30 Times People Stumbled Upon Something So Revolting Online, They Couldn’t Shake It Off

When I was struggling with eating problems as a teen I googled looking for anorexia help. I was hoping to find sites with advice on recovery etc but instead came across “pro Ana” blogs, and they’re honestly terrifying. They treat anorexia as a lifestyle and actively encourage girls to become anorexic, claiming that all non-anorexic women are disgusting and fat. They’re full of advice on how to avoid the temptation to eat, and you could find yourself an “ana buddy” to encourage you on your journey of anorexia. I’m so glad I never got caught up in that s**t and the anorexics who write those blogs are completely sick in the head.

Junko Furuta's Wikipedia page. It may be gone from my browsing history, but never from my mind.

I found a site with a forum for aspiring Mermaids (/Mermen?).

One of the posts was made by someone who had been following advice on the forum, such as holding your breath underwater (presumably in a tub) for X amount of time.

Someone replied with advice like "when you run out of air, you just need to breath in and stay under."

Once googled my work email address because customers would post it on forums as someone they could contact to complain to.

Found some dudes blog who had some sort of vendetta against the company and any of the staff he came into contact with.

He’d posted their email addresses, photos of them from any social media he found them on. Pictures of their kids with threatening messages against them.

He managed to find out where one of our employees lived using Facebook and street view. Posted pictures of her house (from street view) saying he was going to pay her a visit. Likely an empty threat but creepy anyway.

We told the police who arrested him while he was on the phone to our call centres threatening our staff.

Crazy guy. Never found out if he went to jail but I assume he did.

The 9/11 recaps of people willingly jumping off the building to escape the fires. Watching that as a 13 year old got me good.

Back in the ebaumsworld days i found this video called evil bunny tap dancer. very skinny woman tap dancing on weird old film something about it just terrifies me.

A girl on TikTok recently posted a video 2 days ago of someone breaking into her apartment while she was making a video. She was on the second floor of an apartment complex, and a random guy climbed onto her balcony and opened her balcony door. She was asking him to leave and ended up running out of her front door. The guy did leave where he came in, but she asked a neighbor if she could come in and her neighbor let her in to call the police. According to the comments, the guy was arrested but released on bail.


Update: turns out the guy had been stalking her for months, but she had no idea since he lived in a complex across the street and he stared at her. He had made uncomfortable come ons to her, but she assumed he was “just a creep”. He had cut several Christmas lights that were hanging outside and climbed up the balcony that way. He’s currently out on bond while awaiting trial and the girl is asking that if anyone else had been harassed, stalked, or assaulted by that man to please speak up.

This article shows how much you need to save to retire. $1,250,000 to generate an annual income of $50,000. That is by far the scariest thing I have encountered.

A true crime site had a piece on the moors murderers - Ian Brady and Myra Hindly. They were serial killers in the mid 60's

part of it was a link to a recording they had made - later used in court evidence - of them torturing one of the victims. It was a young girl (about 10? I am not going to look it up) weeping and asking for her mum, saying she wouldn't tell on them. it was profoundly disturbing.

when ever they got mentioned on the news (Brady only died a couple of years ago) I could not help but think of hearing that recording.

Lobotomy procedures. Please don't go and search it around. Still gives me horrid dreams as I am a depressed individual who has been struggling since quite long and found out that it was one of the treatments that used to "cure" depression and "crazy" in the US in the 1960's or something.

That one video where the car was driving down that mountain road and you had to pay close attention and then it turned out to be a screamer.

I stumbled on some forums and there was a thread about people who felt like they were being followed. Like, an example: some woman said she dropped her wedding ring down the kitchen sink and couldn’t retrieve it, then years later, after moving to a different house, she was home alone and found it on her floor.

I once found my email address listed on a website with my password. This was back in the days when hotmail was king and everyone had just discovered messenger!

It wasn't a simple password either ... had 2 upper case letters, 4 lowercase, a couple of other characters.

Salad fingers creeped me out.

That video of the decapitated wasp where it picks its head up and flies away.

No snuff flick or murderporn or crime scene photo or creepypasta I've seen online can ever truly encapsulate the horror and dread that particular bit of video filled me with.

That video of the Station Nightclub fire. The sight of all those people stuck jammed together at the exit was haunting.

There was also something a few years ago, I don't remember all the details, but it was an elevator accident on a cruise ship. A technician (?) was working on an elevator when it started moving, wound up crushing him. There's video of someone walking into the lobby to the sight of blood just flowing down the outside of the elevator.

At one point a couple of years ago, someones voice just popped up in my computer headphones, speaking a different language. Sounded like he was asking me a question Like "You there?" then when i responded they started talking in a creepy low voice. Sounded like hindi or maybe a middle eastern langauge (it was a while ago).

Thought it was some audio from a website so i quit everything and i could still hear it coming through. I think I quit skype and it disappeared. No call was active or anything. I have no idea how it happened, but i instantly ripped out my network cable and rebooted. Ran like 4 virus scans and a malwarebytes scan. Found nothing. Never happened again. I freeeeeaaked out.

EDIT: I dont believe in the supernatural

EDIT: My headphones are fibre optic, this wasn't caused by my cable picking up radio transmissions. Although we used to make that happen with my brothers guitar amp when i was a kid. Fun times.

Edit: for the record this happened a couple of years ago on an older machine.

The recordings of the Toy Box M*****s. Its literally on YouTube. Horrific, to say the least..

For sheer stomach churning gore, a hand degloved by an industrial papershredder. It was sort of satisfying in its uniformity and neatness. Mechanical precision and all that.

For sheer existential terror, a short video of a boy dying of rabies. Hes delirious and sick and it's just sad. But then for a second or two he locks eyes with the camera and snarls in a perfectly, quintessentially animalistic way. And you realize how easy it is to lose yourself and become other - to become reduced to just base instinct and bodily functions with no *you* left. Yeah, rabies is a splashy version of that, but I think a lot of old age illnesses - how we are all increasingly more likely to die - isn't so different. And the ultimately terrifying thing is that its all so much worse to watch that and know we are potentially next than to live through it.

Marble hornets gave me the biggest spook back in early h**h school.