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While most people can barely watch horror films like Paranormal Activity without going into a full-blown breakdown, aka putting all the lights on in the house and not being able to sleep for days straight, some people like the thrill of it. They sleep like babies, never flinch and have the guts for the scariest things.
If you’re one of them, the two notoriously bone-chilling corners of Reddit known as the subreddits “Weird” and “Oddly Terrifying” must ring a bell to you. The latter one is home to 2M members who enjoy watching all the oddly terrifying content posted there.
So thanks to them, today, we have a great selection of terrifying photographs that prove a single shot on camera can be worthy of thousands of nightmares. Get ready to roll up in your blanket like a burrito (trust me, it helps!) and enjoy the list at your own risk.
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#1
A Wet Owl
Call Me Mars 2 years ago (edited)
"Deborah, please. It is six in the morning and I haven't had my coffee yet."
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#2
Sharks Photographed Upside Down
#3
It's A No For Me
DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night only to see two gentlemen on the wall appreciating your sleeping beauty.
Bored Panda reached out to S. Elizabeth, writer and creator of the “Unquiet Things” blog, as well as the author of “The Art of the Occult: A Sourcebook For The Modern Mystic”. She has been interested in scary things that freak others out ever since she was 5 years old. “I saw a Dracula on an episode of Scooby Doo. I’d never even heard of vampires before, let alone seen one, and learning that there were blood-thirsty creatures who hover outside your home, just awaiting an invitation inside so they could poke their fangs through your neck and drink you up like a platelet-flavored Capri Sun scared me so badly that I’ve never been the same since.”
But at some point in her childhood, S. Elizabeth realized her panic and fright regarding the bloodsuckers and monsters from outer space had turned into fascination. “Whereas I would once hide my face behind a pillow when something scary was happening, I now began to feel the itchy urge to peek.” As she grew older, S. Elizabeth said that her fascination with fearsome things turned into a full-blown obsession. “From literature and film, to music and art, from that time forward, I was hungry for all things unearthly and strange, ghastly and ghostly, gruesome and grotesque,” she said.
#4
Mri Of A Pregnant Woman
#5
Never Thought Those Roos Were So Terrifying
Madison Feehan 2 years ago
Great, just another Australian thing to keep me up at night! How do you people live in terror? 😱
#6
Last Thing A Fish Sees In Antartica
S. Elizabeth argues that there are things people are deeply fearful of now that they were many hundreds of years ago. “No doubt they will strike fear into the hearts of future generations. Death and loss and aging, war and sickness and disease. Fear of the unknown!”
Having said that, she believes that the details change with the times. “Maybe those fears take different shapes, but until we figure out how to stop the aging process and become immortal (like those vampires!), unless we get a handle on our violent human tendencies, unless as a people we learn to become more compassionate and empathetic—none of those things are going to change, and those fears will continue to plague us in some form or another.”
#7
A Patient With Claustrophobia Panicking During A Ct Scan
Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago
A live picture of my soul leaving my body when I saw that gigantic Australian moth.
#8
This Is An Australian Moth, It Can Also Fly
#9
A Picture Of A Bridge With Snow I Took
S. Elizabeth also explained: “maybe it seems like we’re more scared now than we ever were, what with our smart phones and a million apps with a million social media accounts bombarding us with all of the horrors of the modern world, 24 hours a day. As a lifelong horror enthusiast (and someone who is afraid of a lot of things, like A LOT), I feel that I’m not too far off.”
#10
.....oh
#11
Something Darksided Going On In That Household I’m Sorry
#12
Bad Idea After All
#13
Forever, Forever
#14
No Filters. Australia Was Red From Wildfires [2019]
![No Filters. Australia Was Red From Wildfires [2019]](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/6231c5233d129_lwlxont7s7i81-png__700.jpg "No Filters. Australia Was Red From Wildfires [2019]")
#15
What An Uncanny Mannequ- Oh Wait That's A Person
#16
The Girl Cursed With The Inability To Feel Physical Pain. She Rarely Eats Or Sleeps Because Of Her Inability To Feel Hunger Or Tiredness
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
That's sad. The few with this disorder can legit break bones or burn themselves and not notice. As much as I think I would like to live without pain No thank you
#17
Building A Mountain Road In China
#18
Koala Brains Look Like Top Quality Chicken Breast
#19
Saturn's North Pole Is A Hexagon
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
That hexagon contains many storms and cyclones. The same can be found on jupiter’s poles as well
#20
Chick Born With The Genetic Defect Polymelia, Causing It To Have 4 Legs
#21
Something Tells Me I Should Find Something Else To Eat
#22
Sfx Painted On My Hand
#23
Not A Corn
#24
I Left Netflix Running In My Bedroom This Morning And Came Back To See This Frozen On The Screen
#25
Anyone Know Anything About This Weird Flyer?
