Are you one of those horror junkies who spend their free time watching horror movies and listening to true crime podcasts until late at night? Welcome to the club, our twisted friend!
We’ve all seen some crazy stuff. From creepy-crawly insects to serial killers and haunted houses, there’s nothing we won’t watch if it’s on the screen in front of us. But as frightening as these movies and shows are, some scary facts about our world make reality way more disturbing than fiction could ever be. For example, did you know that Aztec priests offered still-beating hearts to the gods, freshly severed from sacrificial victims? Or that safety coffins were invented because so many people got accidentally buried alive? Or again, that there’s a museum in Pennsylvania that displays mutations, tumors, and anomalies for everyone to see?
Well, you already know the world is full of creepy things, but it’s better to remind ourselves of how much from time to time, right? So here we are with tons of other disturbing facts for you to enjoy! You might be surprised by how many of them sound like urban legends but are actually true.
#61
“The Devil’s Bible” exists, and it’s a contract between a monk and Satan.
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#62
Being buried alive accidentally occurred so often that people invented “safety coffins.”
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#63
The Judas Cradle was a means of torture where the victim was forced to sit on pyramid-shaped wooden device.
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#64
You can actually fit all the planets in the Solar System in the space between the Earth and the Moon.
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#66
More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now extinct.
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#67
The cosmological theory of the Big Rip posits that as the universe continues to expand at a faster and faster rate, the force will pull galaxies further from each other, then galaxies will be pulled apart, followed by the planets and objects from their stars, the stars themselves, planets, and so forth until even nuclei in atoms are separated.
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#68
Did you know that the American actress Glenn Close was raised in a cult?
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#69
Isla de las Muñecas or the “Island of the Dolls” is one of the most haunted places in the world.
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#70
18th century doctors believed that bloodletting was necessary to “balance” one’s health.
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#74
When the movie trailer for The Exorcist first came out in theaters, people were too scared, so eventually they stopped playing the trailer in theaters.
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#75
An estimated 41% of adults in the US face health-care debt, ranging from under $500 (16%) to $10,000 or more (12%).
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#76
Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is based on a real story.
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#77
Decorations made from human bones adorn the interior of the Sedlec Ossuary.
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#78
An average of 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year.
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#79
Lady Bugs are known to eat their own larvae to ensure the survival of the other larvae.
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