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34 Wildly Disturbing Facts You'll Wish You Didn't Know (But I Bet You're Gonna Click On This Article Anyways)
By Hannah Marder,
4 hours ago
Recently, Reddit user No_Camera29 asked, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?" and people had some real freaky responses. Here's what they had to say.
1. "[The FBI] estimates there are at least 500 truckers with torture/murder chambers in their truck, driving freely across the country."
"Yeah, a nurse friend of mine said this is true. She said that if you tell someone to close their eyes just after they die, they'll usually do it, which is creepy as fuck."
6. Over half of our body isn't human — "There are more cells in your body that belong to other things like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites than actual human cells. Some are beneficial, some harmful, and most are just along for the ride."
11. "It is legal in more than half of the states in the U.S. for doctors to perform pelvic exams on unconscious people during surgery/procedures without consent."
12. "The chainsaw was invented by two doctors to assist in childbirth. Sawing throughthe pelvic bone gives a mother and the baby some chance of survival if the baby is too big. Yay!"
13. "Giving birth to a child is often talked about. Giving birth to a placenta is one thing nobody talks about. It felt like the nurse pulled a giant squid out of my vagina — super gross. After that, she pushed my abdomen, and blood squirted out of me and sprayed her whole. It was absolutely disgusting."
14. Sorry to tell you this, but the uterus is actually pulled out of your body during a C-Section: "I had to have a C-Section when our daughter was born and heard one doctor say to the other doctor: 'Pass me the uterus, I'm gonna clean it.'"
"Still don't know whether my uterus was actually lifted out, still don't want to know."
"My ex had our baby via C-section, and I watched. One of the more disturbing parts of it was her uterus laying on her chest while two interns picked pieces of placenta off of it as they were discussing where they were going to go get lunch."
"Totally normal. I'm assuming you had a spinal injection, so you were relatively numb from roughly the belly button down. Once the baby is out, they squeeze the bejesus out of your uterus to stop the bleeding. They also have to remove all the good parts that surround the baby. It's not really a scrubbing; it's more of a pulling tissue with fingers/clamps. Then they shove that bad boy back in you, and away you go."
15. Relatedly, "If you have abdominal surgery and the surgeon needs your intestines out of the way, they don't try to get them back in exactly as they were. They can put them in pretty much any old way, and they sort themselves out. ... You can quite often feel them wriggling themselves back into position."
"You can feel that wiggling feeling after giving birth, too. I felt like I was all jello in my abdomen; I would feel a wiggle and a slipping sensation. It didn't hurt; the part that hurt was when they came in and did that abdomen rub to push the blood out of you for your uterus to contract back. That felt like pure torture."
"Watching an abdominal surgery as a student nurse, I saw the doctor remove the intestines and place them in a black 'garbage' bag, which was attached to the gurney. When the operation was finished, the bag was held over the patient's abdomen and shaken until all was out. Then the doctor took his hand, wiggled stuff around, and proceeded to close the wound. It's never the way they show on TV."
16. "Nurse here 🙋♂️: I learned that some people will use any hole in a sexual way. Including a surgical hole in the stomach to collect poop into a bag (a colostomy). Additionally, some folks with these kinds of holes will advertise themselves out for the use of that hole. How do we know? They come in with infections in these holes and own up to the behavior. I also learned this sexual act is called a Philly Sidecar."
19. "Ascaris worms are a type of large, parasitic roundworm that make their home in the human digestive tract. They are endemic in many parts of the world. I used to work at a hospital where we took a lot of patients from impoverished and remote places, especially Central America, where roundworm infection is very common. When you put those patients under for surgery, the anesthesia causes their blood to become slightly alkaline, which the worms hate. So after a few minutes, they will start coming out of every orifice in the body—nose, mouth, rectum. And I'm talking full-sized worms that look just like earthworms. It is no cap one of the grossest things you can imagine. You give those patients a drug called Bendazole, they poop dead worms for three days, and then they're fine."
20. "Some people are born with a malformed mass of veins in their brain called an AVM, and they have no idea unless it's seen on a CT or MRI. Then, one day, it can burst without warning, and that happy, healthy person can die, suffer brain damage, paralysis, etc. No warning. This happened to my 22-year-old niece yesterday. She is in a coma now. It's heartbreaking."
