30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies (2024)

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Crows can recognize and remember human faces.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com , Tom Swinnen Report

Tooth-in-the-Eye Surgery. Surgeons put a tooth in a blind person’s eye to restore their sight. It was pioneered in the 1960s, and it actually works and it’s still being done today.

eyewiki.aao.org , Lisa Fotios Report

Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist.

snopes.com , imdb Report

There are bodies of over 150 dead hikers on Mount Everest, and they’are used as landmarks.

smithsonianmag.com , David Waschbüsch Report

The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.

amnh.org , Pawel Kalisinski Report

Climate change is making spiders bigger.

royalsocietypublishing.org , Anthony Report

A haunted radio station from Russia has been broadcasting a dull monotonous tone for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn.

bbc.com , Zeynep M Report

Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.

sciencedirect.com Report

Two Scottish surgeons originally invented the chainsaw to assist childbirth.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Karolina Gabrowska Report

Spiders can survive in space.

nasa.gov , Pixabay Report

Locked-In Syndrome is a condition in which a patient is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state.

rarediseases.info.nih.gov , RDNE Stock Project Report

The film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is based on a real story reported in the LA Times. A boy was terrified to go to sleep, and when he did, he died while screaming about a nightmare.

latimes.com , imdb Report

While Ted Bundy was a psychology major at the University of Washington, he worked at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.

distractify.com , bryce carithers Report

Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviors when they're bored.

dpi.nsw.gov.au , Pixabay Report

When you die the last sense to leave your body is the ability to hear.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Pavel Danilyuk Report

More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.

oceanservice.noaa.gov , Francesco Ungaro Report

Technically it’s not impossible to die from holding in a sneeze. Some injuries from holding in a sneeze can be very serious, such as ruptured brain aneurysms, ruptured throat, and collapsed lungs.

healthline.com , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Horned Lizards can defend themselves by squirting blood out of their eyes.

asknature.org , Room237 CC AS-A A 3.0 U Report

Mobile phones are 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Teddy Yang Report

Alien hand syndrome is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , hansskuy Report

King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.

smithsonianmag.com , Polina Tankilevitch Report

Some ants turn into zombies via parasitic fungus which manipulates their brains.

livescience.com , Egor Kamelev Report

Arrhythmic death syndrome is a sudden condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.

sads.org.uk , Brett Sayles Report

250,000 deaths a year are due to medical errors.

npr.org , Dalila Dalprat Report

During the mummification process, Ancient Egyptians remove the brain through one of the nostrils.

science.howstuffworks.com , Miguel Á. Padriñán Report

People with Cotard's syndrome believe that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don’t exist. They may think nothing exists.

webmd.com , cottonbro Report

Criminologists estimate that there's a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.

npr.org , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months.

rarediseases.org Report

You’re more likely to die on your birthday. The chance someone will die on their birthday is 6.7 percent, which is higher than any other day.

sciencedirect.com , Marina Utrabo Report

Some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive.

sciencedirect.com , Pixabay Report

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