Some of the pictures in the 27 Dark Sides of Cartoon Universes You Never Got to See Photoplasty. Special mentions go to the entry with Peter Pan (who has a serious Slasher Smile while the Lost Boys have equally disturbing faces), the Pokémon one (where some...thing has mutilated the trainer from Gold and Silver), and the entry with Winnie the Pooh (who has just disemboweled Rabbit and lacks a face.
Yell because mommy isn't helping you! Yell because nobody is helping! Yell because the nice man periodically steps forward to move the monster just a little bit closer to your face! Yell because you are so very small, and the world is so very big, and sometimes ... sometimes there are monsters.
They also are happy to give you reasons not to own a motorcycle too.
A screencap of Pennywise the Clown has been up to promote an After Hours video for about a week, and it's in such a spot that it scrolls down with you as you read an article. This has led to a meme about how Pennywise is stalking the readers.
24 Small Things You Don't Miss Until They're Gone. While some are goofy, like Batman not having the pointy ears or Michelangelo's David not having a penis, others are scary, like the two pictures of women with no lips and the puppy with no iris.
One of the stories in Part 5 is so infamously terrifying that even the commenters won't stop talking about it. It involves a man in Japan finding things in his house disappearing and ending up where they weren't before. He decides to set up cameras to find out who's doing it. When he examines the tape, it shows a strange woman crawling out of his cupboard. Then, at the end of the video, she crawls back into the cupboard. The same cupboard that was a few feet away from him while he was watching the video. He calls the police, and they find out she had been there the whole time, eating and even taking showers.
Greatest Medication Side Effect Ever! is not really that much Nightmare Fuel... until around the two minute mark, when it shows us what the teleporting feels like. Basically, you spontaneously disappear into a black void and are greeted with a bloodcurdling unearthly screech and a flurry of shapeless red... things flying in all directions. And due to Power Incontinence, it can happen at any given moment.note In fact, right after that scene, it shows a guy who teleports every few seconds. He's more annoyed than frightened, though.
5 Shocking Realities of Working With Disturbed Children. In short, it's a living hell for both the faculty workers who are not trained enough to deal with whatever chaotic situation that will come up (and by chaotic, I mean things like kids bashing their hand open with a hammer, smearing poop on their teeth, all manner of horror) and the children who find themselves in a shitty situation they never asked to be in.
7 Things You Learn Surviving An Atomic Blast. The Body Horror was bad enough, but the woman being interviewed describes, in detail, the aftereffects. The EMP knocked out communication, leaving Hiroshima cut off from the outside world. There was no water, food, or decent medical treatment for five days. People drowned en masse in the river from the confusion. Not to mention that it rained poison.
6 Horrifying Things You Learn as an Inmate on Death Row pulls no punches in showing how harsh prison life can get. Special mention goes to how the guards would encourage inmates to fight, the description of how to kill someone with a magazine and old underwear (which is a lot worse than how it sounds), and how long it actually takes to be proven innocent. However, by far the worst part is how difficult it is to adjust to normal life after 21 years of prison, to the point where the interviewee tenses up whenever he sees people arguing because he thinks it will end in a fight or worse.
I didn't know this world for so long that when people in my family and people around me had arguments, I would jump to arms waiting to go to war, or expect them to kill each other. But then two minutes later they're making each other a cup of coffee. And I'm thinking, 'Wow, how can you do that?'
5 Realities of Life When Your Brain Wants You to Murder. Imagine living with a disorder where your brain gives you repetitive, unwanted thoughts about killing and hurting people and no matter what you do, you'll feel like a monster just for having these unwanted thoughts.
5 Ugly Realities Of Being A Woman Visiting India is incredibly chilling, even if you're already aware of India's atrocious attitude towards women. To add to this is the fact that the comment section is filled with victim blamers, meaning that the West has got some of that sickness in it as well.
5 Things I Learned Infiltrating Deep Web Child Molesters.VIEWER DISCRETION IS HEAVILY ADVISED. The descriptions of how pedophiles use the Deep Web to cover their tracks near-perfectly is bad enough, since it means pretty much all of them will get away with it. The worst part, though, is that the article includes actual texts and comments from the sites they use, which naturally require an ocean of Brain Bleach.
5 Creepy Things You Learn Cleaning Up The Scene Of A Murder, originally published with the much more subtle title "I Clean Up Rotting Corpses: 5 Goddamn Nightmare Realities", is one of the few cases where Title Guy actually undersells it. It's about "biohazard cleaning technicians", which is a more professional phrase for the people who clean up crime scenes and other places where people have died, and it's very bad.
Every Halloween, Cracked releases a list of the worst costumes on the market. They vary from tacky to just plain nauseating, but the real horror is how many costumes out there are both suggestive andaimed at children.
6 Myths About The US Constitution Too Many People Believe reveals that there are plenty of loopholes that grant the US courts, churches and government much more power than the average American would feel comfortable letting them have.
In the comment section for 7 Reasons So Many Guys Don't Understand Sexual Consent, a user by the moniker of Kyn proposed letting any women on the site upvote their comment if they'd ever experienced rape or sexual harassment, or downvote if they hadn't. As of December 2017, the numbers are: 1194 Upvotes, 145 Downvotes.
For the most part, 7 Insane Ads That Have No Clue What They�re Selling is more strange than scary, but some entries (like the one with dancing baby skeletons and the one with the woman with a movie theater in her skull) qualify.
WARNING: This is the story of a real guy who was fucking burned alive by a mob. If you're sensitive to reading stories about real people being burned alive by mobs, you might want to skip this one because, and we can't emphasize this enough, it contains a story about a guy who was burned alive by a mob.