For all the works that scare people that won't fit anywhere else.

'''[[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease This is not necessarily a real life section.]]''' Degree of fear varies greatly from person to person. Tropers are especially reminded to remember the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment here and keep all examples family-friendly. We really don't want to traumatize people, use some common sense.

!! Sub-pages:
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* NightmareFuel/{{Crestfallen}}
* NightmareFuel/TheHauntedMansion
* NightmareFuel/InspectorSpacetime
* NightmareFuel/TheOnion
* NightmareFuel/VanityPlates
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[[folder:Sports]]
* On March 31st, 2013, the Louisville Cardinals faced off against the Duke Blue Devils. In the first hald, guard Kevin Ware attempted to block a three-point shot from Duke player Tyler Thornton, and landed wrong, which at first went unnoticed by the commentators. For those at home that didn't catch the incident right away, the first sign of trouble came from Thornton who looked at Ward, and then suddenly grimaced and turned away; this led to an instant replay which made the situation all too clear. Ward had broken both bones in his shin instantly upon landing ''[[NightmareFuel which sent his fractured tibia through his skin]]''. This is widely regarded as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_ggsLFhww the worst sports injury to ever have been broadcast live on television,]] [[http://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/kevin-ware-leg-lead.jpg?w=600 and for good reason.]] '''''(WARNING: THESE LINKS ARE HIGHLY GRAPHIC.)''''' What makes it worse is that this happened ''right next to the Louisville bench'', and you can see Ware's fellow players scrambling to cover their eyes or even ''run'' from the sight of his bone sticking out. One person tweeted that the players vomited, which is easy to imagine.
* {{NASCAR}} has had its fair share.
** Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 on the last lap as his drivers Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished 1-2. The indications that something was horribly wrong can be seen when watching the footage, as Ken Schrader, collected by Earnhardt's car, climbed out of his own car uninjured, walked over to Earnhardt's driver's window, and it probably gives chills today seeing him peer inside and immediately signal frantically for paramedics.
** There's the last lap wreck at the 2013 Auto Club 400 where Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin, former teammates and now AxCrazy rivals after a post-race confrontation the week before at Bristol, were battling side-by-side for the lead on the last lap (which if it had stayed that way all the way to the checkers would have repeated the dramatic finish of Kurt Busch losing to Ricky Craven by inches in 2003 at Darlington). They refused to lift in turn 3, which caused both to wreck, while allowing Hamlin's teammate Kyle Busch to slip by on the outside and cruise to victory lane. Logano brushed the outside wall, but Hamlin smashed head-on into a wall that did not have a SAFER barrier. The result was that he hit so hard he actually had a compression fracture which would sideline him for four races (Martinsville, Texas, Kansas, Richmond), with Mark Martin and Brian Vickers substituting for him. That something bad had happened was indicated by Hamlin lying down immediately after climbing out of his car.
** The Nationwide Series' 2013 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona had a really good example. On the last lap, Regan Smith was leading the 15 car lead pack to the checkered flag when Brad Keselowski turned him into the wall. A chain reaction occurred as the entire pack, with the exception of race winner Tony Stewart, piled in. Several cars took very violent licks (for example, Alex Bowman spun through the grass, struck the outside wall, and then Dale Earnhardt, Jr. submarined under him, jacking the back end of his car in the air), but none will match the hit for rookie Kyle Larson: his car went airborne, and hit the catchfence with such impact that the front tires and the engine of his car were sheared off and the fence was partially torn down. 28 spectators were injured, 14 of whom were treated at the infield care center and 14 of whom were taken to nearby hospitals, including seven taken to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, six more being taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Port Orange, and one being taken to another area hospital. Six of those spectators sustained serious injuries. There are some graphic home videos that can be found on YouTube, although NASCAR seems to be trying to censor them as much as possible, and the tone in Allen Bestwick's voice when watching the telecast indicated how serious the accident was. It also put a damper on Tony Stewart's mood in victory lane, which was not helped by the fact that he crashed early in the Daytona 500 the next day.
** The 2012 Pure Michigan 400: On lap 64, Mark Martin was leading with Kasey Kahne right behind him and they were about to catch and lap Bobby Labonte and Juan Pablo Montoya. Labonte suddenly spun, and Martin and Kahne had nowhere to go. Kahne, Montoya and Labonte managed to spin into the infield grass (Kahne would rally back to a third place finish), but Martin's crash has to take the cake for one of the scariest wrecks in NASCAR history: his car spun down pit road, and caught an opening in the wall behind Kahne's pit stall, hitting hard enough that the wall actually impaled the car on the driver's side and punctured the oil cooler right behind the driver's compartment.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''The Blue Snake'', a French Canadian avante garde ballet. At the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3snd_GzKU#t=08m10s end of this scene]], a creepy moaning [[PerversePuppet giant puppet]] based on [[PublicDomainCharacter the giant]] from JackAndTheBeanstalk appears. This is where the scene and the clip end. In the next scene, the giant eats people, then he gets his head smashed open and [[SymbolicBlood red-clad dancers]] jump out of the hole.
* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' (aka [[TheScottishTrope The Scottish Play]]) by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Jeez, where do we start? Bearded hags, apparitions of creepy, dancing children, potions brewed from dismembered animal and [[HumanResources people]] parts, murder, madness and general mayhem. Fun for the whole family.
* The spectre from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. We don't even know if it really is the soul of the dead king; it could be a demon planning to damn Hamlet. If so, '''it succeeds'''.
* In ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', the scene where [[spoiler: Cinna the Poet is killed.]] An innocent man is literally torn to pieces simply because he shares a name with an assassin. This is something that could happen to anyone.
* Shakespeare had a bit of a talent for NF as ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' proves.
