There are plenty of wholesome corners on the internet. This just isn’t one of them.
In various Reddit threads, people have shared some of the creepiest facts they’ve ever learned. From unsettling truths about life and the universe to disturbing details about science and nature, these revelations are anything but comforting.
We at Bored Panda have gathered some of the darkest ones below. Scroll through—just be warned, some of them are definitely not for the faint of heart.
#1

I was 9-10 years old when full grown men started creeping on me. My almost 5 year old is more than halfway to the age when the sexual harassment becomes obvious.
It makes me want to burn the world to ash.
It makes me want to burn the world to ash.
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#2

You could lose your health at any time and become disabled. Not scary, just unfortunate and sad.
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#7

Sleep paralysis combined with hallucinations that you are being watched by a frightening entity is a very real thing experienced by millions of people.
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#8

Every day you are getting dozens of cancerous cells. It's just that your immune system is doing a great job to get rid of them. Until it doesn't.
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#9
For most of human history, Mosquitoes have been the most dangerous animal to our species.
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#10

While you're on opioids, your brain stops producing dopamine. When you are experiencing withdrawal, it's because it takes a while for that process to start again. So the intense depression and misery is basically how we would all experience life if our brains weren't constantly doping us up with happy chemicals.
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#11

Autistic women are more likely to be R@p3d/SAed.
Might not be as scary as you hoped, but it's scary to me as an autistic woman.
Might not be as scary as you hoped, but it's scary to me as an autistic woman.
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#12

In 200 years no one will remember you, except you do something very awesome… or very bad that puts you in a history book.
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#13

Overpopulation, with everything going on (climate change/inflation/diminishing resources), people still encourage reproduction, especially in third world countries.
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#14

My iPhone figured out my son’s nickname and labeled all his pictures with it.
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#15

I don’t know why but thinking about something at the bottom of the ocean like the Titanic gives me the creeps. All that pitch black water.
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#16

Some women have reported feeling their organs slowly slide back into place after giving birth via a C-section.
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#17
There's a shortwave radio transmitter based in Russia that has been continuously broadcasting strange, repetitive buzzing sounds, periodically interrupted by spoken Russian, stating names or random numbers. This has been going on continuously since the early 1980s and possibly longer.
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#18
That before/as we lose our baby teeth, the permanent ones are already inside our skull. Waiting... Watching...
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#19
A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.
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#20

During the merger of two black holes,a black holes can occasionally get ejected from the system and get shot out into open space and become a wandering black hole, the creepy part for me is that because a large part of the way in which we see black holes is through their interactions with their surroundings we wouldn’t really be able to see it coming towards us.
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