Halloween is right around the corner, so it’s the perfect time to curl up on the couch and binge horror films or read scary stories. We can’t help but be drawn to these disturbing tales! But there’s a big difference between the thrill of hearing fictional stories about shockingly cruel deeds and encountering pure evil in real life.
Redditors have recently been recalling the most vile humans they’ve ever met, so we’ve gathered some of their unsettling stories below. From family members that have committed unspeakable acts to strangers that they were happy to never cross paths with again, this list is full of chilling anecdotes. We’ll warn you right now, pandas, that you might not want to read these tales before bed. But if you can make it through them all, be sure to upvote the ones that give you goosebumps!
#1
My ex husband. Extremely [violent] in every way imaginable and even after I left him for good 6 years ago and am happily remarried now he was still [violent] and trying to control me. The worst part though is that when he realised that he couldn't get to me he started mentally, verbally and emotionally abusing our daughters especially my eldest since she is so much like me. I applied for a VRO in April which was granted as an interim order and after 6 long months of him objecting to it and dragging me back to court over and over again yesterday the magistrate finally agreed that he is a danger to myself and my children and made the VRO into a final order (permanent), for the next 3 years he is not allowed to contact or come within 100m of me or my children.
86points
#2
My ex. He was [toxic] in every way. The thing that made him the worst was him holding my mom’s ashes over the toilet, threatening to pour them out if I left him. I will never forget that image.
58points
#3
My mom was an ER nurse, currently retired.
20 years ago a man walked into the ER carrying a person wrapped in a plastic bag and left. It was a little old granny lady with end stage Alzheimers. She was gaunt, covered in feces on her pajamas that looked like they weren’t changed in weeks, she didn’t have a diaper on but should have, she had bedsores full of maggots going to the bone and no teeth. Her body was curled up in a fetal position. She was very far into sepsis from both her bed sores and an untreated UTI. The smell was awful.
She couldn’t speak, all she did was moan and cry as she was examined. This poor lady was bathed and given pain medicine to make her comfortable. My mom sat with her as much as she could until she [passed away] a few hours later. Nobody knew her name or anything about her. It was so sad. My mom tears up every time she recounts this story because it is one of the cruelest thing she witnessed.
The little lady wasn’t disgusting, the man who abandoned her to die with strangers was. Judging by her condition she was neglected for years but I don’t know if the man who left her there was ever caught or prosecuted for it. I hope he was!
20 years ago a man walked into the ER carrying a person wrapped in a plastic bag and left. It was a little old granny lady with end stage Alzheimers. She was gaunt, covered in feces on her pajamas that looked like they weren’t changed in weeks, she didn’t have a diaper on but should have, she had bedsores full of maggots going to the bone and no teeth. Her body was curled up in a fetal position. She was very far into sepsis from both her bed sores and an untreated UTI. The smell was awful.
She couldn’t speak, all she did was moan and cry as she was examined. This poor lady was bathed and given pain medicine to make her comfortable. My mom sat with her as much as she could until she [passed away] a few hours later. Nobody knew her name or anything about her. It was so sad. My mom tears up every time she recounts this story because it is one of the cruelest thing she witnessed.
The little lady wasn’t disgusting, the man who abandoned her to die with strangers was. Judging by her condition she was neglected for years but I don’t know if the man who left her there was ever caught or prosecuted for it. I hope he was!
58points
To find out what sparked this conversation in the first place, we reached out to the Reddit user who invited readers to share stories about the most disgusting people they've ever met, Artistic_Giraffe4069. They were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and reveal what inspired them to start this thread.
"So I'm a 17-year-old student, who's currently applying for colleges and scholarships," the author shared. "I'm in the process of writing my college application essay. My plans were to just trauma dump on the essay. I may be young, but I've seen a lot. Thinking back on my 'childhood,' it was really disgusting and that's what made me think of this question."
