Nighttime is for horrors and discovering how frightening the world really is. We aren’t talking about ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. They haven’t YET been added to the library of proven scary facts. We are here to take a look at the scientifically proven horrors. The ones that we can’t deny or run away from. And unfortunately (or luckily for all you dark copers out there), there are many creepy facts about humans and the Earth we live on.
Human bodies might work in creepy ways, but they can’t beat the frightening things our minds have done. For example, one of the scariest facts on our list touches upon the horror movie Poltergeist. This might come as a shocker to you, but the corpses you saw in the movie — those were actual human remains. With this scary fact in mind, you might watch the movie from a different perspective. Or never watch it again.
However, to truly make your sleep feel more like a nightmare, you should know the dark facts about Earth and its inhabitants. Crows, for example, can remember and recognize human faces. On the other hand, some scary facts touch upon geography. Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level, is also the world’s highest graveyard. Approximately 150 bodies are resting on this giant of a mountain. All of whom will likely never be recovered.
Ready to get scared? If so, turn off the lights, cozy up in your bed, and delve into the scary and disturbing facts we have compiled below. Also, we advise you to stick till the end because, throughout the post, we explore how scary facts affect sleep and why the ocean might be the most terrifying place on Earth!
#1
Crows can recognize and remember human faces.
Image credits: onlinelibrary.wiley.com
#2
Tooth-in-the-Eye Surgery. Surgeons put a tooth in a blind person’s eye to restore their sight. It was pioneered in the 1960s, and it actually works and it’s still being done today.
Image credits: eyewiki.aao.org
#3
Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist.
Image credits: snopes.com
#4
There are bodies of over 150 dead hikers on Mount Everest, and they’are used as landmarks.
Image credits: smithsonianmag.com
#5
The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.
Image credits: amnh.org
#6
Climate change is making spiders bigger.
Image credits: royalsocietypublishing.org
#7
A haunted radio station from Russia has been broadcasting a dull monotonous tone for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn.
Image credits: bbc.com
#8
Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.
Image credits: sciencedirect.com
#9
Two Scottish surgeons originally invented the chainsaw to assist childbirth.
Image credits: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
#10
Spiders can survive in space.
Image credits: nasa.gov
#11
Locked-In Syndrome is a condition in which a patient is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state.
Image credits: rarediseases.info.nih.gov
#12
The film ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ is based on a real story reported in the LA Times. A boy was terrified to go to sleep, and when he did, he died while screaming about a nightmare.
Image credits: latimes.com
#13
While Ted Bundy was a psychology major at the University of Washington, he worked at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.
Image credits: distractify.com
#14
Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviors when they’re bored.
Image credits: dpi.nsw.gov.au
#15
When you die the last sense to leave your body is the ability to hear.
Image credits: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
#16
More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.
Image credits: oceanservice.noaa.gov
#17
Technically it’s not impossible to die from holding in a sneeze. Some injuries from holding in a sneeze can be very serious, such as ruptured brain aneurysms, ruptured throat, and collapsed lungs.
Image credits: healthline.com
#18
Horned Lizards can defend themselves by squirting blood out of their eyes.
Image credits: asknature.org
#19
Alien hand syndrome is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own.
Image credits: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
#20
Mobile phones are 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat.
Image credits: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
#21
King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.
Image credits: smithsonianmag.com
#22
Some ants turn into zombies via parasitic fungus which manipulates their brains.
Image credits: livescience.com
#23
Arrhythmic death syndrome is a sudden condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.
Image credits: sads.org.uk
#24
250,000 deaths a year are due to medical errors.
Image credits: npr.org
#25
During the mummification process, Ancient Egyptians remove the brain through one of the nostrils.
Image credits: science.howstuffworks.com
#26
People with Cotard’s syndrome believe that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don’t exist. They may think nothing exists.
Image credits: webmd.com
#27
Criminologists estimate that there’s a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you’re murdered in the US.
Image credits: npr.org
#28
Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months.
Image credits: rarediseases.org
#29
You’re more likely to die on your birthday. The chance someone will die on their birthday is 6.7 percent, which is higher than any other day.
Image credits: sciencedirect.com
#30
Some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive.
Image credits: sciencedirect.com
from Bored Panda /creepy-facts-msn/
via IFTTT source site : boredpanda
