Either we are alone out there or notboth are equally terrifying.
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Updated 8 years ago,July 11, 2017
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Loa loa, African eye worms.
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Botflies aint nothin.Think of an eye worm as a maggot, stretched out real thin and wigglinginside your eye!
!On second thought, think of something else.
mckulty
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Naegleria Fowleri….Its an extremely rare bacteria that crawls up your nose and eats your brain.
Fatality rate is 99%.
You die in a week….
Mandymandyman
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So people who have used it have exposed bones and just keep using it anyway.
Thats a level of addiction that is terrifying.
bandiebabe12
4.
A protein that is folded in a funny way gets into your brain.
It convinces other proteins in your brain to fold in that funny way, too.
Eventually, they all do and you die.
Animals get them, and they die in the woods.
The only cure is to burn the forest down.
Dutch_Wedge_Antilles
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Tarantula hawksare a species of wasps thathunt fucking tarantulas.
BrunoPassMan
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PaoloFromPhilly
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Thegympie-gympieleaves that have small, hollow, toxin-filled hairs on them.
Allegedly, one guy used the leaf as toilet paper and the pain was so bad he killed himself.
Batman-and-Hobbes
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The manchineel takes the cake on scary fucken trees.
It has little apples that look delicious and taste delicious, and slightly peppery.
The sap blisters skin and can permanently blind you.
Historically, the Carib Natives would use manchineel leaves to poison the water supplies of rival tribes.
SGT_chowdown
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It can really seem like a horror movie at times.
I have a relative who has Alzheimers.
She comes back into the living room telling my cousin how scared and frightened she is.
My cousin asks what happened.
Relative says shes afraid of the woman in her room.
The woman was her own reflection in the mirror all along.
licknuts
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Id have to say the opposite of AlzheimersALS.
You lose all bodily function but maintain your brain.
You are essentially a prisoner in your own body while you watch everyone around you watch.
Lost that last point of communication after a month where he would just stare.
Dodgerballs
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My elderly cousins Joe and Bette lived in a nursing home in a small town.
Every morning hed wake up and see Bette wasnt beside him.
He died only a few months later, perhaps for the best considering his situation.
AndrewJacksonHater
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The unknown and extinct diseases buried in the permafrost.
The unknown and extinct diseases buried in the permafrost (which is melting and releasing them).
The sheer amount of space rocks (comets, asteroids etc.)
TheShawnHiron
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Its beyond dark and pressure is impossible.
Yet there are things down there.
Some of them we cant even comprehend because of how utterly alien their habitat is.
If there are gods, they live in that impenetrable darkness.
August_Garden
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Its exceptionally common, but people just dont run into the animals that carry it often.
Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock.
He goes into attack mode.
Except youre asleep, and hes a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams.
You dont even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite.
His teeth are tiny.
Rabies does not travel in your blood.
In fact, a blood test wont even tell you if youve got it.
(Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if youve ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick.
The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable.
You literally have NO symptoms.
Then one day your back starts to ache… Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, youre already dead.
There is no cure.
PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD
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Humans are scarier than any other thing found in nature.
Human beings are fucking horrifying.
BeneathYourSky
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As a species we have managed to build and stockpile something that can eradicate us.
Other things exist beyond our control, created by nature and we have to find ways to counteract them.
flowermotion
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Every day you wake up one day closer to dying.
Everything you love could be consumed in a fire.
You could have the genetic potential for a debilitating disease and never know until it strikes you down.
A brain injury could make you a completely different person.
Mythgirl
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A lot of creepy ass creatures in the sea.
Goblin sharks and such that are living nightmares.
We dont even know the full depth of the terrors under the sea either.
There could be humanoid fish down there as well.
Not like cute mermaids but real freaks of nature.
The sea is home to many horrifying creatures that could easily be mistaken for true demons.
