# Strangest or grossest thing you've seen online **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443 "2015-10-12T17:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/61 "2015-12-08T12:41:32Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Several days after the fact, I went to Facebook one morning and saw that picture posted by two different people! :eek: IDK if the picture they thought they were posting had the bare bones cropped out, but that’s not something you want to be surprised by, and there’s also the victims’ personal dignity to keep in mind. If such a picture existed of you, would YOU want strangers all over the world looking at it, whether they wanted to or not? > > :dubious: You do NOT want to live in Mexico. Regular city newspapers often show unedited photos of dead and severely maimed bodies, typically in a section at the end where readers can find them easily. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/62 "2015-12-08T13:11:38Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I used to spend a bit of time on rotten dot com back in the '90s. I still pop in occasionally for old time’s sake, but last I checked (probably a couple years ago) they hadn’t really updated much. > > One of the grossest things I’ve seen was supposedly a shot of a guy following a motorcycle accident–the whole lower part of his face was pretty much gone, but the guy was still alive and sitting up. I found out later that it was actually a botched shotgun suicide. Dunno if the guy survived, but I think he did. First thing I thought of when I read the thread title. Looked like he hit a curb, the way half of his face was just gone, in an oddly symmetrical fashion. I read the later message in this thread where it turned out the guy had bit a blasting cap. Did not look like that kind of wound to me, but then what do I know? Damn, bit a blasting cap on a bar bet. Way to ruin a fun night out, and every night thereafter. An instant of stupidity. . .a lifetime of regret. Who the hell brings blasting caps to the bar? ---
**Author:** ![And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/and_his_buzzer_goes/32/377_2.png) [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/63 "2015-12-08T15:26:42Z")
The thing that haunts me to this day was a beheading video from years back; a grainy, b/w affair with a “unnamed russian soldier” title, supposedly taken in Afghanistan. It changed my view on humanity. I have since made an effort to avoid stuff like that. I could watch most of the Rotten pictures in a detached kind of way. I knew Goatse from when it was fashionable, but somehow missed 2 girls-1cup…Which I googled recently and turned off after 10 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/64 "2015-12-08T17:45:15Z")
When I first got AOL, sometime in mid to late 90s I watched a video of a beheading. Thought I’d see something like in the movies, head on the chopping block, one quick move with a big sword or axe.The reality is someone plunging a knife into the side of someone else’s throat and sawing away. And it’s obvious the victim is alive through the first few seconds and well aware. I’m very careful to NOT stumble onto things like that since. ---
**Author:** ![And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/and_his_buzzer_goes/32/377_2.png) [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/65 "2015-12-08T19:41:22Z")
Maybe we’re talking about the same one ? ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/66 "2015-12-08T23:18:47Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Unless you’re being whooshy - we’ve discussed it here a bunch of times- it’s call trypophobia. And I warn you to never ever google it to get the correct spelling as I just did. I did. Then I went through a list of photos on a page that gauges your reaction to them. Them I googled “Ticks in a dog’s ear” to investigate one of the pics. Never, EVER doing that again… ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/67 "2015-12-09T00:52:42Z")
> [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](#): > > Maybe we’re talking about the same one ? If you mean Nick Burg and the beheading I saw then no. Although I can’t put an exact date on it I can say it’s not the same event. Nick Burg was beheaded in 2004 and the one I saw was in 1998. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/68 "2015-12-09T01:05:46Z")
I think I know the one, if it shows the killer’s foot on the victim’s head: the Chechens would behead captured Russians on video in the 90’s. They’d send the tapes to Moscow, and the Russians would add dramatic music and play them on TV. The worst beheading video I’ve seen was of Nepalese scut workers, not at all well-paid for the risk nor important to the mission yet glad for what were, by Nepalese standards, good jobs rebuilding Iraq. There was the sound of sleeping bags being frantically zipped and unzipped that dawned upon me were the victims sucking air through their severed windpipes. It’s like of world of Otis Tooles over there. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/69 "2015-12-09T03:00:32Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I did. Then I went through a list of photos on a page that gauges your reaction to them. Them I googled “Ticks in a dog’s ear” to investigate one of the pics. > > Never, EVER doing that again… Guess who just did that? :eek: Anyone who wants to work in veterinary medicine, on any level, should look at that page first. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/70 "2015-12-09T07:05:55Z")
