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37 Creepy Photos That Became Way More Disturbing After People Learned The Context

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After four decades Walter Freeman had personally performed possibly as many as 4,000 lobotomies on patients as young as 12, despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. As many as 100 of his patients died of cerebral hemorrhage.
Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895–1972) was an American neurologist known for popularizing the lobotomy, a now-discredited psychiatric surgery used to treat severe mental illness.
In the 1930s, he and neurosurgeon James W. Watts helped introduce the prefrontal lobotomy in the United States, based on the earlier work of António Egas Moniz. Moniz developed the procedure (then called leucotomy), which involved cutting brain connections in the frontal lobes. For this work, Moniz was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Freeman later created the faster “ice-pick” transorbital lobotomy, performed through the eye socket, which made the procedure easier to carry out and led to its widespread use in the U.S. He traveled extensively demonstrating and performing it.
Although initially seen as a breakthrough, lobotomies often caused severe and permanent side effects, including personality changes and cognitive damage. With the rise of psychiatric drugs in the 1950s, the procedure fell out of favor.
Freeman continued performing lobotomies into the 1960s until he was banned from surgery after a patient died during an operation. Today, he is remembered as a highly controversial figure in medical history.

Scary-Diving-Stories
The Disappearance Of Ben McDaniel
In 2010, Ben McDaniel entered the underwater cave system at Vortex Spring in Florida alone. Staff later found his truck, gear, and tanks — but Ben himself was gone.
The weird part? The cave had restrictions so tight that many expert divers believed it would’ve been nearly impossible for him to enter certain sections with scuba tanks. Some divers claimed they saw evidence he made it deep inside. Others believed he never entered the cave at all.
Massive search operations followed. Divers risked their own lives exploring narrow tunnels and unstable passages trying to recover him. Nothing definitive was ever found.
To this day, people debate whether:
He died deep in the cave,
Someone covered up an accident,
Or something else happened entirely.

Scary-Diving-Stories
Nutty Putty Cave Incident
Medical student John Jones entered a narrow passage inside Nutty Putty Cave in Utah in 2009. He thought he was entering a known tunnel called “The Birth Canal,” but accidentally crawled into an unmapped dead-end fissure instead.
The tunnel narrowed so tightly that he became wedged upside down, unable to move forward or backward. Rescuers worked for over 27 hours trying to pull him out with ropes and pulley systems. At one point they nearly freed him, but a pulley anchor failed, dropping him deeper into the crack.
Being inverted for that long caused immense pressure on his heart and lungs. He eventually died from cardiac arrest while trapped head-down in complete darkness. His body was never recovered, and the cave was permanently sealed with him inside.

SyzygyTooms reply
I am currently in the throes of Bridezilla hell with my sister who is getting married in October. Here a just a *few* of things she has done:
Told me over text that my younger sister and I were no longer allowed to be her bridesmaids because we weren't "enthusiastic" enough, referring to the fact that we have yet to buy her something from her outrageously expensive registry. Ex. tiny hand towels that are $60 each.
Told my sister that she had to re dye the very thin purple streak she has going through her hair because she will "take away the attention that's supposed to be on me."
I'm bisexual, and was ordered to bring a "normal" date or none at all- normal meaning a guy only.
Came out to my family as bisexual a few months ago, and she told me to stop talking about it because this is "her year" and it's supposed to be all about her.
The whole situation has put such a strain on our relationship that I don't know if it will recover.

Fatereads reply
This bride-to-be made the groom-to-be have a nose job!
We were invited by the bride's family who were pretty well off. She was older so I didn't know her very well but what I remember is her being stand-offish. Apparently the wedding had to postponed so the groom(who agreed to the procedure) could recover and have a more symmetrical look, I really couldn't see any difference. At the reception she went around telling people that her dress was by Vera Wang, later her mother told my mom that the whole shebang had cost almost $100,000!

rammaam reply
Bridezilla is putting it mildly. I once flew into a foreign country for this woman's wedding since I was a bridesmaid. The time I was there I witnessed her: shoving her daughter, starving and neglecting her pets, constantly fighting with her fiance, trying to control what I ate, accused me of stealing from her since I took a Pepsi from the refrigerator after they said to make myself at home, freaking out the night before as we were setting up because everything was wrong.
After the day had come and gone and I flew home I get an email about a month later, "You really pissed everyone off! They all found you rude and lazy. My husband isn't calling you names he's only calling you out on how you are." I told her to have a nice life then blocked her from ever contacting me again.
Next thing I know, my family and friends are getting threatened and harassed, fake profiles were made with my name and photo, several message boards on Facebook have my name, number, and address up along with the biggest loads of [nonsense] for any random stranger to read.