22. Also — "It's legal to marry a corpse in France." However, I should note this is used for couples where the deceased expressed an intention to marry the still-living partner before their death. So, basically, if your fiancé dies, you can still marry them.
23. "The inside of a sea turtle's mouth/throat looks like something straight out of a horror movie monster. Absolutely covered in spines. (They swallow a lot of seawater when eating food, which they then vomit back out. The spines keep the food in but let the water out.)"
"I have a friend from college whose parent died on Everest and became a famous trail marker (I won't say which one, but famous enough that there's a Wikipedia page for it). He was about 12 when it happened and begged them not to go because he was afraid they wouldn't come back. They didn't come back. It fucked him up for a long time — hearing his parent referred to as a trail marker for over a decade after didn't help either. Sometimes, we forget that these were people who had (and still have) loved ones."
25. " Naegleria fowleri — I now have a somewhat irrational fear of ponds/lakes." What's Naegleria fowleri, you ask? It's a brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater lakes, rivers, ponds, and even sometimes swimming pools and tap water. It kills almost everyone it infects...including a boy at Disney World's River Country in 1980.
26. "Honestly, what a newborn's horse hooves look like. I was traumatized for months after I had just given birth myself. Luckily, I did not have a horse baby."
27. "Fatal familial insomnia is a creepy disease that just doesn't let you sleep. You start seeing hallucinations till you die. This disease is hereditary. ... You can't just take sleeping pills."
28. Fatal familial insomnia is an example of a prion disease , which is when the misfolding of proteins in your body (which can just randomly happen with no apparent cause) leads to rapid brain damage and death, and there's really nothing you can do to stop it. Or, as this user pus it: "One misfolded protein can wind up rendering a brain about as useful as rotting cheese."
29. "Dolphins are known to be quite intelligent, but they can also be cruel. In some cases, they've been documented killing baby dolphins of other pods." They'll also kill baby manatees.
31. "A lot of my fragrances used to come from a beaver's butt. Castoreum is the base of many leather, animalistic, and chypre perfumes. Its smell is similar to vanilla and comes from the anal secretion of beavers. Since I doubt they are using catch and release, I try to avoid it now."
33. "In the meteor apocalypse movies, it usually starts with some random research team discovering the meteor by accident, then figuring out it's headed for Earth. That's pretty much what we have to hope for. Those sons of bitches are fast. Like, faster than you can imagine. In movies, it's this huge ball of fire that tears through the atmosphere in some cinematic masterpiece that allows the people below to see how fucked they are. That's not true in real life. In real life, it goes from the edge of our atmosphere to the Earth in less than a second. It hits the Earth so hard it'll vaporize the ground it touches and itself. Hitting with such force, the ground moves like you threw a boulder into a lake. Waves of Earth become fluid and destroy everything in a massive flux of destruction."
"But what's really scary is that it's cold. It's cold until it hits some type of atmosphere from a planet or space body. Because it's cold, it's hard to detect by just pointing instruments into space. Unless we are specifically looking for it, we won't see it. We won't know that we're about to all die. We won't know that a meteor is about to hit us until we see a literal tsunami of earth outside our window about to kill us.
That's why movies have people discovering it by accident. Because the chances of us finding it on purpose are not good.
Add-on: This has gotten a bunch of attention, and I do see some people freaking. There is some good news in regard to this. Thanks to the sheer age of the solar system and the universe, a lot of the stuff that could have hit us has already hit us or hit something before us. Moon craters, not just for our moon, show the impact of previous asteroids. Planets have already been bombarded by the stuff floating about. So, while the chances aren't 0, they are fairly low.
Also, we are a really small planet. Literally a pale blue dot even before you leave the solar system. And damn near invisible once you leave the solar system."
34. " Vacuum Decay. Theoretically, if some quantum tunneling event occurs in deep space, it can sort of 'unmake' the physical laws of the universe, and it will just stop. This effect will spread out at superluminal speeds (this can occur in the same way a shadow can move faster than light or the expansion of the universe itself can move faster than light). These "dead" areas are also invisible as they, by their very nature, emit no radiation, absorb any that ventures in, and move so fast the only way you know one was coming was that all the stars near you would all blink out in a matter of weeks."
35. And finally, I'll end on this one, just to bring things full circle: "Bed bugs mate through a process called Traumatic Insemination . The male bed bug stabs the female in her abdomen with his penis, which is very sharp, then proceeds to fuck her open stomach wound."
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