“Scariest Fact You Know”: 50 Posts From A Page That Isn’t Afraid To Dive Into The Darkest Topics

jdward01:
1/3 of US m*****s go unsolved.

Didsterchap11:
If given access to it, butterflies will happily drink blood.

pi-N-apple:
The picture for your funeral program may have already been taken.

Anonymous:
Cannibalism is pretty common in hamsters.

Rook_45:
A kid said he didnt want to go to church because "my invisible friend says he cant follow me in there"

Anonymous:
My eldest told me that his imaginary friend misses me and wishes he could have been with me longer than a month.
I lost his big sister to SIDS a month after she was born the year before I had him.

Few-Fox-591:
In Massachusetts it's illegal to consume more than sandwiches at a funeral.
The most random law I've ever heard about

OurNewCEO-ThatGuy:
In order to snap someone's neck like in movies or video games you need to be strong enough to apply roughly 100-115% of the victims bodyweight in rotational force. Much more difficult than Hollywood would make you believe.

ezzysalazar:
Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia, 1975-1979.

Shadow948:
Genghis Khan k****d so many people that he actually decrease the carbon footprint during his lifetime and raped so many women that if you're Chinese there's a decent probability that your a descendant of his.

rahajaba:
It took humanity approximately 4 times Gonger to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.

AustinCynic:
When NASA pitched the idea of the Voyager missions to Richard Nixon with the idea of touring the outer planets, he was told that the last time it was possible, Thomas Jefferson was in the White House.
The particular planetary alignment that Voyager 2 used on its journey occurs only once every 176 years.

InThisIllusion:
Brandon Lawson. He ran out of gas on the highway in the middle of the night and called his brother to come help him. Shortly after he called 911 and reported that someone had chased him into the woods and that he needed police. Eventually his brother and one police officer arrive at the scene and find his truck abandoned but no sign of Brandon. Brandon calls his brother and says he's bleeding and is 10 minutes away from his truck. That was the last anyone ever heard from him and searches of the area turned up empty.

ffff:
The Jamison family
-The Jamison family (2 adults, 1 young daughter) was interested in purchasing a plot of land in Oklahoma
-They drive out in their pickup truck to check it out
-Truck is later found abandoned
-$32,000 cash found in truck, along with the Jamisons' IDs, wallets, mobile phones, and a GPS.
-The family dog was also left in the truck, and was extremely malnourished.
-A camera is discovered, the final picture was of their daughter, 6-year old Madyson, who looks somewhat distressed.
-Security footage is uncovered, with the family appearing trance-like" and not speaking to one-another.
-The Jamisons' skeletal remains are found years later, dumped less than 3 miles from where the pickup truck was originally discovered.
-Remains show no signs of struggle.

hiruko_uchiha:
Your eyes have a separate immune system than the rest of your body, and if your normal immune system ever learns about your eyes, it will target them and you'll go blind

TheNonbinaryWren:
The deadliest ship disaster was the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship built during the N**i Regime. In January 1945, she was evacuating 10,000 German citizens ahead of the soviet Invasion when (albeit ironically) a Soviet Submarine spotted them, and fired three torpedoes. The ship was on the freezing cold Baltic Sea, and the davits (ropes) for the lifeboats had frozen over. Not only that, but the ship was only meant to carry 2,000 people normally. These two factors, coupled with the harsh angle the ship was sinking at, meant only half of the lifeboats could be deployed. 9,400 people drowned to death that night, and nobody knows about it.

Affectionate Escape13:
I once had a nap on my couch, a few hours before I had to go to work.
I woke up, checked the time, and started to get ready for work.
Realized I was still dreaming.
I woke up again. Checked the time. It was a little bit later than the first time. Again, I started to get ready for work.
I was STILL dreaming.
I went through that 5 or 6 times, until each time I "woke up", I was panicking since I didn't know if I was awake or still sleeping, but I still got up and started to get ready for work. The last 'wake up' cycle, I would've been late for work.
Creepiest dream I've ever had, even more than my sleep paralysis

batmanineurope:
A year or two ago I stumbled upon a subreddit that was populated by quite a few members, but the posts were absolutely nonsense. But they commented on each other's posts as if they all understood what they were talking about. I kind of lurked for a little while, then got bored and forgot about it.
A few weeks later I was talking to someone via chat and mentioned the subreddit to them, and out of nowhere I started getting chat requests from the members of that subreddit. I accepted a few of the chats and they were speaking to me, very aggressively, with similar gibberish that filled their sub. I blocked them all and never heard from them again. I don't know what the h**l it was all about, but it made my skin crawl.

BuckshotShow:
Penguin eggs turn transparent when hard boiled.

neptuneenergy:
alexander the great, mussolini, napoleon, julius caesar and hitler allegedly suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.