As fall settles in and we stroll through the month of October towards Halloween , it’s the perfect time to indulge in some good old-fashioned creepiness.
This list will focus on things that are accidentally creepy, that give us some unsettling shivers without even trying! From unsettling , contextless finds to creative decor choices, these things shouldn’t be creepy, but they really, really are.
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“This cherry pitter went from cute to creepy real fast.”
This had to go through rounds of testing, right? So they knew this was the outcome and thought this plastic, eternally cheerful gaze was the appropriate design for this?
Actually, why did this need a face at all? I don’t need to form a connection with my cherry pitter!
“This creepy face in my butter.”
It’s just faint enough that it could be described as ghostly, which means your butter is definitely haunted. The good news is that butter ghosts are very easy to exorcise, just one swipe of a knife and it’s gone for good!
“Old cars becoming the river bank.”
People in the comments were discussing how not only is this more common than you might think, but it’s actually pretty effective erosion control.
Effective or not, it can still feel like a creepy sight, especially during the spookiest time of the year.
“The creepy way this tree bark grows.”
This either looks like a nasty infection creeping up the tree, or blood running down it. Either way, someone should get this tree to a hospital quickly, it looks like its on its last legs here!
“A group of black cats out in the wild.”
It’s supposedly bad luck when one black cat crosses your path, but what about 17 of them? Does it cancel out that many times and then loop all the way back around to being bad luck?
If you make friends with them, does it turn into good luck? Not that I need an excuse to make more cat friends.
“This octopus like texture on my military gloves.”
There’s something about this that just feels so unsettling. It makes the hair on my neck stand up. It looks too organic for something man-made, which I guess is the point if it’s based on an octopus. Still, I don’t like it, our fingerprints are all we need for grip.
“My wife likes to make Halloween decor. Here is a jar of porcelain baby limbs for your amusement.”
Which part of this is creepier, the fact that your wife has a collection of porcelain baby limbs, or her decision to put them in a jar that will then be displayed publicly in your home?
“Large ceramic heads I found in the woods.”
I was going to make a joke about these being the heads for the dolls the limbs in the last pic were from, but the mental image of one of these nightmare heads on a tiny baby doll body is going to haunt my dreams tonight.
“The carpet in the hotel I visited is the same pattern as the one from *The Shining*.”
As much as I love the movie and think this is iconic, if I checked into a hotel, picked up my key, and started down the hall to my room just to be greeted with this, I’d turn myself back around and leave. Immediately.
“The Fog In My Neighborhood This Morning.”
Fog is a beautiful weather phenomenon that can make a completely normal morning feel like there’s some deadly foreshadowing happening. It also has the power to make everyone who sees it feel like the main character in a movie, just not in a genre they’d want to be in.
“This mutant aloe plant found in an apartment complex window.”
You call this an aloe plant until you see one of its mutant tendrils wiggle a bit before freezing once again. That’s when you back away slowly from the apartment and leave it to be someone else’s problem.
“Four clawed lobster caught off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.”
If lobsters had a more advanced civilization, they’d worship this lobster as some sort of powerful deity. Double the claws mean double the strength, it must have been chosen to lead lobsters into a new age of victory against nets and traps!
“[This] weird tree stump.”
Yeah, that…looks like a mouth. It looks like a frightening mouth with piercing teeth and it’s unsettling me greatly. You could drop something in there and watch it feed, but it’d do so slowly, the wood creaking and grinding together as it does. Eugh. Just set it on fire.
Finders keepers.
The uploader of this photo told this eerie story in the title of their original post, “While on a morning walk two years ago I saw a rain-soaked photo album in a box on the side of the road. Curiosity got the better of me and I opened it.
“Every single page was completely filled with selfies of the same woman in roughly the same pose.”
“Found this seagull that has 2 pupils.”
One pupil is for looking at the present, the other is looking into the future. This bird sees the fate of both man and seagull-kind, and neither look good. When his gaze falls upon you, know that he sees your demise with ease, but cannot tell you about it.
“This house is a converted indoor pool, the basement is the bottom of the pool.”
This isn’t inherently scary or anything, but something about this picture feels eerie. Maybe it’s the lighting, or seeing a pool being used not how it should be, but it feels off enough that I’m unsettled.
“This Leopard Shark at the Aquarium says ‘I AM’.”
Not only has this one shark’s consciousness grown beyond that of other sharks, but it’s found a way to communicate with humans as it grows, editing its own physiology to call out to us. Oh, it also learned English somehow.
“Black tomatoes at my neighbor’s house.”
Your neighbor has goth tomatoes! They tried to convince them to turn red again, but the tomatoes insisted that this wasn’t a phase and it’s just who they are now. It only changes the outside, though, on the inside they’re still yummy as ever.
“We caught a critically endangered sunflower sea star in our crab trap (Orcas Island, WA).”
Cool sea star! It has too many legs. Maybe this species is supposed to look like this, but then this species as a whole has too many legs. I have no basis other than I think it looks scary when it has that many legs, so it should have less.
“Dog with a pinecone in its mouth.”
The great thing about this photo is that even though this dog’s mouth looks horrifying at first glance, its eyes are still kind and gentle. It may look like a monster, but it just wants pets like any other totally normal dog!
