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stories. Okay storytime... What are some VERY
creepy facts?
Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always
more decomposed than their male counterparts.
They discovered that this was because male
bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female
bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family
home until they started to decompose in order
to avoid necrophilia at the embalmers.
After getting stung by a cone snail, you don’t
feel the sting for a little bit. There is
no antivenin and it can be lethal. Treatment
is basically keeping the victim alive until
the venom wears off.
One reason that crows and ravens are associated
with death is because they would often follow
armies as they marched to battle. Being both
carrion birds and extremely intelligent, they
realized that a large group of armed men marching
on one direction meant that there would be
a tasty meal of corpses to eat soon afterwards.
Blobfish in its natural habitat looks like
a normal fish, but it lives so deep under
water that it doesn't use a normal gas bladder
to keep itself balanced. Instead, it has a
spongy skin that is slightly less dense than
water, which becomes damaged and bloated when
fishermen bring it up too quickly.It's not
really the ugliest fish. It has just experienced
something worse than one of us being thrown
into outer space. Between sea level and space,
there's one atmospheric pressure of difference.
Between sea level and 2000 feet under water,
their upper limit, there's 60 atmospheres
of difference.
When you happen to be murdered there is only
an about 40% chance that your murderer will
be found and punished.Edit: a lot of people
are asking which country I'm referring to.
This is a worldwide approximation. There are
obviously countries with higher percentages
of solved murder cases, but also some with
even lower. For example in the US there is
a 40% chance to get away with murder, in mexico
90% to get away with it. Organized crime,
the overall amount of crimes in that area
and war plays a huge role in this.
If you begin to display symptoms of rabies
you will go crazy and die. There's no cure.
Your brain will slowly melt until you're dead.
Serial hiller Richard Chase took any unlocked
door as an invitation to come inside.
Crocodiles can gallop. Like a horse. I don't
like knowing this so I am cursing you people
with this knowledge as well. Fortunately alligators
cannot.
In the US if someone is kidnapped and not
found within about a day then there is a 97%
chance the kidnapped person is dead.
Men who are hanged get a death erection, known
as rigor erectus.Pretty awkward for the family,
I assume.
There’s a parasite that enters a fish’s
mouth, eats the tongue and replaces itself
as the fish’s new tongue
A black mamba is the fastest snake which can
slither at a speed of 12.5 miles an hour (20km/hr).
They have neurotoxins which are fast acting.
The venom shuts down the nervous system and
paralyses the victim. Its venom is able to
hill 10 people and it repeatedly bites. To
add onto this, there is an almost 100% hill
rate and can hill in 20 minutes.
Tarantulas can swim.
If you live to age 70 you will have shed around
105 pounds of skin
Edit: Because most seem confused. I mean over
time not all at once that would be terrible
It wasn't until 1987 that the American Academy
of Pediatrics declared it unethical to operate
on newborns without anesthesia. Until surprisingly
recently, the medical community felt it would
be dangerous to give infants anesthesia and/or
believed that they didn't feel pain..
When creating the Pirates of the Caribbean
ride at Disneyland, they couldn’t create
skeletons that looked “realistic” enough,
so they used real human skeletons They’ve
since removed all of them except one
Ducks become cannibals due to boredom , of
all ducking reasons. They can only be stopped
by cutting off their "mouths"!
It was once discovered that a fir tree was
growing inside a human body. Artyom Sidorkin
went to the doctors suspecting something wrong
with his lungs. The doctors thought they were
dealing with a tumor but turns out he had
inhaled a fir tree seed which had sprouted
and had begum growing in his lungs.Edit: Wow
so Greys Anatomy is a popular show. I'm sure
this was the inspiration for that episode.
cuckroaches have been recorded eating human
flesh, both living and dead, as well as fingernails,
eyelashes, feet, and hands. The American cuckroach
and German cuckroach are more likely to bite
humans than other species.Pretty sure Australian
cuckroaches do something equally creepy, but
as an Australian who plans to sleep at some
point in the future, I'm not going to google
it.
There was a speech made for Apollo 11 if they
were to die on the moon.Side fact - if it
were to happen, people would look up at the
moon knowing that, that crew died there, and
their bodies would rest there till the end
of time. Not forgetting that the ocean is
somewhat like this, many people died there
too, at the very depths of the sea.
