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Ghosts and monsters might give us a scare, but real life has its own horrors, and they’re often much harder to escape.
Redditors recently shared what they believe are the most terrifying things that actually exist. From devastating diseases and mental health struggles to the threat of nuclear war, their answers paint a chilling picture of the fears that keep us up at night.
You’ll find their most haunting picks below—and who knows, you might even want to add your own.
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#1
Alzheimer's.
namdor:
Knowing that it is eating the memories, emotions, personality, body, and life of someone you love is brutal. It is so dark and terrifying not knowing how many years the shell of a body will live, while the person inside is gone.
Panda Kicki 8 months ago
New studies suggest that Shingrix vacc can reduce the risks ,.hope so
Alexandra 8 months ago
Read that too. A shingles vaccine here costs 500 euro, because it's not under the universal health care scheme.
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Tamra 8 months ago
My mother-in-law is going through this now. She was driving around looking for her husband, who didn't come home for dinner. He's been dead for 30 years. My husband and his sister are trying to get safety measures in place, as well as caregivers through Medicare, but with the government currently being dismantled, it's harder to access care for those who need it.
Maikku 8 months ago
My grandma had it, died at 85. My mom had it, died at 69. I'm so scared of when I am going to show symptoms...
Jackie Lulu 8 months ago
My grandmother, my mother, my 2 uncles. I'm toast.....
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KombatBunni 8 months ago
I watched my Grandma go through this. My mother visited her every week for five d**n years and watched her mother slowly disappear. It’s one of the strongest things I’ve ever seen her do and I was so proud of her doing something that I could not.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
True. I sometimes find myself hoping that my parents will get in a car crash and both die simultaneously, because my father has Alzheimer's and there's no good ending.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
And somehow I wonder if it would be a blessing just being able to forget everything that happened to me last decades...
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#2
Anti-vaxxers.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
They were all vaccinated when they were children. Are they now claiming to be autistic?
Earonn - 8 months ago
Not even their own children are worth anything to them. And I'm afraid that they will spread their s**t all over the globe. In the Western world we may be able to handle it, but imagine big measles epidemics in already disadvantaged countries. Or countries like Palestine that got their hospitals bombed into rubble.
#3
Human traffickers. No sense of morality and atrocious humans.
IndelibleIguana:
Pretty much one of the worst crimes that exist.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
It’s terrible, but as old as human history. The Bible is fully of it, for example
#4
Dictators that think they just can bust into any sovereign country and claim it.
It scary, it causes death and destruction and is generally bad for the mental health of all involved.
Trillian 8 months ago (edited)
And people in countries sworn to protect them just shrugging 'what can we do' or even blaming the victim
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
People in a country that talked that country into Giving Up Their Nuclear Weapons by saying they would always protect them and then saying "it's not our responsibility, look after yourselves". What scummy kind of country would do that?
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Dar Mal 8 months ago
Hell....we Americans voted* our Dictator in when all of the psycho evidence was right in our face! (*Tell me this wasn't "purchased"!)
TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
A lot of dictators in the 20th century got voted into power - Hell even Julius Cesaer got voted and never gave the power back
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Billo66 8 months ago
Diplomacy obviously doesn't work. They could all don headsets and fight it like any war only virtually and no people get killed. Or, put the diplomats together in a locked, to the *end* cage match. Either way, leave the citizens out of it, we are just trying to do our laundry and feed our kids.
#5
'The sin of empathy' being a literal thing people live by like wtaf.
Kaedyn Walsh 8 months ago
This is something that I think would be higher up. The blacklisting of empathy is beyond grotesque and terrifying.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
For those unaware, Muskrat has said that empathy is a major fault of the western world. Or words to that effect, I don't have a transcript in front of me.
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Muskrat is a major fault of the western world. But even Ayn Rand was essentially arguing against empathy. All those libertarian psuedo-capitalists just love coming up with twisted ways to whitewash the dystopian implications of their selfishness.
