50 “Oddly Terrifying” Images That Are Not For The Fainthearted (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertThe invention and popularization of the camera were seemingly wonderful innovations. Look, now we can document important events, save precious moments, and just immortalize things that are important to use. But are there some things that are better left unseen?
The “Oddly Terrifying” online group specializes in spooky and unsettling images that are surefire nightmare fuel if you dig long enough. We got in touch with Frank T. McAndrew, a psychologist, and professor as well as a behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner to learn more. So continue at your own risk, get comfortable, and scroll through some of the best ones. Be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your thoughts and experiences below.
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Afgan Hound Jumping
Doctors Kept Chinese Factory Worker Xie Wei's Hand Alive By Stitching It To Left Ankle
Keeps the blood supply going while they wait for the arm to heal enough to be able to have the hand reattached. They were doing this with flesh grafts, aka pedicles, as long ago as the second world war, when it was developed to help burn victims.
Load More Replies...I once worked in health care. Went to place a catheter and found a nub. His penis was stitched to his abdomen to keep it alive while repairing the rest. He said he was cutting wood with a circular saw and it jumped. And zip it was off he said.
I dated a surgeon who once stitched a penis to the patient's arm to keep it going before reattachment. Imagine waking out of surgery to THAT.
Load More Replies...Didn't Need To See This
The chin bone is there, they carve it out to show the teeth, it's all covered by bone usually.
Load More Replies...A little misleading, they removed the part of the jaw and skull covering up the teeth. Yes, they're in there, but covered by bone.
Yeah that was unnerving me. For I second I though, "can you feel them through the skin?", before I realized bone was definitely removed.
Load More Replies...Thirty years later, I still can't accept that I loved and accepted these abominations in my life, and worse still, I was once like this, myself!
Once there were way more children than adults. In some countries, it is now too and it is a great nutrition problem.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda got in touch with Frank T. McAndrew, Ph.D., a psychologist, professor, and essayist to learn more about why certain things fascinate and scare us at the same time. Seeing that it was just Halloween, we were curious to discover if we were more inclined to be frightened at certain times of the year.
“At Halloween, we are continually reminded by the decorations on houses and in stores as well as by the movies that are featured to think about spooky things. So yes, at this time of year the morbid and the creepy is in our thoughts more than at other times of year,” he shared with Bored Panda
Sanding Wood For An Hour Creates This Arm Of Abomination
Either looks like his arm is covered in ice or the man has white fur on his arm.
Load More Replies...And I hope to goodness you were wearing a facemask - getting that lot in your lungs won't do you any good.....
X-Rays Taken By The Us-Mexico Border Patrol
Too many people die horribly this way in the South Texas heat. Many are tragically abandoned inside their transport vehicles while their smugglers flee.
I used to live in South Texas, and I remember back in the 1980s so many times they'd find box-cars in the rail yard, abandoned with no paperwork, filled with bodies of people who'd died from heat. The people would pay the smugglers, get on the train, with promises someone would let them out on the other side, but there was no one waiting. When it reached the train yard, with no tags or paperwork, it would be disconnected, the people at the time probably staying quiet so they wouldn't be caught. Later, no one would be close enough to hear them, and they'd die in the heat. Even all these years later, my heart breaks for those people.
Load More Replies...Your comments remind me of a book we had to read in school. I don‘t remember what grade, but it was before 9th, so I must have been below age 15. „Das Schiff Esperanza“ by Fred von Hoerschelmann. I think we‘ve read it as part of WWII history class. A tavern keeper helped people escape Germany via ship. Everyone of them promised to write to her, but no one ever did. What no one of them knew (not even the tavern keeper) was, that the illegal passengers were dumped somewhere in the Atlantic ocean at night. They were told to swim in a certain direction to reach New York, but of course they were no where near that city. They all died in the ocean. As you can see, it left quite an impression on me. It was haunting and I‘ve never forgotten it in the 20 years since. There is a second storyline it it but I don‘t want to spoiler it in case someone wants to read this book.
Pretty sure Autocorrect got you, I'm guessing you meant inhumanity
Load More Replies...This 15th Century Mummy Found In A Rain Forest
I don’t know what happened, but if this is indeed a sacrifice, I feel so bad for this person, poor guy/girl!
Load More Replies...It's a specific burial practice, this person did not just die in agony and despair. They were deliberately mummified like that.
I read somewhere that this mummy was part of an exhibition that was visited by Munch and may indeed have partly inspired his painting.
Load More Replies...There are more than 200 of mummies just like this one. They are called the Chachapoya mummies.
Some people actively enjoy seeking out the morbid and spooky and seem to like the emotions associated with it, so we wanted to know what is the psychology behind that. “We are drawn to things that scare us (as long as we know they are not "real") because we can learn from them,” Frank T. McAndrew shared.
The Guatemala City Sinkhole
"kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, no garden and a gigantic cellar with direct access to hell - available right now""
"oddly terrifying" Nah, man. That's just straight up terrifying. Nothing odd about it.
After 3 ft (.91m) of rain this sinkhole swallowed a building into a 200 ft (60m) deep hole. One person lost their life
The earth isn’t solid dirt or rock. It’s incredibly diverse below the surface. There could be ancient underground caves/caverns under the area, and the extra weight of human buildings caused the collapse. Or water seepage from and underground water table could have caused the surface to weaken and then eventually collapse. There are many things that cause sinkholes, unfortunately.
Load More Replies...A Dead Whale On The Brink Of Exploding
Who else could've lived a happy and fulfilling life prior to seeing this?
The majestic open ocean and the breathtaking beauty of it's bounties. Pop goes the dead whale.
"It's Wafer Thin". (Monty Python's Mr. Creosote.)
Load More Replies...This disturbs me in the same way that small holes do, is my trypophobia expanding to include other shapes and designs?
Trypophobia basically means fear of small patterns. It's just that many people associate it with holes.
Load More Replies...X-Ray Of A Chinese Woman Who Underwent Footbinding
That practice is something beyond my comprehension. I suppose as a modern westerner it’s something I am not meant to understand. Though the fact that it results in disfigurement and pain for so many women makes it tragic.
