou In Greenland
Oh No
My Daughter's Bat Morph Suit
They Are Evolving
This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
Never Letting A Cat Touch Me Again
A Doll Chillin In A Graveyard
Just Wait When Night Falls...
Found This In My Girlfriends Loft. She Only Moved In 3 Months Ago And Says She Has Never Been Up There. Guess What My Name Is...
Found This In The Basement Of My New House
Spacex Has Robot Dogs Patrolling Their Rocket Factory Now
There Is A Mutation In Frogs Where Their Eyes Grow On The Inside Of Their Mouth.
That is a lie, the eyes don't grow from the inside of their mouth because of a MuTaTiOn, they can roll their eyeballs back in to the top of their mouth to clean then with their tongue if they get dirty and so it can help them swallow.
This Corridor, Man… This Is Gonna Haunt Me On Dreams
Man Goes In Narrow Underwater Cave
All Of A Sudden You Hear Sirens
I'm guessing the floodplain of a dam? There are signs like this along the Susquehana south of Columbia PA
The Ants Are Up To Something
Pov: Polar Bear Is Trying To Eat You
The bastards look so cute and harmless, too. I have this horrible suicidal urge to start scratching his nose while saying stupid s**t like "aww, who's a Mister Cuddlebug? Yooou aRRGH!"
One Of The Last Known Pictures Taken By The Hikers Of The Dyatlov Pass Incident (1959)
I saw all the pictures (was told) from the cameras at the Dyatlov pass - I never saw this!
This Happens To My Hands At Cold Temperatures
Well That's Not A Good Sign
Robot With A Face Is Quite Creepy
Welp imma go wash my eyes out with bleach now. Thanks, bored panda!!
Just don't go blind (I almost did when my sister accidently sprayed cleaning product in my eyes lol)
Load More Replies...Some very scary stuff, as stated. Not going to sleep. Nope nope nope.
I looked at all the pictures and don't have a sense that they were creepy at all!
Same, there was nothing that I would consider "oddly terrifying" - I think it is a very, very subjektive feeling.
Load More Replies...not me actually trying to do this to prove i am not scared. I AM BTW
I clicked for the innocent lemon picture and couldn't make it through the entire list.. these are genuinely terrifying, not "oddly".. definitely not for the faint of heart!
Man these suck they are all either Normal or just old images from years ago
How to gauge one's intelligence: Do they look at this post at 12am and genuinely wonder why they don't want to turn out the bedside lamp? They're probably a sleep-deprived idiot. I'm a sleep-deprived idiot.
Counted at least 6 posts I've seen recently in other BP posts. I'm sure there's newer creepy stuff but other than that the creepy ones are some of my fav posts! These, comedy, history/facts and art are my favs to look through.
Welp imma go wash my eyes out with bleach now. Thanks, bored panda!!
Just don't go blind (I almost did when my sister accidently sprayed cleaning product in my eyes lol)
Load More Replies...Some very scary stuff, as stated. Not going to sleep. Nope nope nope.
I looked at all the pictures and don't have a sense that they were creepy at all!
Same, there was nothing that I would consider "oddly terrifying" - I think it is a very, very subjektive feeling.
Load More Replies...not me actually trying to do this to prove i am not scared. I AM BTW
I clicked for the innocent lemon picture and couldn't make it through the entire list.. these are genuinely terrifying, not "oddly".. definitely not for the faint of heart!
Man these suck they are all either Normal or just old images from years ago
How to gauge one's intelligence: Do they look at this post at 12am and genuinely wonder why they don't want to turn out the bedside lamp? They're probably a sleep-deprived idiot. I'm a sleep-deprived idiot.
Counted at least 6 posts I've seen recently in other BP posts. I'm sure there's newer creepy stuff but other than that the creepy ones are some of my fav posts! These, comedy, history/facts and art are my favs to look through.