# The Creepy Thread (Stories and Links Welcome) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379 "2012-10-01T11:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/101 "2013-10-08T14:03:57Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Here are some wonderfully creepy, all-natural images to enjoy … > > [http://www.yourdailymedia.com/post/terrifying-lake-turns-birds-into-statues/#bc5a1udq9ZRqfb83.01](http://www.yourdailymedia.com/post/terrifying-lake-turns-birds-into-statues/#bc5a1udq9ZRqfb83.01) [Mostly natural:](http://www.livescience.com/40135-photographer-rick-brandt-lake-natron.html) > [@](#): > > “I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life,’ as it were,” Brandt wrote, referring to the way he repositioned the animals. “Reanimated, alive again in death.” Still creepy. Both the photographs themselves and imagining the guy setting up the shots. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/102 "2013-10-08T14:21:46Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Here are some wonderfully creepy, all-natural images to enjoy … > > [http://www.yourdailymedia.com/post/terrifying-lake-turns-birds-into-statues/#bc5a1udq9ZRqfb83.01](http://www.yourdailymedia.com/post/terrifying-lake-turns-birds-into-statues/#bc5a1udq9ZRqfb83.01) I thought of this comeback too late for the original posts: did he find Lot’s wife there too? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/103 "2013-10-08T14:35:07Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > I thought of this comeback too late for the original posts: did he find Lot’s wife there too? Given that he posed the original shots, if he did, he should be under arrest … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/104 "2013-10-09T13:14:46Z")
Okay, I think most of these have not already been posted, but perhaps I’ve missed them. This is just a few I’ve stumbled upon: **Short Story** : [The Horla](http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Horl.shtml) [Museum of Hoaxes](http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/) \*\* MessageBoard Threads\*\*: _[BB.com](http://BB.com) threads_: [Scariest chit that ever happened to you? [SRS]](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=154914193) [Haunted/Cursed schit…Interdasting real or fake. Post em if you got em](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=155759433) [You bored? List of Creepy/Interesting Wiki Articles](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=156725463) [Top 5 scariest or creepiest things people have seen according to Reddit users](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=154408141) [brahs who’ve had recent paranormal experiences, gtfih.](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=154030521) _Reddit_: [I just got called out by my stalker. Please help. I don’t know where I’ve been for the last day](http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1gy1ns/i_just_got_called_out_by_my_stalker_please_help_i/) _The Straight Dope_: [2 sentence horror stories](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=697732) [Unintentionally evil (if perhaps morbidly funny) things you’ve seen](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=691051) [My Favorite Ghost Story-Debunked!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=688116) ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/105 "2013-10-09T14:45:13Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Given that he posed the original shots, if he did, he should be under arrest … 😃 For what, a salt? ---
**Author:** ![Quarter\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f475e1/32.png) [@Quarter\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quarter_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/106 "2013-10-09T14:45:27Z")
LOVE this thread!! I spent way too much time going through it last year but am so glad there’s some more to read. Didn’t we have our own forum last year called “Boo!”? Thanks Meatros! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/107 "2013-10-09T14:52:42Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > For what, a salt? :groans: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/108 "2013-10-09T16:07:19Z")
Yaaaaaay! Thanks Meatros! I knew you’d come through! [From Reddit: The Creepiest Thing your Child Has Ever Said to You](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d2v7i/parents_of_reddit_what_is_the_creepiest_thing/) - this made the rounds earlier this year, but it’s super spooky, IMO [The Goatman](http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Anasi%27s_Goatman_Story) [Top 10 Scary Short Films](http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/2012/10/top-10-scary-short-films.html) And then there’s: [Love+Radio “Ghost Stories” Podcast](http://loveandradio.org/2010/07/ghost-stories/). You have to click on the little “play” symbol to get the podcast. The first few stories are lightly spooky, but the last one freaked me out so bad that I had to sit down. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/109 "2013-10-09T16:15:50Z")
Creepiest thing my son ever said, illustrating the power of suggestion: once, when I was out in the woods for a walk with him and my wife, he suddenly turned and pointed appparently over my shoulder and said “hey, there’s a man hanging there!”. We turned and looked … and my wife and I both saw a man’s body dangling in the leaves - for a moment. Turns out my son was pointing to a picture of a little man on the t-shirt I was wearing “hanging” on my shoulder, that he’d not noticed before. When m wife and I looked more closely, the “hanging man” in the trees was … a bunch of leaves. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/110 "2013-10-09T16:34:05Z")