* ''Pippin''. Most musicals don't end with the main character nearly succumbing to the peer pressure to [[spoiler:immolate himself]], resulting in [[spoiler:the narrator's screaming tantrum when he refuses.]] The narrator and most of the cast then proceed to ''peer over the stage'', noting that there are many people in the audience who must feel the same, and if they're ever so tempted, ''"we're right here in your heads",'' implying that the whole thing was [[spoiler:the hallucination of a young man building towards suicide.]] Then they remove all the trappings of a musical comedy leaving the protagonist and the woman who helped him half-naked and vulnerable on a darkened stage. "How do you feel?" she asks him. [[spoiler:"Trapped."]] THE END. Licensed versions try to make it a little cheerier, but it's still a musical "comedy" about how [[spoiler:most young people have no role models or direction, and must learn to either accept their soul-crushing mediocrity or literally destroy themselves.]] Thanks so ''much'', guys!
** The alternate ending is potentially even worse. [[spoiler: After Pippin and Catherine decide to content themselves with their ordinary life, her son Theo starts singing the chorus to "Corner of the Sky." The Lead Player and the chorus return to the stage and surround the boy, implying they'll start pushing him down that same suicidal path.]] Creepy.
* In [[http://www.acttheatre.org/ A Contempory Theatre's]] seasonal production of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', the Marley's Ghost sequence is epitome of this, with several {{jump scare}}s, {{mirror scare}}s, etc. leading up to his appearance, where he jumps out of Scrooge's bed. Not from under the bed, from inside it.
* Anything and everything by Sarah Kane. She wrote five plays in her short life (she committed suicide at the age of 28) - all including absolutely horrific happenings. Examples: [[spoiler: a soldier sucking out and swallowing a man's eyes, a dead baby being eaten, a man's genitals being cut off and barbecued, several instances of brutal rape (one concerning a man being sodomized with a metal pole), and people being eaten alive by rats.]] Her last play, ''4:48 Psychosis'', is a disjointed nightmare even just to read on the page, with no stage direction or indication of character ''at all''. It gets worse when you read about her life and realize that the play is basically her suicide note.
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[[folder:Computers]]
* Three words: "Cannot Load OS".
* Norton Antivirus 95 used to have a particularly horrifying failure mode if it detected a virus in memory. Your Windows shell would quit with no warning, you'd get a page or so of DOS and then the screen would go black and display a giant mechanical spider in the middle. After a few moments of staring at that nightmare, the screen would change over to the same spider in a cage, with the legend "Norton Antivirus has detected a virus and has shut your computer down to prevent further damage" or words to that effect.
* Blue Screens of Death. Particularly the unfortunate experience of seeing a BSOD that simply read, "Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. System halted." No "Press any key to terminate the program, press CTRL+ ALT+ DEL to restart" stuff, just two lines telling you that your system has come to a complete stop.
** The version of the BSOD used in versions of Windows based on Windows NT (this includes 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and all server versions) is worse for two reasons: the fact that those versions' improved stability means it appears far less often than in Windows 9x/Me (whose BSOD could possibly just be merely annoying to people who have used those versions enough to see it often), generally only appearing during more severe errors, and the fact that it includes far more text, with said text containing information related to memory dumps and error messages that's bound to look bizarre to someone who doesn't know what to do with it.
** Don't forget the early [[AppleMacintosh Macintosh's]] equivalent, the Sad Mac. If your system disk was corrupted, or if you hit the interrupt switch, instead of a smiling Macintosh icon on a warm gray background, you'd get a one that looked as if it was dead from a stroke on a stark black background with nothing else but some weird HEX code, and you'd hear the "Hawaiian Death Chimes". "Doo do da dooo! Da doooo doooo..." * shiver*
*** The first generation of Power PC-based Power Macintosh replaced the Death Chimes with StockSoundEffects of a car's tires screeching and then glass shattering. It's also kind of loud. Anyone who would find it funny would stop laughing the moment they realized that $3,000 of hardware had a critical failure.
** Kernel panics (like [=BSODs=] in Linux/BSD) can be scary enough. Just imagine all your system going down with lots of cryptic error messages.
** Averted with Windows 8's Blue Screen of Death. It has a much lighter shade of blue, and the text basically sounds like it's saying "we're sorry," and has a sad emoticon :( on top.
* Avast Antivirus usually detects viruses on sight, however whenever that happens, a dialogue window pops up with a pulsing atomic symbol, a siren sound, and a creepy voice that says "Caution: A virus has been detected". Then again most antivirus programs have something creepy in them.
** Fortunately, Avast's detection is no longer so creepy.
* [=AVG=] used to show a picture of what appeared to be a picture of a man with his face warped to make him look like a troll ([[http://didierstevens.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/avg-eicar.PNG here's a link to a picture of an old alert if you want to see it for yourself]]) as part of its Virus Detected alert. The newer versions of AVG use far more subdued icons, thankfully.
* There was a time when Kaspersky Antivirus would play the (loud) squeal of a pig whenever it found a virus, scaring the crap out of users every single time. You couldn't even turn that sound off, as the settings were locked with a password.
* DOS viruses are particularly terrifying. Not because of what they do to your computer (the vast majority are harmless), but because of the screens they bring up. Just look up "DOS Virus" on Website/YouTube, and prepared to be scared out of your mind. And imagine being an unsuspecting DOS user who opened it not knowing what it was... *shudder*

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[[folder:Documentary]]
* Not a documentary per se, but [[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/08/fairy-wrens-teach-secret-passwords-to-their-unborn-chicks-to-tell-them-apart-from-cuckoo-impostors/ this zoology article]] about fairy wrens and cuckoos makes the latter horrifying:
->"In Australia, a pair of superb fairy-wrens return to their nest with food for their newborn chick. As they arrive, the chick makes its begging call. It’s hard to see in the darkness of the domed nest, but the parents know that something isn’t right. Whatever’s in their nest, it’s not their chick."
* This [=YouTube=] clip about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStwXsmZ3OE the Tree Man]] ''will'' require to have a good lie down and some alone time. If you have body horror issues, do not click on the link. It is the sum of all fears. You have been warned.