And death. Infection killed some of them, I read 10%, but that was in a novel so don't hold me to it
Load More Replies...I always read it's about some sort of twisted beauty standard but I've always wondered if it didn't start in the first place to prevent women from physically going anywhere, unable to run away.
It proved your wife didn't have to do anything useful. Status. Corgi Queen isn't totally wrong about how it started, only way off course about how far it went. Stilettos and corsets are very tame in comparison
Load More Replies...Is it exclusively men though? Or is it culture, in which both men and women play their part?
Load More Replies...Torture for the purpose of oppressing women - Foot binding symbolized a girl's willingness to obey, as well as limiting the mobility and power of females, and kept women subordinate to men thus increased the differences between the genders.
It is a result of thousands of years of women´s competitivity. Mens are not so cunning."I am so helpless, you must care for me and my children!"
Load More Replies...For an insight into the horrors of foot binding read The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison.
That's it. I was thinking of this novel but I couldn't remember the title. So sad!
Load More Replies...probably not - the feet would have to be rebroken and at the time this was popular, i don't believe we had the medical knowledge to fix it - i am not sure if this practice went into the 20th century (assuming so by the pictures) or how far into it it went.
Load More Replies...It must have been very painful, poor lady. I wonder if lady was able to stand or walk?
Also I just read about it, and the process of breaking the feet and binding them started between the ages of 3-5 yrs old since the feet contained more cartilage rather than all bone. It would be done in the winter so the cold could help numb the excruciating pain. Although I can't imagine it would help much.
Load More Replies...“We can mentally rehearse strategies for dealing with possible future encounters with terrifying people and places, and we also learn some things about ourselves. What scares us the most? What are we prepared to deal with and what will simply be too much for us?” In a sense, just clicking on this article could have been your way of answering these questions.
Sinking Of Amoco Cadiz In Brittany 1978 Looks Like A Giant Whale Surfacing
I remember that! It did immense damage to the beaches in NE France!
When You (Hear A Bang And) Discover An Aircraft Engine Lodged In The Wall Of Your House
I believe (but no sure) the people in the plane had a bigger fright when hearing the bang.
Single occupant, died when the plane crashed in the field behind the house. The aircraft was ripped apart, and motor broke loose and continued on to hit the house.
Load More Replies...People Sat On The Abraj Al Bait Clock Tower In Mecca
That was almost me at the leaning tower of Pisa. The bells don't swing, but were/are rung with striker mechanisms. I was leaning on the rail on the low side, did not know it was the quarter hour, and the bell went off behind me, and it was almost me emulating Galileo's experiment. I jerked upward, but hung onto the railing, and thank you Lord, it was sturdy.
Load More Replies...Indeed, the tower is the 4th tallest building in the world at 601m at the highest point. The clock face itself is 50m, and where they are currently sitting is roughly 450m above the ground.
Load More Replies...Lastly, Frank T. McAndrew explained some of the mental reasoning our brains might have when seeking out the creepy. “This self-knowledge can guide us toward and away from situations in a way that will be most beneficial to us.” You can find more information about Frank as well as his essays on his blog.
Falcor In His Retirement Home
This is NOT the original Falcor from the first movie. That one is in the Bavaria Film Studios Museum.
Yep, his nose is immediately noticeable as “not right” if you’re a Neverending Story fan ;)
Load More Replies...Yeah, I'm 50 now and the scales on his back still creep me out. They just don't look right.
Load More Replies...His name wasn t foofur!!!!??? I'm shocked. All my childhood was a lie...
No, his name is Fuchur (which should sound like what you wrote, when reading it in English). At least in the original book by Michael Ende and in the German version of the movie adaptation of course.
Load More Replies...It's Late At Night And I Hear A Loud Bang Come From My Garage. After Looking Around I Notice The (Fairly Heavy And Formerly Flush) Crawl Space Cover Is Ajar
Sprinkle a little meth on the ground as bait for your tweaker infestation
If the roof space is vented, then air going through the roof space can be at a lower pressure than that in the garage space causing it to lift. Mine used to make a bit of a noise sometimes. Since wrapping it in vinyl (rather than painting it), it seems to stay put, as it is a bit more of a snug fit.
Just scrolled down to see you already said basically the same thing I said.
Load More Replies...This Crocodile
I'm telling myself buddy is napping and he's pranking him... Watch this--Ima send him over the falls!
He has the look of a good boy who just brought back the stick you threw.
Bored Panda also got in touch with Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral scientist and expert on the morbid. We asked if Halloween in particular can cause some people to be more interested in this content. "People feel like it's less taboo or weird to be interested in creepy things around Halloween, so you see a lot more people acting on that interest around this time of year."
Old Man Who's Been Stalking Me At My Job Leaves Note On My Car
Police won't do anything other than take a report. Unfortunately most stalking laws, something has to happen physically to the person for anything more to be done
Load More Replies...Dear incel shitheads: Does she readily and happily return your attention and affection? Yes? Great! I hope you two have a wonderful time. No? Shut the f*ck up and leave her alone. You spend your time ignoring women who don’t fit your little checklist of the perfect woman, but then punch walls and write creepy letters when it turns out that you’re not on your target’s checklist of the perfect man. Grow the f*ck up.
yikes this brings back bad memories - i too was stalked by a creepy old dude while working as a barista! man you can't even be nice to some people without them thinking you're flirting...
A Medieval-Era Painting Of King Richard II Of England And Isabella On Their Wedding Day. She Was Six - He Was 29
Wikipedia: Although their union was an arranged political marriage, and in spite of the age difference, Isabella and Richard developed a mutually respectful relationship. Due to the age of Isabella (the Canonical law for sexual consummation being twelve), the marriage was never sexually consummated. However, Isabella and Richard enjoyed a good platonic relationship, which has been compared to that between a father and his adopted daughter or between a niece and a doting uncle, and he was noted to have treated her not as a wife but rather as the daughter he and his first wife Anne never had. The king regularly visited her in Windsor, where he treated her with respect and entertained her and her ladies-in-waiting with humorous conversation, and pampered her with gifts and toys. Isabella reportedly enjoyed and looked forward to these visits
I am going to get downvoted for this i know - but the ONLY reason the marriage was not consummated is cause he died when she was TEN, not TWELVE like she had to be during that time. If he had lived, the marriage would have most likely been consummated WITH WITNESSES TO IT - or it would have been invalidated - the purpose of this marriage was to form a truce with a warring nation without subjugating himself to the king of that nation. Producing an heir would have been PARAMOUNT to an on going truce. History is just as ugly as the present.