It’s quite common after you die to burp
a lot as you have more gas build up. Dead
bodies can also sit up on their own sometimes
Most people smell different when they’re
awake
Mount Everest is covered in frozen corpses
because removing them is very unsafe and time
consuming. They are easily viewed from the
climbing routes and some are used as trail
markers.
Imagine being totally aware of someone preforming
CPR but you physically can't move or respond.
Well that's what happens when you get bitten
by a blue ringed octopus, you have approx
6minutes between being bitten and someone
starting CPR to keep your heart and lungs
functioning to ensure you survive, all whilst
being totally aware of what is happening to
you. Neurotoxins are fun!
There are upwards of 300 active serial killers
in the world
Hearing is the last thing to go after you
die. You just might hear the paramedics and
firefighters call off CPR...
A single tiger has hilled over 436 people
in India.
Dolphins are ducking monsters and although
this one isn't as creepy as other comments
but gangs of male dolphins can trap a female,
slap her around with their tails, and forcibly
duck her for weeks.Dolphins are ducked up
man
human brains when they dry out smell like
cat pizz- that stinky ammonia smell.worked
in an ER for 17 years in CT. had a gumshot
to the head come in and a chunk fell onto
my shoe and didn't notice. while driving home
was like "what the duck did my cat pizz in
the car or something???" went to take my shoes
off and there is was
**edit for all you people with morbid curiosity:
fresh brains look like cream cheese mixed
with strawberry jam
**edit 2: no, they died , translife harvested
organs
Elmer McCurdy was a failed old west “outlaw.”
His preserved body was put on display in a
traveling carnival and years later he was
eventually assumed to be a mannequin until
he was used on set for the TV show the Six
Million Dollar Man.His arm accidentally fell
off during the shoot, revealing bone and muscle
and that he was a corpse, not a mannequin.
Sometimes an AMBER alert causes kidnappers
to panic and hill the kid immediately....Wow
this got way more attention than I expected.
This is very rare and most of the time AMBER
alerts are issued for kids taken by an estranged
family member where the kid is in no danger.
AMBER alerts have also saves hundreds of lives...Sorry
for bumming you all out.
"Sense of impending doom" is an actual symptom
that often precedes your death, usually in
cases of heart attack. VERY creepy for some
of us that suffer from anxiety and panic attacks
to begin with, both share that symptom!!!....
The stonefish, an incredibly venomous fish
living in tropical waters mostly off the coast
of Australia and parts of US, can cause pain
that only escalates with time. Eventually
the pain will subside but even after the barb
is removed, patients have reported increasing
pain 12+ hours later. Without anti-venom or
denaturing the venom with excessive heat,
the pain builds and builds until the patients
request euthanasia. Its spines hold the venom,
hidden in its dorsal fins.
Aboriginals living around the Great Barrier
reef have "corroborees," large gatherings,
and will during these gatherings hold reenactments
of people being stung by this monster (for
what I assume is either amusement, learning,
or both).Edit: corroboree clarification Edit
2: pain does eventually end.. reminded of
suicide tree where pain does not. Terrible
leaves for toilet paper...
There's a spider that gives you a 3h long
boner, before you die from its bite Edit:
the boner it gives you is very painful.
They used real corpses in the 1982 film Poltergeist,
for the ending pool scene. The actress did
not know until AFTER the scene was filmed.
CNN has had a pre-recorded broadcast from
the 90’s which they will premiere during
the end of the world
Since 2007, at least 20 detached human feet
have been found on the coasts of the Salish
Sea.
From Atlas Obscura by Foer, Thuras, and Morton:Necropants
(Reader's discretion advised)
In Iceland, a long ats time ago (17th c),
friends followed complex rules to obtain a
dead man's skin to turn them into pants.You
had to get permission from the dude to use
his skin after he kicked the bucket.
You would then wait until burial formalities
concluded.
You would rob the sheet out of your buddy's
grave.
You would cut the waist and peel the bottom
half of the body off in one perfect flay.
You would then steel a coin from a poor widow,
preferably your bud's.
Place the coin in the scrotum of the necropants
to attract cosmic sheet, specifically more
wealth in life, and leave the groin full of
coins at all times.
Pass that sheet down to your kid.Fun fact:
The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft
has a pair on display for all of us sickos
to gawk at.Edit: *Steal a coin
Additional: You are right, it's folklore.