** For those who don't realize what had happened to him... ''an infected mold/wart turned him into this!!''
* Nazi propaganda films. One notorious propaganda movie ("The Eternal Jew") contained a scene comparing Jews to rats. Apparently audiences found the scene so horrifying that they ran out of cinemas and the movie had to be withdrawn.
* The animated documentary ''Tales Of The Ratfink''.
* Newsreel footage of the concentration camps.
* The videos of the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger. One minute it's all happy and they're going into space, and the next...
* The Zapruder Film, one of the films captured by an amateur cameraman the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
** It had quite an effect on Abraham Zapruder himself. He suffered nightmares about what he witnessed - he also became quite upset when asked about it by Jay Watson of WFAA Dallas:
--> '''Zapruder:''' I heard a shot, and he slumped to the side, like this. Then I heard another shot or two, I couldn't say it was one or two, and I saw his head [[{{Squick}} practically open up]] ''[places fingers of right hand to right side of head in a narrow cone, over his right ear]'', all blood and everything, and I kept on shooting. That's about all, I'm just sick, I can't...
* A documentary depicting tar literally dripping out of a lung.
* The "Alien Abduction" scene in ''Cosmos''. Also the Nuclear Winter parts, but that was sort of the point.
* An episode of ''Unsolved Mysteries'' where an unidentified man was featured. He had been trying to get a ride on a plane at a small airport, but no one would take him. So he ''grabbed on to the wing of a plane and held on as it was taking off.'' Of course, he fell off when the plane was far in the air. The story in question can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weGceRXt_E here.]]
** Unsolved Mysteries is a terrific show, but it contains massive amounts of Nightmare Fuel, since many of the cases remain unsolved.
* The E! Channel's special ''Doomed To Die: 13 Most Shocking Hollywood Curses'' mentioned some particularly disturbing "curses" related to Hollywood. One worth mentioning is the curse of the ''Atuk'' script. Atuk is the story of a fat Eskimo trying to make it in the big city. The first victim of this cursed script was ''Animal House'' star John Belushi who the creator had in mind to play the title role, he was preparing for the part when he died of a drug-overdose at the age of 33. The second victim was Sam Kinison- who nearly got around to making it but then freaked out and pulled out of doing it, he later died in a fiery car crash. Third victim was John Candy, who was in the process of reading the script when he died of a heart attack, and the last victim was Chris Farley who died of a drug overdose at the age of 33 much like his hero John Belushi- he wanted Phil Hartman to be his co-star, Phil Hartman later got shot by ''his own wife''.
* ''The Man Who Saw Tomorrow'' - a documentary-style movie about Nostradamus' predictions, narrated by Orson Welles.
* [[http://www.vice.com/toxic/toxic-napoli-1-of-2 This, at 8:45.]] "Rabbit-faced mutant sheep" is exactly as bad as it sounds.
* TheHistoryChannel documentary "Last Days on Earth", detailing the eight most likely ways for civilization as we know it to be completely destroyed, ''in increasing order of likeliness.''
* TheHistoryChannel ''Series/LifeAfterPeople'' series. While it's fascinating, the fact that this could happen at some point in time or another is pretty horrifying.
* Ric Burns' 1992 documentary on The Donner Party, as seen on PBS' ''The American Experience.''
* The documentary ''A State Of Mind'', following the lives of two North Korean barely-teenaged gymnasts, is definitely in some parts a TearJerker, and rather horrifying. The actual politics of North Korea aside, the choreographed gymnastics performances that are so stunning at the beginning of the film become [[FridgeHorror screamingly awful]] once you realize the sheer scale of the Mass Games. The total hive-mind mindset that kind of training gives you... and that the big-ass pictures that are constantly changing, that in other productions would be video projections or digital transitions like at the Olympics, are made up of extremely well choreographed humans moving in unison. YMMV, of course, but seeing that many people move as one body, totally surrendered to the group will, is hardcore creepy.
* Related to the above, National Geographic's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4 Inside North Korea]].'' Everything from the poor living conditions to the sheer magnitude of brainwashing (the patients thanked ''Kim Jong-Il, NOT the doctors,'' for the operation) will make your blood curdle.
* The History Channel documentary ''[[AfterTheEnd After Apocalypse]]'' is pretty much packed of this. It realistically shows how Earth and life itself would look like after they had suffered from some apocalyptic event like a worldlike virus epidemic, like the Black Death in the Middleages, or the one in ''Film/IAmLegend'' but without the zombies. The documentary is told from the eyes of an American middle-class family who lived a normal life before a deadly virus from China kills of most of the world's population who is trying to survive the new harsh world that comes after the epidemic. Meanwhile, environmental, sociological, psychological and medical experts are given short interviews from time to time during the documentary telling about the situations the family and the rest of the world goes through.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarchOfTheDinosaurs'' made feathered tyrannosaurs horrifying. There's one scene where the Edmontosaurus are ambushed by the tyrannosaurs where one literally leaps (like a raptor) out of friggin' nowhere to tackle one of the poor plant-eaters. Imagine three tons of teeth and death leaping at you.
* [[http://www.chooseveg.com/meet-your-meat.asp This vegan documentary about meat production.]] It even starts the video off by saying "What you're about to see is beyond your worst nightmares".
* ''Violence: An American Tradition'', a documentary that is about, as the title says, violence in USA and its history, its culture, its relationship with media and pop culture, its effects on daily life, the politics and motives behind it, the people involved with it, etc. Anyone who believes that HumansAreGood will definitely have their beliefs crushed by this one hour long documentary, specially the part that [[TearJerker deals with child abuse]].
* [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-yes-men/why-the-yes-men-said-no_b_224409.html This article]] is mostly harmless. But Andy says, with good reason, that searching for "Congo" and "massacre" will keep you up at night. Itt he article was posted on 02 July 2009 CE. As of 23 November 2012 CE, the massacre is still going.
