Curiosities,Interesting FactsJUL 3, 2023

A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers

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Being human means sometimes being deeply ignorant about how anything works. As a child, you may have thought this was strange and, obviously, you needed to know everything, but a part of adulthood is realizing that, often, not knowing is better.

Regardless, one person decided to indulge in the more eerie side of life and asked the internet for all the creepy facts about human existence. They got what they asked for, so scroll through, if you dare, and be sure to upvote your favorite facts and comment any you know that were mentioned below.

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A Netizen Wanted To Hear Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature, The Internet Provided 40 Chilling Answers

We’re smart enough to make a perfect society, but too greedy to make it work.

jdmorgan82, Geron Dison

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297points

#2

The call of the void. This occurs when humans are on high places, like rooftops or cliffs, and get the urge to jump. It’s actually pretty common.

jstclair08, Lucas Clara

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242points

#3

I don't know if this is fact, but apparently humans have an instinct to know when they're being stared at by someone, so when you feel like you're being looked at you're probably right.

lucyllikecat, Noelle Otto

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212points

Despite the fact that many of these ideas are presented as downright creepy, humans do have a weird psychological desire to artificially feel this feeling. Maybe it’s a surge of adrenaline or a sort of heightened state, but this sort of internet content and the entire horror genre all revolve around it.

For example, sometimes our hair will stand on end and we’ll break out in goosebumps when we feel, often unknowingly, unsettled. A horror franchise of the same name exists probably for this reason. In humans, there is some speculation that we have this reaction when our bodies are being moved without our control, such as an earthquake.

#4

That pretty much everyone has the capacity for extreme evil given the right circumstances.

anon, Andrea Piacquadio

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195points

#5

Most people that die due to hypothermia get naked before dying.

This is because, blood stops flowing to your extremities, so you don't lose body heat. Just before death, the brain kinda "gives out" and allows blood flow to return to normal. This sends warm blood to your cold limbs, making you feel very hot and sweaty, so you strip.

Before this was understood, people that had died of hypothermia were believed to have been sexually assaulted because they were fully naked

diamondhound2509, Thom Holmes

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190points

#6

One of my favorite aspects about human nature is how there are things in nature that we are the best at. Sure we’re not the fastest, strongest, or most agile. But out of everything in the animal kingdom, we can run the longest.

Humans are adapted to do what very few animals can do, which is run for extended periods of time. Here’s where it gets creepy, I saw it explained like this:

Imagine you’re a gazelle on the plains of Africa early on in human history. You see some hairless apes running towards you, but f**k are they kind of slow. So your instincts kick in and you sprint away. Once they’re out of sight you relax and go back to eating grass or whatever you’re doing. But f**k, there they are again, running slowly towards you. How’d they figure out where you went?

You don’t know, you’re a gazelle. So you sprint away again and think you’re safe, again. Then, here come the hairless apes, slowly coming for you once again. You keep repeating this until you can’t sprint anymore. You aren’t adapted to continuously run long distances, but they are. Eventually you collapse and they get you.

That’s creepy to me. A slow moving predator who somehow always finds you and chases you until you can’t run anymore.

HallucinatesOtters, Jenny Hill

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This is all fine and good, the strange part is that many people actually enjoy the sensation of goosebumps and a heightened heart rate. It’s very human, it seems, to take a biological marker of fear and danger and turn it into entertainment. Even more weirdly, there are people who can actually induce goosebumps, and this state of tension manually, which is a good party trick, but a strange ability to have.

#7

After a back surgery, your organs might have been moved to perform certain parts of the surgery. The doctors don't move your organs back to their original place. This funny feeling you get after the surgery is your organs moving themselves back to their original place. Yes, they are capable of that.

VetreeleekYT, Olga Guryanova

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184points

#8

Humans lose rationality overtime when given power.

chi_chi_chimo_chimo

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170points

#9

You only need 30 people in order to trigger mob mentality in order to control an entire cowed of anywhere upwards to 10,000+ people blindly copying them.