Every family has got people they're embarrassed by in their ancestry! Fortunately, unless you're royalty or it's extremely infamous, the embarrassment only lasts 3 generations.
Load More Replies...Ya ever wonder why the British are so … British? This won’t cause progeny classified of freaks, but only freaks would accept a practice like this
This was hundreds of years ago in civilisations that accepted these practices. Now look a little further abroad where it's still going on!
Load More Replies...morally and ethnically wrong on all levels no matter the time period, culture, religion.
Vintage Forbidden Candy Identification Chart
My question is, why do candy companies make their candies look so similar to meds?
Candy companies make candy look like candy. Pharmaceutical companies makes medicine with different colors and shapes to help distinguish the different medicines.
Load More Replies...I recommend people keeping their medicines out of the kitchen too because if a kid sees something in there, it’s even more likely that they will associate it with food because it’s in the kitchen.
Keep harmful substances out of the reach of children, but don't forget they can be sneaky!
The nurse in our elementary school had one of these which she periodically showed the children - elementary level kids. I taught first grade at the time and she would do a presentation to the kids!
I’ve seen square-shaped lozenges and this just said “medicine”, not pills specifically
Load More Replies...One tiny taste is all it takes in some cases, plus a child may accidentally swallow a small pill.
Load More Replies...At the same time, we also wanted to know why some folks are so attracted to the morbid and seek it out. "Some people seek out experiences that make them feel scared because they enjoy the adrenaline rush," he shared with Bored Panda.
Skeletal Cancer Aftermath
As someone who is planning a suicide, no. I actually want euthanasia.
Load More Replies...You know…. If that is true and I was a patient with this, (especially in certain countries) I would sell my skull myself, so I could provide for my family after my demise.
Load More Replies...Taking A Lift Up A Mountain In Gwangju (1984)
I love it with the little one just seatbelted casually against the mother. I will say, no one seems as nervous as I used to be when I rode ones like these when I was a child going skiing (although ours didn't have seatbelts, obviously).
They had seatbelts! I rode one at an amusement park - no seatbelts and i was flippin petrified.
This Mexican Restaurant Compares Its Burritos To Babies For Scale
What this is not saying is it’s actually the babies they cook and serve.
no but some are smaller than a burrito and some are bigger :)
Load More Replies..."Others enjoy the feeling of overcoming their fears when they experience safe instances of fear, like a horror movie or haunted house attraction. Some people even enjoy scary experiences because those experiences actually help them overcome the anxiety they may be facing." You can find more of Coltan Scrivner's work on his blog.
My Headphone Suddenly Stopped Working. It Was Full Of Ants
*Screaming from the original song promptly begins*
Load More Replies...Whoa There, Buddy😬
He was also on a dating show acting very charismatic while he'd already killed someone.
Yes, and he won the show (it was a date!) and he was so young and handsome!
Load More Replies...Nothing amusing about this particular monster. I remember Alcala or "The Dating Game Killer." Rot in piece, Rodney.
Inner View Of Ponte City Apartments In Johannesburg, South Africa
Isn't that the thing Batman had to climb out of before he could really be Batman or whatever?
If you aren't prone to having seizures, try constantly and quickly scrolling up and down while centered on this photo.
It does not look like this anymore. Seriously, second time this is posted on bp. https://pontecity.co.za/ponte-city-apartments-about-ponte/#:~:text=The%20skyscraper%20%E2%80%9CPeach%20Trees%E2%80%9D%20featured,also%20shot%20at%20Ponte%20City. Some photos of the building revamped
Thanks for the update, but it still looks dystopian and claustrophobic IMO.
Load More Replies...This Sign At My Local Hospital
Or a haunted psychiatric hospital, which continues to operate despite this!
Load More Replies...Almost certainly regarding Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC). Some of the UK hospitals (and schools) were built of substandard concrete which has biodegraded and may collapse.....but they still have to use them till the new ones get built. There are several hospitals that are currently being held up with props floor to ceiling.
Even if that isn't the case, reporting something out of the ordinary is the best way to catch a problem before it becomes severe. As an example, I used to do maintenance for a rental property. The tennants called and said that the sump pump hadn't stopped running for a week (a bloody week!!) and maybe I should look at it? They called back an hour later to tell me "never mind, it stopped." No, it stopping is potentially a much bigger problem!
Load More Replies...It was a hospital in Norfolk, UK that had a lot of roofing issues and so I guess this was in case someone fell? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-56603933
Shouldn't it say "if you hear something, say something" since the add is about hearing something in the walls/ceiling. Both tots norm.
I thought I recognised that poster, then looked up the link and yup I work there! A new hospital is being built in a few years. For the patients there isn’t much choice of hospitals, the next nearest hospitals are all an hour away.
This 9000-Year-Old Stone Mask Is The Oldest Mask In The World, And Was Found In The Judean Desert In Israel [3000x4000]
It was for their road hockey. Someone would come along the road, they'd yell "horse!" And move the nets, and then "game on!" When they passed
In Palestine, you mean, considering Isra-hell is a rogue / illegal state.
The Original Voldemort Design In Harry Potter
For legal reasons, they couldn't use an actual politician as a model!
They should've used this one. Would've been better for dramatic effect. imo
Looks like Barrack from Mortal Combat! Why use Avada Kadavre when you can slice Harry Potter into a million pieces with a fatality! FINISH HIM!!!
Foxconn "Antijump" Nets Designed To Keep Factory Workers From Ending Their Lives
according to OSHA, this is a legit safety measure. [EDIT] to those of you saying that OSHA does not function in china, safety measures are the same around the world. If It's considered safe in the US, its safe in china.
