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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

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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.”

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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.

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I’m So Disturbed Yet Also Intrigued

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#6

This Extremely Disturbing Face Swap

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Mahatma Gandhi's Statue After Some Prankster Added Red Lights To The Eyes Of It (San Francisco, 2019)

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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.”

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This Statue With A Beehive For A Head

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This Abandoned Hospital Had A Visitor Last Night

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Amazing Halloween Costume

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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.

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The Black Crack, A 65-Foot-Deep Fissure Along A Trail In Canyonlands National Park In Utah

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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.

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Sears Tower During A Blackout

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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

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280 Million Year Old Fossil Found In Western Australia, Photo By Tom Kapitany

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Eye Injury Causes Man's Iris To Collapse

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Beck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought the iris was set in the permanently like the waves in a marble. Had no idea it could MOVE.

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AW
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

officially called traumatic iridodialysis, can be caused by direct hit to eye eg golf ball or from air bag injury. surgery can restore pupil shape and vision

Brian Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can he still see anything - may be in time it will heal - hopefully!

MiriPanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, a 30 minute operation. From the article below: "To repair the damage, the Taiwanese patient underwent surgery that restored the pupil shape and improved his vision."

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Zophra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anatomy guess - this would let in far too much light and also not concentrate the light coming in optimally on the lens and retina. Very blurry, painfully over-bright vision would be my guess.

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Meme Kitty
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH******************************************************************************TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTttttttttt

Huddo's sister
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't! The one medical thing I cannot stand to see is things happening to eyes. I get flashbacks to the eye problems I had as a kid (I was the first child to have laser eye surgery in the world). Even mention of drops being put into someone's eyes makes mine water lol.

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QueenSweetPotato
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*starea at iris in the mirRor for 5 hours* I NEED TO KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED what injury do you get that causes that?!? I have officially become more anxious and paranoid

Stephen Salvoni
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I felt sorry my iris had collapsed, until I met a man whose eyes had been gouged out by a chimpanzee. Then I felt great!

O.M.Miki
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

AHhhhhhhh - i¥ewww and Uhg i didn't know that could happen.

Marie Dobbs Brasseit
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadness. My daughter in law is still recovering from a problem with the Iris on one eye. Recovery takes quite a while. 😔

Susan S
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why David Bowie's eyes looked to be different colors. It was actually from an old eye injury where his iris muscles got paralyzed.

Mark Karol-Chik
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my mind, the eyes of an angel or demon would look like this. They have no soul

Claire Armstrong
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, I really need to know more about this! What caused it, can it be fixed, HAS it been fixed already, I really need to know more!

Orionpax75
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A rubber bungee cord that the man used to strap goods onto a motorcycle had struck him directly in the eye. It was fixed with surgery known as iridoplasty

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Sophie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Disturbing but it's sending hearts! https://www.shutterstock.com/fr/image-photo/silhouette-woman-make-arm-heart-on-336038078

Justin M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

W in T actual F is this. Eyeballs are terrible nightmare factories.

Ivana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did not know that could happen. Kind of neat looking.

Angel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thats how my eyes felt after getting those weird eye drops at the eye doctor 😵

Kylie L
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just threw up a little in my mouth. That is some freaky sh*t right there!!

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