According to ABC News, the most common ‘biggest fears’ people have are social phobias, the fear of open spaces, the fear of heights, the fear of flying, claustrophobia, the fear of insects, and the fear of snakes. And while you might be feeling calm and collected if none of those particular phobias afflict you, just keep reading, because something on this list is bound to freak you out…
Below, you'll find some of the most unsettling and disturbing facts that Reddit users have shared, as well as an interview between Bored Panda and Steffany Strange of the Something Scary Podcast, to remind you pandas that spooky season can be year round if you want it to be. Be sure to upvote the facts that unlock new fears within you, and if you start getting uneasy, just remember that all of these facts were true long before you read them. Oops, did that make you even more scared?
#21

[Komodo Dragons](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) poison their victims and then follow them for hours on end. Then once the victim is throughly exhausted and poisoned, it tears it to shreds and eats it alive.
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#22
There are some parts of the Universe that we’ll never, ever be able to see. No matter what we do. They’ll always remain just out of reach
Edit:I never had this much upvotes, Thanks to everyone
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#23

According to some research a human head may remain conscious for up to 30 seconds after decapitation. Most notably, a man named Dr. Beaurieux did a series of experiments in the early 1900’s where he yelled at recently decapitated criminal’s heads and saw a response.
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#24
The sun could have exploded 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know about it.
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#25
The bubonic plague is still alive and well and thrives in such places as Africa and the western United states.
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#27

If you begin to display [severe] symptoms of rabies you will go crazy and die. There's no cure.
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#28
When people are crucified, they rarely die from bleeding out; instead, they die from asphyxiation, or suffocation. The way their bodies are hung makes it almost impossible to breathe unless they physically hold themselves up instead of just hanging there, and after some many hours it gets to be to much, resulting in oxygen deprivation, unconsciousness, and death.
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#29

If you’re murdered theres a very high chance you knew your killer.
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#31

Alright I collected some of my favourite scary facts from an app I really like called Thunder Dungeon.
They have all types of memes and facts and stuff so it was all written in pictures I had to manually write them down.
They have all types of memes and facts and stuff so it was all written in pictures I had to manually write them down.
1. There's an episode of sesame street that had to be pulled off the air in 76' cause it was so scary, parents complained their children are screaming in horror at the TV.
2. There's a disease nicknamed Ondine's Curse, which causes suffers to die if they fall asleep.
3. On August 26th 1968, every TV in America shut down for 25 seconds, there was a murmuring sound coming from the TV and people reported hearing a demon.
4. In 1994 a man was arrested for dressing as the grim reaper and standing outside old people's homes.
5. It only takes about 7 pounds of pressure to rip off an ear.
6. There is an island in Italy that is supposedly so haunted that the government forbids the public from visiting it.
7. There's a syndrome called Charles Bonnet Syndrome that have been called "a window into a parallel universe". People who has it are prone to seeing bright lights, weird shapes and scary faces. The thing about this syndrome is that all those who suffer from it are almost exclusively blind or vision impaired.
8. When a bear attacks you, he will most likely start eating you alive rather than killing you first.
9. At any possible moment, Earth could be hit be a Gamma Ray Burst which will extinguish most if not all life on the planet.
10. A woman in St.Louis was watching a TV documentary about a serial killer who tortured and killed women, when she realized she was living in his former apartment.
11. There's a Caterpillar so poisonous, just brushing your finger on to it can cause internal bleeding in your brain.
12. In 1942, a man known as the phantom barber would break into people's house while they were sleeping to steal a lock from their hair. He was never identified.
13. There's a fish called a Stone Fish, it's so venomous that if you step on it you could die in 20 minutes.
14. According to a recent study, 1 in 5 CEOs demonstrated psychopathic traits. Another population with similar proportions of psychopaths is the prison population.
15. There was a guy from New York who owned a car with the license plate 5V 1732. He died on May 17, 1932.
That's all folks!
Edit: fact number three, the time of the shut down was 25 seconds, not minutes.
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#32

You never stop watching with your eyes, even when you close them.
Another one: This topic will be dead in few days O.O
Another one: This topic will be dead in few days O.O
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#33

There’s such a thing as “hair splinters.” Hairdressers deal with it all the time after cutting particularly coarse hair, the small pieces can stick in you like a splinter and pose risk of mega infections if you’re unable to get them out.
I’ve seen a stylist friend of mine lose a whole finger due to one tiny sliver of hair.
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#34

Bed bugs can survive for up to a year without feeding under the correct temperatures. As adults the females can lay 300 eggs in their lifetimes. You could be spending thousands of dollars and eventually just get infested again. And bed bugs are making a comeback after almost being eradicated.
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#35

You can have a heart attack and die at any second because of a heart problem you never knew about. There's one called Brugada syndrome which has no physical evidence and most people aren't diagnosed with it until they drop down dead and testing is done on immediate family members (it's genetic) and one of THEM is diagnosed with it. Happened to my father. We found out because I'm the one tested who has it, my uncle and brother got the all clear, chances are my grandad has it too (4 heart attacks since he was in his mid 40s)
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#36
There are several species of mushroom that implant their spores into insects, creating a kind of zombie that will lose their mind, wander off, die and their corpse will be used as fuel for the next generation of mushroom.
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#37

When someone dies, the last thing the dying person senses is the sense of hearing, then touch, smell, and taste.
The first sense that is usually gone is sight.
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#38

Your body can kill itself just to get rid of a foreign organism.
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#40
Pooping can kill you because of a major nerve that is involved in the heart
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