* Pretty much everything on [[http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/ the CNN Freedom Project]], also overlapping with TearJerker since it's about [[MadeASlave modern-day slavery]]. Especially nasty are the articles on the [[ColdBloodedTorture Sinai traffickers]].
* The National Geographic show Air Crash Investigation (aka Mayday or Air Emergency) can be either completely fascinating (on a scientific/engineering level), or horrifying if you're afraid of flying. One episode is particularly creepy, possibly even if you're in the former camp: A plane ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 Helios Flight 522]]) takes off normally and starts climbing to cruising altitude. As the captain talks to air traffic control, he starts talking more and more incoherently. The passengers all start feeling dizzy as well, and as the plane continues to climb, almost every one of them passes out. Including the pilots. The plane is still flying, albeit not on the course it's supposed to, and ATC radios military aircraft to find out what's going on. The military radios to ATC that the plane is filled with people who are completely non-responsive--except for one person, in the cockpit, who eventually acknowledges the military planes with a feeble wave. Then, a few minutes later, the plane loses altitude and crashes into the ground. Turns out that [[spoiler:a switch had not been pressed which pressurises the cabin, resulting in everyone succumbing to hypoxia after they passed 18,000 feet. The one person who was in the cockpit? A flight attendant who had stayed alive by using the oxygen masks in the cabin, then three tanks of emergency oxygen. He had been calling for help on the transmitter but nobody could hear him. The plane eventually ran out of fuel and crashed, and investigators later found out that everyone had actually still been alive (albeit in a coma) when it did.]]
* Allmost every article about the Judge Rotenberg Education Center and similar behavior modification facilities.
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[[folder:Paintings and Other Artworks]]
* [[http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/surrealistic-paintings-by-tetsuya-ishida/ Tetsuya Ishida, surrealist Japanese artist]]. Some of the disturbing images include someone climbing out of a lizard's guts, and sauce smeared on people's faces and hands that looks like blood. If you think surrealist paintings are scary by themselves, you'll find these worse. If you don't, you'll find some of these scary anyway.
** In case anyone was wondering, he is absolutely '''not''' to be confused with Tatsuya Ishida of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' fame. [[NamesTheSame Name's almost the same,]] but their styles are about as different as night and day.
* [[http://www.art.com/products/p13022528-sa-i2267418/rene-magritte-le-viol-c1934.htm "The Rape"]] ("Le viol") by ReneMagritte.
* Anything, ''anything'', '''anything''' by HRGiger, the lovely man who brought you the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. The fact that his art is inspired by his ''literal'' nightmares does '''not''' help. [[http://www.hrgiger.com/ For those who are unfamiliar with his work]].
** Giger tells the story of how a customs official once asked if his paintings were photographs. He commented that the only place you could take a photograph that looked like one of his paintings would be in Hell...
* [[http://www.abcgallery.com/T/titian/titian90.html Titian' "Flaying of Marsyas"]]. Just, the calmly blank expression on Apollo's face, the disbelief on Marsyas's, the beginning of the cut so you know it's ''really going to happen''. Museums really should come with warnings...
* In his later years, Old Master painter FranciscoDeGoya retreated to his home and began painting images directly onto the black walls. All of the "black paintings" are disturbing, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son Saturn Devouring His Son]] is pure nightmare fuel.
** PeterPaulRubens' version of the painting, located just a bit further down the page, is also pretty damn freaky.
* [[http://www.beksinski.pl/ Anything by Zdzislaw Beksinski]] This man is as bad, if not worse, than Giger. The creepy music on the website does not help matters in the least.
* Francis Bacon. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Study_after_Velazquez%27s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X.jpg Observe.]] The man brings together (among other things) huge sides of butchered meat and the most horrific screams you will ever see.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort.jpg lithograph of a colossal octopus attacking a ship]].
* ''The Hands Resist Him'' by Bill Stoneham has launched a number of urban legends that it is cursed or haunted.
* This memorial sand [[http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Emailed-Photos/ss/1756;_ylt=Aui5AWdDytdM37DmZko2E6UHcggF sculpture]] of MichaelJackson (RIP).
* [[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=pbL&resnum=0&q=oursler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=spa-St_gB6bj8AaBv72wAQ&sa=X=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4 Tony Oursler]] projects people's faces, often intoning disturbing dialogue, onto the heads of small dummy dolls. The whole face ones are creepy enough, but he also likes to do the same for things like [[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=pbL&resnum=0&q=oursler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=spa-St_gB6bj8AaBv72wAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4 this]]. It's particularly chilling seeing them in action on Website/YouTube. * shudder*
* Mummies in museums in general.
* ''[[http://newsimg.ngfiles.com/110000/110986_smile.dog.jpg This picture]]'' used to be the page graphic of the main NightmareFuel page until people complained. The picture is a composite of [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/smile%20dog/shawn_m_todd/smile_dog2.jpg this picture]] and [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/smile%20dog/crazeboy/smilegirl.jpg this one]], both of which are also Photoshopped and both of which are plenty scary on their own.
* [[http://ghoststudy.com/monthly/jun03/tears.html The Crying Boy]].
* Thanks to art's longtime obsession with "[[PrimalFear Memento mori]]", quite a few Renaissance paintings can fall squarely into this. For example, Pieter Brueghel the Elder's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death The Triumph of Death]]''.
