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31 Disturbing Facts We Wish We Could Erase From Our Mind

September 18, 2023

If you're anything like us, you probably like reading about morbid and disturbing things — even though you end up wishing you didn’t when you try to go to sleep later on. And so, here are 31 disturbing facts to satisfy your hunger for the macabre…

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Buzzing in a bedroom was coming from inside the wall. A couple in Spain heard a strange buzzing noise that kept them up at night. So they decided to hire an expert, who found 80,000 bees hidden behind the bedroom wall. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Spiders

CRACKED.COM WE KEEP FINDING HORRIBLE SPIDERS, You might think every eight-legged monstrosity is already known and safely far away. You'd be dead (and) wrong. Hellish spiders are discovered constantly- some of them in your backyard. In the last few years, 14 new species of tarantula were discovered in the American Southwest.

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There are thousands of corpses exposed at the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, in Italy. Including that of two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, who died of pneumonia in 1920. She is notorious not only for being one of the most well preserved mummies in the world, but also for appearing to move her eyelids as light filters through her glass coffin. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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15th-century Spain deployed 250-pound war mastiffs. These were especially effective against enemies with little or no armor. Their powerful jaws easily tore through leather then flesh then bone. When Columbus made his second voyage to the New World and anticipated trouble, he packed some dogs (who were classed as weapons). CRACKED.COM — 5 Horror Scenes Deleted From History For Being Too Creepy

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Museum Vrolik

Museum Vrolik, in the University of Amsterdam, displays anatomically abnormal human and animal specimens. Its collection of birth defects is of particular scientific value. GRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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There is an amazing view at the top of this 75' tall mound of gravel located in Weldon Springs, MO. The climb is great exercise too, as long as you don't mind the 1.48 million cubic yards of nuclear waste that is buried underfoot. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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Aliens? Mutant Spiders trying to steal faces? old timey vision of a post-apocalyptic! future? Nope. These are two women in Montreal, Canada wearing plastic face protection masks for snowstorms and cold weather made in the 1930's. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/strangeinvetions/ CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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Like something GRACKED.COM out of The Temple of Doom, the Gomantong caves in Malaysia are home to millions of roosting bats. And millions of beetles and roaches who eat the bats' poop. Oh, and snakes that eat the bugs. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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YOU JUST KEPT TICKLING ME. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN YOU THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE NO REPERCUSSIONS. YOU were WRONG That's right kiddos, this is what you see when you take apart a Tickle Me Elmo. Sweet dreams! CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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Salt Lake City has the widest streets of any major U.S. city. At 130 feet, they're twice as wide as Manhattan's. CRACKED.COM Brigham Young, the Mormon president who planned the city, chose the wide streets SO settlers could turn their cattle around without resorting to profanity. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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After 19th-century battles, people harvested teeth. Scavengers would pry every last tooth out of the soldiers' skulls, without concern about whether the victims were completely dead or just mostly dead. The above specimens are real teeth extracted from the skulls of the dead and dying at the Battle of Waterloo. CRACKED.COM — 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

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Greetings From The Secret City Jenn. During WWII, Oak Ridge TN was commissioned to develop and build the first atomic bomb. The vast majority of the city's workers had absolutely no idea what they were working on and only found out after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.CO COM THE SCARECROW & TIN MAN WERE QUITE HORRIFYING, IN THE 1902 VERSION OF THE WIZARD OF Oz. — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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Glenn Close

CRACKED.COM GLENN CLOSE SPENT HER YOUTH IN A CULT. When Close was seven, her parents joined a militant religious group called Moral Re-Armament. She spent years with the MRA while her father was doing medical work in the Congo. I was repressed, clueless, and -ridden, she has said. She left at 22 through means she won't talk about. — 6 Celebrities With Family Histories Crazier Than The Movies

