Movies, video games, and books aren’t the only things that can be terrifying. You can find plenty of strange and ominous things in real life, too. The kind of stuff that is unsettling to look at for too long.
It’s always spooky season in our hearts, so our team at Bored Panda compiled this list of creepy, odd, and lightly cursed images from all over the net to get you in the mood for Halloween. Scroll down to check them out. Oh, and don’t forget to show this list to your sleep paralysis demons and the monster living under your bed.
#1 I Ordered Delivery And The Driver's Name Makes This Sound Ominous As Hell
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#2 30 Vultures Chillin On My Neighbors Roof This Morning. Not Ominous At All
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#3 Coworker Got A Ransom Note For Her Kidnapped Toy
So, my coworker has brought in this little snowman toy, which is motion activated and sings Christmas songs when you activate it. She made a game out of hiding it around our workplace, to annoy everyone. Someone snatched it and she's been a little annoyed that her little game is over. Today, I came into work and found this envelope with her name on it, and the picture sitting beside it. I think it's freaking hilarious, and I hope whoever stole it keeps up the joke.
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Looking at these images on the screen can be spooky, sure. But seeing these things in real life is another level of terrifying. When you find yourself in a dangerous situation or you get extremely stressed, your body reacts in one of four main ways. You probably already know about fight or flight. But you might also freeze or fawn.
When stressed, your body goes for the strategy that ensures the best chances of your survival. It’s instinctive. For instance, you might enter fight mode if there’s a fairly good chance of you overpowering the threat you face. However, if the danger is something that you have a better chance of outrunning, you might go into flight mode.
#4 When You Find Yourself At 3am In The Wrong Side Of Town
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#5 The Grave With A Window
There is a curious grave at Evergreen Cemetery in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Vermont, the United States. It’s a small grassy mound with a large slab of concrete placed at the top. This concrete block has a small fourteen inch square glass window facing towards the sky. The glass window is hazy and has beads of water hanging on the underside from condensation, and you can’t see much inside. But back in 1893, you could have peered inside and straight into the decomposing face of Timothy Clark Smith.
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#6 Woke Up And Discovered My Mom Moved Our Coat Stand Yesterday
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Alternatively, if neither fight nor flight is a good strategy, your body might simply… freeze up. Another survival strategy is to enter fawn mode. This is essentially a socially-focused strategy where you try to present yourself as someone who is agreeable and overly helpful. You hope that by keeping the threat happy, you reduce the danger to you.
#7 Blursed Dogs
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#8 Asian 19th Century Depiction Of An American
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#9 Blursed Pilot
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While feeling stressed isn’t a lot of fun, a well-functioning stress response is what helps keep you safe.
However, problems start to pop up when you’re constantly stressed and alert when there is no real, tangible danger to be found.
If this continues for a long enough time, it can damage your physical and mental health. It can contribute to anxiety, depression, and damage your immune system.
#10 Imagine Driving Down The Road At 12am And Seeing This
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#11 Snapchat Filter Goes Wrong
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#12 Ominous Photo Taken After The 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake In East Coast Taiwan
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“Our fight-or-flight response was designed to help us survive under life-threatening circumstances. Today, there are, arguably, less threats to our survival,” registered psychotherapist Natacha Duke, MA, RP, explained to the Cleveland Clinic.
“Our fight-or-flight response can also be activated from psychological or mental stress, such as an important work meeting or even attending a social gathering. This is only usually a problem if the fight-or-flight response becomes frequent, chronic, or disproportionate to the situation.”
#13 Reflection Of Light That Shows Up On My Wall
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#14 Merry Christmas
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#15 Our Village Has A Yearly Scarecrow Competition... I Hope This One Wins
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According to Duke, people become more easily triggered when they are overwhelmed with stress.
For instance, if you have a ton of chores to do, you might be less patient with your loved ones.
This is an indication that you need to spend more time focusing on self-care. What’s more, you should strive to find healthier strategies to cope with stress.
#16 Someone Left A House In The Road At 4am
I was coming back from a fishing trip at 4am and nearly drove through a house. There wasn't another person anywhere nearby. Someone tried to tow it with a pickup truck and one of those 4 sided universal hitches. Blowing 3 tires wasn't what stopped them, it was when their hitch sheared off and was left at the front. The road was scarred up for close to 3 miles. The best part was, the house was fully furnished. Initially, the house looked like it had been ripped out of the ground and just dropped there. Being as tired as I was, it was a major WTF moment for me. The first few seconds of trying to process it was really weird. This is on a mountain road in rural Utah if anyone is curious.
