Some people really enjoy the thrill that comes with fear. It makes them feel alive. Things like rollercoaster rides and horror movies are often associated with the release of adrenaline and endorphins, creating a unique and exhilarating sensation.
But there might be an even simpler way to explore your limits — a subreddit dedicated exclusively to interesting yet terrifying content. The pictures that its 670K members share allow everyone to do so from the safety of their screens.
So continue scrolling to check out the intense bed bug infestations, old torture masks, and other scary pieces this online community keeps in its collection.
#1 Pest Control Said It’s The Worst Bed Bug Infestation They Have Ever Seen
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#2 I Suffer From Hypnagogic Hallucinations. Here, I Recreated A Night Where I Saw These Dudes Staring Into My Bedroom
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#3 The “Soyjack” Torment Veil
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#4 Imagine Being Alive Like This
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#5 Response I Got From A Complete Stranger To My Snapchat Story
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#6 Students Hiding During A Shooting At Charles University In Prague, Czech Republic
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#7 An Apple Pie I Made For A Co-Worker
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#8 Scratch Marks From 23,000 Pigs Trying To Escape Every Day. In A Holding Pen En Route To Gas Chambers. Ontario Slaughterhouse
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#9 Imagine Driving Late Night And Coming Across This
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#10 A Room Of Korean Hikikomori
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#11 Look What I Found On My Backyard
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#12 Had To Get Emergency Heart Surgery
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#13 In A Freak Accident, A Construction Worker Named Ron Hunt, Was Impaled By This 18-Inch Long Drill After He Fell From A Ladder And Landed On The Drill Head First. He Thought He Was Going To Die But He Was Lucky He Just Lost An Eye
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#14 Black Children Watching As White Children Play In A Whites Only Park, 1956
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#15 The Titanic Sub Has Officially Run Out Of Oxygen
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#16 This Tiny Creature Can Spread A Blood Infection (Lyme Disease) That Leaves You Miserably Ill For Months, And You May Never Catch The Culprit
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#17 This Is An Illustration Of A “Bible Accurate Angel”
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#18 Torture Chamber Found Inside Shipping Container
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#19 Couple Of Drawings I’ve Made In A Psychosis State During My Latest Mania In Bipolar . During That State I Was Not Sure What Was Real And What Is Not Inside My Head
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#20 This Staircase
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#21 Ex-Corrections Officer Kirk Martin Covered In Scratches From His Last Sexually Overpowered Victim
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#22 Found On R/Pics
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#23 The Vulture And The Little Girl – Pulitzer Prize For Feature Photography Award In 1994
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#24 Comparison Of Nuclear Explosions
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#25 He Was Stuck Like This For 26 Hours Before Dying
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#26 Precise Moment In Which A Groundhog Realizes That A Fox Is Going To Kill It. The Image, Taken On The Tibetan Plateau By Photographer Yongqing Bao, Was Awarded The Prestigious Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Award
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#27 The Way This Crocodile Is Staring At The Camera
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#28 Glue Trap From Under My Mom’s Basement Staircase
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#29 What Was It
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#30 A Still From A Video Of A Huge Wolf Wandering Around Yellowstone National Park, 2017
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#31 This Is Posted On Every Floor In My Building
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#32 If We Are Posting Hand Accidents
Think this is the winner. Happened in a textile mill.
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#33 Here’s The Aftermath After A S*icidal Man Parked His Car On Train Tracks In Glendale Causing A Train To Hit It And Derail, Then Smash Into Another Train, Then Smash Into A 3rd Train. 11 People Died, And One Person That Survived Died In Another Train Crash In 2008 Located In Chatsworth
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#34 This Enormous Crocodile Was Pulled From The Water In Zimbabwe Back In 2010 After Cows & Other Vital Livestock Kept Vanishing
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#35 Gavin Joseph Assaulted For Having Asperger’s And Adhd By Kids, Because They Heard He Was “Weird” And “Creepy”
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#36 Meta
In February 2018, Kaylee Muthart ripped out her own eyes, and squished them with her hands during a meth induced psychotic episode.
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#37 New Fear Unlocked. Nope
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#38 Description Of Victim In Allen, Texas
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#39 Kowloon Walled City, Once The Most Densely Populated Place On Earth, With 33000 People Living In A 6.4 Acre Block In Hong Kong
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#40 Can’t Imagine The Pain
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#41 This Just Tried To Run Up My Pant Leg. I’m Gagging. Wtf
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#42 The Man Who Flooded A Town For Sex
In 1993, a man named James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River only to stall his wife from coming home so that he could party.
His actions flooded 14,000 acres of farmland, destroyed buildings, and closed a bridge. He was convicted of “intentionally causing a catastrophe” and is still in prison serving a life sentence.
