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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.