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Who needs horror movies when real life is 10 times scarier

31 Real Facts More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie

August 14, 2023

Turns out, reading about real life is way scarier than reading fictional horror stories. And so, now it’s time to ruin your/our days by reading some bone-chilling facts about things that actually happened. It’s all simply way too much to keep to ourselves.

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CRACKED.COM POWDERED WIGS EXISTED BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD GROSSNESS. In the 1500s, head lice and syphilis were everywhere. Wearing a wig helped keep the bitey crawlies at bay (as you shaved your own hair) and cover up the bald patches caused by the STDs. Occasionally you 'd have to boil your wig to kill all the lice nesting in it, too. — 5 Ways The Past Used To Be Unbelievably Disgusting

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You don't need to be the victim of a curse or have been born in ancient Egypt to become a mummy. The soil in some parts of Guanajuato, Mexico has the properties to turn you into a natural mummy if you're buried there. But you'd be in good company! They have on display the largest collection of naturally mummified corpses in the world. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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CRACKED.COM YOUR FACE COULD GET YOU EXECUTED. There are facial features we instinctively relate to untrustworthiness, whether fairly or not- and, according to research conducted by psychologists at the University of Toronto, those features make you more likely to get the death sentence. If your face is too wide, maybe hire a plastic surgeon as well as a lawyer? — 5 Crazy Statistics That'll Change How You Think Of Crime

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Saint George Church, Lukova Czech Republic In 1968, during a funeral, the ceiling of the building collapsed and people started to believe that the church was haunted. No reconstruction was planned. Jakub Hadrava, student at a local university, had the idea of making several gypsum figures and the result is stunningly creepy. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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MOUNT EVEREST IS LITTERED WITH DEAD BODIES. Once à desolate place, Mount Everest is climbed every year by hundreds of people wishing to look down on the world. Many don't survive. 11 died during the 2019 climbing season alone. At least 200 corpses are still up there, tucked into crevasses or buried in the snow. CRACKED.COM — 6 Ways Selfie-Addicted Tourists Are Destroying The World

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If you've been to Chicago's Lincoln Park, you've walked over thousands of forgotten graves. South Lincoln Park was the City Cemetary until officials decided to move all the bodies in 1869. But the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the grave markers and as many as 10,000 corpses may have been left behind. If you explore the park, you can find the last remaining tomb. GRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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GRAGKED.COM HIMALAYAN VILLAGERS JUST PLAY ALONG WITH YETI HUNTERS. Western city slickers' obsession with the mythical snowdude is quite lucrative in the Himalayas. According to the BBC, every mountain village in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan employs a designated yeti witness to rope in gullible monster seekers. That way, they keep that sweet yeti money rolling in. — 4 Times Huge Money Was Wasted To Prove Silly Theories

