# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/41 "2009-05-23T16:29:03Z")
> [@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.” I was a kid in Bakersfield in the 70’s and they did look very insect-like. I liked them. Good thing too, since they were everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/42 "2009-05-23T16:51:32Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > 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!!! Or they pass one, and then they pass another, and another, until you make the horrifying realization that it’s always the same one… ---
**Author:** ![bleu\_ewe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@bleu\_ewe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleu_ewe)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/43 "2009-05-23T16:53:59Z")
How do all you trypophobics feel about pores? You know your faces are covered in clusters of tiny little holes, right? ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/44 "2009-05-23T16:54:14Z")
Possums. They look like big, nasty rats and they move with this creepy, deliberate slowness. If you get too close, they kinda’ hiss and bare their teeth but seldom make any great effort to scurry away. If you get _waaaaay_ too close, or you corner them, they move very fast indeed as they attack and sink their potentially rabies-laden teeth into you. I get a convulsive full-body shiver when I think about 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/45 "2009-05-23T18:21:18Z")
> [@bleu\_ewe](#): > > How do all you trypophobics feel about pores? You know your faces are covered in clusters of tiny little holes, right? If someone’s pores are so noticeable that it trips my phobia, then something’s very, very wrong. My trypophobia is a situational thing and not everything pings it. Honeycombs, which are probably the quintessential example of trypophobic trigger, don’t bother me at all, but wasp’s nests most emphatically _ **do** _. I also once freaked myself out by bunching dozens of straws together and looking at them from above, but a speaker cover [up close](http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/SG-M6.jpg) doesn’t even cause me to blink. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/46 "2009-05-23T19:23:41Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > For me its vast, yet enclosed spaces. When I was a kid, we’d often pass by Moffet Field in Mountain View. Now, Moffet Field is known for its massive blimp hangar. When I was a kid I had no idea that was what it was for, I just assumed they figured it was easier to build one gigantic hangar than a dozen little ones. One day I saw it with its front doors open…:eek: > > …and gazed into a yawning vast cavity; empty yet immense in its magnitude. The concept of something _so huge_ and yet _so empty_ really unnerved me. > > You know that big-ass hole they have in south America? The one deep enough you can fit the freaking Empire state building in? So deep you can’t really see the bottom? Ugh… There was a scene in the new James Bond movie where they are falling out of a plane or something and the whole time they are _falling down this huge hole_ it made me a little sick to my stomach. > > I don’t like the idea of looking inside a filled-up hot air balloon…All that empty space enclosed just makes me nauseated for some reason. Oh, I can relate to that one. I recently visited the Gasometer in Oberhausen to see the ‘[Out of this World](http://www.gasometer.de/en_GB/index.php?pid=2_1)’-exhibition; it was absolutely brilliant, with the centrepiece being a Moon model 25m in diameter, but what truly blew my mind was that when you looked up, you could barely make out the ceiling 100m above you. It was the oddest sensation of vertigo I ever felt, staring into an abyss, only that abyss is above you. A strange feeling that gravity might suddenly realize its mistake, and I’d fall up into the yawning emptiness. Interestingly, after we’d taken the lift up, looking down was not so bad, and I hardly had any problems once we were outside, on top of the structure. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/47 "2009-05-23T22:08:20Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > Possums. > > They look like big, nasty rats and they move with this creepy, deliberate slowness. If you get too close, they kinda’ hiss and bare their teeth but seldom make any great effort to scurry away. If you get _waaaaay_ too close, or you corner them, they move very fast indeed as they attack and sink their potentially rabies-laden teeth into you. > > I get a convulsive full-body shiver when I think about 'em. Oh yeah. They just stare at you boldly, like it’s \*their \*yard. Tho my friend did tell me a funny story - she heard scratching out in their (very dark, rural) front yard one night. Opened the door to find a possum right on the step. Slammed the door shut, and then \*locked \*it. Like the possum was going to open the door and come right in. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/48 "2009-05-24T02:09:44Z")
Someone in another thread posted this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/74dWyDw6Bxk/hqdefault.jpg "edarem - Feel The Music") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dWyDw6Bxk) And, if you’re REALLY looking to be freaked out: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n77auNQDiPk/hqdefault.jpg "edarem - Backscratcher") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77auNQDiPk) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/49 "2009-05-24T02:40:35Z")
Wait… was it you **Half Man**? I think it was! ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/50 "2009-05-24T09:30:52Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Wait… was it you **Half Man**? > I think it was! Indeed it was! I’m always happy to contribute. …kinda. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/51 "2009-05-24T10:46:27Z")
Something else I find creepy – humanoid robots, especially this grey-skinned [childlike abomination](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCK64zsZNNs). My god, those sounds are going to haunt my nightmares! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/52 "2009-05-24T13:40:10Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Something else I find creepy – humanoid robots, especially this grey-skinned [childlike abomination](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCK64zsZNNs). My god, those sounds are going to haunt my nightmares! :eek: There’s a whole field of study about the creepiness triggered by humanoid robots and animations of humans that are realistic but not realistic enough. The phenomenon is called the [uncanny valley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley). It was even referenced on **30 Rock** last season. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/53 "2009-05-24T15:04:06Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > but what truly blew my mind was that when you looked up, you could barely make out the ceiling 100m above you. It was the oddest sensation of vertigo I ever felt, staring into an abyss, only that abyss is above you. A strange feeling that gravity might suddenly realize its mistake, and I’d fall up into the yawning emptiness. I get this when I lie on my back on an even slightly elevated surface in a clear area (like a park) and look straight up to a clear blue sky. My entire field of vision is filled with the sky and I get a surge of vertigo and have to look away or close my eyes after a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/54 "2009-05-25T20:08:40Z")
I thought the Lotus Boob was cool. I couldn’t stop looking at it. But if it actualy were a weird skin condition, it would be creepy and gross. I’ve always been a little creeped out by teddy bears but… My dog used to have a stuffed purple teddy bear. He wasn’t allowed to take it outside because it was so raggedy, I didn’t think it could handle a washing. One day he sneaked it outside and it got rained on. I sat it on the outside table to dry. I was reading on the patio, and caught movement from the corner of my eye. The teddy bear was moving. :eek: I poked it with a stick and it made a noise. I flipped it over and looked inside a hole where some of the stuffing was pulled out. It was filled with flies! There was nothing on it to attract them except dog saliva. I flung it into the yard. Later, I decided to put it in a garbage bag so the dog wouldn’t bring it in flies and all. The flies were mostly gone and there was what I thought was mold forming on the outside. I poked the mold with my stick, and it moved! It was pre-maggots!!! Like regular maggots except tiny. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/55 "2009-05-26T07:09:16Z")
Rats…fuckin rats with nasty rat tails ---
**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 26, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/56 "2009-05-26T14:50:58Z")
Cannibal caterpillars. Kida cool, but creepy. A few years ago, my mom found some caterpillars in her vegetables. Being a Crazy Bug Lady, I decided to keep them as pets. There were two yellow ones, and a brown one. I went to my computer to try and identify them. Let’s see, yellow grubs, found in corn… aha, corn ear worms! I go upstairs to check on 'em, and one of the corn worms is _eating the brown guy_. And then there were two. Turns out that ear worms are known for gobbling up their surplus siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895/57 "2009-05-26T23:19:30Z")
[This creepy foot/shoe picture. Eww!](http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiness-redux/496895.md?page=2)