Shit You Think is Spooky/Disturbing - Beware! You're in for a scare...

[NoReturn]

I feel this on a lot of levels but to expound a bit upon it something that terrifies me is the idea that there IS a life beyond death but it's an incomprehensible nightmare; something that is truly worse than a state of non existence that we have no frame of reference to comprehend. THAT thought has legit kept me up at night on more than one occasion.

To complete this line of reasoning is the idea that not only is THIS life life after death, but it’s the most basic interpretation of hell: existence without God. It’s not something I believe is real, but it definitely adds a sombre tone to all the suffering and strife in the world.

Howdy folks, and welcome to Gnosticism! On your left you'll see the path to the secret schools, and on the right you have "Intro to the demiurge 101".

 

[Lady Round Buns]

I came across some weirdo on FB a few years ago, claimed to have been born into what people call the Illuminati. He had a year long blog linked, where he described the rituals and belief system he (and they) followed. He claimed that he had to go through some serious shit to be "free", but this is after his first post said that they're a family of liars, and he is a liar too.

I don't really believe anything he'd said, but the fact that he posted for so long and with such intensity creeped me out to no end.

 

[Troonologist PhD]

Drag queens are like something from a surreal horror movie and are living reminders why the Bible lists cross dressing as a sin. They’re worse than most troons.

 

[PotatoSalad4711]

Tornadoes. I’ve had dreams where I’m on the beach having fun, then a tornado forms and we all have to run for safety. Probably a metaphor for my life, but whatever.

Also, snakes. Those little beady-eyed motherfuckers need to die. What is their purpose besides ruining an otherwise nice walk in the woods?

 

[Peru oso donas]

The alarming number of incidents where someone commits suicide by drowning themselves in the dark, desolate water tank of an apartment building, only for the other residents to unknowingly drink and bathe in small particles of their decomposing body for months.

Isn't that how Elisa Lam's body was found? The case itself is creepy as hell, even if the logical explanation is accidental suicide due to schizophrenia.

My personal fear are flies and/or other bugs flying up on my face or inside my ears, and I don't mean like those tiny flies the size of a pea, but stuff that is the size of your thumb's toenail; I still remember a time where i was watering my plants and one weird ass bug that looked like a fly but with the look of a beetle flew directly into my ear, thank god i was wearing headphones.

 

[Technetium]

Windows on the first floor after dark, and closed shower curtains. The idea that something I can't see could possibly see me scares the hell out of me. I can't use the bathroom at night with the shower curtain closed.

Lol I'm a grown ass person and I still have these kinds of fears now, just as strong as I had them when I was 7 years old. I thought as you grow older you stop with all those ridiculous sissy fears, but nope, they never went away for me.

 

[JektheDumbass]

Really? I would be hard pressed to think of anything less scary than sloths.

 

[Shiggy Diggster]

The Dead Archons theory that mostly gets written off as schizo-posting. Essentially, it's that the afterlife is ruled by interdimensional vampires that enslave humans in the afterlife and force them to reincarnate to feed off their spirit energy.

The idea of an eternal soul is itself terrifying. An eternal universe means that every potential scenario will play itself out an infinite amount of times. It means there's no stability to be found and the terrain will always eventually shift under your feet. You're going to spend just as long burning in hell as you will spend playing a harp in heaven: forever.

 

[Anja Din]

It’s scary how unpredictable people can be. Also stuff like night paralysis - watched a documentary about it and yikes.

 

[Pistoleer]

Being deaf and blind at the same time. It would be like living in a nightmare 24/7. You would be so isolated in a world of total darkness and silence. I sometimes wonder what I would do if it happened to me, and I'm convinced I would go insane straight away. I would be repeatedly screaming for someone to kill me untill I lose my voice.

Thoughts like these made me pro-euthanasia. You have people that live like this, or live in vegetated states and are forced to stay alive because "all life is precious" or some BS.

I mean, look at this shit...