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Silje Olsen 8 months ago
What is empathy, if not the ability to understand common sence.. without empathy, we're only driven by law, and law without empathy is a society without mercy..
Auntriarch 8 months ago
Not heard of this one. I do recall reading that the Romans classed compassion as a female fault and unworthy of men
#6
The banality of evil. Good German citizens that rounded up Jews and put them in concentration camps. Put little babies in the gas Chambers. Hung people on meat hooks while they were still alive and cut their guts out while taking notes. Scientist that put them in freezing ice water to gain statistical data on how long it took to freeze to death. American college students that were willing to administer 450 volt shocks to unseen scientific experiment subjects as long as somebody else took responsibility. Don't think it can't happen here because it's about to.
axnyslie 8 months ago
What's most infuriating is Dr Josef Mengele the most evil sadistic N**i of all completely got away with it and eluded capture. Lived a comfortable life in Buenos Aires, Paraguay, and Brazil never answering for his crimes against humanity.
David 8 months ago
well now Argentina in going to release all their files on german war criminals who escaped there
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
Celebrating the own children dying for the greater good or even raising them for the purpose of s*****e bombing
Earonn - 8 months ago
We had a video of a man burning alive in a hospital bed, waving his arms weakly while the flames engulfed him. And most people never heard about it or didn't care. Or even defended it by just pretending he was bad or that others who were bad were nearby. One of the moments when I thought, yeah, global warming or nuclear war - come and get us, as a species we're s**t. We don't deserve to survive.
UKDeek 8 months ago
Brainwash a population well enough and they will undertake any act, however immoral it appears to outside observers. This has happened time and time again, from the examples from N**i Germany, to the slave trade, to religious wars, etc. Society fails to learn from history and to look back at these despicable acts to ensure they don't happen again.
#7
Working until you die.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Yep, that's my fate. Choices I made when I was younger are now coming home to roost.
#8
A few handful of Super Rich people we probably never heard of who are pulling and manipulating the strings of the masses. Who control everything. It’s a spooky thought in my opinion.
Orysha 8 months ago
Oh we know them : Felon Musk and Trump tte Rapist and soon-to-be invader of Greenland.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Seriously. It's one of the reasons I moved from the US to France. Now I am happy, but I bleed for my fellow Americans. Well, all of them except "James King," or whatever name he is using to post under today.
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A sh**load of nuclear weapons, mostly in the hands of man children.
#10
Locked in Syndrome (LIS) basically you have total body paralysis but you have all your normal cognitive abilities. It’s basically a waking nightmare where you can’t move but you can feel and process everything like you normally would. It’s a big bag of no thanks.
Zophra 8 months ago
I can't stand him either, but this seems a bit much. Maybe just wishing him hemorrhoids and him out of power will suffice.
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Environmental collapse. Entirely preventable but being ignored or refuted so that a group of rich men can keep their power.
katiekat0214 8 months ago
What good is having all the money if there is no earth, no economy to spend it? Such dumbasses on every level.
Game Guy 8 months ago
They figure they'll be dead by the time it gets really bad so, who cares?
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RFK Jr used to be an environmental attorney. That brain worm did more damage than he is admitting.
#13
Sinkholes. I often think about that guy that was in bed when a sinkhole opened up and swallowed him. His brother could hear his screams but could do nothing to help.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
I grew up in Florida, the land built on sinkholes. They were a daily reality to me, but it took me moving away to actually sit and realize how bloody terrifying they really are.
KittyMommy 8 months ago
I grew up in a town where half of it was on top of mine tunnels. The mines been closed since the 1920s. Didn't happen often, but every once in a while there'd be a collapse and someone would have a giant hole in their yard. One of the roads follows a tunnel exactly and when they tried to do a full tear out and rebuild of it they triggered a collapse. Took a LOT of gravel and fill to create a solid base for the new road
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Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
At least it's not on sand. If you know, you know
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#14
Cancer. I lost a loved one to this disease. I lived with her screaming in pain 24 hours a day, for 6 months. I wouldn't wish this on anyone, not even the most evil human being.
olaff 422 8 months ago
Thank goodness Merka is killing all federal aid for science and medicine.