Yeah, we put them around buildings under construction. Usually for catching tools or small parts that are kicked or blown off a building. However, I imagine they aren't the same strength as ones meant to catch s falling human, and temp railings or human tie off is required to be within I think 10' of an uncontrolled edge on a slab or roof of a building.
Load More Replies...Perhaps the reasons behind the need for these should be looked into.
Yet. We in the West still want our reasonably well priced products. Despite the mark-up being well over $100%, we continue to play the game.
How horrible are the working conditions that they need to put suicide prevention nets?
Kinda feels like the wrong "solution" to a very serious problem...and a pretty ineffective one as it will only purspone the endresult a little, not eliminate it.
Don't worry... in china if you try and remove the productive portion, They will just chain you to your desk - and if that does not make you happy - reeducation camp
Load More Replies...foxconn produces (not only but also) the iPhone :) why would anybody want to jump? *sarcasm
Screw Foxconn. They destroyed natural water sheds, farmland and woods around here to build a factory that would employ hundreds. Then did not follow through.
How Far And Fast It’s Moving
I wish there was a color code in the lines to indicate which decade the lines are in. Wonder if there's a trend?? 🤔
Load More Replies...This is too small a timescale for comparison on geological scale, although it is fairly obvious humans have affected it recently and sped up the end of the ice age we're exiting
Thankfully, humans are a blip on the geological scale as well, so once we wipe ourselves out, all will be well!!
Load More Replies...What is scariest is we keep getting warnings about tipping points, or points of no return. What should really be alarming is not just the upward trend but the sudden and stark deviation this year. That's well outside normal distribution and if we aren't extremely lucky and it is an outlier we haven't encountered in the last 50 years then.... ooh boy could we be in trouble.
Apparently most if not all of the coral off the coast of Florida has died this past summer. Terrifying.
Scary and Sickening. We are in the end times. We should be rationing gas NOW but instead, we’re refuse to stop burning fossil fuels. The petrochemical chemical industry owns and runs the US.
This Is A Teddy Bear Made Out Of Human Placenta
he placenta is cut in half and rubbed with sea salt in order to cure it. After it is dried out, it is treated with an emulsifying mixture of tannin and egg yolk to make it soft and pliable. Then, it is crafted into a teddy bear
“The creation is the work of designer Alex Green. He actually made it way back in 2009. It is to celebrate the unity of the infant, the mother, and the placenta.” Well. That… EXPLAINS it, I guess….
Load More Replies...This just doesn't seem like something I'd ever want to play with, to tell you the truth. Call me overly picky.
Despite all of the other emotions I had the day I gave birth to my first, I still remember the utter confusion when they asked if I wanted to see my placenta! Why would anyone want to see it?!
Someone at work showed me pictures of their daughters telling me it's the "beautiful tree of life" honestly it looks like something the cat left on the lawn and should be thrown in the blackberries bushes.
Load More Replies...These are the types of people to avoid during events such as Secret Santa and random potluck functions.
Dendrocnide Moroides, Or Deadly Stinger, Is One Of The Most Dangerous Shrubs In The World And Even Morphine Is Rendered Ineffective Against Its Venom
Needs much bigger fencing. Some child is going to slide its little grubbies in there (unless this is hopefully behind glass).
Child, yes only a child would be stupid enough, surely.
Load More Replies...We posted the same comment at the same time! 😆👍🏻✌🏼
Load More Replies...I guarantee there will be one village idiot adult who will touch it, just to see
Just one? I don't have that much faith in humanity anymore.
Load More Replies...Also: such a random looking plant! It could be in anyones backyard by the looks of it.. this “fence” around it is laughable! Super dangerous!
Load More Replies...We were at Dublin's Botanical garden, where upon entry to one of the green house guide casually dropped - on here we have plant that claims the most human lives. It was sugarcane.
Active Volcano Oozing Lava Near The Resort We Are Staying At
I was able to hike and see the volcano in Iceland. Completely breathtaking. We were far enough to not be hit, but close enough to hear the roar. This was my last night there and first time in a week that it was producing more than just smoke.
Load More Replies...Miss Piggy Of ‘The Muppet Show’ Makes A Special Appearance In A Children’s Hospital
Guarantee you that’s not a Jim Henson sanctioned Miss Piggy costume. Someone just shoved a blonde wig into a rubber pig mask.
Load More Replies...No puppet is good enough for my boy I want miss Piggy to look REAL!
Went Exploring At Our Local Abandoned High School. Found This In The Basement
At my UK primary school (I was there in the 50's) we had bomb shelters in the playground, left over from WW2. Is this in a war zone?
We have a room just like this. My wife puts me there when I forget to put the toilet seat down.
This Person’s Randy Room
Pickup-line : "Hey babe.. wanna come to my flat to visit my Randy-room" ?
This guy (I assume) is gonna be a therapist's gold mine - or a serial killer.
"Y'know buddy. When you asked me to come over to play in your randy room, this is nothing at all what I imagined."
A Friend With Low Body Fat
Sorry, but most people who get into heavy duty body building are fooling themselves if they think this is sexy to everyone else.
I don't think they do it to be sexy.. it's a competition (or an obsession, for some).
Load More Replies...I'm sorry, we must be looking at different posts because I didn't see the text saying that he was trying to look sexy to women, could you point it out for me?
Load More Replies...If you work real hard, take the "right" kind of supplements and dehydrate yourself, you too can look like boner skin.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Exactly what I thought it looked like too!
Load More Replies...Bathroom Over An Abandoned 15 Story Lift Shaft
I've seen this picture before and every time it makes me not want to go to the bathroom for several hours. Ironically, any time we are up several stories, this is the reality of what is happening, even though we can't see it. However, I just don't feel the need to know about it.
True, but glass is also more fragile. We don't care usually because brick or wood won't break into two.
Load More Replies...For me, it would help with number 1. Quick-smart.
