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Man With a Freaking Hole in His Head

LasVegascitylife.com

Jesus! Are these all going to be horrifying?

If this one isn't Photoshop, then it's clearly a man who just underwent hours of makeup to be in a horror film. That's Eli Roth standing next to him -- of course this is for a movie.

Wrong! The fun-loving Cyclops in the picture is named Billy Owen, and he really lost his eye and part of his skull to cancer (notice the artificial palate in his hand). He saw the loss as an opportunity, though, so now he acts in horror movies and haunted houses, like Eli Roth's Goretorium in Las Vegas.

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Honestly, the makeup guys don't have to do much.

That's ... kind of a cool story, actually. If cancer eats part of your face, just embrace it. There's a market out there for everything.

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The City in the Clouds

Dottech.org

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The Happiest Tornado on Earth

Eric Nguyen / Oklahoma State University / NASA

Either someone on the ground is Care Bear Staring the hell out of that tornado, or a leprechaun is locked in an intense battle with a weather witch.

In reality, this a photo from the NASA website, of all places. The tornado seemingly colliding with a rainbow is the result of pure coincidence. Are we the only ones who'd pay money to hear the "Double Rainbow!" guy's reaction to this?

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Black-and-White Woman Badly Cropped into Fashion Shoot

WireImage/Getty Images

13

The Guy Sitting in This Chair Fell to His Death Long Ago

Via YouTube

This picture is so obviously fake, we probably immediately dismissed it the first time we saw it. You can see the strings, for crying out loud! The chair is clearly being hung in the air in front of a big photo of the Earth.

Actually, this is a still frame from a Toshiba commercial. Those strings are connected to a weather balloon, which they used to hoist the chair into space befuckingcause.

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Too bad the balloon hauling the TV popped 20,000 feet back.

The commercial was inspired by an art piece called "Escape Vehicle No. 6," and as you can imagine, some pretty awesome things happen when the balloon pops.

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Beached Cruise Ship

AOL

11

College Dorm Collage

Bela Borsodi

This looks like four different Target ads pasted together in a flier to let the neighborhood know how terrible your personal taste is.

However, look at the spoon coming out of the coffee mug, and trace the arm of that desk lamp -- this is actually just a single photograph. Move the camera slightly and ...

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Ow! Right in the spatial awareness.

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Don't Walk Too Close, It'll Bite Your Head Off

Clement Briend

At best, this looks like the spirit guide that appears in our plucky main character's cul-de-sac toward the end of the movie to tell him that if he doesn't ask Jennifer Love Hewitt to prom or whatever, he'll regret it for the rest of his life. At worst, this is the lazy Photoshop you are rewarded with when you click on one of those "REAL EVIDENCE OF GHOSTS?" links.

It's actually the benevolent face of Buddha, part of an art installation in Cambodia where several images of cultural significance are being projected onto trees and such with 3D projectors.

Clement Briend

Really, no religious artwork has done its job until it has terrified a drunk person trying to walk home at three in the morning.

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No One Survives Sea World's Roller Coaster

MICHAEL REYNOLDS / EPA

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The Gate

Erik Johansson

DEAR GOD, RED-SKIRTED WOMAN, WATCH OUT FOR THAT GIANT HOLE!

As you can guess, this is not an actual triangular portal to the netherworld, but it's also not a cheesy attempt at photo manipulation. This is a pretty spectacular perspective-based illusion in a public square in Sweden. They've even worked the pattern of the existing tiling into the illusion to maximize everyone's freakout and have all the tourists looking around for fallen angels. But as with all perspective tricks, just moving the camera ruins the illusion:

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Wait, was this supposed to be a picture of amazing art or really lazy contractors?

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Giant Wet T-Shirt Monster Rises from the Sea

The Guardian

6

This Woman Is Being Way Too Casual About the Giant Dragon Skull

Winteriscoming.net

Looking at this picture, we immediately became certain of two things: 1) whoever stumbled across this skull is probably very rich now, and 2) that skull isn't fossilized, so we are all fucking doomed.

Sadly, that very fake dragon skull was just a promo for the latest season of Game of Thrones, despite the fact that absolutely nothing about the skull's appearance would suggest as much to casual human beings. So, you just get passing townsfolk on the beach saying, "Eh, I'll just let my dog pee on it."

5

Let's Stand Around and Watch This Alien Egg Hatch

Via YouTube

4

The Day the Ocean Turned into a Giant Beer

Yahoo

Seriously, that looks like the frosty cap of King Neptune's Atlantean beer stein. It isn't even a good Photoshop, either -- that mess was clearly cropped in from a close-up shot of Sam Adams from someone's Instagram account.

In reality, what you're looking at is a dust storm developing near Onslow, Australia. Of course it's Australia.

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Another 8-Bit Orphan Abandoned at the Train Station

Mymodernmet.com

2

Stained Glass Spider

Poyt448, Peter Woodard

This looks like the type of weird Etsy project that Soren Bowie would write about. Somebody with more skill than sanity points spent entirely too much time constructing a tiny glass spider to give out as the most unwelcome Christmas present of all time.

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Tiny Soccer Player

Deadspin.com

Ha! Look at that tiny man trying to play soccer with regular humans. Clearly the Make-A-Wish Foundation is responsible for this image.

Actually, neither is the case. The player in the blue is by no means a dwarf or an abnormally hirsute child. He's a professional soccer player named Mathieu Valbuena, and he just happens to be sliding at the exact perfect angle to create the false perspective of a Lollipop Guildsman trying to steal a bunch of athletic equipment before he gets chased off the field. This is what he looks like normally:

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Wait, how do we know this isn't just a game against a bunch of other tiny players?

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