There was a time when most folks truly thought it implausible for something you see on a screen to be terrifying. Then came films like The Ring or just your run of the mill “cursed images” article to show that, actually, our brains are perfectly good at feeling scared.
We’ve gathered some creepy, unsettling images from across the internet for you to make yourself feel scared, if that’s your cup of tea. So get comfortable, preferably under some blankets, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section down below.
#1 Dug This Up In A Church Graveyard During Renovation
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#2 My Cousin Got Send This In Her Phone
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#3 Abandoned Hospital
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#4 An Abandoned Funeral Home In The South. This One Had Human Cremains And A Hearse Left Behind
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#5 Known As "The Pioneers Defense," This Creepy Historical Image Was Captured In 1937 By Russian Photographer Viktor Bulla
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#6 In Honor Of My Mother, I Present To You: Her Knit Self Portrait
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#7 A Painting Of My Sister
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#8 Aren't Ya Gonna Come Down? (Digital Edit)
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#9 A Friend Went For A Walk The Other Night And Saw This Woman Just Standing On A Roof
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#10 Took This Pic On A Abandoned House A Few Years Ago. Didn’t Expect The Surprise
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#11 Found This At An An Antique Flea Market , I Should Have Bought It
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#12 This Flyer For An Organization At My College
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#13 What Is This?
I found this missing person‘s at a parking lot at Best Buy. I thought it was another normal missing persons flyer, but until I took a closer look I noticed the weird picture the description and the additional info. Is this some promotion for like a movie or an ARG?
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#14 I Took My Daughter's Screens Away For A Week And She Ended Up Drawing This
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#15 Welcome To My Basement
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#16 Opening In Pavement
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#17 Applying A Window Sticker
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#18 The Face Of A Tapeworm Under An Electron Microscope
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#19 This Dog Freaking Out (At Another Dog)
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#20 The Human Dolls Of Anatoly Moskvin
Anatoly Moskvin is a Russian former journalist, college professor, and self-dubbed "necropolyst" with expert knowledge of cemeteries. For years, his hobby of collecting dolls hid a macabre obsession that drew upon his particular interests: digging up the dead and making dolls out of their corpses.
Image credits: Associated Press
#21 4 Children For Sale
August 4, 1948 - Chicago, Illinois: They're on the auction block. These small children of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chalifoux of Chicago, Illinois. For long months 40 year old Ray and his wife, Lucille, 24, waged a desperate but losing battle to keep food in the mouth and a roof over their heads. Now jobless and facing eviction from their near barren flat, the Chalifoux have surrendered to their heart breaking decision. Photo shows mother sobbing as the children pose wonderingly on the steps. Left to right: Lana,6. Rae, 5. Milton, 4. Sue Ellen, 2 years old.
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#22 The Hilo Tsunami Of 1946
This chilling image captures the final moments of the unknown person at the bottom left.
Image credits: NOAA
#23 The Creepy Photo Taken Just Before The Dyatlov Pass Incident
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#24 Sydney Ferry Worker
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#25 I’ll Never Unsee This
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#26 Signage On A Machine At Work
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#27 My Friend Works On A Fishing Boat And Just Sent Me This Abomination
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#28 The Laundry Room In The Hospital I Work At. I Hate Going To The Basement After The Workers Leave For The Day…
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#29 The Path I Walk To Go To Work
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#30 Standing Under Starship
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#31 The 13-Mile Long Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike
No motor vehicles are allowed on the property, but bicycle riders are free to use it at their own risk. The trail requires helmets and lights.