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
As someone that has survived Cancer twice, yes it completely and utterly f*****g sucks. My body is a wrecked mess and I'll only be 48 years old next month. I'm absolutely terrified of what will be happening by the time I turn 50.
Billo66 8 months ago
I have it but had to stop taking the pain pills. Couldn't control myself, ate them like skittles. Became very delusional, then withdrew off of them. I was so sick. Thats been a few years ago. Pain. Yes. 16 broken bones. 9 vertabrae and 7 ribs. Mostly from sneezing and compression fractures. I used to be 5' 11" now I'm 5' 8 so yeah it hurts. I also have full custody of 2 children who need me. Not just here like a zombie. But actually positively engaged in their life. So yeah, it hurts but it's worth it.
Little Bit 8 months ago
This. Cancer is rife on both sides of my family. My grandparents died from it, my dad died from it, my in laws died from it, my mum is recovering from it. I've lost count of how many friends and neighbours who have succumbed to it. My biggest fear is getting it and dying before my daughters have grown up. The scariest thing of all is that anybody from any walk of life can get it regardless of their lifestyle. Some of the fittest and healthiest people I know have died from it. Doctors rarely take their patients' cancer concerns seriously and repeatedly fob them off. This happened to my grandmother, my dad and my father in law, and by the time their cancers were finally diagnosed it was too late.
#15
Rett syndrome. You have a daughter, she does great and is developing normally until about 6-12 months. And then her development slows. Your pediatrician is reassuring, everyone develops differently so you are okay with it. But then it progresses…she loses skills she already had. No longer speaks any words, starts having tremors and spasticity and loses purposeful movement and may start developing breathing issues or apnea. Then the seizures start. Despite maximal treatment of the symptoms there is no cure. Your previously healthy daughter is now likely unable to walk, care for herself, and can usually barely express herself. She still smiles and looks around and can be cared for well, but won’t ever recover fully. This is her life now, and your life now, and there’s nothing you could have done or can do to fix it.
F**k Rett Syndrome, it’s the f*****g worst.
#16
Knowing that our lives could change for the worse in an instant.
obxtalldude:
Yep - I was having a great summer in 2016 until my Mom got dizzy.
Within a week we found she had a glioblastoma at 75.
From perfect health to a state I wish I could forget in 6 months. I had to hire a team of nurses for hospice after it became too much for me.
Brain cancer is no way to go.
There's a certain look from Doctors I realized afterwards - they know what's coming, and know you don't.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
aggressive brain cancer is what took my uncle. Big, strong independent man. Passed out at work one day, gone in less than 10 days.
superfluous 8 months ago
I would prefer to die in my sleep at that age (at any age), please. I am not a masochist. Euthanasia anyone?
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#17
Was a Marine for 6 years and deployed constantly to countries in Asia via naval carriers, there is nothing more terrifying and more humbling than being in the middle of the ocean, ESPECIALLY during the night.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Being on the fantail, at night, on an aircraft carrier. It's very weird feeling
#18
Burning alive. No, not dying in a house fire, when smoke will get you before the flames. But literally dying in flames. Or surviving for a short while with massive burn injuries. Burn injuries are absolutely horrific.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
People sentenced to being burned alive used to try and sneak a little bag of gun powder hung around their neck (or bribe the executioner to get one for them).
Sheena Leversedge Wood 8 months ago
this probably inspired the character Agnes Nutter in Good Omens. she met her end with petticoats full of gunpowder and roofing nails, and took out the town square.
Load More Replies... Emilu 8 months ago (edited)
I know it’s a video game, but that creeped me out about Resident Evil 4 (I played the remake, but I assume the original is the same). (Very minor spoiler as it happens in the first half an hour tops of the game) One of your drivers gets set on fire and Christ, the thought of that terrifies me. You hear him screaming until he dies. Poor dude.
