# Creepiness Redux! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895 "2009-05-18T20:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/21 "2009-05-21T02:54:38Z")
The commercial for “Drag Me to Hell” where the fly goes up the chick’s nose? GAAAAAAH! There’s that one “House” episode where a woman hallucinates spiders pouring out of a hole in her arm. Meh. Insects going INTO people, though – GAAAAAAAAH! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/22 "2009-05-21T03:20:19Z")
I’m not trypophobic but tryptophobic does sound better. That fucking cat with hands video creeps the shit out of me even thinking about it. I hate it. I saw a few seconds of it once and that’s it. I don’t mind cartoony versions of the same thing but something like that? NO. And maggots. Maggots freak me out. Not other bugs, except in great quantities. But even 1 or 2 maggots make my hair stand on end, though I can manage to kill them at one point. I once saw a garbage can upended in downtown which was literally crawling with them. I almost threw up. Fuck, now my legs are all itchy. GAH! ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/23 "2009-05-21T03:27:05Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > And that poster would be me. It’s only the really, really big and slow ones. I fully expect them to grow larger in the middle of the night, until they finally split open and expel our new alien overlords. [Great minds…](http://xkcd.com/556/) ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/24 "2009-05-21T12:58:01Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Trypophobic checking in! ::shudder:: > > Also, someone posted (somewhat recently) a thread about the giant wind turbines. I’d never thought of them as creepy before, but hot diggity damn… I do now. I tried to find that thread awhile back, but my search fu is poor. There was an especially creepy pic in it. They creep me out too, as much as I love green energy and believe in wind power. There’s a stand of them south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Somerset, PA and I cringe until they’re out of sight. There’s another stand of them in rural West Virginia, near a place where I’m going in a couple of weeks. Those are _much_ closer to the road and you can see them at a very near distance for a good ten minutes. Just thinking about it scares me to pieces. My fear, btw, is not that they’ll come alive and walk, but that a cataclysm will occur and a turbine will break from its stem and become, essentially, a 50 foot ninja throwing star. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/25 "2009-05-21T13:48:10Z")
Slugs. I know they’re about as harmless and defenseless as an animal can be, but they still make my skin want to crawl right off my body. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/26 "2009-05-21T14:52:51Z")
Sunflowers. I don’t so much mean if they’re in a field or cut one’s in a vase van Gogh style, but the super tall ones you find growing by themselves. Double creepy if their head is drooping as if they’re staring down at you. I also find water towers pretty creepy; especially [this one](http://baysoundings.com/wint07/images/RiverTowerSunset2.jpg). \ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/27 "2009-05-21T15:06:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > And maggots. Maggots freak me out. Not other bugs, except in great quantities. But even 1 or 2 maggots make my hair stand on end, though I can manage to kill them at one point. I once saw a garbage can upended in downtown which was literally crawling with them. I almost threw up. Man, that brings back [memories](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=329753)\*! 🙂 \*Both of my story, and your reactions to it ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/28 "2009-05-21T15:27:01Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Man, that brings back [memories](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=329753)\*! 🙂 > \*Both of my story, and your reactions to it YES! I was actually vaguely thinking about that story when I posted here. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/29 "2009-05-21T15:32:27Z")
I have a full-blown phobia of spiderwebs. Really, I like bugs. But webs make me curl up and cry. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/30 "2009-05-21T18:15:47Z")
Huh. I find wind turbines to be kind of beautiful. Somewhere along the Trans-Canada 2 highway in New Brunswick, there’s a ridge with a whole line of them, and I thought it was really cool to see. I’m intensely creeped out by wicker and wicker-like things. Especially when they are shiny and varnished. The smell, the texture… just being near a bunch of wicker in a store makes me lightheaded. I have no idea why I hate it so much. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/31 "2009-05-21T21:28:58Z")
Wind turbines haven’t had the opportunity to creep me out, but their accursed industrial ancestors still do. Remember the giant-grasshopper oil pumps (or whatever they were) that went up-and-down, up-and-down. I always imagined one of those coming after our car as we went by. They HAVE to be alive, there’s no way they’re just machinery. Also, fern leaves before they unroll. Ditto on the sunflowers too. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/32 "2009-05-21T21:30:27Z")
Do you mean an [oil derrick](http://www.unitedpacificenergy.com/Oil%20Derrick%20002.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/33 "2009-05-21T21:51:43Z")
Yop, that’s them. The ones in California in the 70’s looked even more insect-like, with bigger, more solid “heads.” ---
**Author:** ![Varrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Varrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Varrius)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/34 "2009-05-21T23:06:35Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > Psst, other board. > > And that poster would be me. It’s only the really, really big and slow ones. I fully expect them to grow larger in the middle of the night, until they finally split open and expel our new alien overlords. Like [these](http://xkcd.com/556/)? ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/35 "2009-05-22T08:54:10Z")
Besides serial killers and child molesters not a lot of stuff creeps me out. Well, except flying cockroaches. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/36 "2009-05-22T13:16:12Z")
> [@Varrius](#): > > Like [these](http://xkcd.com/556/)? Psst… Post #23. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/37 "2009-05-22T13:48:42Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](#): > > Yop, that’s them. The ones in California in the 70’s looked even more insect-like, with bigger, more solid “heads.” Oh, hell yes. It’s been so long since I’ve seen one, but I remember them in SoCal and I was mezmerized / horrified by them. There’s also whole freakin’ fields of those wind turbine thingies as you head toward Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/38 "2009-05-22T19:56:05Z")
> [@Varrius](#): > > Like [these](http://xkcd.com/556/)? Yes. Yes yes yes. Though when I see one, I have this mental movie going on, where it’s a nice sunny day and you’re standing near a field that has one off a bit in the distance. You look at it, then you (and the camera) turn away. Then the camera goes back and HOLY SHIT IT’S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!! ---
**Author:** ![Open\_Your\_Eyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e8c25b/32.png) [@Open\_Your\_Eyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Open_Your_Eyes)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/39 "2009-05-22T23:02:55Z")
i don’t know if anyone remembers or even heard of that gnome… dwarf thing in argentina? some kids supposedly filmed this odd dwarf creature running through the woods while camping or something-- the video still creeps me out to no extent just thinking about, even if the whole story is dodgy. no link, you may youtube search that yourself. ah, and i also fall in the category of trypophobics. when i was young, my mum and i would go to the crafts shop and possibly buy some potpourri with the black, dry lotus buds just staring at you with the multitudes of little holes. AHH! ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/40 "2009-05-23T15:34:16Z")
Last night, my mom and I visited a family friend in Cambridge, Mass. At the end of the night, as he was walking us to our car, he said, “You see the house you parked in front of? The Boston Strangler killed one of his victims there.” … So of course I had to imagine him standing on the front step, knocking at the door, waiting to be let in so he could commence the murdering. Gaaah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895.md?page=3)