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#32 This Thrifted Tee
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#33 Desperately Needed A Toilet And Was Directed To This…
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#34 Protoclone, The World's First Bipedal, Musculoskeletal Android
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#35 Went To My Home Office And Found The Ceiling Like This
It's the only one moved
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#36 Mickey Is Always Watching From Behind The Mask
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#37 One Of My Kindergarten Students Drew This
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#38 Ok, Fine. Message Received. I Won’t Cross There
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#39 This Image In The Restaurant Will Haunt Me Forever
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#40 My Nephew Refuses To Go To Our Local Park Because He's Terrified Of This Thing
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#41 Remoteness Warning Sign In Australia
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#42 I Just Found A Tooth In My Luggage While Traveling…
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#43 The Trophy Heads Of The Māori
Long before European colonizers arrived in New Zealand, the native Māori people were preserving the severed heads of the fallen. Known as mokomokai, the heads were chopped off, boiled, smoked, dried in the Sun, and dipped in shark oil before being displayed or paraded around like trophies.
Image credits: Henry Stevens
#44 The Nuclear Shadows Of Hiroshima
World War II, Human shadow on bank steps, in Hiroshima after the explosion of the atom bomb in August 1945.
Image credits: Universal History Archive / Getty Images
#45 A Chilling Message From The Lipstick Killer
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#46 Bison Hunting
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#47 A Ghost Petting A Deer On The Side Of A Road
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#48 Rented A Cabin A Few Years Back For A Birthday Party. Just Looked At This Pic And Thought It Was Strange. Anyone Else See It? It Was Night Time And Pitched Black So I Had The High Beams On
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#49 When 9 Pillars Of Light Appeared In The Night Sky Above A Coastal Japanese Town
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#50 This Fisherman With A Deep Sea Wolf Eel
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#51 Poorly Lit Mcdonald’s Play Place
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#52 Found This In The Basement Of My New Home
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#53 Reporting An Ad On Facebook Marketplace Gives The Option Of "Knows Too Much"
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#54 Kirby From Hell
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#55 My Sister Found A Cell Phone In A Ziplock Bag Buried In Her Garden This Afternoon
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#56 This War Memorial Has Blank Spaces For Future Conflicts
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#57 The Last Moments Of Regina Kay Walters
Just before Rhoades unalived 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters in an Illinois barn in early 1990, he took a series of photos of her cowering in fear as he moved in closer. Authorities found this photo and a collection of others like it inside Rhoades' home after he was finally caught several months later.
Image credits: Robert Ben Rhoades
#58 The Real-Life "Shining" Hotel
Though its story remains lesser-known, the hotel that inspired The Shining is just as chilling as its fictional counterpart.
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#59 A Soldier During The Battle Of Passchendaele In September 1917 With A Dazed, Thousand-Yard Stare, A Frequent Symptom Of "Shell-Shock"
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#60 I Work Graveyard At The Mall Alone This Was In The Middle Of The Floor At 4 Am This Morning
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#61 Hermit Crab Using A Human Skull As A Shell
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#62 My Husband Just Sent Me This... It Was Taken On His Way To Work This Morning
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#63 Found In The Woods
I was walking in the woods near Copenhagen and stumbled upon this weird artefact thrown in the bushes. I put it on the trail for a photo and left it there for someone else to be creeped out. I wonder if I should have kept it?
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#64 Was Leaving My House At 6am And Found This In The Dew On The Front Steps
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#65 Weird "Are You Dreaming" Sign Found In Psychologist Waiting Room
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#66 Since Everyone Seemed To Like That Creepy Doll Donation So Much Here Was The Second Creepiest Weird Thing I Ever Found In A Shelf Full Of Paintings
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#67 Wasp Nest Around Spotlights
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#68 The Ghost Pilot - 1987
In 1987, Mrs Sayer was visiting air airfield in England with her friend. She thought it would fun to take a photo of her sitting in the cockpit. When the image was developed, there was a man sitting in the pilot's seat who hadn't been there when the photo was taken. A long lost pilot? No one is sure.
Image credits: The Society of Psychical Research
#69 Bunny Statue At My Mom's Senior Center
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#70 I Pass This Every Single Day
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#71 The Unsettling Implications Of Putting A Cage Around A Grave
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