#19
AI
What do we need all of these extra people for when it takes our jobs? We don’t really believe we’re just going to get lucky with a 2 day work week. It’s a beautiful lie like getting complete universal health insurance in the US.
Life is going to get better somehow? We already can’t tell real and fake news. Unbiased journalism is dead. Individualism has become the priority and soon we will be teaching AI everything we know privately.
Closest feeling I ever had to that was being replaced by an intern. I took pride in teaching them my job and wish I knew all of the shortcuts I had told them when I was their age only to be replaced because they would do the tasks for free.
AI is here and people celebrate that s**t at the cost of humanity.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
A Soylent Green world is upon us. And every government in the world and all the uberwealthy are pushing it
Silly Vanilly <3 8 months ago
Sometimes I can’t sleep at night because AI will take fine arts jobs and eventually, there will be no creativity in this world
Anthorn 8 months ago
Same. I especially worry for writers, because AI writing can be hard to distinguish from real stories.
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#20
Rabies. The second theres symptoms, chances are, you're already screwed. Theres only a few known cases of someone surviving rabies without the vaccine, and as of 2016, only 14 people are known to have survived it.
So if you get scratched or bitten by an animal, it's better to be safe rather than sorry and get it checked out.
Panda Kicki 8 months ago
Yeah. Was bit by rabid dog in a russian hotel lobby. Didnt trust.their vaccines so took off home.and started.treatment.the.day..after instead
Ahnjunwan 8 months ago
I do not know where you from but why do you think your vaccines at home are any better? Do you know how many people died of rabies in russia? Not more then in middle europe. Time is essential in this case and since the people in russia use it too, i think it is ok. But it is of course your life and if you not feel safe, you not feel safe
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Sarah Belt 8 months ago (edited)
I'll take a guess that it's about how that the rabies vaccine is administered post-exposure. If doctors suspect you've been exposed to rabies, you're given both several doses of the rabies vaccine (there's at least two available) and a big dose of "human rabies immune globulin" - more or less someone else's antibodies. I was with a family member given these after a feral dog bite. More info from the US Gov't CDC here: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html
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Prions.
peridaniel:
Misshapen proteins that, once they get in your brain, cause the proteins in your brain to deform too. basically, something that malforms the proteins in your brain until the cells in it die. if you've ever heard of mad cow disease, that's a well known prion disease.
and since it's a protein rather than any organism, there's nothing that can be done about it once you have a prion disease. once you're diagnosed, it's just a ticking clock as your brain degenerates.
Pferdchen 8 months ago
Another prion disease, this one affecting deer, is Chronic Wasting Disease. The prions persist in the environment and can be metabolized by crops. Doesn't affect humans but, if it ever makes the leap, it isn't going to be pretty. An infected deer was discovered in Manassas National Battlefield Park, just outside of Washington, D.C. last week. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/northern-virginia-deer-tests-positive-for-zombie-deer-disease/ar-AA1BJJke
#22
Predatory humans.
#23
That group chat that had 70,000 men in it talking about assaulting their mothers/sisters/wives.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago (edited)
There's also that group chat from Japan, where a bunch of pédophiles hung out and got arrested. https://apnews.com/article/japan-sexual-a*****t-pornography-fathers-43a56eea2a3fe0ba806ee9193047883f
Earonn - 8 months ago
And the fact that every time something like this comes up - see also Gisele Pelicot - there isn't an outcry from men against it. It's in the news for a short while, and then they laugh again about the sexist jokes from their mates because they're afraid not to be "one of the guys". To the guys who *do* speak up: well done & thanks!
#24
Mental health issues.
KombatBunni 8 months ago
Not the most fun thing to have, I can tell you. Some days I don’t want to recognise my own thoughts. Anyone who says it’s not real can take a hike
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I have suffered with mental health issues all my life. For perspective, I'm 70. Some things ease, some get worse, things change when there are new medications.