#4
My dad. I always had an odd relationship with him. He was just a tad inappropriate on his end. At 15, he kissed me while drinking, exclaiming, "You always look like you want to kiss me." I ran and locked myself in my room. Hid that secret for weeks until my ma pried it from me. He was confronted that night. He broke out in full body sobs, saying he had no memory of it, and he'll never drink again. Guess what? He drank like it was water until the day he [passed away]. He died on May the 12th of last year. My mother's birthday. I had been very angry at him in the last years of his life - not because of what he did to me but because of how he treated my mother. He treated her like she was lower than him. If you ever heard the song Labour by Paris Paloma - that's how he was.
Now, back to the heart of the problem, he was inappropriate with me. After he [passed away], I started thinking back to when I was a child. I decided to call my eldest sister one day. I asked her if our dad was inappropriate to her or towards our other two sisters. She said yes, he used to play bathroom games with her. I hate that man, so much. I kind of wish he was still alive so I could punch him in the defibrillator.
Sorry for the book. It's been kept in.
Now, back to the heart of the problem, he was inappropriate with me. After he [passed away], I started thinking back to when I was a child. I decided to call my eldest sister one day. I asked her if our dad was inappropriate to her or towards our other two sisters. She said yes, he used to play bathroom games with her. I hate that man, so much. I kind of wish he was still alive so I could punch him in the defibrillator.
Sorry for the book. It's been kept in.
53points
#5
Boris Johnson, former UK PM, privately said, “let the bodies pile high” when the Covid pandemic began.
47points
#6
I used to work with a guy who was telling us a story that he thought put him in a positive light. he went on a couple of dates with a girl and she wouldn't [sleep] with him. On the last date he was frustrated and was just going to [take advantage of her]...but he decided not to and just robbed her instead.
He was proud of himself for his restraint.
He was proud of himself for his restraint.
46points
The OP also opened up about some of their own experiences with particularly vile people. "My parents are the most disgusting people I've ever met," they shared. "They've made my life terrible, but they need help too. My father was a dr*g dealer, and my mother was an ad**ct, to everything and anything. We were very poor and lived off of my dad's dr*g money and VA benefits."
"Growing up, there were so many cr**kheads in our 'home', it looked like a halfway house. Our house stayed dirty. We had roaches, spiders, maggots and even mice. The red carpet turned black in a matter of two years," the author continued. "I never slept in my room because my parents would let the cr**kheads take it, and they would leave it so dirty when they were done (my room was the room with the maggots)."
#7
My mother.
Her favourite games were starvation, solitary confinement and using riding whips as punishment.
Her favourite games were starvation, solitary confinement and using riding whips as punishment.
45points
#8
My mother. Held me captive well into adulthood and [harmed] me physically (leaving permanent disabilities), financially, socially, mentally, verbally.
43points
#9
My Uncle. He was a high-powered lawyer married to a judge (they were both evil). Anyways, he was estranged from my grandmother and my mom for years until my grandmother was in the hospital and unable to speak. He swooped in, and somehow managed to gain power of attorney out of nowhere, wrote my mother and our entire family out of the will somehow, and sold everything my grandmother owned, leaving my mom with nothing to remember her by.
My grandmother had intended to leave everything to my mom, except her car, which she had told me repeatedly that she intended to become my first car. That never happened. We didn't see a cent from anything that he sold and didn't receive anything to remember her by. My mom was my grandmother's best friend and caretaker and wasn't even allowed at the funeral.
He didn't need the money. It was all out of spite.
My grandmother had intended to leave everything to my mom, except her car, which she had told me repeatedly that she intended to become my first car. That never happened. We didn't see a cent from anything that he sold and didn't receive anything to remember her by. My mom was my grandmother's best friend and caretaker and wasn't even allowed at the funeral.
He didn't need the money. It was all out of spite.
42points
"On April 30th, 2016, which was my 8th birthday, me and my siblings were taken away, and we are not in that predicament anymore," the author shared with Bored Panda. "We now live with our grandmother, and she's our legal guardian. Seeing them now, they still live the exact same way they did when we lived with them. Trash everywhere, food everywhere, there's fecal matter everywhere. It really does hurt my soul seeing my parents like that."
