My Innocence Has Been Obliterated After Learning These Awful, Disturbing, And Creepy Things
Note: Some disturbing and graphic content ahead.
1.A man was BOILED to death — his body actually dissolved — after he illegally jumped into a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. The man had been making an attempt to "hot pot" in the acidic pool. The entire incident was recorded by the man's sister on her cellphone.
The incident happened in 2016 and, according to BBC News, the man, Colin Scott, and his sister "had been specifically looking for an area to soak in the thermal springs, despite the potential danger and warning signs."
The story continued, "Rescue teams later found his body in the pool but abandoned attempts to retrieve it due to the decreasing light available, the danger to themselves, and an approaching lightning storm. The following day, workers were unable to find any significant remains in the boiling water."
According to the park's deputy chief ranger, Lorant Veress, "In a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving."
2.In Thailand in July 2023, a woman's leg had to be amputated after it got trapped in an airport's moving walkway. Her injuries were SO severe that the amputation had to go all the way up to her kneecap.
According to CNN, the terrible incident happened at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok at the end of the moving walkway. Immediately after the incident, the airport's moving walkways had service suspended to allow for investigation and safety checks. The family, meanwhile, requested surveillance camera footage of the accident.
3.The fact that muffler hair is a very real thing that exists...and looks absolutely TERRIFYING. In the photo below, this person woke up one day to find what looked like human hair sticking out of their car's exhaust. But, don't worry, turns out it is not any kind of human (or animal hair), just a fibrous insulating material.
"Muffler hair, it's a sound dampener inside your muffler. Totally normal for it to come out when the muffler gets old. You'll have to take the car to a shop to get some exhaust work."
4.While filming Titanic, someone secretly drugged members of the cast and crew with PCP. To this day, no one knows who spiked the clam chowder that was the culprit.
Actor Bill Paxton (who ate some of the clam chowder and was one of the people who was drugged) explained on Larry King Now, "One night we were shooting splits, we would go in at 5 o'clock, we'd take our dinner at midnight, and we would work 'til dawn. And I didn't care for the caterer much, so I was ordering my meals in. But I was having a good conversation with Jim Cameron on the set, and I said, 'Jim, are you gonna eat off the truck tonight?' He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Well, I'll join you.' So, we ladled up the clam chowder not knowing it was laced with PCP, and, uh, I don't know who did it or why...but I remember going back to my trailer after lunch and Jim went up to his office."
"And then I heard a commotion, and I opened up my door, and I saw a couple of ambulances pulling in, and then an AD ran up and said, 'Are you feeling OK?!' And I said, 'Well, I've been shooting all night, I'm feeling about as good as you can feel.' And he said, 'Well, did you eat the clam chowder?' And I thought, well yeah, and about that time I start feeling it and I start witnessing some bizarre behavior with the crew and stuff [...] and all of a sudden, there's 150 crew members stumbling into the emergency room of a very small hospital at 1 o'clock in the morning."
"Some people are freaking out, some people are conga dancing, some people are euphoric...I was pretty stoned on something pretty bad. Me and Jim initially thought there was some neurotoxin in the clams, maybe the clams had been left out in the sun or something. And then I figure, while they're examining all these other people, I tell Jim, 'I'm not gonna hang out here. It's bedlam.' So, I wandered down back to set and drank a case of beer. That seemed to help me."
5.The Triumph carnival cruise ship disaster of 2013, which became known as the "poop cruise" from hell. The ship was stuck for almost a week at sea due to an engine fire, which then led to all kinds of technical problems...including lots of bags of poop all over the place.
According to Business Insider, "The testimonies from the passengers are truly disgusting: Hallways were flooded with human waste, there was no A/C or running water, and passengers were left to survive on limited food and water. The Triumph was given the nickname 'poop cruise' because passengers were forced to use the bathroom in bags."
And, apparently, it got so bad that bags full of "human waste" actually started piling up in the hallways, outside of people's doors. One passenger told CNN, "Just on our deck alone, there were the biohazard bags lined up across the floor. We’re talking about raw sewage at just the end of our deck alone. It was repulsive.”
6.The existence of GIANT beach worms, which just unlocked a new fear for me.
Noooooooooooo thank you.
Watch the full nightmare video here if you dare:
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7.The recent air travel nightmare story of a passenger discovering the floor below him, his wife, and their cats was soaked in blood and feces.
Habib Battah was traveling from Paris to Toronto on Air France on June 30, 2023, when he smelled what he thought smelled like manure coming from the footbed below his and his wife's seats.
They were also traveling with their cats, who were in carriers below the seats. At first, Battah thought maybe the cats had an accident, so he looked at the cats, but they were fine.
However, and this is where the nightmare begins, Battah then noticed a wet stain underneath the cats' carriers. He flagged a flight attendant, who gave him some wet wipes. But when he started cleaning, what got on the wipes was BLOOD RED.
As it turned out, it was human blood. According to CNN, "The day before, on a Paris-Boston flight, a male passenger had suffered what Battah says the crew called a 'hemorrhage.'" Although the passenger "survived," the aircraft had not been cleaned. Worse, because the flight was full, Battah his wife, and the cats, were unable to move their seats.
It was later confirmed by Air France that the liquid was blood and feces.
8.These soldier skulls that appear to have been resurfacing as the water levels in Dnipro, Ukraine continue to decrease — which is a result of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War.
According to the Guardian, the footage that these images came from could not be independently verified due to the fighting in the area. However, the video has gone viral on social media (and Reddit).
The person who posted the video thinks it might be the remains of WWII soldiers, however, as the Guardian reported, "Historians say some of the remains may be of people who died in a huge battle fought 80 years ago over the same terrain."