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The Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, founded in 1848, was New Jersey's first public mental hospital. In 1907, Dr. Henry Cotton took over as the hospital's director. That's when the horror began. Cotton believed that mental disorders were caused by infections. As a result, he would remove the infected body parts from his patients through surgery, even though they were against it. The abandoned hospital is still standing today, and can be visited. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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Crocodile-infested is the perfect way to describe Cahills Crossing, Australia, Impassable during the rainy season, vehicles often get stuck there and the crocs have made it a popular CRACKED.COM feeding ground. Of course people can't resist the temptation to try to wade across the murky river. The unsuccessful ones end up having their bodies discovered, if they're lucky, by national park rangers. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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CRACKED.COM WHAT HORROR IS THIS? JUST GARDEN-VARIETY SEXISM AND COMMERCIALISM. THIS 1934 PHOTO SHOWS MAX FACTOR'S BEAUTY MICROMETER A MACHINE TO DETECT OTHERWISE INVISIBLE IMPERFECTIONS IN NEED OF MAX FACTOR PRODUCTS. http//www.wired.com/table_of_maleontents/2007004/max x_fagtors_bea/ — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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GRACKED.COM See anything? Not yet, but we can hear them coming. This was the very latest in German hi-tech, around 1917, for spotting incoming aircraft. Why they're arm in arm though, remains a mystery. Source: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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Photoshop? Deformity? Movie Monster Magic? Nope. This is how YOUR SKULL looked after your baby teeth had grown in ...and while your adult teeth were developing. WE WERE ALL BABY MONSTERS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous_teeth http://www.isas.illinois.edu/atam/research/mummy/imaging.html http://www.moddb.com/groups/science/images/child-skull-before-losing-teeth CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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CRACKED.COM Saddam Hussein was once a recipient of the Key to Detroit. This was after making a $250,000 donation towards the Chaldean Sacred Heart Church. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS BURY THEIR DEAD ABOVE GROUND, IN PLACES THEY CALL CITIES OF THE DEAD. THE REASON: WATER LEVELS ARE so HIGH IN THE CITY, COFFINS HAD A TENDENCY TO FLOAT. GRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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A lot of busy picnic spots in London are built over burial sites for plague victims. Beneath the city are hundreds of unmapped plague pits, housing tens of thousands of bodies, and some are known to be under very popular parks. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Hamburg's party district had a big problem with public urination. Therefore, the city invested in hydrophobic paint that sprinkles the pee back onto the miscreant. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has a river called El Guaire that has been recieving the waste from urban sewers for a long time. Recently, many people have opted to become gold diggers in order to mitigate the economical crisis, scooping into the polluted waters while looking for valuable things. And yes, they have found gold in it. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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A prime minister was eaten by his constituents. In 1672, Prime Minister Johan de Witt of Holland was wounded by an assassin and forced to resign. Then a mob attacked, stripped him, and hung him from a scaffold, cut off his genitals, then sliced him open. And finally, of course, people began eating him. CRACKED.COM — 5 Creepy As Hell Stories Cut From Your PG-13 History Books

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Marie Delphine LaLaurie kept a torture mansion. When an 1834 fire attracted a crowd, they found a 70-year-old slave woman chained to a stove. She directed the mob to the attic, where seven slaves were suspended from the ceiling by spiky collars, apparently kept alive solely for horrifyingly inventive torture. They had been like that for months. CRACKED.COM — 5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books

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This nightmare bug will eat your brain like a zombie. Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that finds its way to your brain and destroys its tissues. It likes warm, fresh water, so be careful around water heaters and poorly maintained pools. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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In 1514, a Hungarian rebel received a unique punishment. Gyorgy Dozsa was forced to sit on an iron throne while wearing a crown and holding a scepter. The only catch was that all three were red-hot. His fellow rebels-who had been starved-were forced to bite into his burning body and drink his flowing blood. CRACKED.COM — 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

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Chances are you already have toxoplasmosis. About one third of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, which they got from cats. Most people show no symptoms, but the infection has been linked to mental health issues. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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This critter is your friend (and you swallow it every day). Copepods are microscopic shrimp found in municipal water sources. They attack and eat mosquito larvae, so they actually help make your drinking water cleaner. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM This is your tongue. Or rather, it's bacteria on your tongue, seen under an electron microscope. Hmmm, tasty. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED COM MIT has created a psychopathic AI. The AI, which is named Norman (after the killer in Psycho), was shown gruesome images from the darkest corners of Reddit. It then gave gory interpretations to every single Rorschach test. Man gets pulled into Man shot dead in front dough machine. of his screaming wife. — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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This a-hole keeps crapping on your bed. Millions of dust mites live in your mattress, and each of them takes 50 dumps a day, potentially triggering your asthma. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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It's raining fish monsters! In 2015, Alaska's Department of Fish and Game received some reports from residents who had live lampreys falling They are out of the sky believed to have and into their been dropped backyards. by seagulls. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Amelia Dyer murdered 400 babies. Customers paid the 19th-century orphanage nurse a fee, and once the check cleared, she just left the babies lying around, neglecting them until they died. When she decided that wasn't happening fast enough, she resorted to strangling them with white tape. CRACKED.COM — 5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books

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A Canadian couple got the shock of their lives when their baby monitor began to play a creepy tune and a voice came through telling them that they were being watched. vision f Night 2.8 1R mm 0.3Megapixel Their internet service provider confirmed that someone, country of origin unknown, hacked into their router. CRACKED COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Restorers found that this Jesus statue from a small town in Mexico looked a little too realistic. Turns out the statue was made with real human teeth. Fortunately this wasn't a case of a murderer turning people into statues. The teeth likely came from grateful parishioners who donated them. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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