4 Things that gives you the creeps

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I love that sound! That's actually one of my favorite sounds. But I have a penchant for... not spooky, per se... but evocative... things. I like it when the weather gets dark and moody.




That's what I think too - my mind goes straight to the medical knowledge I've accumulated from my dad when I see something like that. All I see is inflammation and potential for infection. The barrier one's skin makes is part of the immune system, so to put holes in it is literally to compromise the immune system.

1. Old porcelain dolls and the ball-jointed type are creepy in a pleasantly spooky kind of way, but what really freaks me out are those hyper-real baby dolls some women collect - the ones that have realistic skin texture and weight and some of them even appear to breathe. (I watched a documentary about these people, and the reasons why a lot of them collect these things are either tragic - ie they've lost or can't have a child - or suggest a controlling personality, ie their real children are older and they like having a 'baby' so they can do the parenty stuff without the hassle of a child who answers back and has a will of their own - which I think is genuinely creepy in itself.)

2. Maggots. MathematicalOwl, that's just....eeew.

3. Anything to do with injury to the eyes. (I managed to watch part of Un Chien Andalou at the urging of a friend, but I had to look away at...that bit.)

4. A certain scene in the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman. If you've ever read it, you'll know exactly the scene I mean. If not, I can't really begin to explain why it's so creepy...oh, heck, just go find it and read it yourself.

Oh yeah, and this is pretty eeewsome...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/run ... m-a-stone/

1. Mold- I hate, hate mold. Just seeing the fruiting bodies (what makes it look fuzzy) gives me the creeps.

2.Cockroaches (the pest kind, not the hissing kind. Those are awesome.)

3. Certain characters in movies: StayPuft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters, the Gingerbread Men from the Shrek Movies (both big and little), anthropomorphized food on TV and movies. Why would a chicken drumstick dance around? Wasn't it once a leg of a living chicken? *shudders*

4.Houses and places where someone died violently. I know of several places in my neighborhood where someone died violently, and I can't even look at those houses.

-Rats. When I was really young our house was infested with them and I remember mom sometimes making my brother and me get up during the night to sleep over at our grandparent's house because I think she was afraid they were going to kill us in our sleep. I like other rodents, including mice, but rats give me the chills, although I try hard to see pet rats as being cute, clean and lovable (but their tails really gross me out, especially when it looks like they just dragged them through their own waste).

-Germs, viruses and bacteria. The bad kind of bacteria, I mean, especially superbugs.

-Having to be near people who are infected and contagious with the above things.

-Dead bodies have always been a huge source of nightmare fuel for me, and I've never even gone to a funeral. I don't care how well they dress it up, a corpse is still a corpse!

-Natural disasters, man-made disasters, or pretty much anything with the word "disaster" in it.

-Serial rapists/killers, and terrorists that live in our own country.

-Overly realistic baby dolls (I like and collect cartoon-like dolls, however). They look like dead bodies! I once even had a nightmare not long ago where I had a dead baby in my bedroom dressed up in doll clothes and I was unsure if I had actually killed it. ARRRRGH!! !

-People driving recklessly, DUI, or full of road rage.

-Eye injuries or blindness. I sincerely would rather die than lose my vision.

-This is going to sound nasty and horrible, but... cancer patients. Their bald heads, their constant vomiting, their bodies wasting away. Another thing I would choose death over is getting chemotherapy because of this.

-The phrase "children are the future". Seriously, that is worse than scary!! !

- Some people are going to completely hate me for this, but pit bulls and rottweilers, or any other large, barking, angry-for-no-real-reason dog. I still sometimes jump when I hear a dog suddenly barking at me even if the beast is securely leashed or fenced in.

something that gives me the creeps is cremations the thought of being put in a furnace and then incinarated totally makes me cringe.
people say about being buried alive what if you're in that furnace being burnt alive and no one can hear you.

- Creepypasta, especially the ones revolving around the themes of "lost episodes of children's shows", "lost Youtube videos" and "cursed video games". Typing them out, they sound like silly things to be afraid of, especially since those things aren't physical things that could hurt you, and most creepypasta of these varieties tend to follow a formula. But for some reason, reading about them still makes me afraid to be alone in the dark.

- Parasites. The concept of some alien-looking creature taking up residence in your body and feeding off of you is very disturbing to me.

- The Uncanny Valley. This one is a little bit different than the other examples on my list because I actually enjoy doing research on it and seeking out examples of it. Sometimes I even try to create my own examples of it. A good example (whether one I've found online or one I've created myself) will send shivers down my spine.

- Insects/arachnids. Like most people, I've never been a fan of creatures of these varieties. This year we have been experiencing very high temperatures where I live and so the creepy crawlies like to take refuge in our house, and at the pool where I like to swim. There have been enough times where I have found bugs crawling on my arm or leg that now I get phantom stinging or crawling sensations on my skin. Blegh.

1. South Park--First of all, it's a cartoon for adults. Second of all, it's sick--not "sick" as in "cool," but "sick" as in "PLAIN OLD CREEPY AND DISGUSTING!"
2. Clowns--their makeup is soooooo weird!! !! !!
3. Health class--no explanation necessary
4. People who believe in Bigfoot.

Too creepy for words...

Here's more:

1. 'Artsy' or 'folksy' pictures of places that never have existed. Oil paintings of old stone houses, farms, villages, etc.

2. Most 'folk art.' I hate folk art. It has the Uncanny Valley effect to me, only with places and things. Especially when they try to do 'country' things like old farm houses, pigs in old (pre 1950's) farm yards and such. Plus most modern forms of it gets pushed at modern suburbanites, who likely haven't been on any farm for over a generation.

3. Skulls, animal or human, at night. I have several animals skulls, but I don't like to look at them when it's night or late twilight with the lights off, as those empty eye sockets and skeletal grins get an extra level of creepy.

4. Sports Mascot costumes. Those big, dead, staring eyes, the fuzzy (from the fabric) skin, and the often deformed body. I will not allow one of those things near me, even though I know mentally it's a human in a suit. Mascot suits give me the creeps.

Children under 10 years of age, wearing a hijab, sometimes as young as 5-6. Brrrr

That makes no sense from even a cultural point of view. The 'purpose'of it is to protect a woman's modesty and keep her from sexual advances, so it's creepy when little girls are wearing it. I guess it could be an equivalent of little girls wanting to be like their mums/big sisters and try on their heels and make-up in Western culture, only these girls want to wear the same headgear as their female relatives instead of their face-gunk. However, it's creepy when little girls put on make-up and heels, so it's still creepy when it's a hijab. It sort of sexualises them, even though that was far from the intention of that piece of clothing.

1. Deranged old people.
2. Child abuse, of any kind.
3. Human depravity in general.
4. The idea that mankind's achievements would not result in one-one billionth of a difference in the cosmos.

1. McDonalds
2. The Annoying Orange: Fruit are not supposed to have faces.
3. Ringworm
4. Hair on the floor at hair salons

1. Fire
2. Snakes
3. Animal Cruelty
4. Passport Application Forms

I agree with you on all of those.

1)Walking up stairs
2)Leaking water
3)Natural wonders
4)The ocean