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BIZARRE: Scariest true thing - You Need To See This
There is a dark side to humanity that many of us refuse to talk about. While it is understandable to avoid the doom and gloom, we must acknowledge them as part of our reality.
That’s what many of these people did as they shared their scariest truths on Reddit. They touched on various topics, from the existence of human trafficking to the high likelihood of being diagnosed with cancer.
If you have a fascination for everything bleak and morbid, you may enjoy reading through this list.
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#1
The stupider someone is, the more confident they are when blatantly wrong.
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#2
That 99% and that’s almost ALL of child SA takes place by a friend or family member or someone close to the family. Unlike people who get scared thinking a stranger is going to touch your child when it’s someone they live with or know…very scary and not talked about enough which leads to shame and no awareness.
Rick Murray 1 day ago
This. Governments, in particular the UK, are trying to break the internet on the excuse of "think of the children" while doing very little to deal with the situation.
#3
The world is filled with idiots who lack critical thinking skills, who think science and medicine are bad things, and who will believe anything without verifying the information because of confirmation bias.
#4
[TW] How many mothers, upon learning their significant other SA'ed their daughter, will align with the abuser, view the daughter as competition for his affection, fail to protect her, and this in turn will allow the abuse to continue.
(I work in the field and I've seen this countless times and it never fails to appall me, even decades in).
Barbara Liles 1 day ago
Then they’ll be all shocked when their daughters go no-contact in a few years.
#5
That every Covid naysayer I’ve ever offered to tour the ICU on the condition they don’t wear protective gear has declined my offer for some reason (during the pandemic).
#6
People believe in religions. That's scary. Like we live in the 21st century and there's billions of people who believe bronze age mythology to be the actual truth about our universe.
#7
That I may outlive my child who has disabilities. But also that my child who has disabilities may outlive me and who would care for her if that happens.
Norm Gilmore 13 hours ago (edited)
This is a real thing. I've read that some parents call it the Thirty years of Tèrror which is the average length of time that a dependent child will live after their parents pass and can no longer keep them safe. It's incredibly stressful....
#8
Sometimes the first symptom of an aneurysm is dying from it.
keyboardtek 14 hours ago (edited)
Or blocked arteries. Everyone I knew who had bypass surgery had no idea they had blocked arteries until they got chest pains. They were all mostly overweight, many smoked, none had a doctor who had them get a chest sonogram at age 65 to check for blocked heart arteries. None even regularly had a yearly physical! And a couple even had parents who died from heart disease, so you would think they would have gotten checked ever year after they turned 40!
#9
Worldwide, the most dangerous place for a woman is her home.
*raspberry sound 11 hours ago
WhAt AbOuT mEn?!? Yeah, because of all those women, k*****g their partners and keeping them hostage in their houses, lording all of that lady money over them.
#10
That every country that possesses nuclear weapons has a moron running the country.
#11
Everyone is just winging it to the best of their ability.
D Stonewall 19 hours ago
Knowledge of this fact gives me strange comfort. If everyone is just winging it, I feel a lot less guilty about my own s***w ups.
#12
There used to be a wikipedia article titled "List of Youngest Birth Mothers" with the youngest being only 5 years old.
The majority of the entries it was also suspected either their father or uncle was responsible.
#13
Of your best friend group, one of you will attend all the funerals. And another will attend none.
#14
It’s too late to avoid major climate change.
Andrew Keir 12 hours ago
But we can work together to minimise its worst effects. One problem is going to be 'free rider' countries which refuse to stop burning coal.
#15
Human trafficking.
Redplushie:
Somewhere there is probably someone that's being held captive against their will in a shed or basement. I think about it often and I get sick every time I let my imagination go wild
#16
The absolute vastness of the oceans and that there are creatures in there nobody has ever seen.
#17
That good people I care about and love — and who I got my core values from — cannot see the danger unfolding in front of them right now in America.
#19
A lot of people seem to actually admire the worst people in history and want to emulate them.
