140 Creepy Facts Really that will Scare you


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140 Creepy Facts Really that will Scare you

  • This has Prometheus written all over it.
  • They must have had SUCH oily skin.
  • A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.
  • It's probably thinking "this is weird".
  • A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.
  • Within three days of a death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
  • In some cases, bodies develop a corpse wax that can preserve the remains for years.
  • Forensic scientists can tell how long it has been since death by looking at the species of insect on the body.
  • More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.
  • Left-handed people die 3 years earlier than right-handed people.
  • It takes the death of 27,000 trees daily to make toilet paper for humans.
  • Mice and rats can spread at least 35 different diseases to humans. These infections include salmonellosis, hantavirus, and rat-bite fever.
  • Crows are so intelligent they can recognize a human face. So don’t get one mad, okay?
  • We all have teeny tiny mites living on our eyelashes.
  • About 153,000 people worldwide die every day. 
  • When a person dies, their sense of hearing is the last to go.
  • You can't die of 'old age', only from diseases brought on by age.
  • Men who are hanged get a death erection, known as rigor Erectus.
  • Never say you’re being “eaten alive” by mosquitos, again. That was an actual method of execution. Scaphism was an ancient form of torture and execution where you’d cover someone with honey, stick them in a hollowed log, and let nature run its course.
  • Pine trees have proven that they can grow inside the body. Doctors recently went into surgery to remove what they thought was a tumor. It turned out to be a fir tree growing in the man’s lungs.
  • There might be a haunted Russian radio station. UVB-76 is a low-frequency radio station that has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows where the broadcast is originating. It’s mostly just a buzzing noise with an occasional Russian voice transmission.
  • Your child is exactly as creepy as you think they are. Twenty percent of children report hearing voices. It could be imaginary friends. Or…
  • The Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland is iconic, but its history is a little spooky. When the ride was first built in the 1960s, fake skeletons looked, well, really fake. Disney’s Imagineers (aka “imaginative” “engineers”) weren’t satisfied, so they reached out to UCLA’s anatomy department for the real deal. As technology improved and fake skeletons began to look more authentic, the real skeletons were reportedly given a proper burial.
  • Want to visit the most haunted island in the world? You’ll have to travel to Italy. Poveglia reportedly holds the title, attributed largely to the fact that massive numbers of people dying of the plague were quarantined there in the 18th century. It was also used at one point as a mental asylum.
  • Before the advent of cups and bowls, people in ancient England used hollowed-out human skulls to hold their food and drink.
  • In 2017, homicide archivist Thomas Hargrove estimated that there are more than 2,000 serial killers currently at large.
  • Got climate change deniers in your life? Tell them that 2019 ​was the second warmest year on record. And not just that, the five warmest years between 1880 and 2019 have all been since 2015.
  • The golden poison dart frog (Phyllobates terribilis) is the size of a paperclip, adorable, and can kill you with a single touch. In fact, just one frog has enough lethal poison in its skin to kill 10 to 15 people.
  • Lady Bugs are known to eat their own larvae to ensure the survival of the other larvae. Think of it as population control on a smaller scale.
  • Pigs can eat an entire human body, mostly because they’ll just eat anything.
  • Dead bodies swell up like balloons after about four days, due to the release of gases and liquids.
  • When the movie trailer for The Exorcist first came out in theaters, people were so scared, they ran out of the room. Eventually, they stopped playing the trailer in theaters.  
  • The Japanese Hornet is one of the largest and most venomous hornets in the world. A sting from this bug can result in kidney failure.
  • Certain species of male angler fish mate by biting a female angler fish so that his mouth fuses to her body. Ultimately, their epidermal tissues fuse, and their circulatory systems are united so that the male, "whose single function is to produce sperm, becomes dependent on the female for blood-transported nutriment, and the female becomes a kind of self-fertilizing host." This is called sexual parasitism.
  • Of the total 2,368 species of bacteria identified in 60 belly buttons swabbed in an experiment by researchers, 1,458 species may be "new to science." One person's belly button had bacterium that has only been found in soil in Japan, but the person had never been to Japan.
  • Pretty much every adult human has a population of Demodex, also known as eyelash mites, living on them. They're arachnids that live in the hair follicles of your face and eat sebum. When you sleep, they crawl out onto your skin to mate, then go back to lay their eggs.
  • Zoroastrians traditionally practice sky burials, wherein the deceased's body is left exposed outdoors — customarily atop a raised, tower-like structure (a dakhma) — so that they can decompose in the open air and allow carrion birds to feed on the body.
  • Polydactyl (having extra fingers or toes) is actually a dominant trait (when it occurs independently and not as part of a larger syndrome). That means that having five fingers per hand and toes per foot is a recessive trait.
  • The Pacu fish from South America has human-like teeth. Yeah, stuff of nightmares.
  • With all the explosions, movement, combustion, and mayhem, the universe is still completely silent. That’s because there’s no air for the sound to travel through vibrations as it does on Earth.
  • An astronaut’s footprint on the moon can remain there for a million years.
  • You can actually fit all the planets in the Solar System (sorry, not you Pluto) in the space between the Earth and the Moon. Think about that one.