Hmm nobody’s posted this before? From [White with Red - Creepypasta](http://www.creepypasta.com/white-with-red-eyes/) A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed. The next night his curiosity would not leave him alone about the room with no number on the door. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye. What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was completely white. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to. This disinclination saved his life. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn’t make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red. At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and said, “Did you look through the keyhole?” The man told her that he had and she said, “Well, I might as well tell you the story. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red.” * * * Hmm, I think I read a better version, but I can’t find it now. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/111 "2013-10-09T17:15:06Z")
It’s from the CreepyPasta wiki, which had been posted. I just noticed that I had posted the Horla earlier… Here’s some good creepypastas (from the creepypasta wiki): **The Expressionless** > [@](#): > > In June 1972, a woman appeared in Cedar Senai hospital in nothing but a white, blood-covered gown. Now this, in itself, should not be too surprising as people often have accidents nearby and come to the nearest hospital for medical attention, but there were two things that caused people who saw her to vomit and flee in terror. > > The first being that she wasn’t exactly human. she resembled something close to a mannequin, but had the dexterity and fluidity of a normal human being. Her face, was as flawless as a mannequins, devoid of eyebrows and smeared in make-up. > > There was a kitten clamped in her jaws so unnaturally tight that no teeth could be seen, and the blood was still squirting out over her gown and onto the floor. She then pulled it out of her mouth, tossed it aside and collapsed. > > From the moment she stepped through the entrance to when she was taken to a hospital room and cleaned up before being prepped for sedation, she was completely calm, expressionless and motionless. The doctors thought it best to restrain her until the authorities could arrive and she did not protest. They were unable to get any kind of response from her and most staff members felt too uncomfortable to look directly at her for more than a few seconds. > > But the second the staff tried to sedate her, she fought back with extreme force. Two members of staff had to hold her down as her body rose up on the bed with that same, blank expression. > > She turned her emotionless eyes towards the male doctor and did something unusual. She smiled. > > As she did, the female doctor screamed and let go out of shock. In the woman’s mouth were not human teeth, but long, sharp spikes. Too long for her mouth to close fully without causing any damage… > > The male doctor stared back at her for a moment before asking “What in the hell are you?” > > She cracked her neck down to her shoulder to observe him, still smiling. > > There was a long pause, the security had been alerted and could be heard coming down the hallway. > > As he heard them approach, she darted forward, sinking her teeth into the front of his throat, ripping out his jugular and letting him fall to the floor, gasping for air as he choked on his own blood. > > She stood up and leaned over him, her face coming dangerously close to his as the life faded from his eyes. > > She leaned closer and whispered in his ear. > > “I…am…God…” > > The doctor’s eyes filled with fear as he watched her calmly walk away to greet the security men. His last ever sight would be watching her feast on them one by one. > > The female doctor who survived the incident named her “The Expressionless”. > > There was never a sighting of her again. **The Russian Sleep Experiment** > [@](#): > > Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn’t kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and 5 inch thick glass porthole sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last all five for over a month. > > The test subjects were political prisoners deemed enemies of the state during World War II. > Everything was fine for the first five days; the subjects hardly complained having been promised (falsely) that they would be freed if they submitted to the test and did not sleep for 30 days. Their conversations and activities were monitored and it was noted that they continued to talk about increasingly traumatic incidents in their past, and the general tone of their conversations took on a darker aspect after the 4 day mark. > > After five days they started to complain about the circumstances and events that lead them to where they were and started to demonstrate severe paranoia. They stopped talking to each other and began alternately whispering to the microphones and one way mirrored portholes. Oddly they all seemed to think they could win the trust of the experimenters by turning over their comrades, the other subjects in captivity with them. At first the researchers suspected this was an effect of the gas itself… > > After nine days the first of them started screaming. He ran the length of the chamber repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs for 3 hours straight, he continued attempting to scream but was only able to produce occasional squeaks. The researchers postulated that he had physically torn his vocal cords. The most surprising thing about this behavior is how the other captives reacted to it… or rather didn’t react to it. They continued whispering to the microphones until the second of the captives started to scream. The 2 non-screaming captives took the books apart, smeared page after page with