#26
Sign On A Cemetery Gate
Laura Henderson 2 years ago
It's a bad plagiarism of a famous old Scottish gravestone inscription: "Come weary traveller, rest by me. / For as I am now, so you will be. / As you are now, so once was I / So pause a while as you pass by."
#27
Telescopefish. This Deep-Sea Species Can Swallow Prey Larger Than Itself And Lives In Depths Between 500 And 3000 Meters
#28
This Abandoned Hospital Had A Visitor Last Night
#29
Out For A Ride
#30
My Friend Cooked Red Rice But She Put Too Much Water
#31
The Dog’s Name Is Junebug
#32
This Clown "Shower" Is An Absolute Nope
#33
Big Eye Grendalier, They Live Deep Down Near The Sea Floor
#34
A Freestanding, Stiff Cable Found At A Playground. Nothing Happen When I Pulled It
#35
Just Sit Still And You’ll Be Fine
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
My ex refused to go on any carnival ride because as a teen he helped set them up. Nuff said.
#36
Portland Man Found His Tires Slashed, And This Note On His Car
#37
This Is A Real Advertisement For The Gameboy In The 1990
#38
He Is Staring Into My Soul
#39
Win Or Die
#40
The Dinosaurs In Jurassic Park Weren't Graphics. Most Of Them Are Actors In Costumes
DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
Till the 'are' of "The Dinosaurs In Jurassic Park Weren't Graphics. Most Of Them Are" I was thinking "Lol they're gonna say 'Real Dinosaurs' " Now I'm laughing at my own joke
#41
Face Swap On Horse And Dog
DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago
The second pic is making me laugh like a hyena as well as making me dread for today's nightmares
#42
Shark Jesus
#43
I Was A Weird Kid
#44
Abandoned Church In A Small Czech Village Remains A Shrine Filled With Ghost Sculptures Of The Parishioners Who Passed Away There
#45
Sorry For The Phone Camera But Why Did I Suddenly Woke Up In A Silent Hill Game?
#46
My Friend And His Girlfriend Came Across This In Somebody’s House
#47
Bluebottle Maggot Under An Electron Microscope
#48
A Mother Hiding Her Face As She Puts Her Children On Sale (Chicago USA, 1948)
Alex Boyd 2 years ago
It was not common to sell your children in 1948. The picture is real, but it attracted nationwide media attention because it was as bizarre and horrifying to people then as it is now.
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Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago (edited)
In 2008 a woman in Mississippi tried to sell her grandchild and they had a hard time prosecuting her because there were no state laws in place specifically for that. Not that long ago.
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
But then to have them sitting on display on the front steps... Weren't people aware of pedophiles then? I cringe to think what happened to those kids.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Strangers molesting children, while a regular if gruesome news headline nowadays, would have been an unaccustomed topic to people's experience/world view 80 years ago. Less media coverage in that day & age, less news reports in general. Displaying the kids is the least problem, since childten had a lot of freedom of movement then. Sent out to play, called back for meals, no idea, where exactly they are in between. Anyone ambitious enough to grab a child would have been spoiled for choosing, with or without seeing them "advertised" beforehand. Also most child molesting takes place within kids' families/familiar surroundings (these days, too).
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DaVo 2 years ago
Here's more about what happened to the children: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/4-children-sale-1948/
the annoying theatre kid 2 years ago
this is a really famous photograph. in seventh grade history, we had an entire week where we just analyzed this photo.
Masen Silas 2 years ago
Whats creepy? The two in the back look like me and my sister and the boy in the front left looks like my brother...
Pat Wooster 2 years ago
I am a real chicken and yet I’m looking at these pictures. But this one has upset me much more than all the others. I could cry.
Dr. Harleen Quinzel 2 years ago
There's a long story behind this photo. It was initially done for publicity and money, but she did eventually sell her kids. She gambled and drank the money away. The kids all had hard lives - I recall that one of the boys was a slave laborer. All of the children reunited later in life though, so it was a happy end for them!
Brian Bennett 2 years ago
Reproduction reduction awful I'd rather you sell yourself brave momma!
Ilvana Babic 2 years ago (edited)
One idiot mother for sale! Like there is nooooo other way but this! Shame on her!