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This guy tried to kill himself and was left in a vegetated state where the only movement he could make was blinking FOR 2 FUCKING YEARS! Yet, its the "trolls" who are the bad guys and not the sociopathic mum keeping him alive in his personal hell.

This is my worst nightmare.

This reminds me of that Metallica song “One.”
When I got older I realized what the song was actually saying, still find that shit unnerving to this day.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

This reminds me of that Metallica song “One.”
When I got older I realized what the song was actually saying, still find that shit unnerving to this day.

Which was based on Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

Eta: And anyone who's read it, Jesus fucking Christ to that one part. You know the one.

 

[Muttnik]

Nuclear war.
I saw Threads once and it pretty much traumatized me. I can stomach a lot of freaky shit without blinking. I can watch serial killer documentaries and look at creepy crawlies and read awful shit without even reacting. But the idea of a bunch of dumbfucks destroying the world over a squabble and letting the few remaining living inhabitants die of radiation poisoning in the most miserable way possible fucks me up. It leaves no meaning behind and everyone gets screwed. Every time there's a weather or amber alert, my heart stops.

 

[Basil II]

I got to the part with the dog and no more for me tonight.

Why anyone sane would want to go poking around in a cave is beyond me. No, no, no, absolutely fucking no.

Spoiler: dog remains safe

 

[AnOminous]

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Even if it came at you for some reason, you'd have like a week to get out of the way.

Why anyone sane would want to go poking around in a cave is beyond me. No, no, no, absolutely fucking no.

I don't have a particular phobia of caves, or the dark, or water, but if you start stacking these they get pretty nightmarish. Like imagine dying of drowning in an underwater cave. You combine dying, alone, in the dark, underwater, and never being found and at that point that is horrifying.

Also apparently the actual writer of this copypasta eventually came forward and admitted it was fictionalized and that the cave is actually a cave called Interstate Cave in Utah. The actual cave exploration happened but he embellished. It's called Interstate Cave (or Caves) because it is actually partly under an interstate, as mentioned in the story itself.

Some details:

https://grahamjw.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/ted-the-caver-mystery/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/ld0i3/teds_cave_a_relatively_unknown_peice_of_internet/

National Speleological Society Discussion Board - Creepy story!

 

[Bloitzhole]

The atheist idea that dead is dead and there's nothing beyond it. It started roughly around the first time I read pet sematary and it mentioned Louis Creed didn't believe in life after death, and that most doctors in general don't. I spent days even weeks reading articles and pieces on life after death, ndes, and whatever I could to try and find some thing be it faith or science based that says there's more to our own mortality than we know.
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Not perfectly on topic but:

Since death as non-existence has been mentioned as a source of fear: I found first death itself, then dying very scary for a long time. Two things helped me immensely.
What has made me not fear death was a very simple realization:
You don't live, and then you are dead. You are dead, then you live, then you are dead again. All of us are well experienced when it comes to being dead. We've done it for billions of years. This is just the exception - we live for a while and then we return to being dead again. What was the year 1925 like for you? Chances are, you'll tell me you weren't there, so how would you know. Since apparently your answer wasn't "it was immensely painful", death can't be all that insufferable.

Then dying, the light switch clicking off if you will, scared me, but Epicurus helped me out.
“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.” He then goes on to say that whoever thinks that the supreme annihilator of all feelings might be painful (the process of dying) is being very silly - because it's a nonsensical and illogical thing to think, that that which ends all sensation, is particularly sensational.

Way more on topic:
Opiliones, "harvest-men" or "daddy long legs" give me the absolute creeps. I don't mind big hairy spiders or black widows - but those fuckers with their tiny bodies and enormous legs make my brain scream "NO NO NO, FUCK OFF" constantly as long as they are in my field of view - it's like an alien life form, it literally makes me think "you should not exist, you are not of this world" - I guess 'cause they use a weird pneumatic or hydraulic system to move rather than muscles. And their legs are just so absurdly long. I got goosebumps just writing about it.