#20
AI and greed will make my kids' lives hard or impossible to support themselves.
Andrew Keir 12 hours ago
The aim of AI seems to be to tell the entire human population to 'go away' (my censorship) when there is, in fact, no *away* left to go to. I almost look forward to a witch-hunt for "illegal billionaires" in the same way that we are currently encouraged to hunt down (illegal) immigrants. But, which laws bind AI computers?
#21
I found out today from a coworker that god used to let humans live to be over 100 until we started sinning so now god is punishing humans with shortened life spans and if medicine gets in the way god hits people with bad luck like a car crash or shooting.
The true fact that someone believes that is pretty terrifying.
Marno C. 23 hours ago
I know there are some folks who assign some pretty crazy ages to different Biblical figures. My personal thought is that it wasn't so much that these people regularly lived to be 100+ (Methuselah died aged 969?) but more that they had poor record keeping and little sense of what constituted a year. Especially so if they lived in an area with little difference between seasons.
#22
Stupid people can vote.
Pawsome 15 hours ago
My father used to go on about how "uneducated" people shouldn't be allowed to vote (ie people without a university degree). I ended up yelling at him and so did my mom. In my opinion, the guy who is both a complete moron, whose personality only revolves around the fact that he has a PhD (which he should never have gotten, according to his own PhD supervisor) and who loves people like Trump should be the last person to vote... I would trust my illiterate grandmother over him any day
#23
I took part in the war. And there is a funny fact that if you hear the sound of the bomb that means you have already survived. Otherwise you wont hear any noise except when its in the air. You hear the whistle until it explodes. Heard the explosion, you are alive. You have 5-6 seconds during the whistle to find a proper place to hide
#25
Prions. They folded proteins. They also are hard to destroy, and can spread easy, and do really scary stuff.
#26
Absolutely no one knows what happens to us when we die. We can all speculate, but it's all hearsay with no evidence.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago
When I d*e it will be like before I was born. I will not exist to experience it.
#27
For every serial killer we know about, there are about a half-dozen to a dozen that we don't.
#28
The systematic eradication of indigenous peoples across history and the world.
#29
Half the population has below average intelligence.
#30
Ignorance is bliss. People will choose to remain ignorant and not deal with actual issues.
#34
The overuse of AI is quickly depleting our drinkable water supply, along with lots of other industries.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago (edited)
AI only benefits the business owners. AI does not need wages. We will all be jobless. AI companies should be taxed heavily and the income should be used to set up Universal Basic Income. Why should the income benefit the already rich?
#35
Healthcare companies will do everything possible to screw you over and don’t care if you or your kids die. They also own ALL politicians.
#36
The people running the world are not the people everybody thinks is running the world.
keyboardtek 14 hours ago
MAGAs were all yelling about the "deep state". Then Trump gets elected and we all find out the deep state is the Heritage Foundation that has secretly been advising conservatives since Ronald Reagan was president.
#37
There are more cells in your body that belong to other organisms than your own cells.
And when you die, and your immune system shuts down, they finally succeed at eating you.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 1 day ago
They're not sentient and doing it maliciously, and I won't be around to care.
#38
Wanna know what is terrifying if you really think about it? How small and insignificant we are. The universe is endless and it's expanding! I don't think anyone can really comprehend this.
#39
Somewhere, out there, right now, is the worst surgeon in the world. And they are actively seeing and operating on patients.
Richard Graham 1 day ago
What do you call the person who graduated last in the class in Medical School? Doctor.
#40
Plastic is everywhere and in everything and is just building up in our bodies and water and the land and it's crazy. It's polluting and disrupting all of those things.
I very recently learned about polyester, like in-depth compared to the basics I knew before, and how it sheds microplastics into the air and when we wash it and I have not been ok.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago
We are k*****g this planet. But it is okay as long as people needed make money and spend money and the rich get richer.