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Paris

CRACKED.COM Despite the hectic traffic conditions, there have been no Stop signs in Paris since 2013, when the only one in the city was removed. FOR Aupervilian are Robiato Colomber The Darity Courberia BENN Partis Nitterse Makele Sac o STOP Emand past RTH ARR DHE Montrul Paris 11TH ARR TTH ARR. Sart-wards Nogent-suc Mame 3985 R 12TH ARR or Championy — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Even though Dharavi, India is one of the largest slums in the world, its annual economic output is estimated to be more than $1 billion. The large number of workshops and skilled workers have resulted in a thriving economy based on manufacturing and export. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.COM Beneath the idyllic streets of Bucharest, Romania. a society of hundreds live in the sewers. After orphanges were closed during the fall of communism in 1989, many homeless children fled underground. Now a generation has grown up there, at one point under the leadership of a king of the sewers called Bruce Lee. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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THE GHOST TOWN OF BODIE, CALIFORNIA Founded in 1876, people flocked to this town in search of gold and silver, However it eventually went bankrupt and people left. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Doctors prescribed powdered human skull as medicine. P.NUMIAN No 218 The same went for human fat, powdered mummy, moss from a dead person's skull, and even fresh human blood- -which one priest had a recipe for making into marmalade. Of course, it was all probably the placebo effect. You can't help but feel a bit better after consuming someone else's cranium. CRACKED.COM — 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

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CRACKED.COM Acanthamoeba is hungry for your eyes. This parasite can live in the ground, in the water, in the air... everywhere. It can get to you through your contact lenses and cause blindness. Luckily, it's extremely rare. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Renaissance Florence was plagued with syphilitic zombies. The disease caused flesh to fall from people's faces and the complete destruction of the lips, others of the nose, and others of all their genitals. You'd see people walking around with their faces falling off their exposed skulls until they finally dropped dead. CRACKED.COM — 6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie

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Legionella lives in your car. This bacterium causes Legionnaires' disease, fatal in 10% of cases and it could be swimming in your windshield wiper fluid. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Danced to Death

CRACKEDO .COM IN THE 1930s, PEOPLE WOULD DANCE THEMSELVES TO DEATH. Dance marathons were popular during the Great Depression A contest that offered free food, shelter, and medical care as long as you kept dancing was an enticing thing in that time of hardship. Sometimes contestants dropped dead after dancing for days, weeks, or even months to take home the coveted cash prize. — 6 Harmless Things With Insanely Disturbing Origin Stories

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CRACKED.COM Demodex crawls on your eyelashes. Possibly 100% of people house these monstrosities in their hair follicles, especially on the face. Yes, even the eyelashes. Think about it when you blink. Or even better, don't — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM Have you ever had athlete's foot? Then you've had this. It's a fungus called Trichophyton rubrum, and it can live on your floor, your shower, and even your pets. It also causes ringworm and jock itch. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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ATHLETES HAVE BAD TEETH. Your mouth is the one place where your health is likely to be better than a pro athlete's. Things such as gulping for air, chugging sport drinks; and re-game anxiety vomiting can give them gum issues and cause their teeth to erode. To top it off, plenty of sports don't pay well enough for good dental healthcare. CRACKED.COM — 5 Underreported Dumb Annoyances Pro Athletes Put Up With

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Space Travel

China's first astronaut says he heard something knock on his spaceship. Yang Liwei was alone in space when he heard the mysterious knocking, which he has been unable to recreate or explain. NASA chalks it up to radio interference. Pictured: radio interference CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Lincoln's widow shared this photo of his ghost. Okay, it's not really Lincoln's ghost, and it's not much to look at today. Photo manipulation seemed like magic back then. Cameras probably seemed like magic. Spirit photographer William Mumler handed Mary Todd this photo, and she believed it fully. CRACKED.COM — 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

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Vengeful crows have been frequently attacking a man in India for the past 3 years. Shiva Kewat claims that 3 years ago he tried and failed to save an injured baby bird. He thinks some nearby crows misinterpreted the situation and now they attack him whenever he leaves his house. Kewat started carrying a stick around to shield himself but this hasn't deterred the birds from pecking and biting him. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Missing Supermarket Worker

1604 LAN prion iNG In 2019, contractors were moving freezer units in a supermarket when they found a dead body. NO FRILLS SEPERMARKET ENTRANCE EXIT DELI It turned out to be the remains of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, a former employee of the store who had gone missing 10 years before. Ruled as an accidental death, it is believed he got trapped and couldn't find a way out. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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After being dismissed by doctors saying she was suffering from allergies, a woman with a chronic runny nose was found to actually be LEAKING BRAIN FLUID. CRACK The woman was suffering from a hole in her skull that she had gotten from a car accident three years prior. — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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