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31 Disturbing Facts That Keep Us Awake At Night

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September 13, 2023

31 Disturbing Facts That Keep Us Awake At Night

If you hate sleep, this is a perfect article for you. It’s filled with disturbing, macabre and just straight-up nightmare-inducing facts from all walks of life. Sweet dreams!

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A7-year-old boy in India recently had CRAOM 526 TEETH REMOVED The record breaking amount of various sized teeth were found inside a tumor in the boy's jaw. — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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A mad serial killer reigned during Rome's most peaceful age. Locusta was freed to help Agrippina poison Emperor Claudius then was freed again to poison Nero's stepbrother. She was finally arrested and executed by Emperor Galba in 69 CE. She was supposedly publicly raped to death by a wild animal, which some sources say was a giraffe. CRACKED.COM — 6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie

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CORKY Porky the Paper Eater the is a childhood PAPER EATER memory/nightmare # for many people, who grew up near Pennsylvania's Angela Park, in the 70's & 80's. This trash can ate waste from children's tiny hands, while also eating their souls. CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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CRACKED.co A 14TH-CENTURY BOOK CONTAINS SPELLS AND CRUEL PRANKS. The Secretum Philosophorum teaches subjects such as math, grammar, astronomy, and magically winning a woman's love using a bird's tongue. But it also contains cool tricks, like invisible writing and, uh, how to make someone think their face is on fire. Were the 1300s the frat century or something? — 4 Impressively Weird Pranks From Centuries Ago

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The Mountain Meadow Massacre Memorial in Central, Utah... is the original burial place of the approximately 120 immigrant men, women, and children who were executed in 1857 by Latter Day Saints (dressed as Native Americans) in a violent solution to stop them from crossing their wagons over Mormon land. It's a busy tourist site in southern Utah. CRAON — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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After praying to him for healing, some people leave old prosthetics in St. Roch's New Orleans chapel. A room in the chapel is now full of braces, crutches, and artificial body parts. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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GRACKED.COM EVER BEEN INSIDE A PRISON'S DEATH CHAMBER, AND WALKED OUT ALIVE? YOU CAN, ON A GUIDED TOUR OF FREMANTLE PRISON, IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD RIPPED OFF I AM LEGEND. For his seminal horror film, George Romero just took Richard Matheson's apocalyptic novel and changed the vampires into zombies. That's not an empty accusation: Romero himself admitted as much. Matheson wasn't mad, though, as Romero never made any money off of the movie due to a copyright mix-up. GRACKED.COM — 6 Iconic Movies And Shows That Were Outright Ripoffs

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Veljo Ronkkonen's Sculpture Garden in Finland is filled with a collection of around 450 sculptures made by Veljo since 1961 up to his death. The place sounds peaceful, until you see the sculptures. To add to the creepy facial expressions, some of the sculptures were made using real human teeth. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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AN OLD AMUSEMENT PARK IN WEST VIRGINIA HAS A DARK AS CK PAST. Built in the 1920s, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park 307 12F 1580 abandoned in f was SHAWNEE 1966 after six LAKE visitor deaths. When housing developers tore into the grounds 20 years later, they found the park had been built on a Native American burial ground. 6 They felt it wise not to f*ck with fate and halted construction. CRACKED — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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CRACKED.COM PETER DINKLAGE HAD HIS HEAD SLICED OOEEN-DURING A ROCK SHOW. Like Tyrion, Dinklage has a nasty scar-and its story is just as epic. Back when he sang in a punk band, a performance got wild and a band member's knee slammed into Dinklage's temple. That didn't stop him- he kept at it, with blood dripping all over the stage. Rock'n' roll, baby. — 5 Weird Music Careers Of Marvel Movie Stars

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In 2010, there was an unexpected side effect of the flooding that occured in parts of Sindh, Pakistan. Millions of spiders climbed up into trees to escape the water. CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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CRACKED.COM CIVIL WAR COULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT ZOMBIES. Producers had a plan B in case they couldn't secure Robert Downey Jr. for the third Captain America Movie: adapting Madbomb, a Jack Kirby story about a device that turns people into raging zombies. But they did get RDJ, so we didn't need to see Cap fighting brainwashed grandpas and single moms. — The 5 Weirdest Choices The MCU Almost Made