Load More Replies...A Puppy Born With One Eye, 2 Tongues And No Nose
Not as doctor or scientist; but given the severity of the deformity, I'm almost 100% certain that the brain wasn't developed enough for this poor guy to have awareness of pretty much ANYTHING.
Load More Replies...From the source: "it's a condition which can also occur in humans called holoprosencephaly. It basically means that the brain doesn’t properly split into two hemispheres, also affecting surrounding tissues. It is not compatible with life, and the puppy will have died minutes after birth, unlikely to have suffered"
one more little fluffy angel... thank you for the information.
Load More Replies...Inbreeding could be the main issue, sadly. Has anyone ever seen pictures of white tigers? Not a fraction as bad as this poor puppy, but still horrifying :( deformed-w...5a64a4.jpg
Perfect for casting in the next monsters inc movie. So cute. So sad. Just wanna cuddle him :(
Load More Replies...It Looks Like Something Is Hatching Out Of His Head
It essentially is! Felted so badly there’s no air circulation… breeding ground for all kind of yeasts, bacteria, and other nasties :( …actually poop is probably cleaner than this dude’s hair
Load More Replies...I saw a guy with hair like this once. The poor bastard was homeless and his hair had basically turned into felt from lack of washing.
That's sad and awful but I think you'd cut it if that was the situation.
Load More Replies...Why would you not just cut it off at this point, surely that's better than this.
Double Decker Airline Seats
Good luck getting out quickly from the lower, centre seats if there's a need to evacuate
I'm more concerned about some poor soul having to sit there for hours while the person above them farts.
Load More Replies...I'm too claustrophobic for this, especially for the lower center seat.
I'm not particularly claustrophobic, but I would need a valium to sit in the lower-middle for even a minute.
Load More Replies..."Welcome to a new era of flying sustainably and comfortably as it should be." Sure. If I ever come across someone who thinks that is comfortable, I will eat the seat cushion.
As a wheelchair user who loves to travel, this is horrifying for me. No way would I be able to transfer into either row. I'd hope that if this idea ever came to fruition, that they would still have rows of normal seating that wouldn't be more expensive for disabled people.
It's clearly just for demonstration purposes. You'll notice the only people in the picture are wearing company shirts.
Load More Replies...I'm not convinced. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chaise-longue-double-decker-airplane-seat/index.html
Same here! I'll drive instead - if possible.
Load More Replies...Abandoned Diner
This Cosplay Makes Me Uncomfortable
The “From Hell” Letter, Sent By Jack The Ripper To The President Of The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee That Was Pursuing Him
From hell
Mr Lusk, Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer signed
Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk
That happened in the case of the "Yorkshire Ripper." Peter Sutcliffe murdered loads of women in Yorkshire, England. He was pulled in for questioning several times, but someone with a Newcastle/North East accent phoned the police/sent them tapes several times, claiming he was the Ripper, so the police spent far too long tracing that false lead while other women were being murdered by the real Ripper. They found the imposter years later and he was arrested, but with him trolling the police, that meant other women died.
Load More Replies...This one arrived with half a human kidney preserved in wine. A doctor found it to be very similar to one of the Ripper's victims, Catherine Eddowes, but found nothing conclusive: https://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/
Not necessarily, spelling evolved quite a bit since that time (even if it's not that long ago)
Load More Replies..."“Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer.” This is what the letter reads" from the source
Does anyone believe it was the Crown Princes brother. It's why they could never solve it.
Found A 16 Inch Blade Tucked Under A Tree In My Front Yard. Not Mine And Was Not There Before
I hope the police were notified, just in case any crime scene is missing its weapon? Or any future crime scene had been discovered? Or was this after Halloween? I only ask because I can imagine kids leaving/dropping costume parts along the path to candy. Even when borrowing part of dad's real sword collection without permission...
What The Feet?!?
Abandoned Tori Gate Found At The End Of A Submerged Tunnel In Japan
There are no "abandoned" Tori gates. Torii are erected to indicate that you are entering sacred space. They can be found in many places that inspire awe, or a sense of reverence. The location of a Tori may not be well traveled .
It would make a good horror movie scenario!
Load More Replies...It's Okami! Run through the gate to save your progress! Orochi awaits!
It is torii, tori means bird. Torii (とりいい) is the shinto religious symbol ⛩. My family is culturally shinto so feel free to add context if you are an observing shinto
Whatever you do do not walk trough that gate, a powerful yokai might lay in wait on the other side.
First Aid Manual Of What To Do When Someone Is Choking
My dad did this to me when a slice of bacon went down wrong. It was not pleasent to have grown man fingers in a 5 years old throat, but I guess it helped? the tear is accurate.
a friend of mine did it to another friend when we were drunk and the other friend was choking on something (don't remember what). i'm to this day thankful my friend was able to help even he was drunk himself. the tear is accurate
Load More Replies...Had to do that with my dog once, but isn't a Heimlich manoeuvre recommended for humans nowadays?
Never do this!! You might end up pushing the object deeper and cause a complete blockage . Go to the ER!!
If it's a partial blockage you might be able to do that, but for a complete blockage, you may have to get it out yourself. If the person is conscious you start with the Heimlich and patting their back. If they are unconscious one of the first things to do is to look and feel deep in their throat and mouth for the blockage, sort of like pictured above.
Load More Replies...My Son had to do this for my Husband - We got to keep him around 5 months longer thank goodness.
Best practice now is to do the Heimlich maneuver along with using the heel of your palm to “beat” a few times between the shoulder blades. I recommend everyone get trained in CPR. 😁
I used a couple of hearty back slaps to dislodge an item of food from an old lady's trachea once. It turned out to be a button mushroom.
Load More Replies...How Deep The First Covid-19 Swab Tests Were
So it didn't actually scrape the back of my brain. It just felt like it.
Your nasal passages/ nostrils don't go strraight back, they go up, so???
Mine certainly do. The diagram looks a little odd to me
Load More Replies...I grabbed the nurses wrist. I felt bad and hoped I didn't freak her out but it was subconscious. :-(
Load More Replies...Ah yes, the ol’ brain stab. I remember doing that for hours and hours, weeks and weeks at a time back in 2020…
Rare Case Of Green Hairy Tongue Is Pure Nightmare Fuel
I was going to ask a question, and then I realised I actually didn't want to know any answers related to this.