EewStopitNow reply
My boyfriend's brother got married, and in the middle of the ceremony the groom's phone alarm went off in his pocket. The bride flipped out, interrupting the pastor, to reach into his pocket for his phone, that he had already silenced.
She started [complaining] about how "I can't believe you let your phone go off in the middle of our wedding." Hands it to the maid of honor and says "remind me to smash that later." In the middle of her wedding.
She also rolled her eyes when the pastor was talking about God, chatted with the groom during the talk about keeping a marriage together, and during the vows part interrupted the pastor to say "The father, the son, the holy spirit, yeah I know."

SeabgfKirby reply
This situation made me lose one of my good friends. My friend is getting married in October. We were friends for about 8 years. She asked me to be one of her bridesmaids and I happily obliged. Little did I know she was going to be big-headed ego bridezilla.
She demanded that everyone wear these hideous dresses that we had to pay for. I was okay with it since they didn't cost that much. She also demanded that all the girls dye their hair because she could be the ONLY blonde one there. I have naturally blonde hair and I'm not going to dye it for a day. She got pissed at me that I wouldn't dye my hair and replaced me with a girl that she's known for years but recently become friends with. They used to talk [trash] behind each others backs.
Next she had to nerve to ask everyone who wasn't in her bridal party to pay 80$ per guest (160$ for me and my boyfriend) for food. She's having a buffet of BBQ. She also expected a present that was valued above 50$. She sent all of this via Facebook. I sent her a message back and told her I would either pay for the food or a present and for her to choose. I got a hard copy invite recently and realized that the date was the same date my boyfriend is doing Tough Mudder competition. I chose that over her wedding.
Tl;dr - Friend asks 80$ per person and 50$+ wedding present. Also kicks me out of bridal party because I didn't dye my hair something other than blonde.

DrewTip reply
I use to work for a tent company and we would set up for weddings. One in particular comes to mind....
It was 95 degrees out, middle of July, and we were all suffering. This was a large wedding, with a large tent, stage, dance floor, tables, chairs, plates, silverware, lights, ect.
We arrived at her parents house at 7am. She was all nice and calm, said that she would buy us all lunch (6 or 7 guys) at around noon to thank us for our hard work. She also said that she would bring us water since it was so hot out and we could tap into the keg when we were done. Great deal right?
Wrong. About noon we had gotten the tent up, the lighting done, the stage and dance floor partially set up. She came running out saying that we needed to move the tent 3 feet. Yes, we needed to move the 240' by 60' tent 3 feet. My initial response was, "are you kidding me?" She wasn't. After talking it over with her we decided to move the tent (we had too, the customer is always right even when they say this is where I want the tent to go, we put it up and she changes her mind). We take it down, move the tent 3 feet and put it back up. It is now pushing 8 pm. Still no water, lunch or dinner. 10 pm rolls around and we are unloading tables. She comes storming out saying, "You are making too much noise!!! BE QUIET."
One guy I worked with asked, "Can we please get some water now, we drank all of the water that we brought"
She goes, "Umm.... The hose is around back, take some but not too much, water is expensive."
We never got a lunch, dinner or beer. We worked from 7 am to 11 pm at her house (not to mention the 45ish minute drive to and from her house). I never had a problem with working those type of hours if people tipped us, gave us food and thanked us. She didn't do anything.

anon reply
I decorate wedding cakes as a side job, and make pretty nice money from it. I did get bridezilla once though, who had ordered a cake with 600 miniature icing flowers on it. Sure. No problem. I would be happy to make a cake for her, despite there being a ton of tedious work involved with building those flowers. I get virtually no contact from her for weeks, until the day before the wedding when I present the cake to the bride. I had spent more hours than I care to admit making all of those icing flowers, and was quite proud of my work. She, however, flipped [out]. Apparently, the flowers were supposed to have seven petals, not the five that I put on them. I ended up staying up all night rebuilding that cake with 600 seven petaled flowers for some [jerk] that had to have it her way. I don't make wedding cakes for strangers anymore.