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Try looking for a cemetery in San Francisco. Actually, don't bother, because you'd be hard-pressed to find one. In 1880, the city was overpopulated with cemeteries, SO they began moving the dead out of the city, burying them in Colma (now known as the City of Souls), and outlawed future burials within the city. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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As summer twilight descends on the Yolo Causeway in Sacramento, California, a rumbling begins, deep within the bowels of the concrete behemoth. Suddenly, out of the depths, appears BATNADO! A quarter of a million Mexican free-tailed bats make this bug infested, marshy area their summer breeding ground. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Portland, Oregon has a dormant volcano within its city limits. PEARL DISTRICT MONTAVILLA Ivan SUNNYSIDE Oregon Zoo Portland Mt Tabor Park RICHMOND 213 Council Crest Park POWELL SOUTHEAST GILBERT PORTLAND SOUTHWEST PORTLAND Hills WOODSTOCK 213 Oaks Amusement Park LENTS BRENT GRACKED.COM TNOMAH — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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You brush your teeth with what? Flushing the toilet sprays tiny particles of water and poop everywhere. So keep your toothbrush in the medicine cabinet, unless you want that on it. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Did you know some scalping victims survived? The man pictured is Robert McGee, circa 1890. At 14, he was shot and personally scalped by Sioux Chief Little Turtle. He endured his grievous wounds for two hours until rescue arrived, and he survived and was showing off his scalped head even 30 years later. CRACKED.COM — 5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books

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CRACKED.co Ente shift When did you last clean your keyboard? A regular computer keyboard can host over 3,000 germs per square inch, as opposed to about 50 on a toilet seat. Your desk can be 400 times as gross as your bathroom. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Underneath Paris is a maze decorated with millions of human bones. Over 100 miles long, the maze was an ancient mine before being converted into bone-decorated catacombs in the 1700s. During WWII some tunnels became Nazi bunkers while others became secret bases for the French Resistance. Pakuranman.com There's a public entrance for tourists-- but there's also a network of secret entrances hidden throughout the city. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Your kitchen sponge can make you sick. Nasty bugs such as E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, and others can survive and thrive in your sponge. Everything you wash will be contaminated. Put that thing in bleach or your microwave to sanitize it. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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During World War I, soldiers drowned in mud. One soldier wrote about that unique feeling you get when you successfully navigate the mud, only to realize you were stepping on corpses the whole time. A Canadian and German solider were found drowned together while locked in struggle. CRACKED.COM — 5 Creepy As Hell Stories Cut From Your PG-13 History Books

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This could be on your child's head right now. Say hello to Pediculus humanus capitis, better known as the common head louse. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Nearly half of the population in India, or around 524 million people, practices open defecation. Almost 65, 5.000 tons of feces are excreted in the open each day. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.COM Never seen a ladybug orgy? Head to Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, CA, where thousands of Hippodamia convergens ladybugs meet to mate and hibernate every late October to February. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.COM Chiggers, lurk in the wild. These mite larvae are like tiny velociraptors they're ready to pounce on you and bite as soon as you venture into tall grass. They're found all over the world. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Jamestown was a cannibalistic disaster. The winter of 1609-1610 turned unexpectedly brutal for the first permanent English settlement in America. One man was convicted of killing and eating his own wife. A recently excavated teenage girl was found with dozens of skull cuts, her temporal bone pried off to reach the brain. CRACKED.COM — 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

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The term 'shitposting can get too literal. Many people use mobile devices in the bathroom. Perhaps not coincidentally, studies have found traces of fecal matter on 1 in 6 cell phones. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Nearly 60 birds fell from the sky in a suspected mass poisoning in South Australia Not only that, but they were screaming and bleeding out of their eyes, unable to fly. It wasn't a quick death, but slow and horrifying. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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A super-fungus, Candida auris, has started spreading in hospitals in the last few years. It's very hard for labs to identify, and it's immune to common disinfectants and all known antifungal drugs. Also, infected people shed lots of C. auris from their skin, contaminating everything around them. 60% of infected patients die, though it's not clear how many of them die of C. auris alone. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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For years, there were tales of a faceless ghost haunting Pennsylvania's Route 315, but it turned out to be a real person. Charlie No Face, whose real name is Raymond Robinson, was just a boy when his face was melted after he accidentally touched a power line. The ghost stories started because of his te-night walks on Route 315. He didn't want to scare people in the daylight. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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