 

[I__quit]

The picture of a deceased homeless man named Johnnie Redding in Detroit has stayed with me ever since stumbling upon it. Finding a corpse while urban exploring is an easy scare tactic but there's a very sad reality in the number of destitutes who could meet a similar fate in massive, abandoned structures. This man did have a family who tried to keep up with him and offer him help, but he chose his lifestyle, presumably with the aid of mental illness and drug addiction. How his corpse ended up frozen in a elevator shaft is up for debate; either he fell himself or someone (another "lodger," perhaps) found him dead of an overdose and attempted to hide his body. Regardless, those legs sticking out of the ice is haunting.

Spoiler: Body frozen in shaft

 

[Cheesegirl78]

The picture of a deceased homeless man named Johnnie Redding in Detroit has stayed with me ever since stumbling upon it. Finding a corpse while urban exploring is an easy scare tactic but there's a very sad reality in the number of destitutes who could meet a similar fate in massive, abandoned structures. This man did have a family who tried to keep up with him and offer him help, but he chose his lifestyle, presumably with the aid of mental illness and drug addiction. How his corpse ended up frozen in a elevator shaft is up for debate; either he fell himself or someone (another "lodger," perhaps) found him dead of an overdose and attempted to hide his body. Regardless, those legs sticking out of the ice is haunting.

Spoiler: Body frozen in shaft

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These are always so sad to me.
I remember a story about a homeless woman that was found dead under an abandoned couch in LA years ago.
It took quite a long time, but authorities found a brother, who said he hadn't seen her for over 20 years. She was also mentally ill and had addiction problems.

 

[Anja Din]

The picture of a deceased homeless man named Johnnie Redding in Detroit has stayed with me ever since stumbling upon it. Finding a corpse while urban exploring is an easy scare tactic but there's a very sad reality in the number of destitutes who could meet a similar fate in massive, abandoned structures. This man did have a family who tried to keep up with him and offer him help, but he chose his lifestyle, presumably with the aid of mental illness and drug addiction. How his corpse ended up frozen in a elevator shaft is up for debate; either he fell himself or someone (another "lodger," perhaps) found him dead of an overdose and attempted to hide his body. Regardless, those legs sticking out of the ice is haunting.

Spoiler: Body frozen in shaft

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jfc poor guy. Reminds me of that article someone posted here a while back about that homeless guy who some asshole streamer paid to do a flip and he died. Link

its pretty sad to see people that vulnerable just dead out there in the ice. And I wonder how long he was out there before someone found him.

 

[AnOminous]

its pretty sad to see people that vulnerable just dead out there in the ice. And I wonder how long he was out there before someone found him.

Apparently for months. The early people who saw him didn't report it to the police because they were trespassing themselves. Not until it was a front page news story (including that picture) that there was this dead guy frozen out there did they bother to go pick up the body, even after they'd been called about it.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Nuclear war.
I saw Threads once and it pretty much traumatized me. I can stomach a lot of freaky shit without blinking. I can watch serial killer documentaries and look at creepy crawlies and read awful shit without even reacting. But the idea of a bunch of dumbfucks destroying the world over a squabble and letting the few remaining living inhabitants die of radiation poisoning in the most miserable way possible fucks me up. It leaves no meaning behind and everyone gets screwed. Every time there's a weather or amber alert, my heart stops.

I haven't found anyone else who has seen this movie, it was terrifying to me.
I was seven months along with my youngest when 9/11 happened, I thought this was it and wondered if I was going to be chewing through an umbilical cord in a couple of months.

Another thing that scares me, sinkholes.
I watched the news about the guy in Florida who was sleeping in his bedroom, a giant sinkhole opens up and sucked almost the entire bedroom down.
One of the other people in the home heard him screaming, then nothing.
Search teams went into the sinkhole to try and rescue/recover him, but didn't find anything.
Apparently, the hole had been growing for a few years, until a recent heavy rain made the ground soft enough to collapse.