50 Unsettling Photos That Look So Creepy, They Look Like Real-Life Nightmares

Yet, we love looking at them.

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• Published in Interesting
• February 23, 2022

For a lot of people, looking at scary photos is a great way to entertain themselves. And if this is your way of passing time, why not try a subreddit called Oddly Terrifying?

The community, which has about 2 million members, is where people post stuff that's unsettling to see. Who would ever thought that Jim Carrey's Grinch face with no makeup can look menacing?

There's even a photo of a mosquito passing by a lens at the very right time to make the photo look like the Earth is under the attack of giant aliens. Although these pictures are indeed scary, people are still amazed with morbid curiosity.

According to experts, people have felt such interest at some point in their lives. It can be triggered by the scenes we've seen and the thing's we've heard.

We keep telling ourselves not to look at such scary things. But our curiosity gets the better of us—and we just want to learn more about them.

The results of these threats have a lasting effect on our minds and impact our behavior in response to these scary situations. It's the very reason why a lot of people have morbid curiosity.

Today, we're looking at the best 50 pictures recently shared on the subreddit. Are you prepared to look at some real-life nightmare?

1. Monstrous lemon

2. Looks like a demon possession

3. Jim Carey makes the Grinch face without any makeup on

4. The real reason why you shouldn't use the panorama option to take pictures of your dog

5. Rubber gloves that look like they're about to pull to you the depths

6. A morning dew-covered lady bug looks like a different creature.

7. Guarana fruit looking like an Old Testament Angel

#47 The Guarana Fruit Looks Like An Angel From The Old Testament

8. Why Doc? Just why?

9. Scarier than the Addams family

10. A camera attached to a furniture screw.

11. A root system of a calathea plant. It may be healthy but it looks scary

#50 This Root System Of My Calathea Plant. These Root Nodules Mean It's Very Healthy, But It's Unnerving To Look At

12. You can't count the number of birds in Rome.

13. One redditor regrets doing this

14. When a nest of praying mantis hatches on a door

15. Warning: Stay away from these caves!

16. Layers of the skin: Cake version

17. It's not a man wearing an animal costume. It's a sun bear.

18. Squid kites are scary

19. Pregnant dog X-ray.

20. Guy takes a pee, girlfriends take a picture of him. The result is eerie.

#45 Went Camping With My Girlfriend. I Woke Up To Pee And She Took This Photo Of Me

21. Snapdragon flowers the faces of death when they die.

22. What will become of us all

23. A giant had in the middle of a forest

24. Birds that look like they're chasing you

25. An urchin quartz that looks like it came out of a nightmare

26. Aliens finally invading the planet? Nope, it's just a mosquito passing by a lens.

27. Cabbages looking like alien eggs.

28. Spiky contacts for the dead

29. Redditor says they're sleep paralysis demons, but in truth, they're Danish special forces.

30. Japanese artist creates figures made of driftwood

31. This harpy eagle has a strange face

32. This Jesus lamp will give you nightmares.

33. Portland vs. Fallout 4. The latter's air is cleaner.

34. What babies look like during an MRI scan of a pregnant mother

35. The creepy legs of a manatee.

36. It feels like something is about to happen if frogs gather like this.

37. Not all kangaroos are cute. Some are scary.

38. A scenery that looks like it came out of the movie, Vivarium.

39. An interesting yet scary Christmas tradition

40. This is the cork-lid trapdoor spider. So if you happen upon what looks like an ancient coin, better leave it alone.

41. Fellow kids must be scared

42. Dried stingrays look like monsters

43. Don't look at a flock of sheep in the night.

44. Hermit crab decides this broken doll head is its new head. Creepy!

45. The sneaky design of a grandma's couch

46. Scary potato

47. Stumbling upon a Ku Klux Klan meeting

48. Spider infestation on a tent

49. If this were your driveway, what would you do?

50. Boy builds an army of cicada skins

A lot of people get entertained by scary things because it satisfies their curiosity about the dark side of the human mind.

People don't really have the chance to experience alien invasions or any other scary situations. It's no wonder why we're fascinated with things that can potentially happen, even if they're unnerving.

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