Thomas Sweda 2 years ago
Looks like she could have gotten a job in the graphic arts industry. That’s pretty nice lettering.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
"In this tragic picture, the four children are seen on display on their front stoop as their mother hides her face from the photojournalist. The woman, Lucille Chalifoux, was only 24 years old, but pregnant with her fifth child at the time. Lucille and her husband Ray, age 40, were facing eviction from their apartment at the time. Ray had lost his job as a coal truck driver. Faced with the prospect of being homeless – and the daunting task of feeding so many mouths – they chose to auction off their own children." - https://www.ranker.com/list/story-behind-photo-of-children-for-sale/1499368817867 - story is there.
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Julian McCallum 2 years ago
I've seen this image before in history class. It's not creepy, it's just sad
rehabisforquitters 2 years ago
Why is it that the type faces on signs in those old, black and white photos where always done with such uniformity. Easy to read text with a clearly stated mesage, no cluttering with unnecessary graphics. Simple.
Cheryl Carter 2 years ago
sell them right into sex slaves or servants. How do you think the kids felt having that sign up to show they weren't loved? Damn Shame.
Nancy Bernard 2 years ago
Mom may just be crying feeling she had to give up her children because she couldn't take care of them any longer.
Shaun Coleman 2 years ago
So what did a child go for back then? I know Americans believe in capitalism but that is just wrong.
Gerald Lewy 2 years ago
I saw a sign just like that in the mid-1950s. The mother wasn't joking, she just couldn't afford to keep them. So sad to read this sign. All of these kids had hands around each other, look at that the mother on the top step, she is truly $$ desperate.
MAKtheknife 2 years ago
There was a book written about that called "Sold on a Monday." by Kristina McMorris.
Ruth Scheidler 2 years ago
Heart wrenching, for the distraught mother and her innocent children. Speaks volumes about our lack of community support at the time.
Brandy Grote 2 years ago
https://www.ranker.com/list/story-behind-photo-of-children-for-sale/1499368817867
Laura Silverstein 2 years ago
I guess u have to have some pity for those living in such dire straits of poverty which would compel them to try making money like this
Linny H 2 years ago
Sad. Not as awful as the pic with the kkk at the fair. This mom was probably trying to provide a better life for her babies. I hope they got that, and they loved their mom for doing what was undoubtedly a very painful sacrifice. Can't imagine.
Memere 2 years ago
According to the story in the link that DaVo shared, the mom just wanted to have a social life. And two of the kids were bought by a horrible couple & treated like slaves. Here's the link if you want to have your heart broken: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/4-children-sale-1948/
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Abigail Coty 2 years ago
This occurred often in the 1930’s during the Great Depression as people could not afford to feed their children. So, they would sell them instead.
Crissie Laugesen 2 years ago
1948? Surely more like ten or more years earlier, in Depression days.
saynogo 2 years ago
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/4-children-sale-1948/
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April Goodwin Crawford 2 years ago (edited)
Why is this shocking in a country that had slavery? Is it because they are white or she voluntarily gave her kids away? The story behind this picture is sad. https://www.ranker.com/list/story-behind-photo-of-children-for-sale/1499368817867
Shelley Jennings 2 years ago
And she sold the one she was pregnant with in this Pic. If you can't feed em, don't breed em 😱
ChickyChicky 2 years ago
You know that birth control was not real great then, right? Where's everyone ragging on the kids' father(s)?
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Sawdust 2 years ago
The sign does look like it was painted by a professional...it's so well lettered.
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#49
These Pointy Hat Fellas Enjoying A Ferris Wheel Ride
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Mr Zipperface 2 years ago
Would the headline writer please check the definition of terrifying.
John Baker 2 years ago
"While most people can barely watch horror films like Paranormal Activity without going into a full-blown breakdown...." Really?
s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago
No kidding. So the psychiatric wards got filled up to the rafters with movie goers? Overwrought!
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SusanS 2 years ago
Why do these start with far too many? Try to remember the attention span of people
John Baker 2 years ago
Just because Zoomers have attention spans measured in nanoseconds doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Mr Zipperface 2 years ago
Would the headline writer please check the definition of terrifying.
John Baker 2 years ago
"While most people can barely watch horror films like Paranormal Activity without going into a full-blown breakdown...." Really?
s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago
No kidding. So the psychiatric wards got filled up to the rafters with movie goers? Overwrought!
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Why do these start with far too many? Try to remember the attention span of people
John Baker 2 years ago
Just because Zoomers have attention spans measured in nanoseconds doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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