# What animals creep you out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960 "2006-09-08T19:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/61 "2006-09-09T20:43:27Z")
Another vote for centipedes and millipedes. Having that many legs Should Not Be Allowed. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/62 "2006-09-09T22:36:22Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] [I think his feelings are hurt.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bird) [/QUOTE] Nah. [This](http://www.strangezoo.com/images/content/15298.JPG) is how you can tell when his feelings are hurt. See? Evil!!! ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/63 "2006-09-09T22:58:07Z")
Those deep sea fish with the luminous appendages and giant teeth? They are creatures straight out of hell. I saw a documentary on them when I was a kid and had nightmares for a week. Among more common animals, Canadian geese oog me out. They hang out in packs, honk at you, poop all over, and I know they want to bite you. I can see them looking at me waiting to bite me. They are evil. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/64 "2006-09-09T23:46:34Z")
:rolleyes: HA! _Evil?_ Canadian geese? Canadian _anything?_ That’s not evil. _[This](http://www.dogexplorer.com/dog_picture/albums/userpics/10001/sam.crested.chinese.jpg)_ is evil. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/65 "2006-09-09T23:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] :rolleyes: HA! _Evil?_ Canadian geese? Canadian _anything?_ That’s not evil. _[This](http://www.dogexplorer.com/dog_picture/albums/userpics/10001/sam.crested.chinese.jpg)_ is evil. [/QUOTE] Wow, you hotlinked that. That \* is\* evil. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/66 "2006-09-09T23:55:08Z")
It’s nice to see that Sam is still scaring people posthumously. \*Actually \* posthumously, I mean. As opposed to just seemingly posthumously. ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/67 "2006-09-10T10:51:37Z")
I just remembered. I think the [ocean sunfish](http://www.earthwindow.com/mola.html) is also pretty creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/68 "2006-09-10T23:58:20Z")
I saw this documentary where they showed this frog or toad that somehow lays its eggs on its back. Under the skin! When the babies are ready, these big holes somehow open up and they come squirming out. Icky! Icky! Icky! I can’t even Google the little bastards to show you, they creep me out so bad. I think they live in South America. Makes me want to stay away from the entire continent. [QUOTE=MaddyStrut] Among more common animals, Canadian geese oog me out. They hang out in packs, honk at you, poop all over, and I know they want to bite you. I can see them looking at me waiting to bite me. They are evil. [/QUOTE] Meh! I’ve been bitten by Canada (not Canadian, pardon the nitpick) geese lots of times. It’s like two pieces of smooth lightweight plastic coming together. Not painful in the least. Watch out for those big white domestic geese though. They have teeth like hacksaws! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/69 "2006-09-11T01:34:38Z")
I have a serious dog phobia. It’s not so bad now, but 18 years or so ago, walking to the bus stop, I found myself on more than one occasion walking in the street in busy traffic rather than walk on a sidewalk by a house where I knew therew as a dog chained up. Being run over by a truck was fun, but the dog had me terrified. ---
**Author:** ![UKCatGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@UKCatGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UKCatGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/70 "2006-09-11T01:39:33Z")
I always thought that most monkeys and apes were cute, until I took a class involving them and saw a picture of one of [these things](http://www.ilaboyou.jp/Resources/bonobo.JPG). Truly horrifying! My professor even thought they were creepy. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/71 "2006-09-11T01:43:51Z")
I was sitting in my basement and I heard my cat coming down the stairs so I went over to greet him,when i got there it wasnt my cat…it was a damn spider walking down my stairs,not terrible creeped out by spiders generally but this fugger did the trick. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/72 "2006-09-11T01:49:58Z")