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#43 Rare Deep-Sea Anglerfish Washes Ashore On Beach
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#44 Kisko “Loneliest Whale” Who Passed Away This Morning, Spent 35 Years As Captive Here And Tried To Harm Itself Many Times
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#45 Ryker Webb After Being Lost For Two Days In Dangerous Wilderness
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#46 The Final Photo Of Pavel Kashin, A Free Runner And Parkour Enthusiast Who Passed Away When He Was Trying To Back Flip On Top Of A Building And Lost His Balance. He Fell 16 Stories
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#47 Woman 33, Dies Of Genetic Disorder A Doctor Said She Was Faking
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#48 Not Only Were Timothy Treadwell And His Girlfriend Amie Eaten Alive By A Bear, But By A Very Old Bear With “Broken Canine Teeth, And Others Worn Down To The Gums”
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#49 Seth The Realistic Werewolf By Deadlymelodic
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#50 Teen Dies From Eating One Spicy Potato Chip
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#51 A 30-Year-Old Syrian Man In Turkey (Şanlıurfa) Was Quarantined After Being Diagnosed With Rabies, And After Escaping From Said Quarantine He Was Caught By Teams In An Empty Field
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#52 Ariel Robinson Was An Ex Teacher And A Church Member. She Adopted 3 Children To Complete Her Family. She Portrayed Her Family As Happy And Diverse On Social Media. Then She Beat Up A Little Girl To Death And Smiled In The Court While Showing No Remorse
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#53 Wax Figure Display In Lahore, About How British Used To Execute People When They Ruled Over The Indian Subcontinent
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#54 Reiko Yamada Was 11 Years Old When The World’s First Atomic Bomb Fell On The Japanese City Of Hiroshima. This Extract From Her Recount Of The Bombing Is Truly Harrowing
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#55 Addicts Will Use Anything To Get High
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#56 Serial Killer Ed Kemper
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#57 Possible New Fetal Syndrome
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#58 21st Century Everyone
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#59 Deadly Car Accident In Arlington Tx Today
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#60 Two Cars After Head On Crash, Can You Tell Which Is Older?
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#61 Shanquella Robinson Went On Vacation With Her Friends To Mexico. She Died From Broken Neck And Spinal Cord Injuries. Her Friend Lied That She Died From Alcohol Poisoning
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#62 The Last Moments Of A Young Man Who Jumped Into A White Tiger Enclosure
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#63 61-Year-Old Postal Worker Pamela Rock Was Out Delivering Mail When Her Mail Truck Had Broken Down. When She Got Out Of The Truck To Get Help She Was Attacked By A Pack Of Dogs That Mauled Her To Death
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#64 This Illustration Of Skin Cancer
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#65 In 2014 Dutch Tourists Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon Disappeared While Trekking Through The Dense Forests Of Panama. Parts Of Their Bodies Were Found 2 Months Later. Their Deaths Remain Unsolved. This Was The Last Photo Taken On Their Camera
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#66 This Terrifying Photo Reveals The Moment A Woman Climbed Onto Her Roof To Hide From Home Intruder Only For Him To Appear Behind Her
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#67 This Is The Car My Stepdad Decided To End His Life In. He Ran Into The Rear Axles Of A Tractor Trailor. No Seatbelt. Coded 4 Times On The Way To The Hospital
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#68 And Just Like That, My Lifelong Love For Spam Came To An End
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#69 The Longest Yard
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#70 This Alert Me And My Family Received. Summer In Rural Australia
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#71 North Korea Publicly Executes Two Teens For Watching South Korean Movies
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#72 Holoprosencephaly – A Condition Which Causes Hideous Birth Defects – Is Usually Caused By A Mutation In Sonic The Hedgehog Gene (Yes, That’s Its Scientific Name)
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#73 The Face Of Pure Evil. Lucy Letby, A Neonatal Nurse, Found Guilty Of Murdering 7 Babies . She Is Britain’s Most Prolific Child-Killer
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#74 On August 20th, 2022. This Man And His Girlfriend Took A Selfie In Rotzo, Italy. After The Photo Was Taken, He Dropped His Phone And Tried To Retrieve It. Because Of This, He Fell Off The Cliff Beside Them And Died Instantly
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#75 Johnny Got His Gun (1971). A Soldier Is Rendered Armless, Limbless, Faceless, But Completely Aware Of His Surroundings, In An Artillery Shock Explosion. The Rest Of The Novel And Movie Depict His Attempts To End His Life
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#76 Cameron Herrin Was Racing In A Car With His Friends And Accidentally Hit And Killed A Mother And Her Daughter. He Got 24 Years Behind Bars At The Age Of 18 Years Old
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