withoutinflection reply
I lost alot of weight (4 stone) before my friends wedding. She was insanely jealous, made me feel bad about it, even though I was extremely proud of myself for having done it. When my bridesmaid dress didnt fit for the final fitting, her and her mother looked me up and down with disgust and told me I 'should have told them how much weight I was going to lose'.
That was only one story. There are more.

Morgannela reply
I was supposed to be in a good high school friend's wedding this past January. I found out six weeks before the wedding that my dad had only six weeks to live (he had cancer for two years...a fact she was fully aware of). I made the decision to go ahead and drop out so nothing would stand in the way of her day. She texted me three days before the wedding basically calling me a liar because my dad outlived the doctor's expectations.

anon reply
I attended the wedding of a family friend's daughter, so didn't really know her. It was a nighttime reception, so probably from 6pm-11 or 12, the ceremony immediately preceding.
When we went into the reception, we were expecting a buffet or something to be set up, but there was nothing. Later we found out that there was no food for the 120 guests, but rather a cheese spread, fruit platter, and vegetables with dip.
After an hour, people were really hungry and some people started to leave because they were expecting to be fed and didn't want to stay.
When the bride found out, she ran across the room in her dress and blocked the doors, screaming about how everyone is ruining her wedding and screaming "Bride's Day, Bride's Way!" It was such a scene that her father had to peel her off the door (don't know where the husband was, probably cowering) and people who didn't know her that well all left.
I heard through the grapevine that she was inconsolable the entire night, got trashed and threw up (hopefully on her dress, but not sure).
Oh well, Bride's Day, Bride's Way!

randumname reply
I was in a wedding party and attended with my, then, fiancee. The bride refused to allow her to be in any of the informal friend and family photos, because, "Well, these things don't always work out, and I don't want to have guess who this person is ten years from now."
I am married to that, then, fiancee, and the other couple has had repeated separations and are likely only staying together because of their kids.

Blazingwand reply
My GF's mothers wedding 2 years ago. Her future brother in law was missing for 2 weeks. He was supposed to be the best man but on a delivery he vanished and no one knew where he went. That morning her future husband got a call that the police had found him. He had been shot 2 times and [passed away] in a ditch the delivery truck full of packages was gone. The husband was horrified and told the bride that he can't get married today. She slapped him and stormed out screaming that she cant believe the *HE* could be so selfish that today wasn't just about him and his **stupid brother**. My gf was just as mad ... Me and the husband both left them that day and are good friends to this day.

morgueanna reply
No, I got this one.
One of my boyfriend's best friends from high school just got married last weekend, but we didn't go to the wedding. Why? Because the bride wanted it to be in the most beautiful place on earth- and for her, that's in a place called Zion, specifically a portion of the canyon.
This is two hours outside of Las Vegas (a six hour drive for pretty much *everyone they know*). In order to get to this particular area, you have to hike about 3 hours, MOST of which is *through a river* and some of which is up the side of a mountain, mere feet away from the dropoff point. Once there, you have no amenities- no bathrooms, no water or food except what you bring.
Also, the trail is so narrow only 10 people can traverse it at a time, so they had to have the entire wedding party wait at the base of the trail and 10 of them move forward in increments of 20 minutes, so from what I was told by other attendees, it took about 2 1/2 hours for everyone to get on site.
She made their parents, aunts/uncles, children, anyone who wanted to attend their ceremony, hike through a river for 3 hours to watch her say "I do".
No thank you.

hulagirl4737 reply
I knew a woman who was a bridesmaid in a relatives wedding. She was married and had been trying to get pregnant for a while. Finally, her and her hubby got lucky and she conceived.
The bridezilla got furious and kicked her out of the wedding because she would be pregant in the pictures. 3 months later, sadly, the woman miscarried. The bride called her with a response along the lines of "good, well now you can be back in the wedding."
Needless to say, she did nto even attend it.



















































