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

The arbitrary and sometimes unpredictable temperament of weather.

Despite our advances in forecasting technology, rapid refresh monitoring technology, and meteorologist training, we still miss the occasional destructive tornado (in other words, it goes unwarned by local offices and was completely unexpected in the forecast) and we (quite frequently) overhype a forecast. And the professionals will all tell you the way to fight back against fear of these unknowns is to "be prepared", with much emphasis being placed on "having multiple ways to receive warnings", but when all those warnings are issued by the one office that either regularly doesn't pick up certain threats or false positives other potential risks, then it doesn't matter how many ways you might have to receive warnings.

Some of the worst storms we've ever had where I live have almost always been something that was never adequately warned until well after the threat had sucker punched the local area. Professional meteorologists also chalk up any grey/lacking/poor performance on their parts to "Mother Nature doing what she will," which isn't incorrect, but it's kind of spooky when a phenomenon that could absolutely ruin your day at best and end your life at worst is left up to a completely unpredictable (by our current measures at least) gamble.
 
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Toolbox said:
I think the major thing is a lot of doctors just lose the care they once had for the field and then start to lose empathy towards the hundreds of people they have to care for a year. I can understand that, but it should absolutely be made a priority to make sure you're following procedure for surgeries, of all the stuff to forget how to do. An actual life or death situation sometimes. I'm worrying that the medical industry is continually hiring people solely in it for the pay who never had any empathy for any patients.
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I mean I don't give a shit if they see me as a statistic or not, but goddamn at least make sure to do your job right.
 
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During the span of a few months when I was 8 or 9, we used to get these weird calls right before my bedtime, at a house we had just moved into in a foreign city.

The calls would always play like this: a loud siren, followed by a recorded voice saying "Attention! Attention! Highly suspicious activity on Such-and-Such Road, John Public University Medical Centre (a teaching hospital branch my family had no relation to, located in a dodgy area nowhere near the house) Take immediate action! Take immediate action!" Roger beep, repeat one or two times, then hang up. While you may think police dispatcher, the audio quality was too crisp for that, and the voice tone and delivery made it sound more like a sombre radio announcement.

As far as I'm aware, the frequency of the calls would greatly vary. Sometimes they'd call twice in a row, or a couple nights per week. The first few times I didn't think much of it, but a few weeks in and picking up one of these right before going to bed (or overhearing my parents doing so, which I'd guess by hearing them hang up and swear immediately after the phone rang) was enough to ensure I'd be wide awake till past midnight.

I can't really recall my dad's reaction to them (other than him vaguely telling me where that place was, iirc), but I remember asking my mum about it once. She just shrugged it off, made some aloof remark, and told me not to try and call back. Which of course I did the first chance I got. Disappointingly, it rang but nobody ever picked up.

It's been about 17 years and, while I hadn't thought about that in a long time, I still very vividly remember every sound and word in these calls. The siren and the ominous voice urging 8yo me to "take immediate action" over the phone sends chills up my spine to this day.

And a quick one. When I was younger, for some reason I had a tendency for noticing weird or schizo-tier flyers and signs plastered around everywhere. Shittiest sixth sense ever (aUtIsM iS mY sOoPeRpOwEr UwU). Think kind of truewagner's stuff, years before that was a thing. Nothing too remarkable there, rn I only can remember one that said something like "disabled boy looks for his missing dog, !!! R E W A R D !!!" with a picture of a vacuum cleaner. Normally I'd spot one of the things, go "hmm that's weird" then move on.

Years later, I learnt about shit such as the May Day Mystery, and read or saw somewhere how the family of a wealthy businessman who was being held hostage would routinely place bizarre fake travel agency ads in newspapers, that were actually coded messages he'd eventually see. Ever since, I'm spooked at the thought there may have been something more sinister buried beneath the meaning of some of the weird signs I seemed to see everywhere when I was a wee lad.
 