What is creepy is that they dedicated a museum
to all of this ducking metal folklore and
bothered to create a replica of a very disturbing
idea. :)
I just thought the story telling would be
fun, and lo and behold, I had some amazing
comments come from it!
some species of spiderlings eat their mothers
alive :)
The nausyno Affair
For those who don't want to read the ducked
up details:In Stalin's Russia, 6700 people
were sent to live in a work camp on an island
in a remote part of Russia. They had no supplies,
shelter, or tools and if they tried to leave
the island they were shot and hilled by Russian
soldiers.It took less than 2 months before
the people on the island, in their desperation,
gave in to a cannibalistic holocaust. Over
4000 people were hilled or went "missing"
in that time.In the end only 300 people made
it off the island in one piece.It wasn't until
the late 80's that a world tribunal even found
out the gruesome details of what went on there.....
There are more creatures in your mouth than
there are people on earth.
The astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger
most likely didn’t die until they hit the
water miles below the initial explosion.
I once read that you should play dead if a
bear attacks you, unless they start licking
your wounds because that means they plan to
eat you. That still haunts me to this day.Edit:
If it helps I'm pretty sure I was reading
about grizzly bears at the time during one
of my fevered "Grizzly Man" rabbit holes.
After raping his blindfolded victims, the
Golden State hiller would be super duper quiet
and pretend like he was gone and right when
the poor victims would start to move towards
the phone or try to untie themselves he would
scare the ducking sheet outta them.
Pigs will eat anything. There are stories
of pigs entering farmhouses and eating newborn
humans.
More than 7000 people die annually due to
the doctor's bad handwriting.....
The human body can be drained of blood in
8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems
The men of the ship Essix (the true event
that inspires the story “Moby big nick”)
avoided islands after being shipwrecked for
fear of cannibals. The islands were settled
and landing there would have brought salvation
to the survivors. Ironically because of this
bypass, the men ran out of food and were forced
to eat each other for survival.
In the Czech Republic, there is a church called
The Sedlec Ossuary that has decorations made
entirely of human bones.This happened because
there were too many people in the cemetery
to bury everyone, and the church leaders claimed
that if their bones became part of the church,
it only made them closer to God.Nice propaganda
spin there, guys.
Anything to do with parasitic wasps.
Jeffery Dahmer tried to make "six zombies"
out of some of his victims by drilling holes
in their heads while they were still alive
and pouring acid into the holes.
A bubble caused by false vacuum decay could
be expanding through our galaxy right now,
destroying everything it touches. And we wouldn't
even know about it, because it travels at
the speed of light.Edit: to all the people
who I've given existential dread with this
comment - I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking of
it as scary as much as just creepy. And as
others have pointed out already, it's hypothetical
at this point. So try not to work about it.
:)
Every year you live through the future anniversary
of your death....
Eventually there will be more dead people
on Facebook than alive..
An elephant masturbates by slapping it’s
pen 15 on itself
Unborn babies have a layer of hair around
them (to regulate body temperature) called
Lanugo. They shed it, eat it, then poop it
out after birth.....
According to Abe Lincoln's body guard Crook,
he said Lincoln had a dream about his own
assassination 3 nights in a row before he
was hilled.Crook told Lincoln NOT to go on
that fateful night, and all Lincoln said was
"Goodbye, Crook" before he went to the play.This
was VERY ODD as Lincoln always said, Goodnight
NOT goodbye.
You're more likely to be murdered by someone
you know than a stranger
If you stifle a sneeze there’s a chance
you can damage organs in your head, including
eye blood vessels, rupturing your eardrums,
and possibly rupture a brain aneurysm. Which
means there’s a small chance stifling a
sneeze can hill you. Better to be the loud
ats with the sneeze that can be heard around
the world than a dead loud ats cause someone
told you to stifle that sneeze
This might not be very creepy, but there are
no laws against cannibalism in the USA. You
might be arrested for something else, but
not for cannibalism.Edit: I would like to
clarify that I am in no way a practitioner
of law. I don't know the specifics of what
you would be arrested for. This was just a
random fact floating in my brain.Edit 2: Most
of the USA lacks these laws. It seems Idaho
had some... incidents, leading to them being
the only state with anti-cannibilism laws.
Thank you for informing me. You all know who
you are.