their own feces and pasted them calmly over the glass portholes. The screaming promptly stopped. > > So did the whispering to the microphones. > > After 3 more days passed. The researchers checked the microphones hourly to make sure they were working, since they thought it impossible that no sound could be coming with 5 people inside. The oxygen consumption in the chamber indicated that all 5 must still be alive. In fact it was the amount of oxygen 5 people would consume at a very heavy level of strenuous exercise. On the morning of the 14th day the researchers did something they said they would not do to get a reaction from the captives, they used the intercom inside the chamber, hoping to provoke any response from the captives they were afraid were either dead or vegetables. > > They announced: “We are opening the chamber to test the microphones step away from the door and lie flat on the floor or you will be shot. Compliance will earn one of you your immediate freedom.” > > To their surprise they heard a single phrase in a calm voice response: “We no longer want to be freed.” > > Debate broke out among the researchers and the military forces funding the research. Unable to provoke any more response using the intercom it was finally decided to open the chamber at midnight on the fifteenth day. > > The chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air and immediately voices from the microphones began to object. 3 different voices began begging, as if pleading for the life of loved ones to turn the gas back on. The chamber was opened and soldiers sent in to retrieve the test subjects. They began to scream louder than ever, and so did the soldiers when they saw what was inside. Four of the five subjects were still alive, although no one could rightly call the state that any of them in ‘life.’ > > The food rations past day 5 had not been so much as touched. There were chunks of meat from the dead test subject’s thighs and chest stuffed into the drain in the center of the chamber, blocking the drain and allowing 4 inches of water to accumulate on the floor. Precisely how much of the water on the floor was actually blood was never determined. All four ‘surviving’ test subjects also had large portions of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies. The destruction of flesh and exposed bone on their finger tips indicated that the wounds were inflicted by hand, not with teeth as the researchers initially thought. Closer examination of the position and angles of the wounds indicated that most if not all of them were self-inflicted. > > The abdominal organs below the ribcage of all four test subjects had been removed. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been ripped off, exposing the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact, they had just been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. The digestive tract of all four could be seen to be working, digesting food. It quickly became apparent that what they were digesting was their own flesh that they had ripped off and eaten over the course of days. > > Most of the soldiers were Russian special operatives at the facility, but still many refused to return to the chamber to remove the test subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back on, lest they fall asleep… > > To everyone’s surprise the test subjects put up a fierce fight in the process of being removed from the chamber. One of the Russian soldiers died from having his throat ripped out, another was gravely injured by having his testicles ripped off and an artery in his leg severed by one of the subject’s teeth. Another 5 of the soldiers lost their lives if you count ones that committed suicide in the weeks following the incident. > > In the struggle one of the four living subjects had his spleen ruptured and he bled out almost immediately. The medical researchers attempted to sedate him but this proved impossible. He was injected with more than ten times the human dose of a morphine derivative and still fought like a cornered animal, breaking the ribs and arm of one doctor. When heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had bled out to the point there was more air in his vascular system than blood. Even after it stopped he continued to scream and flail for another 3 minutes, struggling to attack anyone in reach and just repeating the word “MORE” over and over, weaker and weaker, until he finally fell silent. > > The surviving three test subjects were heavily restrained and moved to a medical facility, the two with intact vocal cords continuously begging for the gas demanding to be kept awake… > > The most injured of the three was taken to the only surgical operating room that the facility had. In the process of preparing the subject to have his organs placed back within his body it was found that he was effectively immune to the sedative they had given him to prepare him for the surgery. He fought furiously against his restraints when the anesthetic gas was brought out to put him under. He managed to tear most of the way through a 4 inch wide leather strap on one wrist, even through the weight of a 200 pound soldier holding that wrist as well. It took only a little more anesthetic than normal to put him under, and the instant his eyelids fluttered and closed, his heart stopped. In the autopsy of the test subject that died on the operating table it was found that his blood had triple the normal level of oxygen. His muscles that were still attached to his skeleton were badly torn and he had broken 9 bones in his struggle to not be subdued. Most of them were from the force his own muscles had exerted on them. > > The second survivor had been the first of the group of five to start screaming. His vocal cords destroyed he was