I second leeches, just something about a slug/wormlike thing that drinks blood just creeps me out, and they’re so _stretchy_ the one time i ever had a leech on me, it paid for it with it’s slimy little life, after i pulled it off me (big no-no, the wound continues to bleed thanks to the leech’s anticoagulant saliva), i put it in a bottle of water and took it up to the house… even as a child i had a very scientific mindset, focused sunlight from a magnifying lens wasn’t working that well, then i realized… leeches hate salt… the water in it’s jar quickly became _SALT_ water… stupid parasite didn’t like _that_ very much since then i’ve _never_ had another leech on me i used to be terrified of ticks, now i’m just desensitized to them, used to fear even _touching_ them, now i pull them off the family dog and cats like it’s no big deal, take them outside and proceed to cook them with the flame from my 2500-degree pressurized butane lighter i’d never think of hurting animals, i hate people who hurt animals, but _PARASITES_ are a different story, parasites have no redeeming traits, spiders eat undesirable insects, so they’re cool, but leeches and ticks serve no purpose, other than to spread disease ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/73 "2006-09-11T02:10:57Z")
two whole pages and nobody’s creeped out by **scorpians**? Those things creep the shit out of me…I can’t even watch them behind glass. I’m fine with pretty much every other animal in existance though ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/74 "2006-09-11T02:20:31Z")
I don’t like snakes, but the animal that creeps me out–BAD-is the Kimodo dragon. I hate the way it lumbers along, it looks evil. And I dont’ like iguanas, either. Those long what are they, fingers? Claws? Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/75 "2006-09-11T02:46:26Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] I was sitting in my basement and I heard my cat coming down the stairs so I went over to greet him,when i got there it wasnt my cat…it was a damn spider walking down my stairs,not terrible creeped out by spiders generally but this fugger did the trick. [/QUOTE] Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ, how big was that thing?! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/76 "2006-09-11T03:47:17Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] It’s extinct by about a half a billion years, so no one knows if the sting would make you hallucinate. It’s called Hallucigenias because it looks like something out of a surrealist painting. I agree it’s beautiful. But it still creeps me out. It’s like something out of Lovecraft. [/QUOTE] That makes the final line from that site especially creepy: [QUOTE=sloppy science writing] Later studies have shown that the “tentacles” are actually feet, and the Hallucigenia is a descendant of today’s velvet worms. [/QUOTE] Descendant? Heh. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/77 "2006-09-11T04:13:32Z")
I am casting my vote for birds. All birds are creepy as fuck. They swoop from above and their ultimate goal is to eat your eyes, I swear! The other day a crow that had molted from the neck up stood outside my driver side door of my car and jumped back and forth and wouldn’t let me out. I was so creeped out and I wanted to cry because I could tell it was plotting my death. I didn’t though, I just cracked the window and threw a fry so it would chase it and go away. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/78 "2006-09-11T04:18:47Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] I saw this documentary where they showed this frog or toad that somehow lays its eggs on its back. Under the skin! When the babies are ready, these big holes somehow open up and they come squirming out. Icky! Icky! Icky! I can’t even Google the little bastards to show you, they creep me out so bad. I think they live in South America. Makes me want to stay away from the entire continent. [/QUOTE] **Tikki** , I opened this thread just so I could post about those icky toads (?) too! Cats, monkeys, snakes? I mean, come on people! They ain’t got nothing on this thing. \*The squirming toad babies come popping out of the skin on the big toad’s back! \* That’s hard to top on the disgustingometer. I saw a drawing of the thing in an encyclopedia when I was a little kid and never, ever forgot it. How you gonna forget something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/79 "2006-09-11T04:32:43Z")
Jellyfish. Man, I can’t stand jellyfish. I’ve never actually seen one in person, but I find the idea of them to be so utterly repugnant that - gah! I’m actually not all that keen on beaches, in part, because I’m afraid of the little stinging snot-bags. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960/80 "2006-09-11T04:38:01Z")
Come to think of it, I really don’t like _any_ fish. (Yes, I know jellyfish aren’t really fish - but still.) Even the best of them are just giant bugs. With fins. And gills. That swim. None of which makes them any more endearing. I don’t even like seafood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-creep-you-out/371960.md?page=5)