Mine turned black once. It was the morning after I took Pepto bismol. Some weird reaction. It happens.
Load More Replies...Gross. This is why you should brush your tongue when you brush your teeth.
My dentist gave me a tongue scraper decades ago. If I don't use it, my mouth never feels clean enough, even if I brush it.
Load More Replies...here you go: "Hairy tongue is a harmless condition that causes the tongue’s texture and appearance to change. It occurs because of a buildup of keratin cells, which are the proteins that also make up human hair. This buildup can give the tongue a rough, hairy texture. This rough surface also provides an excellent area for bacteria and fungi to multiply, which could also cause a green tongue. Hairy tongue is more common in older people than other people, though it can occur at any age. Hairy tongue may cause other symptoms, including: an odd taste on the tongue; a tickling or gagging sensation that may get worse when swallowing; bad breath; difficulty tasting food or changes in the taste buds. Factors that contribute to hair tongue include poor oral hygiene, the use of certain medications, such as antibiotics, or tobacco and caffeine." (source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321481#:~:text=It%20occurs%20because%20of%20a,also%20cause%20a%20green%20tongue.)
Load More Replies...I got Black/Brown Hairy Tongue from using Crest Pro-health Clinical with Cetlpyridinium chloride 0.1% for a month, it went away after a few weeks when I stopped using it.
I had that once, too, around 10-15 years ago. I'm 99% certain that mine was caused by some chewable Pepto Bismol that I had used before I went to bed the previous night (after I had already brushed my teeth). According to google: "Temporary “pseudo–black hairy tongue” can occur in patients who have used bismuth subsalicylate to treat upset stomach because the bismuth in such preparations can react with traces of sulfur in the saliva to produce bismuth sulfide."
Load More Replies...Hairy tongue occurs when a certain type of cell on the tongue doesn’t shed as it should. This gives the tongue a rough or “hairy” appearance. This rough surface creates a place for bacteria and yeast to thrive. This can discolor your tongue, causing a green hue. A color change is even more common after eating certain types of foods or drinks, or using certain products
My Brand New Matress I Ordered On Amazon Came Infested With Bed Bugs
Or the worse concern, that the textile factory or shipping center got infested. That would be a hell situation.
Load More Replies...I once watch a documentary where disreputable firms took old, second hand beds and just recovered them and sold them as new. That might be what's happened here.
It's unlikely that such a shady operation would have invested in the equipment necessary to compress and vacuum-pack a mattress.
Load More Replies...Kinda makes sense, as I know that some stores allow you to return mattresses after a couple of weeks, if you don’t find them comfortable. (And I personally know someone who has actually returned one after sleeping on it for a few nights - it would never have occurred to me that anyone actually does it otherwise). I’ve always wondered what happens to them.
We have a couple advertising in the UK at the moment that offer a 200 night trial!!!
Load More Replies...I disinfect or launder all my Amazon or other mail order products. We just have no clue where they've been.
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Do Ominously-Placed Abandoned Baby Strollers On Hiking Trails Count As Oddly Terrifying? Certainly Spooked Us Out
Probably just a Scandinavian mom who is having lunch somewhere. Don't they leave their little ones out while they take tea? 😉
Why Not Put That Chemical Toilet Inside The Building?
no water inside either, easier to collect/empty, does not interfere with the internal construction
George Mann's Head After Receiving A Powerful Left Punch!
I will never understand a sport where people just beat the c**p out of each other. And smiling after receiving a dangerous head injury. It's so sad.
Agreed. I don't understand how fighting can be a sport. One day 2 dudes were beating the hell out of each other and one of them thought "hey, we should charge people money to watch this"??
Load More Replies...Who punched him, Hercules? In the temple too, he's lucky he's not dead.
My husband had a seizure and fell on the corner of a metal pallet. The area adjacent to the fracture, which was the temple area started to look like this. It was because the blood was leaking from the fracture and collecting in the area between skin and bone. He was not all smiles either. In fact, had he waited like he wanted to, he would have been a corpse. Hope that young man's injury was quickly remedied and that his recovery was swift and the last pain possible
A *fraction* Of My Aunt’s Antique Doll Collection - There Are Hundreds. Guess Who Inherits Them?
OMG those are French and German antique dolls that can sell for THOUSANDS a piece!!! I’m a serious doll collector who’d love to buy dolls like that but I’m priced out of collecting by rich people who will pay thousands for just one of those dolls!
Load More Replies...Cactus Dome, Marshall Islands
I don't think it's a nuclear crater, I think it's a nuclear waste storage dump.
Load More Replies...I helped build that dome while serving with the Army. Those tiny black dots are troops walking across. We buried tons of highly radioactive debris under this 300 plus feet dome that is 18 in thick. Many of us who had to serve there are dying/died of numerous cancers, skin and bone disorders,breathing issues etc. With around 7000 who were there.. we are down to only hundreds left . Cactus Crater on Runit Atoll. We lived on Lowja and worked on Runit Atoll
I sincerely hope that you are ok. Thank you for providing this information.
Load More Replies...Bought A New House Plant. The Branch Touching The TV Died
Oh, I think we're seeing the murderer...and it's not the innocent tv! Bad Mr. Mittens!
Creepy Statues All Over Town Made Me Nearly Piss My Pants At 2am
Probably put out there by an underwear manufacturer to increase sales
Load More Replies...In my town we have "hyper realistic" statues (carmel, in. Arts district)
Uh What
Probably in case of a crash. Here in South Africa, if a truck crashes people rush to loot the contents.
Load More Replies...it would possibly be interesting to be able to read it.
Load More Replies...We Took A Wrong Turn In Rural France While Looking For Our Restaurant
because "Le STOP" takes up too much space. Bisous de France :)
Load More Replies...Poster Found On My High Street
I think this is really awesome and sweet! We really really need to stop treating people with a disfigurement/ scars as creepy, distrustful and scary (looking at you, Hollywood...). Most scars are from accidents, illnesses or domestic violence, so have some compassion, people!