See the full, creepy video here:
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9.In some of the most heartbreaking news I've read in a while, it's been estimated that between 200,000 and 600,000 pets were left behind during Hurricane Katrina evacuations...but not because their owners didn't want to take them, but because people were basically FORCED to leave them behind.
Speaking with Vox, Sarah DeYoung, a professor at the University of Delaware who studies evacuation decision-making, explained, "A lot of people had top-down directives to not allow people to take dogs and cats with them, and bringing cats and dogs to sheltering spaces was not thought of. That caused a lot of distress and there was a huge outcry."
The article continued, "According to a survey by the Fritz Institute, nearly half of those who chose to stay behind during Katrina said they didn’t want to leave their pets."
10.The death of Gloria Ramirez, aka the "Toxic Lady," a woman in Riverside, California whose body was so poisonous and full of carcinogens — after apparently self-administering a chemical solvent — that it was believed many hospital workers became ill after being exposed to her body and blood in 1994.
According to a Washington Post report at the time, "Officials said they have concluded that the patient, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez, died of heart and kidney failure caused by her cervical cancer. But neither the Riverside County coroner's office nor the hospital could explain the workers' claim that the dead woman's blood emitted toxic, ammonia-like fumes that sickened them.
After two months of investigation and three autopsies, local officials in this desert-edged suburb conceded today that they still have not solved the mystery of what caused the bizarre collapse of a half-dozen hospital workers caring for an emergency room patient."
11.The existence of a plant called Dendrocnide Moroides, aka the "Deadly Stinger" or "gympie-gympie" plant, the world's most venomous plant, which is also violently painful if touched. Apparently, it causes pain so bad that it can make you feel "electrocuted and set on fire at the same time."
According to CBS News, "The hairs that cover the plant 'act like hypodermic needles,' which, if touched, 'inject a venom which causes excruciating pain that can last for days, even months.'" And those hairs can remain in your skin for up to a year, re-triggering pain.
12.This super icky photo of a (probably...hopefully?!?!) dead mummified spider that someone found in their basement.
"I found about five spiders like this in the basement of a house I was working on. I was creeped out by them so spent a while looking at them. The next day I came back and they were all gone."
13.The invasion of giant African land snails — which pose a serious health risk to humans because they carry the rat lungworm parasite — in June 2023 that was so bad it actually prompted a quarantine in South Florida.
According to University of Florida entomologist William Kern, who spoke with Miami's Local 10 News, "If the snails crawl on uncooked vegetables, you can have a problem with it getting a human infection."
Watch video of the snails below:
14.The terrible fact that over the Fourth of July weekend this year, 2023, 68 people were killed in crashes on California highways. Nearly half of those people were not wearing seatbelts.
According to KTLA News, these accidents occurred during the California Highway Patrol's "Maximum Enforcement Period," which was in place from Friday, June 30 to July 4. During this time, law enforcement increased efforts to look out for drunk and speeding drivers.
"In total, across the multi-day enforcement period, CHP officers issued 9,700 citations for speeding and made 1,224 arrests on suspicion of driving under the influence. That’s an average of one arrest every five minutes," CHP said.
15.A "half-eaten" octopus was removed from a man's throat in Singapore after he went to the hospital complaining of "swallowing difficulties."
According to the Hindustan Times, "Doctors at Singapore's Tan Tock Seng Hospital were baffled to discover an octopus stuck inside a patient's esophagus (or food pipe). The 55-year-old man had complained of difficulty in swallowing from the time he had a meal that included the mollusk.
After several unsuccessful attempts to remove the octopus from the man's throat, the doctors maneuvered the endoscope past the animal and retroflexed it, allowing doctors to extract the creature.
The doctors then used forceps to grasp its head and remove it from the patient. He was discharged two days after the surgery."
(FYI, the image above is NOT of the "half-eaten" octopus, it's just a regular Getty pic of an octopus.)
16.In 1999, the near perfectly preserved bodies of three children were discovered at the high-altitude summit of Mount Llullaillaco in Argentina. They turned out to be 500 years old and still had internal organs intact, blood present in their hearts and lungs, and skin and facial mostly "unscathed." It was found that they had simply frozen to death as they slept.
According to the New York Times, "The children were sacrificed as part of a religious ritual, known as capacocha. They walked hundreds of miles to and from ceremonies in Cuzco and were then taken to the summit of Llullaillaco (yoo-yeye-YAH-co), given chicha (maize beer), and, once they were asleep, placed in underground niches, where they froze to death.
Only beautiful, healthy, physically perfect children were sacrificed, and it was an honor to be chosen. According to Inca beliefs, the children did not die, but joined their ancestors and watched over their villages from the mountaintops like angels."
17.Finally, the prolonged and painful death of Harry Houdini. So, the gist of the story is that Houdini was punched so hard in the stomach (after claiming he could withstand the hardest punch), which then caused a ruptured appendix. What exactly caused the acute appendicitis isn't even the worst part of the story though...
Because of the injury, Houdini had a temperature of 104 degrees (temperatures at that level, BTW, are so bad they can cause seizures). But despite being ordered to go to a hospital, Houdini actually carried on with a scheduled performance that included things like escaping a water torture chamber (which he had to be rescued from).
According to PBS News, "After the performance, Houdini checked into his hotel. He still refused medical treatment but the pain was so great that his wife, Bess, demanded he be rushed to the nearby Grace Hospital. He underwent an emergency operation to remove his appendix, which had already ruptured and caused severe peritonitis, a raging and difficult-to-treat infection of the abdominal cavity. After a second operation, and the introduction of a new anti-streptococcal serum, the great Houdini succumbed to overwhelming sepsis. He died on Oct. 31, 1926, at the age of 52."
Previously:
Terrifying Things I Learned — June 2023