17+ Disturbing Pics That Prove Context Is Everything

This image on an old Russian tombstone was originally intended to honor a beloved family member. This guy's family had no idea the ravages of time would make him look like some kind of Sith lord.

This pic gives me the creeps because it's so difficult to know what's going on. Is it a massive spacecraft? Something unimaginable rising from the ocean depths? Nah, it's just a view from a highrise during a rainstorm.

It looks like some kind of sinister ritual, but it's actually fairly benign. This is simply a Zimbabwean witch doctor offering blessings to a random kid back in the day.

I understand the principle of an executioner's mask. It's the kind of job where you don't want to be identifiable. Why they had to make them so effin creepy back in the Middle Ages, though, I have no idea.

This shows a coal miner's changing room. That explains the coal-stained clothes. The reason they're so creepily hanging from the ceiling is apparently because it's the most efficient way to dry them off.

It's a good thing OP saw these in daylight (or at least sinister twilight), because seeing them at night would be downright freaky. These are just bushes that have been wrapped up to protect them from bad weather.

This 26-foot-tall statue of an angel doesn't look as heavenly or as welcoming as most depictions of angels. It's been constructed using more than 100,000 confiscated weapons.

This puppet was in a music video back in the day ("Evil" by Interpol). It always looked a little freaky in the video, but after a few years it's really perfected its horrifying visage.

This demonic-looking creature would freak almost anyone out. But since it's obviously a kangaroo, which means it could only be in Australia, I'm guessing the homeowner has seen way scarier stuff.

The only thing saving this image from being the most horrifying sight imaginable is the fact that it's clearly in a deli case at a supermarket. My question: does it actually make people want to buy meat?

This shark was preserved in formaldehyde at an aquarium after it died. The aquarium has since shut down, but ol' Sharky is still in that formaldehyde, destined to ever so slowly decompose over the coming years.

Lots of animals have highly reflective eyes. Everyone knows this. Still, I don't think this knowledge is going to stop anyone from being freaked out by sights like this horde of sheep.

This animatronic nightmare played its last animatronic ditty at a Chuck-E-Cheese some thirty years ago. Since then, he's been silently holding his guitar, patiently waiting in his plastic bag prison.

If you look around a bit, Europe is chock-full of churches and other assorted monuments where literal human bones are a major design component. This freaky image shows the Bone Chalice in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.

This pit to an underground volcanic chamber is super unsettling. Even though it's naturally occurring, the dried lava floes on the side look an awful lot like writhing human bodies.

Back in the 90's, there was a cool comet called Hale-Bopp that could be seen for awhile. This cult decided to commemorate the occasion by committing mass suicide. But the few members who didn't kill themselves still maintain their website.

If you thought this looked like a street vendor in Cairo in roughly the year 1865, selling a few ancient mummies, you'd be exactly right. Retail has change a lot.

There's something sad about how they seem to indicate that the person who left them here is in a dark place, but it's also worrying to be the focus of such mysterious attention.

Imagine passing by what seems like a nice, serene beach only to discover the very real possibility that it could blow you up.

However, a lot of parents will admit that they can also come at you with a weird enough energy that they actually manage to say and do some legitimately creepy things.

That's because it's entirely possible that the source of the malfunction is a snake that decided to take refuge inside of the unit.

And yes, that's what we're looking at here.

For instance, all we know is that this vaguely humanoid shape is sitting in a chair.

We don't know where this is, why it's here, or why it seems like somebody set it on fire, but those all seem like pretty important questions.

Somebody is indeed driving around with what are essentially mummified animals in their back window.

Between the likely mental state that would lead to such behavior and how it must smell in there, this picture is full of uncomfortable realities.

Bananas often share their tropical climates with some seriously big spiders and the curious fellas can sometimes find their way aboard a shipment.

When the bananas are sold in bags, spiders can end up trapped in those bags.

This is called a dacryolith and according to the American Academy of Opthalmology, it can form when dead internal tissue, lipids, calcium, and other debris build up in the ducts.

As the uploader learned, it can also hurt intensely when it gets this serious.

That's because this isn't a solid object at all, but rather an amorphous collection of hundreds if not thousands of spiders.

I'll spare you the full video.

While it's not impossible that the ritual that took place here didn't mean anyone any harm, it's pretty hard to gather that from this intimidating scene.

One might expect to find a massive pile of child-sized gas masks in the aftermath of something nightmarish.

Indeed, it probably felt that way for the kids who had to evacuate this Ukrainian school during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Yes, someone apparently printed this picture out just so they could leave it in the uploader's driveway.

If it's a prank, it's a weird one.

Since they had microwaved this bowl, it's likely that this was simply the result of a pocket of heat popping.

Still, it feels like we'd only feel comfortable coming to that conclusion after we thoroughly searched the house.

Unfortunately, this only leads us to wonder whether one person specifically needs 20 mannequin torsos or 20 people need one.

Either way, that raises a lot more worrying questions.

For those who don't know, your number neighbor is the person you contact when you text a number with the last digit showing one number lower than yours.

If you ever seek yours out. hopefully they don't respond with some even more messed up Teletubbies.

For instance, this image's uploader used to date the person who lived in this house and they just learned that it somehow exploded.

Sure, it's entirely possible that one floated down here once the helium started leaking out of it.

But maybe that's what Pennywise wants you to think.

When the fires are raging so close to home, the danger that they'll actually close the gap between the neighboring brush and the town itself seems all the more clear and present.

I mean, was their mission to find a mannequin that was making such a perfectly unnerving facial expression?

I kid, I kid. This isn't a tree overburdened with big, heavy leaves. It's actually a tree overburdened with big, heavy bats. I would get my rabies shot before getting any closer.

It's easy to imagine the skeleton on the right as one of a deformed human. It's actually a gorilla skeleton, but the similarities help illustrate why humans and gorillas share so much of the same DNA.

Every last one of the brand new shoes in this bin has been intentionally damaged. This is done, rather than donating them to someone in need, to increase scarcity and keep prices up.