* Laurie Lipton has done ''so much'' weird, creepy and downright scary art. [[http://beinart.org/modules/PHP-gallery/gallery_ImageView.php?gallery_id=511ℑ_id=1138 Someone clawing a wall full of faces while a joyful person dances next to them]]. [[http://www.shredesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Laurie-Lipton-arts-3.jpg People eating in a TV room MADE OF faces, skulls, and reaching arms]]. [[http://www.shredesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Laurie-Lipton-arts-32.jpg A toddler with a knife and a freaky gleeful grin, waiting for their mom]]. [[http://img.shockblast.net/2011/04/ShockBlast_2011-Pandoras-Box1.jpeg Screaming heads flooding out of a music box held by a blank-staring doll]]. ''And that's not even the most fucked-up of it''. [[http://www.laurielipton.com/ Here's a link to her website]]
* The art of [[http://keiththompsonart.com/index.html Keith Thompson]] is characterized by unbelievable amounts of BodyHorror, {{Squick}} and general creepiness. His "Undead" series are probably the worst - in particular, [[SchmuckBait for the love of God do not look at his]] [[http://keiththompsonart.com/pages/pripyatbeast.html Pripyat Beast!]]
* Neil Blevins's horror-ish pieces are rare, but they are ''major''. One, "[[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery.pl?image=alternative_birth Alternative Birth]]", has a bundle of wires/feelers coming out of someone's belly. [[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery.pl?image=cacodaemon_rough This triangle-shaped Cacodemon's]] mouth is lined with eyes and full of pointy teeth. And [[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery.pl?image=hive_mind_1 this is a giant, floating mass of tentacles]] ''full of glowing eyes''. [[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery_thumbnails_by_category.html Blevins gallery link]] (some '''eye-violence and body horror''').
* Creator/HieronymusBosch.
* Repin's [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/REPIN_Ivan_Terrible%26Ivan.jpg painting of Ivan the Terrible holding his dying son]], whom he'd [[OffingTheOffspring struck down seconds earlier]] in [[HotBlooded a random fit of rage]]. The ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone look in his eyes]]''...*shudder*
** Also a TearJerker.
* [[http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artRespo.htm Art about Holocaust]]. Especially scary as it is often BasedOnATrueStory of survivors...
** In similar vein, [[http://www.jamestown.org/aboutus/getmanpaintings/getmancatalog/ Nikolai Getman's paintings]] of his time in Stalin's Gulag, in particular his horrifying "Mosquito Punishment."
* The photograph posted on the [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] page. It is a still photograph, and yet people who have viewed that photograph have noted that they feel as if it is staring at them, or have noticed the eyes moving. This is due to an optical illusion of depth in the way the photograph is set up (his eyes look more deeply set/more prominent due to the lighting and makeup, and if your eyes move in the right way, his appear to move with them due to this) but to anyone unaware of the optical illusion involved, it can seem ghostly...
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[[folder: Amusement Parks]]
* [[http://www.driveinwheel.nl/ The Drive-In Wheel.]] It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQn__XRDxV4 Here's America Adventure Park in 1987]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0wSgUzlOrs here is what's left of it now]].
* [[http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/01/abandoned-amusement-parks-in-asia.html Abandoned amusement parks in Asia]].
* [[http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/10/14/taiwans-spooky-pod-resort/ San Zhi]]. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' put it best:
-->''Abandoned resort town in the middle of nowhere, mysterious deaths, lack of any official information... [[SilentHill where have we heard this before?]]''
* The (no longer open) Extraterrorestrial Alien Encounter, located in the '''[[DisneyThemeParks MAGIC KINGDOM]]'''. It got so bad, that they had to put out massive warnings for kids to not ride it, until they gave up and replaced it with [[LiloAndStitch Stitch's Great Escape]]. It is not popular with guests for [[ReplacementScrappy other reasons...]]
* The London Dungeons, located near the London Bridge in the UK. A haunted house with the theme of London's horrific history.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpyisJeV5I The amusement park]][[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat in Pripyat,]] now a ghost town due to being so close to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster Chernobyl.]]
* The infamous Action Park that operated from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, known for being a real life AmusementParkOfDoom. One of the nation's first water parks, it was known for having inattentive, underage employees and poorly designed, unsafe rides, including a looping water slide. By the time it was closed, six people were documented to have died directly or indirectly from rides in the park, in such brutal ways as ride cars coming off the tracks and colliding with rocks, drowning, a heart attack caused by too-cold water, and ''electrocution''.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcja8UBtXdk This Katrina-ravaged Six Flags in New Orleans]]. The fact that the soundtrack is Godspeed You! Black Emperor just enhances it.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxur0goR4s Sch]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64P11JGACQc ools]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmUyPoFoYiY Mental Asylums]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twq5xbeV5ws Houses]].
* Needs no link. Pripyat, Ukraine. Site of the Chernobyl disaster. To quote ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'': "Fifty thousand people used to live in this city. Now, it's a ghost town."
** An episode of ''DestinationTruth'' actually got to go into Chernobyl, and found that from the looks of things, everybody just dropped what they were doing and took off. It included a short tour of an amusement park, a scene in a hospital, with medical equipment and notes left on the tables, and cars left in the streets. Whether you believe in ghosts and hauntings or not, it was undeniably eerie.
** Pripyat also has a nursery littered with cribs and children's toys. Freaky as hell.
** There's a team that monitors the reactor, the reactor's containment, and the environmental effects. Physically, they're OK (except for the effects of drinking too much alcohol), but mentally is another matter. The place is just so ''creepy'' that many of them go mad in various unusual ways, in addition to a lot of them becoming uncontrolled alcoholics (even by Russian standards, and Russians do have a cultural tendency to drink a LOT). A special public address system was installed to pipe music through the area to reduce the ceepiness, which has helped some, but not enough.
* [[http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/Silent-Hill.htm Centralia]]. An abandoned coal mining town in Pennsylvania where a fire has been burning underground for more than forty years. Engineers say that the fire could continue to burn for another century or more and spread to other towns as well. Roads have collapsed into sinkholes, houses and shops have been condemned and abandoned, and the town--now inhabited by only seven people--is filled with smoke and toxic gases. Did we mention that Centralia helped to inspire the creators of SilentHill?
