Anyone get a thrill from creepy/scary special interests?

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I've always been interested in forensic patholgy and mortuary science. I even took a few classes, but they were in the city at night and since I don't have the normal fear of things that can happen to you alone in that city at night, my family would not leave me alone about quitting. It was fascinating however. But I don't find it horrifying at all. Or gross, weird, creepy, etc what everyone else is always telling me it is for normal people. I simply find the process, and knowledge there, interesting.

Well when I was younger (high school, etc.) I was interested in forensics. At the time I believe knew more about the subject than your average pathologist. Later, when I went to the university and had to study such things anyway, my interest subsided though I still know too much to most people's taste.
Always been interested in clinical medicine though I knew that I will be rubbish with patients so I chose laboratory work instead. For some reason, most people I know are scared and disgusted to open a book of clinical medicine so whenever at my job somebody needs to come up with clinical synopsis (writing a project proposal, etc. - happens quite often) it's always me who does it. I strongly suspect that they think that it's because I am tough and insensitive but the truth is that I think that one needs maximum amount of information to obtain best results so it would only be natural to know how a disease looks like in order to be able to recognise and manage it. I've tried to explain a couple of times but it is only my bosses who actually get it, colleagues usually shudder and turn away. And mind, we the staff are all supposed to have studied the same subjects in the university.
Also, nuclear factory accidents. I can spend hours figuring out how exactly the accident happened and when was the precise moment when things got really out of hand.
I have three tarantulas and would very much like to have a scorpion too. I know that this is generally considered creepy or scary, but tarantuals are actually handsome and docile. Anyway, I've had about a dosen of tars for the last 11 years (and, apart from those who died in infancy or those who turned out to be male, they all lived to a ripe old age) and I never had a bite or any kind of trouble with them. While with each of the three dogs I've had there's been a couple of accidents - usually when they get into a fight or need to be taken to a vet. Come off it, what could be scary about a spider, even a very large one? Or a pretty shiny snake, for that matter?

A Few years ago I had a special Interest in mind altering substances. I literally wanted to try them all. After having some bad drug experiences I started becoming interested/obsessed with reading about other people's bad experiences with drugs

I have practiced ritual magic. Some things that I have observed lead me to surmise there really is something to it. It is possible to accomplish things that seem rather unlikely. Your mileage may vary.

I did a ritual to obtain a spirit wife. What I wanted was exactly that, a spirit, that would be a wife. I imagined an invisible entity communicating with me through psychic means or tarot cards, something esoteric like that.

What I got, about a month later, was a girlfriend.

That wasn't exactly what I wanted, but I did not complain. In magic, there are no refunds or returns.

I get a thrill from being creepy... hopefully in a cute way.

It is an interesting comment. Do you mean you are interested in colonialist construction of cannibalism fantasies in religions and for 'the exotic other'?

^The person who wrote that did so in 2010. I don't think they post here anymore.

I don't have an interest in gory movies and such (Saw movies are torture porn that I won't watch). But real world events and disasters interest me, such as 9/11, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, etc. Even Covid interested me as in what it is like to have it. I haven't had it and i seem to be one of the few.

Yes, I have a couple. Natural disasters, and cults.

Past dark SPINS: shark attacks, facial disfigurements, people getting crushed by malfunctioning elevators (not a whole lot out there on this; I quickly read all there was ever on it), fatal luge practice run in 2010 of Nodar Kumaritashvili (this spawned a spinoff fixation on the fact that so many Georgian names end in "vili"), seizures from head trauma, death of Ryan Young from daredevil stunt of swinging from a 10-story-high crane (he miscalculated length of rope and smashed into a brick building), real-life wood chipper fatalities.

These were all genuine SPINS. However, I have "regular" interests in murder crime scene analysis and the subsequent forensic investigations, and I enjoyed the short-lived series "Why Planes Crash."

I was into scary moments and things from non-horror video games for some time. And I have a thing for a few Golden Age Disney cartoons that were scary, like The Skeleton Dance and Pluto's Judgement Day.

I can't help but admire all the effort it must have taken into animating the skeletons in The Skeleton Dance in an era when animation was quite limited and before they had computers and other fancy gizmos, especially at the part where one skeleton jumps off a gravestone towards the screen, and another zooms in and out while clacking his jaws.

One of my special interests was/is learning about poisons and their potential uses. I have had that quest for over forty years. It started my interest into chemistry at a young age. Most parents would not let their kids play in that area, but mine allowed it. I used to harvest natural poisons on our farm to do experiments on certain bullies. Poison ivy/oak were two of my favorites to extract. I was careful to never use lethal doses on my test subjects. Mixed poison combos are a speciality of mine. They give a 1..2 punch when working in tandem.

My parents only stopped me when I was attempting to aerosol my solid mixtures by use of a small rocket to deliver it over a large area. I know it would have worked because I did several test runs using powdered flour (similar consistency of the aerosol mixture I wanted to use). It truly was a different time back then with what you could get away with as a kid.

^ Then you'll probably be familiar with the case of Graham Young, which has always fascinated me as well. There is, of course, a film about this, namely The Young Poisoner's Handbook.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Young


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115033/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Yes, I knew about his case. He liked to use antimony and thallium, both the metals and the compounds, in his attacks. Thallium is a rather hard to trace poison, so it is favored for that usage. He also used some plant based poisons, such as found in deadly nightshade family plants. He was an interesting fellow to say the least.

In my private library, I have an extremely rare 1st ed. early poison book. There were later editions made, but they have been edited for content. The mid-evil recipe list is noticeably missing in later books. It gave me a lot of ideas on combinational recipes. I think it was removed for a good reason.