There are horrors out there that most of us can barely imagine – things that should not be and injustices that should never have happened. The pics on this mildly unsettling list, then, serve as just the teeniest tiniest tip of that iceberg of horror.

Some of these pics made our skin crawl, while others made us feel just mildly annoyed and uncomfortable. They upend our expectations of how the world should work and how people should behave in it. Ick!

#1 Would You Buy It?

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#2 I Wish I Could Unsee This So I Could Stop Thinking About It

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#3 Imagine This Guy Sits Next To You On The Bus

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The images were gathered from a few different communities on Reddit. First among them was /r/MildlyUncomfortable. This community of roughly 3.2k Redditors collects pictures that make you uncomfortable, but only mildly. The truly shocking and nasty images would be elsewhere on NSFW communities or other websites entirely.

#4 S N O O T

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#5 Evil Clown Found In Two Bacon Slices

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#6 …the Way These Trees Line Up

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Another similar reddit community is /r/mildlyunsettling. This 3.5k-strong subreddit has considerable overlap with /r/MildlyUncomfortable, but we find that the content on this one is a touch more unsettling and frightful!

#7 Dont Ask Me About This

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#8 A “Zombie Spider” – Spider Covered In Fungus, Half-Dead, Half-Alive Which Can Crawl Around. Found In My Basement

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#9 No

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The things that can make an image unsettling or uncomfortable can be quite subjective, as any quick glances at either of these online communities will show. However, there are quite a few common aspects that can make images hard to stomach.

#10 The More You Look, The More Uncomfortable You Get

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#11 Hairy Skin Apple

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#12 This Electrical Pole Is Being Held Together By Duct Tape

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One is the concept of the uncanny valley. Humans tend to have a well-documented discomfort with any image that makes a credible but failed attempt at appearing human. Highly abstracted imitations of human faces like emojis or cartoon characters are fine, but androids, poorly animated 3D visages, and people wearing rubber masks can all make us feel creeped out.

#13 A Really Long Marshmallow

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#14 I’m Very Very Aggravated

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#15 Both

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Another commonly cited example, only one of many visible phobias, is trypophobia. This is a fear of or discomfort with patterns of closely grouped holes. The scientific jury is still out on WHY so many of us have this reaction of disgust, but some theories suggest that this may be a hard-wired reaction to detect the scales of venomous reptiles or other dangerous creatures.

#16 *unsettled By The Entire State Of Ohio*

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#17

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#18 I Don’t Like It

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#19 Therapist: Long Grapes Don’t Exist They Can’t Hurt You Long Grapes:

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#20 Double Thumb Nails!

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#21 Is… Is She Having A Stroke?

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#22 This Light Doesn’t Look Right (X-Post Oddlysatisfying)

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#23 So I’ve Been Ordering Pizza At This Small Local Place For Years, They Got A New Guy Last Week

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#24 Finger Food

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#25 I Think I’ve Hit A Snag

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#26 This Isn’t How You Use A Bookcase!

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#27 Beans In A Crock

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#28 Mcstubble (Patrick_4d On Instagram)

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#29 Sprouting Tomato

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#30 These Lips

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#31 My Brother Has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

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#32 Watch Out IKEA

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#33 Artist:”Yeah I Totally Know What A Bunny Looks Like” – A Beatiful Piece Of Art In My Hometown

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#34 Saw This At The Local Liquor Store. Who Does This ? They Are Big Glass Bottles !

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#35 Out Of All The Props My Grandmother Has In Her Fairy Garden, This One Sticks Out The Most. (Quite Literally)

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#36 The Bear Stare

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#37 Horrid Harry

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#38 Realistic Kirby Sculpture

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#39 Soon You Will Be Mine

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#40 Cutting A Tomato Such That No Seeds Are Visible

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#41 *crunch*

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#42 This Smiley Cake I Found On Display At A Bakery

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#43 Tiny Bugs Infesting My Giant Elephant Ear Plant

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#44 You’re Welcome

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#45 This

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#46 Murky Water In Bus Camera

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#47 This Is A Baby “Changing” Station

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#48 The Fingers On This Slippery When Wet Sign

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#49 This Little Boy Statue

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#50 Let’s Touch Toothbrushes

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#51 It’s Just Wrong

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#52 The Way The Levels Of Spicy Heat Are Arranged. ?

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#53 I’m Never Looking At Sonic The Same Way Again

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#54

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#55 🙁

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#56 Imagine The Crunch

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#57 This Fork That Was Never Cut

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#58 Just Look At All Those Tabs

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#59 This Smurf Costume

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#60 This Duck Has Teeth

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#61 The Holes On These Converse When Stepping In Muddy Water

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#62 I Think You Forgot Something

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#63 Mr Clean

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#64 Veiny Sidewalk?!

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#65 These New Signs They Put Up In Our School

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#66 The Light In My Room Is Off Center

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#67 Beardless Burger King

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#68 Joe Oliver’s Face On This ’92 Baseball Card

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#69 Time For A Change

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#70 Help

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#71 A Bee Crossed With Laughing Buhdda. What Vould Go Wrong?

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#72 Can I Be Bothered Bending Down To Swap Them? Had To In The End. Couldn’t Stand It

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#73 Something’s Not Right Here

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#74 Had Some Time To Kill

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#75 I Was Volunteering At A Local School When Suddenly I Found This

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#76 This Lemon

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#77 Looks Like This Dollar Came From Hell I’m Afraid To Spend It ?

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#78 Foward Facing Googly Eyes

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#79 This Fork Just Feels Wrong

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#80 Delicious Dog

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