#10
My first step father. He [mistreated] us in every way imaginable and took it to the worst level with my older sister from 9-13. He controlled every waking moment of our lives, forced my mother to work herself nearly to death, quite literally, while he sat home collecting disability while somehow still being quite capable of working on cars and doing various, never completed DIY projects around the house. He made my sister and I wait on him hand and foot even when we were very small children. Made us stay up well past midnight on school days doing never ending chores. Locked us in our bedroom when he left the house to keep us from eating. Kept us living in horrid living conditions, often without running water, heat or electricity.
Once my sister finally confessed his [mistreatment] to my mother, he was ultimately sentenced to prison and [passed away] there from a heart attack a few years later (he was 25 years older than my mom). I felt absolutely nothing that evening when the police officer came to our home with the news. There was no sadness, surprisingly no anger, just a bit of relief that we'd never have to see that disgusting face ever again.
I recently found his first wife's obituary online. I read between the lines and I firmly believe he did the same thing to his biological daughter from that marriage. It was a quite detailed obit and it mentioned that "Gary did something bad" in relation to why that marriage ended. He never had any contact with his daughter in the years we knew him.
He was pure evil.
My mother ultimately met a saint of a man when I was 18. They married a few years later. He became my dad and my children's papa. My oldest didn't even realize he wasn't my bio dad until he was a teenager. He passed last year after 30 years of being a part of our family. There's now a giant hole that can never, ever be filled. RIP Dad.
Once my sister finally confessed his [mistreatment] to my mother, he was ultimately sentenced to prison and [passed away] there from a heart attack a few years later (he was 25 years older than my mom). I felt absolutely nothing that evening when the police officer came to our home with the news. There was no sadness, surprisingly no anger, just a bit of relief that we'd never have to see that disgusting face ever again.
I recently found his first wife's obituary online. I read between the lines and I firmly believe he did the same thing to his biological daughter from that marriage. It was a quite detailed obit and it mentioned that "Gary did something bad" in relation to why that marriage ended. He never had any contact with his daughter in the years we knew him.
He was pure evil.
My mother ultimately met a saint of a man when I was 18. They married a few years later. He became my dad and my children's papa. My oldest didn't even realize he wasn't my bio dad until he was a teenager. He passed last year after 30 years of being a part of our family. There's now a giant hole that can never, ever be filled. RIP Dad.
38points
#11
My stepmom threw me and my brother out in the middle of winter because she didn't want us in the house.
My dad split with my mom at 9 and moved to another city. When he worked evenings or nights we got threw out and strolled around until way past bedtime to get ourselves some sleep.
She also didn't cook for us so we lived on sandwiches and ate sausages at gas stations to feed ourselves.
She also told us as often as she could how bad we were. We were skinny, lazy, would never become anything in life, etc etc. She on the other hand has never kept a job and to this day just lives on my dad.
My dad split with my mom at 9 and moved to another city. When he worked evenings or nights we got threw out and strolled around until way past bedtime to get ourselves some sleep.
She also didn't cook for us so we lived on sandwiches and ate sausages at gas stations to feed ourselves.
She also told us as often as she could how bad we were. We were skinny, lazy, would never become anything in life, etc etc. She on the other hand has never kept a job and to this day just lives on my dad.
33points
#12
I was friends with a guy in college. He was the guy everyone loved. He was talented, smart, sweet, extraverted, funny, and super creative. Good looking in a conventional way. I remember he had really striking blue eyes. He was the kind of guy everyone trusted and wanted to be around. He got married to a really sweet, gorgeous woman and had kids. They went to church. They traveled to Europe. They seemed to have a great life.
He became middle school teacher. And then, he SA'd one of his students repeatedly over the course of 2 years in his office at the school. He's currently serving a nearly 20 year sentence.
He became middle school teacher. And then, he SA'd one of his students repeatedly over the course of 2 years in his office at the school. He's currently serving a nearly 20 year sentence.