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Cyclonus said:

Oppenheimer's famous interview about the first atomic bomb test at Trinity. Its haunting how broken and remorseful the man is for what he brought into the world. On a lighter note, ERB recreated his demeanour brilliantly and he kicked Thanos's ass:

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His voice cannot emote the amount of sadness and guilt that he feels. But his eyes tell everything about how he feels. They get to me everytime that clip pops up in my recommended
 
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friends o' niall said:
During the span of a few months when I was 8 or 9, we used to get these weird calls right before my bedtime, at a house we had just moved into in a foreign city.

The calls would always play like this: a loud siren, followed by a recorded voice saying "Attention! Attention! Highly suspicious activity on Such-and-Such Road, John Public University Medical Centre (a teaching hospital branch my family had no relation to, located in a dodgy area nowhere near the house) Take immediate action! Take immediate action!" Roger beep, repeat one or two times, then hang up. While you may think police dispatcher, the audio quality was too crisp for that, and the voice tone and delivery made it sound more like a sombre radio announcement.

As far as I'm aware, the frequency of the calls would greatly vary. Sometimes they'd call twice in a row, or a couple nights per week. The first few times I didn't think much of it, but a few weeks in and picking up one of these right before going to bed (or overhearing my parents doing so, which I'd guess by hearing them hang up and swear immediately after the phone rang) was enough to ensure I'd be wide awake till past midnight.

I can't really recall my dad's reaction to them (other than him vaguely telling me where that place was, iirc), but I remember asking my mum about it once. She just shrugged it off, made some aloof remark, and told me not to try and call back. Which of course I did the first chance I got. Disappointingly, it rang but nobody ever picked up.

It's been about 17 years and, while I hadn't thought about that in a long time, I still very vividly remember every sound and word in these calls. The siren and the ominous voice urging 8yo me to "take immediate action" over the phone sends chills up my spine to this day.
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Sounds like the person who had the number previously was security for that location and they never took him off the dispatch auto-dialer. I remember when my mom retired from being a deputy and we'd still get all-hands calls because her dept never took her off the list

or your parents were spies
 
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friends o' niall said:
During the span of a few months when I was 8 or 9, we used to get these weird calls right before my bedtime, at a house we had just moved into in a foreign city.

The calls would always play like this: a loud siren, followed by a recorded voice saying "Attention! Attention! Highly suspicious activity on Such-and-Such Road, John Public University Medical Centre (a teaching hospital branch my family had no relation to, located in a dodgy area nowhere near the house) Take immediate action! Take immediate action!" Roger beep, repeat one or two times, then hang up. While you may think police dispatcher, the audio quality was too crisp for that, and the voice tone and delivery made it sound more like a sombre radio announcement.

As far as I'm aware, the frequency of the calls would greatly vary. Sometimes they'd call twice in a row, or a couple nights per week. The first few times I didn't think much of it, but a few weeks in and picking up one of these right before going to bed (or overhearing my parents doing so, which I'd guess by hearing them hang up and swear immediately after the phone rang) was enough to ensure I'd be wide awake till past midnight.

I can't really recall my dad's reaction to them (other than him vaguely telling me where that place was, iirc), but I remember asking my mum about it once. She just shrugged it off, made some aloof remark, and told me not to try and call back. Which of course I did the first chance I got. Disappointingly, it rang but nobody ever picked up.

It's been about 17 years and, while I hadn't thought about that in a long time, I still very vividly remember every sound and word in these calls. The siren and the ominous voice urging 8yo me to "take immediate action" over the phone sends chills up my spine to this day.

And a quick one. When I was younger, for some reason I had a tendency for noticing weird or schizo-tier flyers and signs plastered around everywhere. Shittiest sixth sense ever (aUtIsM iS mY sOoPeRpOwEr UwU). Think kind of truewagner's stuff, years before that was a thing. Nothing too remarkable there, rn I only can remember one that said something like "disabled boy looks for his missing dog, !!! R E W A R D !!!" with a picture of a vacuum cleaner. Normally I'd spot one of the things, go "hmm that's weird" then move on.