Disgruntled Pelican 8 months ago
I wouldn't wish it on anyone. To be on medications and still have your mind violently react to minor issues or to simply be sitting working and all of a sudden think "you're a burden and no one loves you, you could end it all right now" is horrific.
HardBoiledBlonde 8 months ago
You need more than medications; individual therapy or a support group can provide additional help.
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Suffocation.
The starving of oxygen is one experience that scares even those without a functioning amygdala in their brain (the part that regulates emotions such as fear).
And those are the most fearless people of us all.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I have asthma. I had had attacks that sent me to the hospital, I'm gasping for breath, I'm terrified, it's ... beyond words. I am now on 2 inhalers and one pill daily, and once in a while have that peculiar tightness in my chest that precedes a full-blown wheezing attack. I've got emergency inhalers all over the place.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
I have asthma also. The last time I went to a neighborhood urgent care facility, patients had to sign in at a kiosk. I was having so much difficulty breathing, or even standing up. They took me right into the back and got me on a nebulizer. When I was able to talk, they asked me the questions that I would have entered into the kiosk. I wound up with bronchitis for weeks, missed a month of work. I had coughed so much I lost my voice. It was horrible. But as a fellow asthmatic, eating some dark chocolate as soon as you start to feel the wheeze coming on is very beneficial. I learned that years ago during a long bout of pleurisy that I got after a spontaneous lung collapse.
Load More Replies... LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
I almost drowned as a child. (Some kid was "playing" with me by forcefully holding me underwater.) That black sensation of not being able to breathe but needing to breathe as your chest spasms and your entire body fights against the water in your mouth and nose is... just a fraction of the terror I can put into words.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Recently,I had the flu. And, already have COPD, I literally could not breathe no matter how hard i tried. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.
#26
Antibiotic resistant superbugs.
F******n_Ad9356:
Agreed. If they accidentally release some super secure antibiotics, that could be game over. Bacteria mutates rapidly and can become resistant to all our antibiotics. It's just a matter of time. Eventually we will run out.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Antibiotics are overused. People want antibiotics for colds, for viral infections, for all sorts of stuff. Doctors overprescribe them.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Not to mention all the antibiotics that we casually use in daily life. Yeah, they k**l COVID or common viruses, but they also k**l the healthy stuff around us and on our bodies that actually keeps us safe.
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Regina Holt 8 months ago
Stupid uninformed people stop taking them as soon as they feel better, instead of taking them the full length that they are supposed to. That leads to bacteria mutating and getting stronger and different enough that existing antibiotics won't work anymore. Take the FULL course of them!
Cyril Sneer 8 months ago
That's not stupidity, it's ignorance. Stupidity is not funding public awareness campaigns and not making it part of the school curriculum from the very start. Stupidity is people that know better prescribing them unnecessarily. Stupidity is allowinh water companies to discharge untreated sewage into the environment along with all the antibiotics people pee out and all the resistant bacteria they p*o out.
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TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
Medicine based on bacteriophages are probably the next big thing, "Artilysine" from Lysando is currently the most promising project - One of the benefits is that bacteria can't develop immunities to those
Cyril Sneer 8 months ago
Sorry a couple of corrections (I'm a microbiologist and virologist). There is nothing that exists that could be an effective antimicrobial that bacteria cannot.develop resistance to. Evolution finds a way, and bacteria produces many generations, very quickly, so evolution happens extremely quickly. Artilysinenis not bacteriophage technology. Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) usually need to be used in combination with antibiotics to be fully effective. Bacteria can become resistant to bacteriophages just like they can to antibiotics. But the hope is that we can engineer phages using modern targeted gene editing methods so that we can keep up with bacteria in the arms race.
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The fact that brain eating amoeba exists in warm freshwater lakes keeps me up at night.
Agreeable_Cow_7230:
My uncle contracted that. While he was fishing.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
Is this in any way connected to the brain worm in RFK Jr's brain? That thing seems to have caused major problems.
#28
Natural disasters. The most we get are monsoons where I live, but I would never live where tornados or hurricanes could happen. Scares the hell out of me thinking about it.