Vasarto, CHUTTERSNAP

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There are also sounds that create this feeling despite no good explanation for them. Nails on a chalkboard and the scraping of metal utensils on metal both have this effect on many humans, but there does not seem to be a good evolutionary explanation. Our early ancestors did not need to feel fear at wasting chalk in such a manner, so there are all sorts of wild speculation as to why we have this reaction.

#10

Risks during birth are abnormally high compared to other species. Because of our upright gait (mother's narrow pelvis) and big heads, fetuses cannot 'fully' gestate until being born. Humans have to be born prematurely while the head is still tiny and squishy. Otherwise, childbirth would not be survivable at all.

deepestfish, Leah Kelley

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162points

#11

We are all addicts, just to different things.

Pilry_Mead

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152points

#12

Because the eyes are not only incredibly vulnerable to infection due to the moisture, they're also a direct connection to our brain. This necessitates an additional layer of immune security.

A seperate immune system has several advantages. Firstly, pathogens cannot travel from the eyes to the body, or the body to the eye. You wouldn't want a stomach virus to make you go blind! A normal immune response in the eye would mean swelling, which would destroy the eye. The eye has several different layers of security specifically because they're so important.

DeadWombats, Marina Vitale

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One possible explanation for some people’s love of horror could be that the adrenaline and intensity of the fight or flight emotion is not that far from the feelings we have when dopamine is produced in our body. Domaine, famously, feels pretty damn good, so there are people who enjoy acquiring it or “similar” experiences from other means.

#13

Learned memories, i.e. people 100% sure they remember things which actually never happened but were told many times by media/memes/others. I observed this for certain episode which happened less than 10 years ago and which everyone whom I asked witnessed themselves personally, but they all “clearly remember” it in a way it was presented in memes and jokes and not how they actually saw it happen.

p17s82, camilo jimenez

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137points

#14

If you happen to have brain injury, there is a condition that makes you unable to recognize objects around you. Like, you will see a fork, the colors and the shape of it, but you can’t know how to use it, if it’s edible or not, etc. Pretty scary thing to imagine.

Big-Bridge-6142, Adrian Swancar

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128points

#15

We possess the genes for regeneration similar to starfish and salamanders. They are on the same chromosome as the genes for scar tissue formation. However they are not turned on whereas the scar tissue genes are.

So technically, we could pull a Piccolo and regenerate limbs like a starfish. But we don't because it's waaay too metabolically demanding on energy. If we could do it, you'd likely shave years off of your life in exchange. Instead we make scar tissue to reinforce the injured area.

StopFool

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On a more general note, there is not actually a good reason why we call them goosebumps. Many other birds have similar skin, including the considerably more common chicken. Other mammals also have this reaction, but for some reason, in multiple languages, waterfowl of some sort are used to describe this biological reaction. For example, in Hebrew, it’s a duck, not a goose.

#16

Your stomach acid can dissolve a razor blade, right? Well another thing is that your stomach is constantly fighting to not get dissolved by the acid. Have a nice day :) also thank u for 257 upvotes, most ive ever gotten

anon, Kindel Media

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125points

#17

We do not have any undeniable way of proving that ANYTHING going on right now is real. This might all just be an illusion made by the mind. In the grand scheme of the universe, every event that led to this exact moment are all impossibly unlikely to happen, and comparatively, it's way more likely that the life we all see ourselves is a figment of a briefly lived consciousness in the endless nothingness of an empty space.

Doctor_Salvatore, Ketut Subiyanto

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122points

#18

We are one of the most violent things on earth, yet so social. We legit will help even our enemies when needed.
Its creepy, because we will easily team up snd go back to killing eachother.

Gunnerjackel97, Ketut Subiyanto

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118points

#19

The Uncanny Valley phenomenon suggests that we've had to fear something in human history that *looked* human but wasn't

(Edit: I'm talking things that are ALMOST human but not quite. Corpses don't creep me out as much as duplicate horror or life-like dolls.)

LdyLna

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115points

#20

There really is no profile of a person who falls victim to a cult. Anyone is susceptible. Cult members can come from any socioeconomic or educational background, any race, sex, religion.

buttercreamandrum, ALEXANDRE LALLEMAND

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113points

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