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A deleted Reddit user asked: 'What are some really creepy facts you know?'

Let's face it. We love horror movies–at least a good majority of cinephiles do–because the experience of seeing one in theaters is as thrilling and pulse-pounding as riding a roller coaster.

Scary movies are not real-life.

But there are some scary films that are actually based on real cases or incidences, but even those are highly dramatized.

What genuinely gives people the heebee jeebees, however, are not movies like "Halloween" or "Nightmare on Elm Street."

It's the historical and scientific facts that a lot of people aren't cognizant of us that have the potential of keeping them up at night.


But thanks to an unnamedRedditor, some of those were revealed when they asked strangers online:

"What are some really creepy facts you know ?"

Scientific facts like these can be downright terrifying.

The Sound Of Prey

" Dogs like squeezing toys because it sound like a dying animal."

– Nain6969

"My dog loves squeeze toys except the chirping bird toy we got for our cats. If he hears it he picks it up very gently and brings it to us and then whines and is distressed by it."

– CopperTucker

Ominous Mass

"There is a black hole called Phoenix a, and it is estimated to be 100 billion times the mass of our Sun, comparable to the mass of an entire galaxy. Its event horizon is 590 billion kilometers wide, or more than 100 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto, or about 1/16 of a lightyear wide."

"To get a visualization of how big that is on a human scale, lets shrink our solar system by 1 trillion times."

"The Sun would be 1 millimeter wide, and Pluto would be a little more than 5 meters away, and that black hole would be 590 meters wide. For reference, Alpha Centauri would be about 40 kilometers away at that scale."

– Youpunyhumans

Easy Passage

"Take away the stomach acid and an octopus could go into your mouth and crawl out your a**hole."

– Resident-Clue1290

Creepy Crawlies

"Spiders, one of the most evolutionary advanced species on the planet. We keept killing them, they began to get better at hiding. They can also convince us we have killed them when we haven't. Rain doesn't destroy their webs, not even a pressured hose does anymore."

"Also forgot to mention, they can do nothing, sleep all day and wake up to find food in their webs. They do not need to hunt or attack like almost every animal."

– Unlucky_Ducky23

Some of the sinister forces around us are the work of humans.

Murderers In Our Midst

"As many as 50 serial killers are active in the US and on the loose."

– Individual_Bit_8528

"Wayyy more than 50 if you include organized crime affiliated killers. Probably a lot more than 50 lone weirdos killing strangers too, but definitely hundreds or more if you include the former demographic."

– fluffedpillows

Corruption

"A guy disappeared in my country. Everyone knew he died. Everyone knew who did it. But the guys were policemen. So the investigation was so ruined it became ridiculous."

"There are people on this planet who can interven in the investigations made against them, decide to block them and if you do something about it, no one will investigate when you will mysteriously vanish."

"Can't fathom to be so powerful but yet use this power to be so heartless."

– Least-Designer7976

A Patient's Risk

"In 45 states, doctors and medical students are legally allowed to practice pelvic exams on patients who are under anesthesia without being granted explicit consent to do so."

– TrailerParkPrepper

Feasting On Flesh

"The first known human cannibal was a Neanderthal whose victims' 100,000-year-old bones were discovered in Moula-Guercy, a cave in France."

"There have been sites where the act has occurred involving the cannibalism of children leading some to speculate the act was not just done for food, but that it was done as a warning to rivals."

"Some anthropologists suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies as early as the Paleolithic."

"To this day only a few countries have laws which explicitly criminalize the practice of cannibalism, and the act can still be found in isolated regions of five different Countries."

– JustSomeApparition

Death itself is a mystery.

Ill-Fated Flight

"The crew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia was still alive for several minutes during the fatal and futile reentry attempt."

"The first signs of trouble were observed at 8:53:46. More and more started to go wrong but Mission Control was able to maintain communication through 8:59:32. Sometime after that, the shuttle entered a flat spin while traveling approximately Mach 15, which is enough to cause disorientation and very painful injury, but most likely not unconsciousness or death. Review of recovered data recording shows that Commander Husband and Pilot McCool were still attempting to restore systems and recover control past 9:00:05. The first lethal event was depressurization, which occurred between 9:00:35 and 9:00:59."

"All that means that the crew was very much alive and very much fighting to maintain/regain control for more than 7 minutes despite knowing that realistically their chances of success were pretty much zero."

– HoopOnPoop

After The Chopping

"Supposedly you're still aware for a few seconds after being decapitated."

– Broski225

"There was that one scientist or whatever who got beheaded in France. He said he would attempt to blink as many times as possible after his head was lopped off, for science, and his head did. I'm paraphrasing since I don't remember anything about the story but whatever. lol"

– Adkit

Now you know.

Some of the scariest things in life are our real living nightmares, and once you know about them, you can't unlearn them.

Reading through some of these examples, it's very clear that our world is a mysterious and creepy place to live in.

Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite.

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