Cara Vinson 8 months ago
I grew up in tornado country, you just make sure to have a good storm shelter and get on with your life.
SkyyCaramba 8 months ago
my uncle was within a mile of the 2023 Little Rock tornado. it was terrifying, not knowing if he was still alive, if the house had been destroyed (he was okay)
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
It's incredible how much better weather forecasting has gotten in the last 10 years. It doesn't make disasters any better, but it does at least give a little more warning.
Nonnie Bear 8 months ago
I grew up in the Midwest fearing tornadoes. That was NOTHING compared to going thru Hurricane Helene in Western N.C. We were as prepared for that as Miami is for snowstorms.
James King 8 months ago
I live where both can occur. Hurricanes don't scare me; they're easily avoided. Tornadoes frighten me deeply, especially when they come at night.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
If you're right with God you should be OK, James. Isn't that what "people like you" think?
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#29
The cartel💀 the government can’t even stop it, Mexico is infested with gang violence and d**g members. El Salvador got lucky to manage the danger in their country and had strong enforcement but Mexico has been going down a s**t path.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
Well, now tRump is sending alleged d**g gangs down there, so let's see how that works out.
#30
Fatal familial insomnia.
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 8 months ago
I believe this is isolated to a family or a town in Italy. It's very rare but sounds horrible. There was an episode of Special Victims Unit where they were interrogating a possible perp/witness and Huang diagnoses him w/ FFI. Nothing the medical profession can do will help them to truly sleep long and consistent enough.
#31
Huntington's disease.
Tilly’syellowsnowman 8 months ago
It’s a hereditary neurodegenerative disease, in case anybody was wondering
#32
Organized religion.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Quick mental exercise: try to imagine where the human race would be today without organized religion dividing us, keeping us frightened of the unknown and the different, maintaining ignorance and backwards thinking, distrustful of everything the - supposedly "God given" - brain can accomplish when unfettered from superstition. Morals do not come from religion. They can be enforced by religion and even twisted by religion, but morals exist outside of it as morals are a social contract, arising naturally in groups. So imagine the kind of empathy-driven, forward-thinking culture we'd be living in today, if organized religion had begun and ended in the Bronze Age.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
christianity is NOT mostly okay nowadays. They are trying to legislate our rights away here in murica. Some christians are the most hateful people in murica. They are banning books, throwing out their own children who are gay, taking away women's rights to take care of their own bodies - sometimes even not allowing birth control. The list goes on.
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Autonomous drones being armed and sent out to k**l people. I recently read an article about how like 70% of human casualties on the Ukraine / Russian front line were attributed to drone warfare. It went on to say that the most effective drones were the more autonomous version, and how there were anti drone drones, and mothership drones being developed and I just kind of sunk in my seat. I remember when existential risk associated with AI Skynet situations were laughed at as science fiction garbage and ridiculous because who would be dumb enough to arm robots, give them autonomy and send them out to specifically k**l human beings.
David 8 months ago
those were not Autonomous, the US has very few of them. We mostly use people in Nevada sitting in front of a computer manually flying the drones
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago
The current state is "Loitering Ammunition" - A drone that patrols an area and attacks pre-programmed signatures. It's still a long step till those would make "own" decisions and I hope it's way in the future
#34
Other people’s thoughts. You’ll never truly know what’s going on in someone else’s head, whether they adore you, despise you, or fantasize about turning you into chopped meat.
Panda Kicki 8 months ago
As long as they dont actually chop me up its fine by me.Not like I care what they think.
superfluous 8 months ago
I believe most people don't think about others that much at all. It's family and friends you really need to worry about...
#35
Random, uncontrolled car accidents. I was 2 or so car lengths behind an suv the other day - car was driving normally and weather was clear / little traffic.
Driver brakes and starts pulling off to the shoulder. As soon as her front passenger tire touches grass the car violently pulls right into the ditch. Hits an embankment of sand, and flips a*s over teakettle like in a movie.
