Motorcycle, 70 MPH on interstate, a mobile home in front of me that I'm fairly close to passing. The side of the home rips off in one solid, but flexible sheet and swerves around me, literally shooting across the highway in front of me, raising up on the left side of me, rounding out over my head and landing slightly behind and to the right of me. I had just a split second to assess my life and by then it was over. Luckily it didn't touch me, but by gawd that'll put the fear in you for a moment. I got off at the next exit and just laid in the grass for a few minutes to get back to feeling like I was gonna be alright.
You ever hear about the urban myth of the hanging body in the background where (I believe) they met the Tin man? In the newer cuts they totally pan out of the "Supposed hanging man" but in the original you see something just hanging. Getting chills thinking bout it now lol. Same goes for that ghost of the little kid in the background of 3 Men and a baby but has been debunked and was just a cutout they forgot to remove. Oh and F@ck Spiders! Came across a 3-4inch tarantula at my friend's backyard few years ago and ran like a little girl Haha! Even in the original Resident Evil 1 and 2,I would get anxiety dealing with the giant tarantulas lol
Goddamn...you have tarantulas in California?? Christ. I hate those fucking things. And yeah, I’ve definitely seen the hanging man in the Wizard of Oz. It’s allllll the way in the background of that scene near the end of it...pretty creepy.
Yeah. And the US government considered him a hero at the time for ending that experiment immediately and saving the lives of the seven other guys who were in the room with him, but... he's kinda the one who put them in huge danger in the first place. He did the same reckless experiment that had already killed one other person, but in a way that was much more likely to fail. Other scientists called that kind of experiment "tickling the dragon's tail", but Slotin's version was more "slapping the dragon's scrotum". He fucked around and found out. And I'm not trivializing what happened to him or suggesting that it was all his fault, but I think that as a scientist - a nuclear scientist - he should have known way better. If you really want to give yourself nightmares, look up Hisashi Ouchi, one of the victims of the Tokaimura nuclear accident. What happened to him was beyond horrific.
Spiders, you say? The scariest thing I've ever experienced or seen is a mortar attack. Well, any indirect fire. Mass destruction that is completely indiscriminate in what it destroys.
One person getting mugged on the freeway.... and two instances of people “lying on the floor” after bad accidents....
As a person who sorta digs spiders, and will often remove them from the house and place them in a safe area outside rather than kill them, I'm torn between my urge to scream, "FUCK NO GET IT AWAY!" and my urge to pet that soft fuzzy looking body and tell the spider it's doing a good job.
Y'know, I actually prefer spiders when they're huge and chunky, if only 'cause it's easier to keep an eye on them. The little ones, the skinny ones, the ones who can slip into a crack and then pop up again above your eyeball ten minutes later, they're the real nightmare But while we're on the critters... Less than a second, it's done. The speed and efficiency with which the prey is captured and dragged to a grisly demise is staggering. Ambush predators in general really put a shiver down the spine.
I feel I could handle Ju-On even as a non-horror fan. However Audition is one I am never, ever pulling the trigger on. I don't care if there's a million bucks on the line; I've read enough about that movie to know that shit ain't for me, fam.
Lately it's how much people seem to be at ease with totalitarianism and fascism. And that they think somehow they'll not also be totally f*cked in that system too.
My younger brother and I were driving on a flat stretch of road between Killeen and Austin in Texas. The car that was about two lengths ahead of us started to swerve and then it flipped almost straight into the air. It was like something from an action movie. The car landed, rolled a few times, and then stopped when it hit a tree. We stopped to help the guy, but he was already crawling out by the time we got to him. He had basically been scalped by the roof of his car. Turns out, he was driving on one of those small spare tires. The ones that aren't meant to be used for speeds more than about 30mph. We know he was doing 70+ because that's the speed we were going behind him. His little spare basically exploded.
A few years ago we were heading home on a road trip driving on a two-lane country road and stuck behind someone going 5-10 miles under the speed limit (50 MPH I think). My dad was the one driving and he's normally a very cautious driver, only going a few miles over the speed limit at most even when the flow of traffic is going much faster and rarely pulling any reckless moves (unless he's late for church lol). After following this person for a few minutes he decides it's time to pass them... right when there was an oncoming semi in the other lane. If we were in a faster car it might not've been so close but our car has pretty slow acceleration above 30-40 MPH. We only avoided hitting the truck head-on by maybe two seconds. It was the first time in my life I genuinely thought I might be about to die. I made sure not to fall asleep any more on the trip while he was driving. On a more lighthearted note, I was on a trip with some friends in mid Michigan one summer during college, driving to a cottage owned by one of their families. It was close to midnight, pitch black with no street lights or other cars on the road around us, and very foggy. We'd been telling creepy stories and that probably had us a little on edge. Suddenly there's a bright light up in the sky ahead of us. It appears to be getting brighter and descending through the fog. It looked almost like a rocket launch at night, except moving in reverse. Then it turned out we'd been at the bottom of a valley (it'd been too dark and foggy to see our surroundings) and it was just a car coming over the horizon and down the other lane, but for a couple seconds it'd seriously spooked us. I briefly wondered if we were witnessing a UFO landing or something.
Those alone are some reasons why I'm very anti everything nuclear. I'm convinced ARS is objectively the worst possible way to die, especially if it's like what the Chernobyl firefighters experienced. It's so bad, the Chernobyl Miniseries depiction of ARS is actually quite tame. I won't go into details, but what all happened to Vasily Ignatenko in real life was a lot worse than what was shown in the miniseries. Just thinking about what all I read about some of the things he experienced before he died bothered me while I was typing this post. They didn't even show what all ARS did to Aleksandr Akimov. What happened to him was also pretty horrific.