33points
Finally, Artistic_Giraffe4069 shared some words of wisdom. "Even when things get rough, there's no such thing as going back," they noted. "You can only move forward, and you are going to move forward. Even if it doesn't feel like that, life is full of mysteries and has a lot in store for you."
#13
My ex. Genuine sociopath, met all the criteria.
He had a child with the woman he dated before me. Had this whole pitiful story about how she disappeared in the middle of the night with their baby and took her to Texas. I felt bad for him.
He made it about two months into our relationship before the outbursts began. The loudest shouting I had ever heard. Escalated into physical violence on two occasions. It all made sense why someone would get themselves and a baby away from him. I reached out to her. He tried to break into her home by smashing the window in the baby's room and went to jail for 6 months. She had done some digging on him as well. A long list of women with the same stories of rage, violence, constant drinking (he would put it in La Croix cans), and constant cheating. Of course, TX courts refused to give her full custody. "Children need both parents", what a joke.
There is a little light within all this: The second and last time he went rage mode on me, he charged at me and my dog stepped in between us and bit him in the testicle. Him being in the hospital gave me time to get a protection order and change my locks.
Always trust your gut. If something feels off, it more than likely is.
He had a child with the woman he dated before me. Had this whole pitiful story about how she disappeared in the middle of the night with their baby and took her to Texas. I felt bad for him.
He made it about two months into our relationship before the outbursts began. The loudest shouting I had ever heard. Escalated into physical violence on two occasions. It all made sense why someone would get themselves and a baby away from him. I reached out to her. He tried to break into her home by smashing the window in the baby's room and went to jail for 6 months. She had done some digging on him as well. A long list of women with the same stories of rage, violence, constant drinking (he would put it in La Croix cans), and constant cheating. Of course, TX courts refused to give her full custody. "Children need both parents", what a joke.
There is a little light within all this: The second and last time he went rage mode on me, he charged at me and my dog stepped in between us and bit him in the testicle. Him being in the hospital gave me time to get a protection order and change my locks.
Always trust your gut. If something feels off, it more than likely is.
32points
#14
A woman I worked with in a residential home for people with autism. She wanted to gain more power in the workplace and did so using false allegations, anonymous tips and bullying behaviour. However, the worst thing she did was manipulate the patients into attacking or harming staff members she didn't like. That woman was a monster and I still think about the things she did a lot.
31points
#15
My mom’s boyfriend. He was a monster and a narcissist. SAd me when I was 15-17 years old. Completely destroyed my mom. If there’s one person who I want to watch burn, it’s him. I still have nightmares and I’m 31.
29points
#16
My ex, she would get drunk and try physically attack me and when I would restrain her she would spit on/at me among other things. It was a rough last few years of the decade long relationship.
29points
#17
I'm a teacher and there was a mom whose kid I had as a student, the mom had 3 foster kids who were her nieces and nephew. We called CPS on her for years because they would come in clothes smelling of urine and they were always hungry. She would bring them to the book fair, shop with her kid while the others sat on a bench and waited for them. She would tell office staff that they had an appointment she would pick them up for on field trip days so they stayed behind and never got picked up for these appointments. She was finally arrested after years of CPS calls but only because a neighbor called them in when she made the older boy be out in the cold. She would lock them in their room all night with a bucket for the bathroom and only fed them pb&j sandwiches. The kids went back to their mom once she was able to take them, won like 3 million dollar settlements each but the boy [ended his own life].
28points
#18
My exhusband- the look in his eyes while he hit me in the head over and over with the butt of the loaded gun he then put the barrel of in my mouth. The face of evil is always the same once it’s revealed. Don’t know how I’m here but justice has been served, I’m beyond grateful cuz that is rare, I had to fight for that too.
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27points
#19
Ian Watkins of the Lost Prophets. If you don't know, don't Google it, it's not good.
25points
#20
My older sister married this handsome, charming guy. He gave alcohol to my younger sister and tried to seduce her (she was 15).
25points