You are so right. My first reaction was "yikes", but honestly the message is lovely. Good comment.
Load More Replies...This based on a war time army recruitment poster. In the original the father is not injured. It was supposed to make men feel guilty about not signing up because they would be ashamed to tell their children they did nothing in the war. I assume this version has been produced as a modern day protest or ironic artwork.
This reminds me of the "broken faces" (les gueules cassées in French) of the 1st World War, poor people - https://curioushistorian.com/the-broken-faces-of-wwi
"Well, kids, there was this faction called Hydra and their leader was the Red Skull, and I was the first test subject!"
He was burned, lost parts of 4 limbs and spent hours with surgery and rehab. So much to happen to one person. I hope the poster is showing someone who is back with his family and going on with his life. I wish humanity could cease all wars somehow. I don't understand the types of hatred that lead to this.
This is a piece by artist Darren Cullen https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1483919/great-war-poster-darren-cullen/
Crazy Looking Residential Complexes In Hong Kong
My Eyes Started Doing A This Really Cool Looking - Different Sizes Thing. (Turns Out It’s A Tumour)
It's likely that they did. People think scary things when they hear tumor, but most are just benign masses that pop up and easily get sliced out. I just hope they don't live in america lol.
Load More Replies...I have different sized pupils and hospital did loads of tests and determined I'm part of a small percentage who has it naturally, as they couldn't find anything medically wrong. Although they did say if I ever wake up with double vision to get my butt back there ASAP. Probably best I get someone else to drive though.
Unattended Toddler Crawled Inside An X-Ray Machine Scanner
At least we are fairly sure now that it is not a terrorist baby. Its parents, on the other hand, may need some "special" security.
This is actually kind of serious. Especially for someone with such a small body mass.
Honestly? Not really. Pet carriers occasionally have to go through them if the animal isn't properly restrained. A spin through one exposes someone to 200 microsieverts. One chest xray is 100 microsieverts. Not ideal at all, but it won't harm the baby that much. That's the equivalent of 20 days of normal background radiation.
Load More Replies...My Friends Retaining Wall Outside In His Yard
An old ship with hundreds of tons of dirt inside, waiting for the weakening to be complete
Load More Replies...A vertical timber retaining wall, that high?? Foolish. Wood rots. Screws/bolts rust. Don't stand anywhere near that in the rain.
Block Of Aluminum After It Was Hit By A 14-Gram Piece Of Plastic That Was Traveling 24,000 Feet Per Second (26,000 Kmph/16,000 Mph) In Space
I seriously doubt that! Such a big block of metal would be REALLY heavy, and sending it to space would cost a fortune (...or actually more than that as sending anything into space is really expensive). So anything that was designed for use in space would be constructed differently to save on the weight. If the purpose is armouring the station/space ship or probe, there are more efficient ways to deal with absorbing the energy of an impact. The usual fashion consist of several layers of materials, which will distribute the load.
Not in space but in a facility on the ground most likely. That speed (~7.2 km/s) is about or a little less than orbital velocity at ISS altitude. (7.68 km/s) so like the speed if the ISS were hit perpendicular to it's direction. If it was coming the opposite direction. the damage would be considerably worse (relative velocity ~15 km/s and energy is 1/2 mv^2). What does all that mean? The little stuff up there can do a LOT of damage, stuff you can't track or see. (Note also, since there's no banana for scale, this is probably not as big as it look here)
Cherenkov Radiation (Blue Light) Inside Of A Nuclear Reactor
Only if you touch the element, diving in a cooling pool is surprisingly safe
Load More Replies...This is why Godzilla's spines turn blue when he charges his atom breath btw :3
What My Fingers Look Like When I Get Out Of The Bath After Years Of Biting Them
You were in the bath for years, biting your fingers? I guess it would get boring and stressful after several years . . .
Just showed this to my kid, maybe he'll stop biting the skin off his too, though it also might be tougher getting him to bathe
You assume he's doing it on purpose just to annoy you. Mom of the year.
Load More Replies...Years of biting baths? Ouch- Don’t know why you’re showing us your fingers tho
I'm sorry you bite your fingers like that! That's an anxiety thing. Maybe a manicure would make you think twice? Does chewing gum help?
My New Company Is Located Inside An Old Masonic Temple. This Eye Is Above My Office Door
Hey, many of us work for the Illuminati right NOW. We just don't get a cool office.
Have you investigated the obvious floor panel next to the desk? It might have the secret decoder ring.
Potato Found Under My Kitchen Counter
Found Myself Lost In A Home Improvement Store. Most Of The Demo Doors Don’t Actually Open!
I'm A Residential Building Inspector And This Is A Recent Inspection I Did On A Burnt Down House
This Photo I Took While Working
I saw the post about potatoes and then read this caption as "This potato I took while working". hahahahaha. I need a lie down.
Largest Black Hole vs. Our Solar System......imagine One Night You Go Out And Be Like Where Are The Stars Today
It's there, on the surface of Earth, can't you see it?
Load More Replies...That's NOT the size of the collapsed star, that's the (much larger) size of it's event horizon, where light cannot escape.
It is not known whether supermassive black holes are even collapsed stars. It could be first generation stars that potentially were very large. And possibly ones that gobbled up a lot of gas and grew after they became black holes, but we really don't know how they were formed. Black holes are very simple in their buildup, they are just mass, electric charge and spin, just like fundamental particles in fact. So it is fine to call an event horizon the black hole, a lot of astronomers do, since it is the only way they act on our side of spacetime. We don't have any physical access to their insides so they are literally just an event horizon and Hawking radiation to us.
Load More Replies...Supermassive black holes (typically found in a galactic center) are the result of black holes merging together. The theoretical mass limit for a stable star continues to be debated, but it is almost certainly below 300 solar masses. Therefore, any black hole over 300 solar masses has either grown through ingesting normal matter or merging with another black hole.
Load More Replies...*in our galaxy. Our solar system is the thing in the middle. If this was in our solar system there would BE no solar system.
