# Little Things You Find Creepy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646 "2012-10-13T20:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/41 "2012-10-15T20:40:31Z")
> [@priority](#): > > That feeling you only get at night, when you KNOW if you look at a window, there will be a face on the other side looking in at you. _Shudder_ I used to get that. Lately for me it’s been claws. Not cute kitty or puppy paws, but alien malicious claws the size of a baby’s hand grabbing at my flesh. Not that I see a lot of these, mind you, but sometimes in the dry air I’ll get a little itch or tiny stabbing pain in a limb. Aaahhh, it’s the claw! And last week when I was bringing my dry cleaning home, and the ends of the hangers were digging into my flesh… claw! ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/42 "2012-10-15T20:56:31Z")
Ooohh, the things that fall down in the cupboards. I know the kid puts the plastics away by the ‘toss and hope’ method, but every time somethings falls over in there, I wonder… what pushed it? Even worse when it’s in the pantry; bigger cupboard, heavier items. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/43 "2012-10-15T21:05:55Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Er that wasn’t an alien , that was me… > > Sorry and all that . And how do I know you’re not an alien? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/44 "2012-10-15T22:14:03Z")
When you are camping alone in the middle of nowhere, trying to get or stay asleep in your tent. And some critter is making quite a sound. But you can’t figure out WHAT critter would make a sound like that. Thats when I just cocoon myself in my sleeping bag and hope it goes away. I sure as hell ain’t looking outside to see whats making that scary sound. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/45 "2012-10-15T22:17:49Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Don’t go to [this](http://creepyassdolls.tumblr.com/) website then… (May be be gory, but generally SFW) Am I smart enough to heed your warning? Nooooooo of course not! _shudder_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/46 "2012-10-15T22:51:56Z")
> [@priority](#): > > That feeling you only get at night, when you KNOW if you look at a window, there will be a face on the other side looking in at you. I used to get that, the last winter I lived at home with my parents, but really only in the kitchen, where we had a sliding glass door and two floor-to-ceiling windows. I brushed it off all winter, and at the end of the winter I went out there, where I saw dozens of footprints in the snow, leading from the sidewalk. We never went to that side of the house in the winter. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/47 "2012-10-15T23:18:57Z")
That huge eyeball that washed up on the beach. Creeeepy. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/48 "2012-10-15T23:24:07Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > That huge eyeball that washed up on the beach. Creeeepy. Wouldn’t that be a huge thing you find creepy? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/49 "2012-10-16T00:05:01Z")
> [@RunSilent](#): > > Seeing someone eat hard boiled eggs [Mickey Rourke] No, 'tank you. I gotta 'ting about chickens . . . [/Mickey Rourke] ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/50 "2012-10-16T10:25:44Z")
Recording sounds when you sleep. There’s an app to record what you say when sleeping. I always think I’ll hear something else. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/51 "2012-10-16T11:33:51Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I find it creepy to be alone in a mall (like if you’ve gone to see a movie at the malltiplex and it lets out after the stores have closed. The muzak is still playing but the stores are all shuttered and there aren’t any people at all…I played way too much “Dead Rising” a few years ago, and I now expect zombies to start coming out of side hallways any minute… You get that feeling amped up to 11 if you go to a concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in L.A. You have to walk through a darkened, deserted [Universal City Walk](http://101thingstodosw.com/orangecounty/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Universal-City-Walk-Los-Angeles1.jpg) to get to your car. It’s very creepy when you’ve got 4000 tired Black Sabbath fans silently herding through what feels like a dead, futuristic city. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/52 "2012-10-16T14:26:42Z")
Faces by windows and dogs that are growling, Away in the distance a creature is howling, Three in the morning the telephone rings, These are a few of the creepiest things Books from the library with hair in the pages, Ads for girl housemates offering wages, The thud from the window of the fledgelings, These are a few of the creepiest things Abandoned plushies and toddler footwear, Leaving things places and finding them elsewhere, Things in the darkness out hunting Earthlings, These are a few of the creepiest things. ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/53 "2012-10-16T14:37:38Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Faces by windows and dogs that are growling, > Away in the distance a creature is howling, > Three in the morning the telephone rings, > These are a few of the creepiest things > > Books from the library with hair in the pages, > Ads for girl housemates offering wages, > The thud from the window of the fledgelings, > These are a few of the creepiest things > > Abandoned plushies and toddler footwear, > Leaving things places and finding them elsewhere, > Things in the darkness out hunting Earthlings, > These are a few of the creepiest things. Well done! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/54 "2012-10-16T16:34:34Z")
Last night when I got off work at 11 PM, I came home and when I went to unlock my door to come inside, I saw my reflection in the window on the door. For a moment I was _certain_ that I was going to see the reflection of someone walking up behind me. I have no idea why. Never had that feeling before (and hope I don’t get it again!) but it was absolutely overwhelming. I could not get the key in the lock fast enough! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/55 "2012-10-16T18:07:20Z")
I don’t know if these count, but back about 20 years ago, I was a flower delivery boy immediately before college, and we delivered to a few funeral homes. Creepy thing 1: Catching the occasional faint whiff of formaldehyde Creepy thing 2: Seeing what looked like big storage cabinets in the storage room, and then noticing that they had thermometers on them that read 37 degrees. Creepy thing 3: Some of the bigger ones had casket storage in their back rooms, and seeing 10 or so caskets stacked up in 2 stacks of 5 is creepy for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/56 "2012-10-16T18:13:40Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > You get that feeling amped up to 11 if you go to a concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in L.A. You have to walk through a darkened, deserted [Universal City Walk](http://101thingstodosw.com/orangecounty/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Universal-City-Walk-Los-Angeles1.jpg) to get to your car. It’s very creepy when you’ve got 4000 tired Black Sabbath fans silently herding through what feels like a dead, futuristic city. The one in Orlando could be creepy as well when a Hard Rock show lets out, except you don’t walk through the CityWalk part per se (which would be creepy), but rather an elevated platform with people movers with high powered dance music pumping along. High powered dance music makes everything non creepy. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646/57 "2012-10-16T18:28:16Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > **When you are camping alone in the middle** of nowhere, trying to get or stay asleep in your tent. > > And some critter is making quite a sound. But you can’t figure out WHAT critter would make a sound like that. Thats when I just cocoon myself in my sleeping bag and hope it goes away. I sure as hell ain’t looking outside to see whats making that scary sound. I think that can stand on its own in this thread. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-find-creepy/637646.md?page=2)