* [[http://www.deadmalls.com/ (Some) abandoned malls]], notably the notorious Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL (an economically depressed suburb of Chicago), best known for being the mall that got smashed up in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' back in 1980 -- when it was already closed. Fast forward to the late 1990s when the Dead Malls website chronicled it and it was STILL standing AND abandoned, with huge gaping holes and a history of being a very dangerous place to be.
* Detroit has seemingly endless abandoned buildings, schools, hospitals, community centers, and even landmarks. These facilities have been rotting at an accelerated pace in recent years due to materials vultures breaking into these properties and tearing them apart. This and the freeze/thaw cycle causing the buildings to naturally fall apart makes them dangerous even for urban infiltrators used to exploring abandoned buildings. The crowning example must be a half-mile long Packard auto plant which hasn't been operational since the mid 1950s: numerous buildings connected by skybridges (which are either fallen or rotting), frequently burning in fires that can go on for days since even public safety refuses to enter.
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[[folder: "Other" Other Stuff]]
* Anything made by FEWDIO Horror. Scariest? "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omHLS9zP-4 Cleansed]]".
* Quality Meats: Flesh Straight Jacket by Michael Taflove. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNOPphIviXc Yikes]].
* A 1991 experimental horror movie called Begotten. Watch it [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7973225371449473825# here.]] Sweet dreams.
* The pictures of Chris Farley on the day of his death are extremely disturbing especially seeing as he is lying dead on the floor with ''[[GoryDiscretionShot some sort of liquid coming out of his nose and blood dripping somewhere]]''.
** Just as disturbing, if not more so, is watching the Saturday Night Live episode that Farley hosted a month or so before his death, and realizing you can see the heart attack coming... he's pale, clammy, constantly out of breath...
** It's also kind of frightening that Chris Farley idolized John Belushi and wanted to be ''exactly like him'', and the fact that he died at the same age and of the same cause as John Belushi died is also quite a spooky coincidence.
* As far as horrifying celebrity death photos go, nothing beats the autopsy photo of Marilyn Monroe. Her hair is all matted, her face is distorted--if you thought death by sleeping pill would be a clean and ''easy'' way to go, think again...
* There seems to be a "curse" involving ''{{Playboy}}'' centerfold girls dying young. Marilyn Monroe was the cover girl for the first ever issue of Playboy and died at the age of 36; Jane Mansfield was after her and she died young; then Dorothy Stratton was after her and she died young too; the latest victim was Anna Nicole Smith who died at the age of 39.
* Dead Kurt Cobain photos. Head is not seen, but the idea that there's NO head after incident make the situation even scarier.
* [[http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f10/228162d1290460210-hartford-circus-fire-circusfire11.gif This morgue photo]] of Little Miss 1565, one of the victims of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire Hartford circus fire]] of 1944.
* There's a very disturbing picture of Rodney Dangerfield with ''a small hole in his head'' on the Findadeath.com website.
* One word: Ratfink. The deformed extremely twisted work of Ed Roth deserves a very honorable mention.
* The horrific accident that happened during the filming of the first segment from ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''.
* [[http://mikeandsniffy.co.uk/vlt/zz/S28_4625_07.57_21.2.06.mp3 This recording]] of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Station_UVB-76 mysterious Russian radio signal]]. Aside from the ParanoiaFuel implications of overhearing the communications of an AncientConspiracy, the actual sound of this is disturbing. Further more, while that recording by itself is scary and while the whole concept of a mysterious radio signal emitting a buzzing sound for 23 hours 10 minutes a day pretty scary, the fact that some of the [[http://www.geocities.com/uvb76/buzzer-1.mp3 clearer recordings]] have background noises and muffled conversations in the background is quite damn creepy.
* The Backwards Music Station. Despite its name, it doesn't actually play backwards songs. Instead, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgF9ZlI_R-8 it plays a series of sounds that can only come from the bowels of Hell itself]].
** What's even more peculiar is that ENIGMA 2000 (which catalogs Number Stations and their ilk) has designated the Backwards Music Station as XM. Now, if you're wondering what's so weird about that, it means that ''not even * they* know if it's a Number Station or not!''. Also, what tends to be bizarre is that often Number Stations seem to change the way they sound occasionally (for example, the Backwards Music Station in a recording on Youtube sounds really freakish (this one was recorded in 2004), while one recording allegedly from September 2009 sounds like the noise a wine glass makes when a finger is moved around its rim while wet. For a nice [[NightmareRetardant change of pace, the old favourite, Lincolnshire Poacher (E3 in the ENIGMA 2000 designations, which sadly appears to be defunct) sounds really cheerful.]]
** Also, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdnoAJ7KoFE this.]] There is some NightmareRetardant at the beginning with the cute little ditty of "This is a teeeessssttt of the emergency broadcast system! It's only a teeeessstt!" And then it quickly devolves to terrifying.
* Calling a bad phone number and getting that creepy-ass tone followed by "We're sorry. The number you called is no longer in service." Sure, it's fine during the day, but alone, at night, when it's quiet...
* Emergency broadcast systems scare us - during the summer of 1997 in Fort Collins, many kids were terrified when all of a sudden, the screen goes static after some really freaky emergency broadcast noises. Then all of a sudden, poor audio quality of someone announcing that there is a flash flood warning in effect because of a storm. We were immediately advised to seek shelter. Consider that [[http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/~odie/rain.html this actually happened]]. For awhile, a lot of people would watch the TV in fear because these warnings would hijack the TV and happen ''at any time''. It also [[ParanoiaFuel did not discriminate on channels - you could be watching Nickelodeon and then the creepy voice takes over... then switch to CBS and then three or four seconds later, there it is again.]] One person recalled watching one channel - then jumping as the alert popped in. And then they changed to another channel, it was normal. There it was again. They kept changing the channels - there it was. Again and again. ''The alert WAS CHASING THEM''.
* The sound that always comes on the radio to signal a tornado warning. Not only does it mean a severe storm is coming, but that sound is enough to make young children crap their pants.