#41
That no matter how much we know now, in 250 years the vast majority of our knowledge as well as written and performed art will be completely inaccessible to anyone other than specialized historians.
Due to ignorance, laziness, and acceleration caused by the internet, our language is rapidly evolving.
Try reading an academic essay or book from 150 years ago (or even a work of entertainment written for the common masses) and you'll get an idea of how language can be lost in just a dozen generations.
Rick Murray 23 hours ago
? We're still performing Shakespeare and reading the King James version of the bible. Both have language that's a little peculiar (thou dost shitteth upon my throne?) but it's still understandable.
#42
Fat cells live for 10 years, can divide and make more fat cells and they remember the set point ( your fattest weight). So if you go on any diet including the GLP-1 drugs, you have to go for a long long time to wait out those fat( full) fat cells to die or they will pester you( signal you to eat) until they reach their original size.
Andrew Keir 11 hours ago
You're almost persuading me to have weight loss surgery ... but not quite.
#43
There is a rare brain eating amoeba found in fresh water, if it gets up your nose it will infect your brain and eat it. There is nothing anyone can do but wait until you die 99% of the time.
Don't worry it's only been found in very hot conditions, low water levels, like if you dive into a swamp. Just kidding it's been found in tap water .. that's been filtered, treated with sanitizing chemicals, hit with UV light etc... There's a reason when you buy a nasal rinse it says to only use distilled water.
#44
I learned at a job that there are a truly frightening number of elderly women who carry their dead husband’s handgun for protection without having any training and being arthritic and shaky. It amazes me there aren’t more accidental shootings or collateral damage from them. I expect they can’t get them out of their handbag fast enough to use them.
#45
The number of people older than you walking this earth is the most that it will ever be and that number becomes less every second that passes.
Not scariest so much as a sobering thought.
#46
The US government is corrupt, in almost every way.
#47
Everything is relative except birth and death. Blinking in and out of existence with our time spent wrapped in the Zeitgeist we were dealt.
My thoughts, beliefs, judgememts, desires, none of it is real.
Balancing this knowledge with compassion and drive, is terrifying.
#48
People don't follow the rules due to morals but because they know they will be caught. There are many psychopaths that know how to blend in to society. Which is why for example during a natural disaster when there is no electrical power/law enforcement in immediate area that people will go around committing [crimes].
#49
Nothing and nowhere is ever truly 100% safe. Everything you know and love, or your very own safety, can be completely ripped away and crushed to shreds at any moment.
You can live in fear of it, run from it, or decide to embrace joy and happiness in spite of it, but this fact is a universal truth.
#50
There is a chance that we are alone in the universe because intelligence self destructive.
What do you think ?
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago
Everyone say hello to my obsessed stalker troll and bigot known as Captain Wafflestomper. Today he is going by Raymond. Unfortunately you will keep seeing him. I live in his head rent free, he keeps coming back to make offensive and stupid comments.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 15 hours ago
😁 I'm also enjoying their attention since I've listed my bigender pronouns. Really makes me feel like a VIP. And it's really funny that they apparently think that some inane comments of a chronically online loser are enough to make me reconsider a realization that changed my life infinitely for the better.
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Rick Murray 23 hours ago
You didn't have to, a fascination with the macabre kept you scrolling...doom scrolling with emphasis on the doom. 😂
Load More Replies... Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago
Everyone say hello to my obsessed stalker troll and bigot known as Captain Wafflestomper. Today he is going by Raymond. Unfortunately you will keep seeing him. I live in his head rent free, he keeps coming back to make offensive and stupid comments.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 15 hours ago
😁 I'm also enjoying their attention since I've listed my bigender pronouns. Really makes me feel like a VIP. And it's really funny that they apparently think that some inane comments of a chronically online loser are enough to make me reconsider a realization that changed my life infinitely for the better.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 23 hours ago
You didn't have to, a fascination with the macabre kept you scrolling...doom scrolling with emphasis on the doom. 😂
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