  • According to the Science journal back in 2015, an average of 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year.
  • According to DoSomething.org, 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water every year.
  • There exists in the Czech Republic a small Roman Catholic chapel called the Sedlec Ossuary. What makes this church different? Its decorations are made from human bones. The ossuary is estimated to hold the skeletons of 40,000 to 70,000 people.
  • In 2015, former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit John Douglas said, "A very conservative estimate is that there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the United States" at any given time.
  • If you were murdered in the US, there's an almost 40% chance your murderer will get away with it, based on 2017 data from the FBI.
  • For more than 50 years, the US has given Purple Hearts that were made during World War II. During the war, the US made 1,506,000 Purple Hearts. The US anticipated needing more Purple Hearts for ground invasions of Japan, but Japan surrendered, and the US was left with 495,000 unused Purple Hearts after the war.
  • Around 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered each year, according to NamUs. Subsequently, after one year, around 1,000 of those bodies still remain unidentified.
  • Scaphism is an *alleged* ancient Persian execution method that entails the victim being laid on their back between two fitted boats (so that they cover each other) with their head, hands, and feet sticking out. The victim is then forced to eat and is covered with milk and honey to attract flies and vermin. The boat is left out on the water, exposed to the sun, until the victim dies.
  • Bust of Plutarch.
  • Situs inversus is a rare genetic condition wherein the positions of the organs in a person's chest and abdomen mirror normal anatomy. For instance, their heart is on the right side of their chest, not their left.
  • There's a theory that dogs like squeaky toys because the sounds mimic that of captured prey.
  • Foreskin is used to grow skin for skin grafts. Dr. James McGuire, head of wound management at the Foot and Ankle Institute at the School of Podiatric Medicine at Temple University, told CNN, "In some cases, we can get four football fields of skin out of one baby foreskin."
  • The last execution by guillotine happened the same year the first Star Wars movie premiered. On May 25, 1977, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope premiered in the US. About five months later, on September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
  • The "Rat King" is a folkloric phenomenon where a group of rats who live so closely together gets their tails entwined, creating a single mass of rodents. While some believe this is not a myth, the origins stem from the Black Death, when rats were blamed for spreading the plague.
  • To date, the US has lost six nuclear bombs and never recovered them. The term "Broken Arrow" refers to a nuclear weapons accident wherein the weapon has been accidentally launched, fired, detonated, stolen, or lost. Since 1950, there have been 32 known Broken Arrows.
  • Certain butterflies drink blood, urine, excrements, sweat, and fluids from decomposing carrion.
  • Pigs will eat a human body, including bones, leaving only teeth behind. In 2012, an Oregon farmer went out to feed his animals and didn't return. When his family went to check, they found his dentures and parts of his body in the pig enclosure.
  • The skin around the finger and toenails dries and contracts after death, making it look as though they have grown.
  • Dead bodies swell up like balloons after about four days, due to the release of gases and liquids.
  • The Zoroastrian Parsi community in India offers its dead to vultures rather than burying/burning them.
  • The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.
  • Humans shed skin too. Like, a lot of skin. According to the WHO (World Health Organization) and recent studies, the average person will shed roughly 112 pounds of skin in their lifetime.
  • Your cellphone is more disgusting than a public toilet. Your cellphone has 10 times more bacteria on it than the average public restroom. Groooooss.
  • Our doctors may be killing us. Okay, that was dramatic. Please, if you feel like something is wrong — go see a health professional. But, it’s interesting (read: terrifying) to know that roughly 250,000 deaths are caused by medical error each year.
  • We’ve found the most terrifying defense mechanism. Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism.
  • You could be trapped in a coma-like state and be aware of it. Locked-in Syndrome might just be the most terrifying medical condition. It’s when you’re stuck between being asleep and awake. You know you’re awake and can hear and see things around you. However, can’t talk and can only move your eyes, so you’re unable to respond to anything.
  • Your cat may sense when you’re dying. A pet cat, named Oscar, resided in a nursing home and was believed to be able to tell when one of the residents would soon die. He’d sleep beside them until they passed.
  • Rat Kings are real (and even harder to look at than the Tiger King). When a group of rats living in close quarters get their tails tangled together (this can happen for many reasons), they’re called a “rat king.”
  • Attack of The Killer Bees might not be too far from the truth. The Japanese giant hornet has venom so powerful, it’s said to “melt” human flesh.
  • One-third of murders go unsolved in the United States. Is there anything else that needs to be said?
  • More than 80 million bacteria are exchanged in a single kiss. Think about that next time you give your date a kiss. Is it really worth it?
  • There was a chicken called Mike the Headless Chicken that lived for 18 months after its head was cut off.
  • Babies grow mustaches in the womb that then spread to cover their entire body in hair called Lanugo. The body hair keeps them warm and helps regulate body temperature. Don’t worry, they shed it before birth.
  • The Catacombs of Paris hold the bones and remains of nearly six million people.