Years later, I learnt about shit such as the May Day Mystery, and read or saw somewhere how the family of a wealthy businessman who was being held hostage would routinely place fake travel agency ads in newspapers to send him coded messages he'd eventually see. Ever since, I'm spooked at the thought there may have been something more sinister buried beneath the meaning of some of the weird signs I seemed to see everywhere when I was a wee lad.
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There was a story from a guy and his mom who lived near a military base and kept getting strange automated calls like this, though I can't remember exactly what the content was. As far as I can guess it was likely part of the AUTOVON system that for some reason was accidentally sending to their provider. It used to mostly go through the "long lines" communication system, where the military had their own direct microwave tower branch, but since fiber optics I believe it's been all but dropped (they've scrapped portions of it in the past few decades). Though a ton of it still stands around various military bases with the equipment still attached so who knows. Stuff was made to survive the nuclear apocalypse should the cold war have gone hot. Though in the context of your calls I'd have no clue. Probably Chinese bots attempting to figure out the areas phone lines.
 
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Aliens are the only "monsters" (in the broad sense of the word...) that ever scared me, maybe because unlike other monsters, they could actually plausibly exist. As a kid, whenever I watched a program about people talking about seeing strange lights in the sky I'd never be able to sleep that night.
 
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Big Rusiki said:
The idea that everyone you know and love being replaced by doppelgangers scares the shit out of me. Stuff like The Thing, Body Snatchers, and even Final Fantasy 7 always terrified me with that concept.
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There's a condition where after a TBI sometimes you believe someone (and only one) has been replaced by a doppelganger, called capgras delusion. Conditions like paranoid schizophrenia sound terrifying because I think that's the only condition that could plausibly do that on a mass scale.
 
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I watched a documentary on the sinking of the Sewol (a Korean ferry).

When the ship began to list after they packed way more cargo than they could carry, the Captain called in for rescue as students in a school group were told to sit and wait in their cabins. The Captain would leave the ship like a coward and the few rescue ships on site were rescuing people standing out on the deck as the boat began to capsize. As more emergency people arrived on the scene, those in command of the rescue told them they had gotten most people off the ship. Meanwhile, the students were texting their parents as the ship filled with water and sank. Some politician came onto the site the following day as the nose of the ship was still above water and there was an "effort" to rescue the vessel. They told the public that they would run a line down to pump air into the ship to raise it. They staged a a full photoshoot of them faking running the air lines into the ship. The ship realistically could not be floated at that point, this was known by the rescue, and the government just wanted to tell a good story to the paper and look like heroes. The ship would sink with around 300 passengers still aboard.

Everything about this was disturbing to me.
 
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longjohn said:
I watched a documentary on the sinking of the Sewol (a Korean ferry).

When the ship began to list after they packed way more cargo than they could carry, the Captain called in for rescue as students in a school group were told to sit and wait in their cabins. The Captain would leave the ship like a coward and the few rescue ships on site were rescuing people standing out on the deck as the boat began to capsize. As more emergency people arrived on the scene, those in command of the rescue told them they had gotten most people off the ship. Meanwhile, the students were texting their parents as the ship filled with water and sank. Some politician came onto the site the following day as the nose of the ship was still above water and there was an "effort" to rescue the vessel. They told the public that they would run a line down to pump air into the ship to raise it. They staged a a full photoshoot of them faking running the air lines into the ship. The ship realistically could not be floated at that point, this was known by the rescue, and the government just wanted to tell a good story to the paper and look like heroes. The ship would sink with around 300 passengers still aboard.

Everything about this was disturbing to me.
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Isn't that the one where the captain was ruthlessly mocked and heckled on the internet for being the worst ship captain ever? Edit: I believe it was, pictures match up to what I remember. It's sad, because at the time I thought everyone had been successfully evacuated. :sad:
 
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I just remembered the Gary Sudbrink phone calls. They were probably just part of some dumb hoax by a crank caller but there's still something unsettling about them.

On that note, the infamous Ruth Price 911 call. There's been a lot of debate over the legitimacy of it but I don't see how someone could fake the sheer terror in this woman's voice.
 
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keyboredsm4shthe2nd said:
Isn't that the one where the captain was ruthlessly mocked and heckled on the internet for being the worst ship captain ever?
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Maybe, I must have been living under a rock because I wasn't aware it happened at all. This tragedy did outrage a lot of people so I'd believe it no question.

Luckily, the Captain got a life sentence for gross negligence and for murdering those children.
 
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