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#17 My Nextdoor Neighbour
My neighbour does this on a daily basis….
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#18 Sioux Falls, SD Turned Green (No Filter) During A Huge Storm Tonight
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When you find yourself in a traumatic situation, you might develop a generalized fear response to a situation that isn’t dangerous anymore. For example, if you’ve been in a car accident, you might be scared of driving again. The same thing can happen at work or in your relationships, too. What you can do is identify your signs and symptoms of stress.
#19 I May Not Have A Doctorate In Physics, Nor In Engineering... But I Feel Grandma Might Be Breaking More Than The Sound Barrier
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#20 Abandoned Tori Gate Found At The End Of A Submerged Tunnel In Japan
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#21 Max The Rat Has Lived In My Aunt & Uncle’s Basement For Over 40 Years
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For instance, you might discover that, when stressed, you become very irritable or you eat more.
After you increase your self-awareness, you can look for ways to manage your stress. For instance, you might do some breathwork, meditate, or do yoga. You might go for a walk or talk to a loved one about what’s stressing you.
In short, basic daily things like getting an email or being stuck in traffic should not activate a strong stress response, the Cleveland Clinic notes. If they do, you need to change something in your life.
#22 Tarantula Hawk Wasp Dragging Off A Huntsman Spider To Lay Her Egg In Its Paralyzed Body. In Australia, Of Course
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#23 Deer Running From A Flying Squirrel, Caught On A Trail Camera
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#24 Letter In The Mail My Mom Received Today
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Some of the images that we’re featuring here today are from the r/Weird subreddit. It is an incredibly popular online group with a whopping 4.5 million weekly visitors and a jaw-dropping 17k weekly contributions. Created back in 2008, the sub is still going strong to this very day. However, the moderators of the sub stress the fact that you can’t share extreme or shocking content. “We love weird, but not in a disturbing way.”
#25 Strange Plant Formation In My City
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#26 Child With Small Teloscope
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#27 My Brother Is In Berlin For A Few Days And This Woman Is On The Wall In Multiple Rooms Of His Hotel
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Be honest, which images creeped you out the most? Which ones were the most unsettling of the bunch?
On the other hand, which ones were ‘your type of weird’ and you thought they were pretty interesting?
How weird is too weird for you? What’s your favorite media to consume around Halloween? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
#28 Woke Up To A Strange Noise And Found This Guy Attached To My Screen Door
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#29 I Came Across This Fine Gentleman In My Daughter's Sketchbook
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#30 Someone Made This Creepy Decoration In My Town
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#31 Ominous Fortune Cookie I Got After Eating Lunch At Work
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#32 These Strange Lights Showed Up In The Sky Over Jeju, South Korea. They Have Been Here For An Hour
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#33 This Lamp For Sale. Found On My Local Fb Marketplace Page
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#34 Found This Inside The Wall In My Hallway. I've Lived In This House For All Of My 46 Years
..and on the back - so faintly written that I cannot capture it with my camera - are the words "an old man called energy".
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#35 This Wax Museum In Brazil - Princess Diana
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#36 I Found This Red Target In My Basement
The people who lived in my house before were really strange. They were talking about a ghost in the basement who'd come out if we were to close up the old well in the basement. It's probably something they put on the wall.
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#37 Meet My Daughter
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#38 Strange Shell I Found That Looks Like A Finger
I found this while collecting shells in Daytona beach, it looks so creepily like a finger. I know it’s a species of shell but still so strange it formed this way.
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#39 My Mom Found This On Her Roof This Morning
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#40 This Ominous Dark Room Next To My Sisters Apartment Door. I Always Feel Off Around It
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#41 I Dreamed About A White House With No Windows. Today, I Found The Extract Same House While Working
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#42 I Took A Photo Of Some Very Ominous Looking Cranes
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#43 Turned On The TV To Watch The Inauguration And Saw This
No clue what happened. Everyone on screen literally looked zombified or like they'd been through a war or something. It genuinely creeped me out. Turned the TV off and back on and it went back to normal. Feels ominous.
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#44 I Found Whatever The Hell This Is On My Toilet
I don't know who put it there but my grandma recently passed and I think she's haunting this lol.
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#45 My Girlfriend Left Me This Note On Her Way To Work This Morning. I've Never Seen This Flash Drive Before
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#46 Woke Up To Find An Ear Print On My Back Door. I Will Be Buying Home Security Cameras Immediately
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#47 The Rothschild Surrealist Ball (1972)
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#48 I Didn't Know Until Today That The Library I Usually Go To Has A Medicine Museum Inside It
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#49 He's Looking At You
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#50 Found This In The Basement Of My New House
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