  • If you thought the Poltergeist movies were terrifying, wait until you hear what happened after they were filmed. Legend of a curse plagues the franchise due to four deaths among the cast: Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling), Heather O’Rourke (Carol Ann Freeling), Will Sampson (Taylor, good spirit), and Julian Beck (Kane, evil spirit). Dunne, who was 22 at the time, tragically died at the abusive hands of her boyfriend. And O’Rourke was only 12 when she died unexpectedly from septic shock caused by a bowel obstruction.
  • In the 1800s, dentures were made out of the real teeth of deceased people.
  • It would only cost the United States $140​ billion per year to make changes to adapt to our warming climate. Just as a comparison, the U.S. spent $718.69 billion on its military in 2019 alone.
  • There is such a thing as homicidal sleepwalking. It’s also called homicidal somnambulism, or sleepwalking murder. In 2005, Jules Lowe was acquitted of murder after killing his father because he was sleepwalking during the crime.
  • A rat’s teeth can gnaw through substances as hard as lead sheeting and cinder block.
  • We’ve come a long way when it comes to maternity care. Did you know chainsaws were originally created for childbirth? Before caesareans were perfected, if babies were too big to pass through the birth canal, a chainsaw was used to removed parts of the pelvis quickly. 
  • There are about  25 to 50 active serial killers in the United States.
  • In 1973, two men in a small submarine experienced a malfunction in the sub. There, 1575 deep in the ocean, water started flooding in. The sub slowly started sinking. Although the men were able to radio for help, they knew they only had enough oxygen to survive for three days. When the rescue team finally found them, they only had 12 minutes of oxygen left. Talk about a close call!
  • So, you checked out our dinosaur coloring pages and now you have them — and their ultimate extinction — on your mind. But did you know the demise of the dinosaurs was only one of five great extinction events in life’s history on earth? That’s right, in the last 500 million years there have been catastrophic mass extinctions that came this close to eliminating all life from Earth. In fact, per National Geographic, 99 percent of all life forms to have ever lived on our planet are now extinct. Not scary enough? Scientists predict humans might cause the sixth great extinction.
  • Until the 20th century, human remains were used in the making of medicine. Before you gag and throw your phone or laptop across the room, here are the details: Per Medium, it was thought that ingesting powdered remains of certain organs would help with pain or ailments in that part of the body. For example, the crushed and powdered skull remains of a deceased person to cure headaches.
  • A book written 14 years before the 1912 sinking of the Titanic may have predicted the ship’s tragic demise. The novella titled The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility was about an “unsinkable” ship hit by an iceberg. The Titan (hello coincidence?) also had a shortage of lifeboats like the Titanic.
  • The cosmological theory of the Big Rip posits that as the universe continues to expand at a faster and faster rate, the force will pull galaxies further from each other, then galaxies will be pulled apart, followed by the planets and objects from their stars, the stars themselves, planets, and so forth until even nuclei in atoms are separated. What a way to go!
  • There is a recorded case of hysteria in a large French convent in 1844. One nun began meowing like a cat, and shortly thereafter, every nun in the convent began meowing together for several hours at a time. This lasted until soldiers accompanied police to the entrance of the convent, and the nuns were informed that they would be whipped by the soldiers until they stopped meowing.
  • Nuns standing without their faces visible in a pantheon.
  • Cotard's syndrome, also called walking corpse syndrome, is a condition wherein the patient believes they are dead, dying, missing parts of their bodies, or don't exist. Some people with Cotard's syndrome may stop speaking or eating since they believe they're dead.
  • The only person to have survived death by electric chair, 17-year-old Willie Francis, reportedly described, "I tried to say goodbye but my tongue got stuck in the peanut butter, and I felt a burnin' in my head and my left leg, and I jumped against the straps."
  • A human body could be skeletonized in less than four days in highly oxygenated deeper water, according to a study done by Simon Fraser University.
  • The Roman Empire lasted for more than 1,000 years, making it the longest-lasting empire in history (even noted by Guinness World Records). For comparison, the US is turning 245 years old in 2021.
  • Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic degenerative brain disorder wherein the affected individual is unable to sleep. The disorder may begin mildly but gradually worsen, causing mental and physical deterioration. There is no known cure, and eventually, the disorder leads to death.
  • The bodies of the 29 crew members of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank suddenly in Lake Superior in 1975, were never recovered and remain entombed in the freighter. In a 1994 submarine expedition, Fred Shannon's team spotted a body on the lake bottom outside of the ship.
  • Theoretically, it would take approximately 400 humans to have enough iron to forge a sword from blood. This is based on the fact that the average human has about 3.5 to 4 grams of iron in their body, and one hand-and-a-half sword weighs 1.5 kilograms (1,500 grams). So 1,500 grams divided by 3.75 grams is 400.
  • Isla de las Munecas, or the Island of Dolls, is a small island south of Mexico City that is full of dolls hanging from trees and buildings. According to the island's history, caretaker Don Julian Santana Barrera found a little girl who had drowned in the canals. He later saw a doll floating down the canal and hung it in a tree as a sign of respect for her. Instead, he was haunted by the girl and began hanging more dolls to appease her spirit, but the dolls became possessed. Julian died in 2001, found dead in the same spot he found the girl, but the island remains a tourist attraction.
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