Called 911, cops were there in less than 2 mins. Car roof was caved in on driver and passenger side. Rear hatch was pinned against a tree. Fire & EMS arrive and pull the woman out - the only person inside the car - and she’s responsive / visually okay.
It’s a case where, given the circumstances, everything went right for the drivers safety. 5 or 10 feet further down the road she would’ve hit a fire hydrant head on, possibly not flipped, and could’ve continued directly into a tree.
Just the idea of doing your thing driving and with no one else involved your life could end shook me up.
Roxy222uk 8 months ago
I had an argument/debate on our local FB group trying to explain to someone that you can be driving absolutely perfectly and still end up with the car upside down if the physics come together a certain way. Unfortunately he would not accept it. I know someone it happened to, who I trust if she says she was driving careful (she was a nanny and had someone's toddler in the car with her), and I once flipped a car on its side at under 25 miles an hour when I allowed the tyre to touch a verge.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
I recommend taking defensive driving classes. I'm pretty confident in my driving abilities, its the other person you have to watch out for.
Load More Replies... LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Cars are deadly weapons that we casually treat like Nerf toys. Every time you get in a vehicle, you're sitting atop a giant weight of metal, chemicals, and electricity. I love driving, but I'm always aware of what I'm driving, no matter how fun, could easily maim or k**l me if physics up and decides to f**k with me.
#36
Ebola Zaire virus. Currently reading the book Hot Zone and it’s scaring the s**t out of me.
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
That is not a fun book. Andromedia Strain is also not fun... if you're into that kind of thing. Will make you want to stock up on duct tape and bleach.
#37
Pyroclastic flows. They're superheated avalanches of volcanic ash, lava, and gases. The documentary Pompeii: The Last Day describes death by one as "the first breath is like breathing fire. The second, the ash mixes with the fluids in your lungs, forming a concrete like mixture." You suffocate while your skin is on fire.
Hotter pyroclastic flows can cause teeth and skulls to explode from the insane temperature difference. There are even cases of brains turning into glass from the heat from the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius.
And if you see one coming towards you, it's the last thing you'll ever see. You can't outrun them, they can travel more than 100 mph. They can travel miles from the volcano erupting. The lateral blast from Mt St Helens vaporized over 20 sq miles. While extremely unlikely to erupt during our lifetimes, pyroclastic flow deposits have been found upwards of 60 miles from the Yellowstone caldera.
#38
Black holes. Thankfully we aren't near any... that we know of.
#39
Radiation poisoning.. one mistake and you're potentially suffering for months as you literally turn to soup as your DNA fails to properly create new cells. Then you slip into a coma and die 😬.
#40
Drowning. And I was a collegiate swimmer.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
I had a bad experience once, thought I was going to drown. I never ever put myself in that situation whatsoever. Won't go near a pool or any water that covers my ankles.
#42
Brain aneurysms.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
This scares me. I live with a permanent migraine, so a sudden head pain is, like, Tuesday afternoon for me. I wouldn't know if it was an aneurysm.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Brain aneurysms are freaking scary, you have no idea that there is anything wrong, and then BAM, it happens. You're dead.
#44
Any individual who falls under the dark triad of personality traits.
Simplified: evil people.
The Scout 8 months ago
To explain if someone is not familiar with the concept: The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy. Anyone know a guy who shows all three, maybe accompagnied by the presence of a certain red cap?
#45
The fact that we have in our society a large group of people who derive entertainment from watching people be t**tured and k**led. It is frightening to think that people will pay money to see movies like Hostel or Saw.
Don't give me that s**t about it being some sort of cathartic outlet and it isn't real. If you need to watch the total degradation and t*****e of a human as an outlet you are a sick f**k.
MushroomHead22 8 months ago
lol what? its actually common to have a general interest in those things.
Kit Black 8 months ago
It wasn't. But it has become so. And that's not good.