unable to beg or object to surgery, and he only reacted by shaking his head violently in disapproval when the anesthetic gas was brought near him. He shook his head yes when someone suggested, reluctantly, they try the surgery without anesthetic, and did not react for the entire 6 hour procedure of replacing his abdominal organs and attempting to cover them with what remained of his skin. The surgeon presiding stated repeatedly that it should be medically possible for the patient to still be alive. One terrified nurse assisting the surgery stated that she had seen the patients mouth curl into a smile several times, whenever his eyes met hers. > > When the surgery ended the subject looked at the surgeon and began to wheeze loudly, attempting to talk while struggling. Assuming this must be something of drastic importance the surgeon had a pen and pad fetched so the patient could write his message. It was simple. “Keep cutting.” > > The other two test subjects were given the same surgery, both without anesthetic as well. Although they had to be injected with a paralytic for the duration of the operation. The surgeon found it impossible to perform the operation while the patients laughed continuously. Once paralyzed the subjects could only follow the attending researchers with their eyes. The paralytic cleared their system in an abnormally short period of time and they were soon trying to escape their bonds. The moment they could speak they were again asking for the stimulant gas. The researchers tried asking why they had injured themselves, why they had ripped out their own guts and why they wanted to be given the gas again. > > Only one response was given: “I must remain awake.” > > All three subject’s restraints were reinforced and they were placed back into the chamber awaiting determination as to what should be done with them. The researchers, facing the wrath of their military ‘benefactors’ for having failed the stated goals of their project considered euthanizing the surviving subjects. The commanding officer, an ex-KGB instead saw potential, and wanted to see what would happen if they were put back on the gas. The researchers strongly objected, but were overruled. > > In preparation for being sealed in the chamber again the subjects were connected to an EEG monitor and had their restraints padded for long term confinement. To everyone’s surprise all three stopped struggling the moment it was let slip that they were going back on the gas. It was obvious that at this point all three were putting up a great struggle to stay awake. One of subjects that could speak was humming loudly and continuously; the mute subject was straining his legs against the leather bonds with all his might, first left, then right, then left again for something to focus on. The remaining subject was holding his head off his pillow and blinking rapidly. Having been the first to be wired for EEG most of the researchers were monitoring his brain waves in surprise. They were normal most of the time but sometimes flat lined inexplicably. It looked as if he were repeatedly suffering brain death, before returning to normal. As they focused on paper scrolling out of the brainwave monitor only one nurse saw his eyes slip shut at the same moment his head hit the pillow. His brainwaves immediately changed to that of deep sleep, then flatlined for the last time as his heart simultaneously stopped. > > The only remaining subject that could speak started screaming to be sealed in now. His brainwaves showed the same flatlines as one who had just died from falling asleep. The commander gave the order to seal the chamber with both subjects inside, as well as 3 researchers. One of the named three immediately drew his gun and shot the commander point blank between the eyes, then turned the gun on the mute subject and blew his brains out as well. > > He pointed his gun at the remaining subject, still restrained to a bed as the remaining members of the medical and research team fled the room. “I won’t be locked in here with these things! Not with you!” he screamed at the man strapped to the table. “WHAT ARE YOU?” he demanded. “I must know!” > > The subject smiled. > > “Have you forgotten so easily?” The subject asked. “We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread.” > > The researcher paused. Then aimed at the subject’s heart and fired. The EEG flatlined as the subject weakly choked out, “So… nearly… free…” **The Medic** > [@](#): > > In the winter of 1944, with overtaxed supply lines in the Ardennes, a medic in the German army had completely run out of plasma, bandages and antiseptic. During one particularly bad round of mortar fire, his encampment was a bloodbath. Those who survived claimed to have heard, above the screams and barked commands of their Lieutenant, someone cackling with almost girlish glee. > > The medic had made his rounds during the fire, in almost complete darkness as he had so many times before, but never had he been this short on supplies. No matter. He would do his duty. He had always prided himself on his resourcefulness. > > The bombardment moved to other ends of the line, and most men dropped off to sleep in the dark, still hours of the morning—New Year’s Day, 1945. The men awoke at first light with screams. They discovered that their bandages were not typical bandages at all, but hunks and strips of human flesh. Several men had been given fresh blood transfusions, yet there had been no blood supplies available. Each treated man was almost completely covered, head-to-toe, with the maroon stain of blood. > > The medic was found — sitting on an ammunition tin - staring off into space. When one man approached him, and tapped him on the shoulder, his tunic fell off to reveal that large patches of his skin, muscle, and sinew had been stripped from his torso and his body was almost completely dried of blood. In one hand was a scalpel, and in the other, a blood transfusion vial. None of the men treated for wounds that night, in that camp, saw the end of January 1945. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/112 "2013-10-09T17:25:19Z")