Go to youtube and search “mangoworms”. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/71 "2015-12-09T07:29:04Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Go to youtube and search “mangoworms”. Oh dear. I just did. Yuch! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/72 "2015-12-09T08:15:15Z")
As a kid I used to browse our father’s book “Homicide Investigation.” It showed nice colored pictures of different kinds of homicides. It was the old printing method wherein the entire page was glazed. The pages had a strong smell that really made you think of dead people. I grew to adulthood dreading I’d remember a photo in the book while eating. Then I tried to wake up that (secret) aspect of me by browsing [rotten.com](http://rotten.com). Some of those pictures were even grosser but they didn’t affect me as much as that book. You can still buy one from ebay or amazon. [http://www.ebay.com/itm/Homicide-Investigation-Practical-Information-for-Coroners-Police-Officers-and-/231670693662?hash=item35f0a63f1e:g:4wQAAOSwT6pV4t4w](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Homicide-Investigation-Practical-Information-for-Coroners-Police-Officers-and-/231670693662?hash=item35f0a63f1e:g:4wQAAOSwT6pV4t4w) ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/73 "2015-12-09T10:20:29Z")
> [@justmeetee](#): > > When I first got AOL, sometime in mid to late 90s I watched a video of a beheading. Thought I’d see something like in the movies, head on the chopping block, one quick move with a big sword or axe.The reality is someone plunging a knife into the side of someone else’s throat and sawing away. And it’s obvious the victim is alive through the first few seconds and well aware. I’m very careful to NOT stumble onto things like that since. Saw that. Totally convinced me that while dead people don’t bother me, violent murder in close up is actually not something I want to voluntarily expose myself to, thanks so much. > [@Celyn](#): > > Oh dear. I just did. Yuch! The embodiment of nightmares that I’ve had since childhood. I was gobsmacked (and revolted, and nauseated, and horrified…) to learn my nightmares were real. ---
**Author:** ![And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/and_his_buzzer_goes/32/377_2.png) [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/74 "2015-12-09T12:32:55Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I think I know the one, if it shows the killer’s foot on the victim’s head: the Chechens would behead captured Russians on video in the 90’s. They’d send the tapes to Moscow, and the Russians would add dramatic music and play them on TV. Yes, that one… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/75 "2015-12-09T15:00:39Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I think I know the one, if it shows the killer’s foot on the victim’s head: **the Chechens would behead captured Russians** on video in the 90’s. They’d send the tapes to Moscow, and **the Russians would add dramatic music and play them on TV.** 😕 Why would the Russians do that? ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/76 "2015-12-09T17:06:40Z")
I never had much of a problem with trypophobia _until_ I saw that damn lotus boob picture. Thank you, Photoshop trolls, for damaging my mind. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/77 "2015-12-09T17:28:46Z")
> [@WF\_Tomba](#): > > I never had much of a problem with trypophobia _until_ I saw that damn lotus boob picture. Thank you, Photoshop trolls, for damaging my mind. :mad: I’m beginning to think I’m weird. I know so many people who have this reaction, and the darn thing doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I went to a “here’s an increasingly oogy set of pictures to determine if you have trypophobia” page, and I made it all the way to the end without a flinch. (Well, one flinch, but that was because it was an injured animal, not because of phobia). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/78 "2015-12-09T18:26:05Z")
[Tasty!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKpx2DxGwY) ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/79 "2015-12-09T18:36:43Z")
> [@chancetx](#): > > Goatse is something I wish I could un-see. Even worse was the video clip of some guy trying to insert a glass jar or bottle up his ass and the glass broke. Blood pours down while he calmly tries to pick out the glass shards. Eventually he walks off camera and you just hear a loud scream. :eek: The only way that video could be any worse? If the bottle were full of live bees. Ontopic: I’ve seen beheadings, stabbings, and all sorts of horrible things. Worst thing, or the thing that had the greatest effect on me, would probably be a collection of crime scene photos of rape-murders. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/80 "2015-12-09T18:41:11Z")
Holy mother of god.:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: [Cerebral Myiasis Associated With Angiosarcoma of the Scalp](http://journals.lww.com/neurosurgery/pages/videogallery.aspx?videoId=178&autoPlay=false) I won’t let you click without telling you: it’s video of a 75 year old man whose cancer ate through his scalp and into his brain, leaving it wide open and invaded by lots of maggots. This man was driving a car just hours before this video was taken. holy fucking mother of god. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443.md?page=5)