* Continuing with the "terrifying noises" theme... anyone familiar with "The Hum"? Thousands of people worldwide are plagued by a droning noise, much like the sound of a diesel engine--with an intensity ranging from mildly annoying to ear-splittingly painful. The sound is barely audible, but has been known to cause sleep loss, headaches, sickness, and even nosebleeds. The usual means of blocking unwanted noise--earplugs, playing music--do ''nothing.'' Some "hearers" have been forced to quit their jobs due to the mental stress; at least one man is known to have '''''committed suicide.''''' Pedestrian causes (such as industrial noise, domestic electronics, and even tinnitus) have thus far been debunked; worse yet, the noise ''can't be detected or recorded with audio equipment.'' The best explanation is that it's being generated by ELF (extreme low frequency) military communications used during secret activities... which, of course, the government flatly refuses to discuss. As if having to share your silence with an invasive, alien noise wasn't already creepy ''enough''.
* GroundhogDayLoop plots can be rather frightening once the FridgeLogic sets in. Not so much the ones where we see every repeat, but the ones where we ''don't,'' and it's implied that they go on for ''extremely'' long periods of time. On the order of centuries, sometimes. The idea of being trapped in something like that... Gah!
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSHOtDJhtxA These]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-v8mweABuQ three]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFqc23hteP4 videos]]. '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRQ6rt2Qy8 PERIOD]]'''.
* In some areas, Amber Alerts are ''not'' the three-beep warning tone. Oh no, they use a tone that sounds like it came straight out of a horror movie. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285EeqzVV18 Try not to piss your pants.]]
** [[http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/other/amberalert.wav High quality version.]] Satan's THX demo from Hell (Deep Red Note?)
* Aside from the Amber Alert, few things will chill the blood (or churn the stomach) faster than the phrase '''"Code Adam"''' broadcast over a PA system. Knowing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh the story]] behind the warning system makes it ''tenfold worse,'' filling your mind with the potentially hellish fates that await abducted children...
** Related to that is the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Curley how NAMBLA came to national attention]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion_incident The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident]].
* One more in the vein of disturbing sounds: the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP61LI41mgs sound of an air-raid siren.]]
* Unsolved crimes in general. Most of the high octane nightmare fuel on this page stems from the intrigue and mystery surrounding each of them, which would vanish almost instantly when explained. That's one criteria for [[NightmareFetishist Nightmare Fetishism]].
** [[http://www.charleyproject.org/ Cold case missing persons investigations]] can also be bone-chilling, particularly the ones that happened more than a couple of decades ago where there's been no sign of the missing person dead or alive. The cases of Jaycee Dugard and Carlina White give some hope for a lot of those cases, but for most, the thought that no one will be able to find these people is either [[TearJerker extremely sad]] or this trope.
* Urban legends in general. TheOtherWiki even has a category presenting them. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urban_legends Have fun reading through each and every one]].
* Anything that PETA posts about undercover investigations. Look them up. Not for the faint of heart.
* Online GIFs. Average online images could be GIF images and they could suddenly [[JumpScare move...]]
* Someone posted a Website/YouTube comment describing about how someone tried to replicate something they saw on ''Rescue911'' where a girl was hit in the head with a softball. Note that they ''intentionally'' wanted to hurt that kid, and they were ''less than ten''.
* TVTropes. When you load the front page, sometimes, if your computer is running a bit slow, you can see a subliminal message planted in the top-left corner of the screen just before the main page covers it up. Just one word... [[spoiler:"follow"]]
** YES MASTER I WILL OBEY
* You wanna know how bad racism was back in the day? During the Little Rock Nine ordeal, there were negotiations that they would let them in if they would allow them to lynch '''''just one.''''' [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Now you know.]]
* This short film [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMBIWv0ews "Luis"]] operates under both TrueArtIsIncomprehensible and SurrealHorror.
* Post-mortem photography, a big ValuesDissonance towards the Victorian Era (check out the other wiki for more info). At the beginning, at least the dead ones were photographed with [[http://www.blogodisea.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/fotografia-post-mortem-14.jpg their]] [[http://users.telenet.be/thomasweynants/images/postmortem/KipsdeCoppin.jpg eyes]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DVDBucZvaK8/Su7IHH_61tI/AAAAAAAAB-E/MkiE1vhWHvQ/s400/dorm3.jpg closed]], as like the [[BigSleep "eternal sleep"]], but later, photographers started to try to make the bodies look ''more alive'' by opening their eyes and making them stand up. The ones who failed are among the most [[http://101room.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/vivo4.jpg?w=450 nightmarish]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Gb4sJKIoIEQ/Su4FSzdzAsI/AAAAAAAACp0/Z6udJq41ecY/s400/NI%C3%91O+POST+MORTEM.PNG fuel]] [[http://101room.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/vivo9.jpg?w=450 thing]] you'll ever see, but the ones that actually worked aren't that much better. Particularly when you are watching one of them and you can't figure out [[ParanoiaFuel which one it's the dead one]], like in [[http://www.lamanufacturedebruit.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/post_mortem_photographs_cover_big.jpg this]] one. [[spoiler:It's the one standing up]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6T8Bq6CsU Still Life]]. It's not too bad (compared to the rest of this page) when you watch it, but wait until the next time you see a mannequin.
* Over the course of this and the latter half of the last year, strange sounds were heard all over the world. These creepy sounds are coming from the sky, several people heard them and ''no one can explain them''. Here is one of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUDYBIrWio many videos.]]
** Never mind, they were explained. Still very creepy though. [[http://www.sott.net/article/240863-Strange-Sounds-in-Sky-Explained-by-Scientists Here's the explanation.]]
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1yTR_gOjPo Aaaaaand another. Crisis averted people.]]