Load More Replies... R.C. 8 months ago
I don't like gore-fests anymore but when I was younger and struggling with severe clinical depression I liked to watch them because they were the only thing that made me feel something and I would think that at least my life wasn't as bad as those people. It was almost like giving myself a pep talk.
#46
Human nature. Most of the things mentioned here are terrifying but highly unlikely. I'm actually scared of how we react to the inescapable eventuality that we are slowly cooking our planet to death. The collapse of agricultural zones, food chains, ocean and jet stream currents, and habitable land forecasts a world going to war over resources. The future will be filled with desperate people trying to survive and we have seen that there is no limit to how depraved or cruel we can be to each other even when we aren't fighting for resources. The Jews during the H*******t climbed over each other to get the last of the fresh air before succumbing to the gas chambers. Now imagine a similar scenario at the planetary level. That is our future and it terrifies the ever living f**k out of me that I might see that in my lifetime.
#47
10 year old me: Quicksand, because that stuff is everywhere and a daily threat to my life.
20 year old me: Nothing, because at that age you feel invincible.
30 year old me: Being invited on a night out that goes past 11pm.
40 year old me: The postman, because that guy brings nothing but bad news.
rmac1953 8 months ago
Really BP? Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
That was me at 20 (I went through a different kind of phase 😂).
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The fish that swims up your p**s pipe.
Panda Kicki 8 months ago
Urban myth. https://www.iflscience.com/fact-check-will-a-fish-swim-up-your-urethra-if-you-pee-in-the-amazon-63508
#49
Global fear of the unknown, or Time.
The fear of the unknown prevents us from unraveling the endless number of things not only on our planet related to society, civilization or technology, but also on the scale of the universe. It is unlikely that we will ever be able to find out what really happened to neighboring planets millions of years ago, and it is also unlikely that we will know exactly how we lived hundreds of years ago and what exactly awaits us in the future. And now add to all this a fast flow of time that never stops. And the realization that the entire existence of humanity in a time frame is not even 0.1% of the existence of the universe is truly frightening.
Panda Kicki 8 months ago
Why is that scary? I think it is exciting. Even if we just learn a fraction of the riddles.it is still a amazing.thing.
#50
Love...
Something we have no control over and a pain like no other when it eventually goes wrong.
It's the best and worst thing to happen to a person.
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Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
No one mentioned Elon Musk or Peter Thiel. Two of the most evil people in US history
Betta Fish 7 months ago
I personally disagree quite a lot that Elon Musk is one of the most evil people in US, would you mind explaining your reasoning? No judgement, that is just a really huge statement, and I want to hear your opinion. :)
Load More Replies... Otto Katz 8 months ago
The thing that makes me think, and saddest, is the heat death of the universe. When everything is so spread out, when the atoms have all decayed down to the component quarks and they to their components, and there are miles and miles of empty between them, and they are all floating away from each other, and there is no attraction of any kind to bring them back together to make a new big crunch. That is the saddest time of all
Cyril Sneer 8 months ago
Not very scary though right? We'll probably all fall into the great attractor before that happens
Load More Replies... Cyril Sneer 8 months ago
No one mentioned industrial, walk-in autoclaves. Those things give me the heebie jeebies
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
No one mentioned Elon Musk or Peter Thiel. Two of the most evil people in US history
Betta Fish 7 months ago
I personally disagree quite a lot that Elon Musk is one of the most evil people in US, would you mind explaining your reasoning? No judgement, that is just a really huge statement, and I want to hear your opinion. :)
Load More Replies... Otto Katz 8 months ago
The thing that makes me think, and saddest, is the heat death of the universe. When everything is so spread out, when the atoms have all decayed down to the component quarks and they to their components, and there are miles and miles of empty between them, and they are all floating away from each other, and there is no attraction of any kind to bring them back together to make a new big crunch. That is the saddest time of all
Cyril Sneer 8 months ago
Not very scary though right? We'll probably all fall into the great attractor before that happens
Load More Replies... Cyril Sneer 8 months ago
No one mentioned industrial, walk-in autoclaves. Those things give me the heebie jeebies
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