**Wake Up** > [@](#): > > It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not **wake up**. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to **wake up** was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to **wake up**. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and **please wake up**. [The Anomaly](http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Anomaly) - better if you just check it out, since it has pictures associated with it. **7 Minutes** > [@](#): > > If you have ever been in a near-death experience, you may have seen your life “flash” before your eyes. I’ve asked several people about this. They said that it was like they went through their whole life in a second. That’s not too far fetched. Your brain likes to avoid stress, so that it does not have to deal with facing death. So if your brain was to think you were going to die, it would go to the easiest way to escape: memory. So when it comes close to the end, your brain turns on every memory you ever had. > > The brain will also stay alive for about 7 minutes after you die, provided your brain is intact. So if you have 7 minutes and you can experience your whole life in one second, that’s 60 lives per minute. 420 lives in 7 minutes. That’s a lot of time and a lot of experiences with death. ---
**Author:** ![inedible\_knapsack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/113 "2013-10-09T20:03:51Z")
Attaboy **Meatros**! Just found this, could be interesting. 9 horror films, all embedded video in the page, each under 9 minutes in length. I’ve seen #9 before (Bedfellows) and it gives me the serious willies. [Link](http://theweek.com/article/index/250755/9-horror-films-under-9-minutes) ---
**Author:** ![inedible\_knapsack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/114 "2013-10-09T21:04:09Z")
**Update:** I’ve watched the short movies linked above, and they’re all excellent. Most only last a couple or three minutes, really. A lot of the time shown is closing credits. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/115 "2013-10-09T21:49:26Z")
This happened a couple of months ago but I was waiting until it was closer to Halloween to post it. We were having a slow day in the office, just a handful of us present. One of our colleagues from the office next door came across for a chat, I’ve always liked the guy _(still do)_ and found him never less than friendly and polite. Somehow the conversation got onto the subject of religion, unlike most of these debates it was civil and rationale, most of the people in the office were pro-religion, and it turns out he is an athiest _(something I was unaware of but has no affect on my opinion of him either way)_, I was playing devils advocate and contributing on both sides of the debate as I saw fit. He was leaning against the back wall as the rest of us did some of our work and continued the conversation between times. As it started to wind down I commented, “You know, I used to work with a man who used to be a priest, it would be interesting if he was involved in this debate” “Ah yes, that _would_ be interesting!”, I glanced up at the odd timbre in his voice, his head was tilted back, mouth open, teeth bared, and face twisted in a feral grin, eyes almost closed and a positively demonic look on his face, it only lasted a moment but long enough that I’m sure I wasn’t just imagining it. If this was a Hollywood movie there would be smoke drifting from his mouth and a red glow from his eyes but it was chilling enough without that. The others weren’t paying attention to him so didn’t notice anything, I’m not sure if he realised I’d noticed or indeed cared that I did. I was genuinely stunned and didn’t say anything, he cheerfully said his goodbyes and left. It was utterly bizarre, he’s still the decent person he’s always been but I’m not sure what the hell that look on his face in the office or what it signifies. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/116 "2013-10-10T12:24:31Z")
Hopefully I’ll have some time later on this month to really do some digging - I know there were a few sites/stories that I stumbled across over the past few months that I wanted to add in this thread. That said, I just noticed that this thread - [The Creepy People](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16743687) - was not including in this link marathon… ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/117 "2013-10-10T19:13:36Z")
Just ran across [this story](http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/us/georgia-gym-mat-death/) - all sorts of WTF and creepiness (and true, sadly): **Gym mat death shocker: Body stuffed with newspaper** Valdosta, Georgia (CNN) – The death of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was awful enough for his parents. Then came the doubts about investigators’ conclusion that it was an accident. But the discovery that their son’s body and skull had been stuffed with newspaper before burial added a horrific new dimension to their anguish and further fueled their skepticism of the official findings. “We have been let down again,” his father, Kenneth Johnson, told CNN. “When we buried Kendrick, we thought we were burying Kendrick, not half of Kendrick.” Kendrick Johnson was found dead in a gym at Lowndes County High School in January. State medical examiners concluded that the three-sport athlete suffocated after getting stuck in a rolled-up gym mat while reaching for a