* [[http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/weekonehundredandnineteen.html These recordings of an old carousel's incredibly broken down calliope]]. The [[http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/tapefindings/week119/02_ThoseWereTheDays.mp3 halting, dissonant renditions]] of cheerful merry-go-round music tend to have a CreepyCircusMusic feel.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob5IjtGe7nE This]] delightful fan-made music video of "Minnie the Moocher."
* Has anyone seen any of those videos about Hell on Youtube that 'Catholic' poster keeps putting up? Like the one of the car crash victim where she's sent to hell and has to climb back out basically?
* Numerous websites we shall not name, where viewers can indulge in every single fetish art known, most of which are NotSafeForWork, and many are [[BrainBleach Not Safe For Sanity]]. '''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment We are not going to link to these sites]]'''.
* [[DrivenToSuicide Budd Dwyer's death video]]. Very, very disturbing. Not least because trolls enjoy using gifs of the moment he put the bullet through his head occasionally when advising people to "an hero".
* Perimetr, the Russian nuclear "fail-deadly" system, affectionately nicknamed "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dead Hand]]". Reports differ, but there is the very real possibility that the world' second largest nuclear arsenal is under the automatic control of a machine. Skynet is real. Let's repeat that. Not only are enough nukes to destroy the world under the control of a machine, that machine can potentially be fooled by screwing with its sensors. This thing is on, armed and operation '''right now!'''
** It's commonly theoretized that the UVB-76 radio signal, mentioned above, is actually the controling signal of Perimetr. Yes, that creepy buzzing is Skynet's noise. It's also commonly theoretized that it's when the signal suddenly stops you should be afraid, because this will trigger a nuclear attack.
* The Golding Institute: ''Final Relaxation'' is quite possibly the most terrifying "comedy" album ever released. It's essentially a parody of new age guided meditation albums, but it's billed as "your ticket to death through hypnotic suggestion." That's right, the intended result of the exercise is for you to die. At first, this is played for extremely dark humor, as cliche after cliche of the genre is inverted; for example, instead of a calming voice instructing you to relax your body parts one at a time over soothing music, there's a creaky-voiced old man telling you in excruciating detail how much pain each individual body part is in, accompanied by a low-pitched electronic hum. As the album goes on, however, the imagery and instructions get a lot more unnerving, that queasy electronic hum keeps growing louder and louder, the already creepy narrator gets even more sociopathic, and there's increasingly less there to remind you it's all a joke. To top it off, the inside of the booklet is a last will and testament, with blanks for the listener to fill in.
* There's a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Pinkie Pie doll that sings and tells stories. This is all well and good...[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IDaM1UXCWM until the batteries start dying]], at which point she apparently gets possessed by Beelzebub.
* This is one of 13 sirens for Broadmoor Hospital for the Criminally insane, and it houses people like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutcliffe Peter Sutcliffe (Also known as the Yorkshire Ripper)]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2WU9qwDI_Y The Siren is tested once a week and is there so that people living there will know if Someone has escaped, and since most of the people that are there are mostly Serial Killers who are insane.....]]
** The alarm siren is tested every Monday at 10am sharp- followed by the all clear siren, and the sound carries for miles around. Nearby schools have a protocol that if they hear the siren at any other time, they have to go into lockdown. Students have to wait until their parents/guardians come to collect them, and even then those parents/guardians have to go through numerous identity checks just to be sure that they aren't going home with a mass murderer. The parents/guardians aren't allowed to walk the student home, they have to come by car or catch a bus. (I live in a town a few miles away from Broadmoor, and often my school reminds us of this. There's a drill ever 3 years too.)
* Imagine being in a nightclub with over a thousand other people. There is only one exit. No sprinklers. No alarm. Now imagine a fire breaking out. [[http://news.yahoo.com/no-alarm-only-1-exit-brazil-nightclub-fire-002812171.html That's what happened in a nightclub in Brazil]] that killed over ''200 people''. The feature describes people crushed and broken against the grates that were put there for crowd control and kept people from getting out, and other people rushing into a bathroom thinking it was an exit. They ended up being piled ''as high as a person's chest'' as they died in the dark from asphyxiation. The dead from that bathroom alone filled ''an entire truck''.
** The worse thing is that wasn't an particularly isolated or unique case. In 2004 there was the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep%C3%BAblica_Croma%C3%B1%C3%B3n_nightclub_fire fire in the nightclub República Cromañón]], for exactly the same reasons as the above and with a similarly high death toll, but a higher toll of injured (speculated as many as 1400).
** For added horror, there's the "5-7" fire that happened in the French town of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont in 1970. 146 people died in the fire...What makes it truly horrifying? The ceiling was covered in black plastic used for decoration...''That melted on the panicking people below while they were trying to exit by the one-way entrance turnstile.'' Thankfully, new laws have passed since then to keep this from happening ever again. But still...
** The one fire that can hope to outmatch those in horror is the Ykua Bolaños fire in Asuncion Paraguay where over 360 people died...
* [[http://gizmodo.com/5994461/holy-hell-a-giant-22-foot-wasp-nest-is-the-most-terrifying-thing This story]] about a home in the Canary Islands that seemed to be abandoned. Neighbors called the police & a check was made. Inside was found a roughly 7 foot tall, 22 foot long wasp nest. The sheer size of the thing is horrifying enough, but when you consider how long it would have taken to build & the fact that authorities can't seem to find the owner of the home....
* A now, rather iconic...and horrific...rescue photo of Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombings. He's being wheeled to the ambulance on a wheelchair by EMTs & a peace activist/marathon spectator, Carlos Arredondo (a hero in his own right), who is ''pinching closed Bauman's major leg artery in his hand''. Bauman's injuries are exceptionally nightmarish to look at & for him to experience. [[http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/GetFileaspx_zps565f47cd.jpg Here's the SFW cropped version of the photo]] that most news outlets use...and here's [[http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/s_b08_53227479_zpsbaf49ff5.jpg the gruesome NSFW un-cropped, uncensored version]] that only a few news outlets & gore sites use.
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