This Waterpark Getting Built In Qatar
Can you imagine a water slide going down 100 stories? By the time you reach the bottom, your velocity will launch you out to sea!
GF Taking The Dog Outside And The Amazon Solar Lights Illuminating Her Face
Lock the door, put a chair against the handle and call the Vatican
bonus points if she knew she looked that creepy and did that as a joke.
Opening Ceremony Of The Olympics In 1980 At Moscow
I wonder if it has a central support - unless these gymnasts created it from scratch at the beginning, or they didn't show the images before it was complete?
Found a YT video, and when seeing them move around, it DOES look like there are fixed central supports. I may be wrong - what do you all think? https://youtu.be/nwcavr6ChMY?si=sb-dYpnfknPE58Oy
Load More Replies...The Smoke From Canada Is Thick Enough In Pa That This Is Our Sun Right Now. Just An Orange Circle
Australia. Bush fires. A few days ago, the smoke haze changed the colour of the Sun here to red. I mean, really red. Japanese flag red. You could look directly at it, no problem at all.
This Dead(?) Spider I Found In My Basement Cellar
That poor thing is infected by a fungus, so technically it's dead, but not really
That's what gave them the idea for the game. It is an actual concern for those that are studying the fungus, what we will do if it evolves and starts infecting animals and humans
Load More Replies...Chinese Zoo Denies Star Attraction Is In Bear Costume
This is a real bear, sun bears looks like that, including the creases in the back and the large feet.
Sun bears look like nature tried to draw a bear with its left hand from memory.
It's an actual bear. Sun bears are just very weird looking things.
Ricky's Diseased Turtles
It's a joke ad by a guy on social media who has been doing it for years. He's done lots of them I've seen being shared
That area code is awfully close to where I live :x
Load More Replies...Yeah it's satire. I had a few baby turtles when my boys were kids. They were very careful to wash their hands before and after doing anything to the tank and a few had funny personalities- like, one would see us and race to the edge with it's head wayyy far out to get a little head pat and one would make cute faces when you rub their backs and bellies. But, their cousin came over one day and even though I told her multiple times to NOT touch them, she did anyway and they died. She had open sores on her arms (her parents were not exactly involved with her. at all). We all cried about it and my ex in laws kept saying "they're JUST turtles, you're gonna make the boys into sissys!". I'm STILL pissed about it
Don't worry it's just a guy online who makes joke posters like this one, it's not real
Load More Replies...Found On Front Porch At 4am
ikr I mean if you are going to threaten me at least make it so I can read it.
Load More Replies...Drugs or psychosis. When a friend of mine is going through her manic phases this is how she writes.
It's called 'word salad'. People with certain mental health conditions do it often.
Worked at a news organization’s office in Washington, DC, and mentally troubled street people left writing-covered pages like this under our door all the time.
My Kid Looking Directly At The Camera
A Twitter Account Is Counting Down How Much Oxygen Is Left In The Lost Submarine
I was relieved for the victims that their deaths were instantaneous and not a prolonged, terrifying and painful ordeal
i'm gonna be honest- i don't feel sad at all about the sub incident. They completely ignored the precautions needed for a sub. They made their bed and now they'll lie in it. forever.
bonus: people will search miles under water for five billionaires, but not the landfill for the countless murdered indigenous women.
Load More Replies...Inside Oceangate's Titan Sub With 5 People
Usually deep sea subs have one little porthole because that is the weakest point in the hull. Unfortunately for the people who lost their lives the whole submarine was compromised.
Load More Replies...5 people. Timer or selfie.. https://people.com/oceangate-titan-submersible-everything-to-know-7551180
Load More Replies...On A Box Of Mochi
California has stricter labeling laws than the rest of the US. Almost everything has this label on it. It feels meaningless. If there is a danger, it's impossible to get more information.
Load More Replies...I Left My Window Cracked And Found This In My Car
Serial killers need groceries too - Jeffrey Dahmer excluded, of course..
Load More Replies...Kinda seems like someone just wanted to dump their trash without throwing it on the ground
Other side says: "I appreciate both your at peace connected souls. Thanx!"
Preserved Baby Sharks In A Bottle Sold As Souvenirs In Obx, NC
IDK.....seems like this should be illegal somehow? Aren't sharks endangered?
Not all sharks are endangered, but they are protected under NOAA. You can only retain (catch) certain species, and there's minimum length requirements as well. Atlantic Smoothhound is the only thing with no size or retention limit, and you don't need a commercial permit for them. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/atlantic-highly-migratory-species (edit to add link)
Load More Replies...I try and live by the rule I won't kill something for merely existing (exception being mosquitos). This falls into that category.
Despite mosquitoes just trying to live, they have caused more deaths to humans than practically any other creature. Depending how you look at it, more than any other creature
Load More Replies...Its short for the Outer Banks, in North Carolina, US
Load More Replies...We dissected sharks in high school and nearly all were pregnant. I wonder if that’s where these come from or they just had the misfortune of getting caught in fishing nets
Many of these are byproducts of industries. Fishing, touring, etc. They aren't farmed specifically for bottling.
Love that they've "updated" the ads on the app so I get stuck watching random ads on their whim while still seeing ads throughout, plus having them randomly open and close within the article so what I'm looking at jumps around, BUT STILL CAN'T SEE MORE THAN THE STUPID OOPS PANDA ON HALF THE ONES I WANT TO LOOK AT!
Use a browser- Firefox or Brave are good. Get the (free) plugin uBlock Origins; it blocks regular ads, it blocks YouTube ads, it blocks a bunch of annoying, malicious cr@p. Screw the app.
Load More Replies...Love that they've "updated" the ads on the app so I get stuck watching random ads on their whim while still seeing ads throughout, plus having them randomly open and close within the article so what I'm looking at jumps around, BUT STILL CAN'T SEE MORE THAN THE STUPID OOPS PANDA ON HALF THE ONES I WANT TO LOOK AT!
Use a browser- Firefox or Brave are good. Get the (free) plugin uBlock Origins; it blocks regular ads, it blocks YouTube ads, it blocks a bunch of annoying, malicious cr@p. Screw the app.
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