sneaker. Death was not accidental, family’s autopsy finds His parents, Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson, never have bought that explanation. They won a court order to have their son’s body exhumed and a second autopsy performed in June. During an autopsy, internal organs are removed and examined before being returned for burial. But when Dr. Bill Anderson, the private pathologist who conducted the second autopsy, opened up the teen’s remains, the brain, heart, lungs, liver and other viscera were missing. Every organ from the pelvis to the skull was gone. “I’m not sure at this point who did not return the organs to the body,” Anderson said. “But I know when we got the body, the organs were not there.” Two entities had custody of Kendrick Johnson’s body after his death – the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which conducted the first autopsy in January; and the Harrington Funeral Home in Valdosta, which handled the teen’s embalming and burial. GBI spokeswoman Sherry Lang told CNN that after the autopsy, “the organs were placed in Johnson’s body, the body was closed, then the body was released to the funeral home.” That’s normal practice, Lang said. The funeral home would not comment to CNN. But in a letter to the Johnsons’ attorney, funeral home owner Antonio Harrington said his firm never received the teen’s organs. Harrington wrote that the organs “were destroyed through natural process” due to the position of Kendrick Johnson’s body when he died, and “discarded by the prosector before the body was sent back to Valdosta.” A prosector dissects the body for pathological examination. Scene points to foul play Stuffing a body with old newsprint and department-store circulars – “like he was a garbage can,” as Jacquelyn Johnson put it – isn’t exactly standard practice in forensic pathology or the mortician’s trade. Vernie Fountain, the founder of a Missouri embalming school, called it “not consistent with the standards of care” in the industry. And Dr. Gregory Schmunk, the president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, told CNN, “I have never heard of this practice.” Organs are typically placed in plastic bag, which is then put back into the body cavity after an autopsy, Schmunk told CNN in an e-mail. While individual organs may be kept back for further testing, he wrote, “This would not amount to all of the organs in any circumstance that I can imagine.” Funeral homes are licensed by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, which has opened an investigation into how Johnson’s body was treated, said Jared Thomas, a spokesman for the agency. Anderson, who was hired by the Johnson family for a second autopsy, found Kendrick Johnson had sustained a blow to the right side of his neck that was “consistent with inflicted injury.” Challenging the state autopsy’s finding of positional asphyxiation, he concluded the teen died as the result of “unexplained, apparent non-accidental, blunt force trauma.” And death scene imagery obtained exclusively by CNN has led a former FBI agent to question how Johnson died: “I think this young man met with foul play,” said Harold Copus, now an Atlanta private investigator. Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine refused to discuss the matter with CNN, calling Johnson’s death a closed case. The U.S. Justice Department announced in September that it wouldn’t open a civil rights investigation into the case. But federal prosecutors in south Georgia have met with the family’s representatives and are weighing whether to open their own probe, said Michael Moore, the U.S. attorney whose district includes Valdosta. “This is about getting to the facts and the truth, and we want the Johnson family and the community of Valdosta to have confidence in the process,” Moore said. “I am cognizant of time, and we continue to move the process along.” Moore urged anyone with information about Johnson’s death to contact his office. Johnson’s parents have come to believe their son’s death was no accident, and the macabre discovery about their son’s body has only deepened that belief. “It’s unbearable, just about,” Jacquelyn Johnson said. “The only thing that wakes you up in the morning is to just keep pushing.” ---
**Author:** ![inedible\_knapsack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/118 "2013-10-10T19:52:07Z")
> [@Meatros](#): > > Kendrick Johnson was found dead in a gym at Lowndes County High School in January. State medical examiners concluded that the three-sport athlete _suffocated after getting stuck in a rolled-up gym mat while reaching for a sneaker_ (emphasis added). > > Death was not accidental, family’s autopsy finds Uh, what? What does that even mean? “Yes, after some investigation it appears your son was casually reaching for one of his sneakers when a nearby gym mat became sentient and maliciously rolled up with the equivalent force of a hyena’s bite and suffocated the life out of him.” ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/119 "2013-10-11T22:10:57Z")
I just [found this](http://villafanestudios.com) - some badass and creepy pumpkin carving… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379/120 "2013-10-12T01:40:17Z")
Nightmarishly creepy sounds made by translating brain waves to sound: > **[Listen to a brain seizure turned into music](https://gizmodo.com/listen-to-a-brain-seizure-turned-into-music-1443038583)** > > Yikes, this is all kinds of creepy. Stanford scientists recently took the EEG signals from a person experiencing a convulsive seizure and converted them to tones that fell within the acoustic spectrum of the human voice. The results will send chills... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creepy-thread-stories-and-links-welcome/636379.md?page=7)