Posts Tagged ‘creepy’

Random Creepy Image For Halloween

Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

No doubt the first in a series…

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Fark Annual Scary Story Thread

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Tomorrow is Halloween, which means it’s time for the annual Fark Scary Story Thread. And after some eight years of submitting links for this thread, this one finally get’s greenlit!

Here are the links to threads from previous years:

  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • While you’re here, feel free to check out some of my other freaky/creepy/scary/silly Halloween posts.

    Your Creepy Halloween Spider Post

    Thursday, October 30th, 2014

    I’m running out of Halloween season, so it’s time for a post on that perennial source of creepiness: Spiders.

    There are few things that triggers our primal fear reflex more than spiders, so here’s a Whitman’s Spider Sampler of Creepiness.

  • Here’s a family whose house was infested with deadly brown recluses.
  • If you’re afraid of spiders, you almost certainly don’t want to work at a tarantula farm.
  • An encounter with the South American Goliath birdeater spider whose feet can stretch a foot in diameter.
  • I’ve tried to avoid the common gifs everyone’s already seen, but I am intrigued by this completely unconvincing, yet oddly unnerving film snippet, and I’d like to know what (presumably silent) film it’s from:

    Here’s the exceptionally creepy spider attack from The Mist:

    And here’s Cyriak’s deeply disturbing “Cobwebs”:

    Let’s end on a lighter note. There’s a Simon’s Cat with a spider:

    And this:

    Today’s WTF Crime: Attempted Murder for Slenderman

    Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

    From the annals of inexplicable crimes, here’s news that two 12-year old girls tried to murder a friend as a sacrifice for Slenderman.

    You know, the entirely made-up CreepyPasta horror character.

    It’s bad enough to be offered up as a human sacrifice to a real dark god, much less an Internet meme. It’s like a deranged bassist attempting to murder Harry Shearer so he can take Derek Smalls’ place in Spinal Tap…

    (First video yanked, replacement inserted.)

    Creepy Online GIFs and Their Origins: Ballface

    Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013

    Here’s a GIF that’s a wee bit unnerving:

    It’s vaguely reminiscent of the creepy moon in Georges Méliès’s The Astronomer’s Dream.

    Turns out it’s from a “tracking & compositing experiment” video:

    I know that I always use subjects that are super-creepy for my tracking and compositing experiments…

    Scary Halloween Videos: Abandoned Insane Asylums

    Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

    I’ve been looking for some scary videos on YouTube, and honestly, the most popular “paranormal” videos there are pretty embarrassingly lame. “Ah! A guy in eyeshadow steps out of the dark! It’s a ghost!”

    Much creepier, to my mind, are the video of abandoned mental hospitals and insane asylums filmed by various urban spelunkers over the years. Most were pretty depressing places in the first place, so they’re doubly creepy and depressing at night compared to regular abandoned buildings. Here’s a sampler of a few videos I found.

    A short video of an abandoned insane asylum in Maryland:

    A longer video from the same asylum, with some paranormal creepiness near the end:

    From Albuquerque’s abandoned insane asylum, seen in daylight:

    The videos I’ve seen from San Antonio’s abandoned asylum have all been either crappy or still images, but this one from the abandoned Boys Home isn’t bad, though too long and also in daylight:

    This appears to be the segment of a TV show called Scariest Places on Earth on Dixmont Insane Asylum in Pennsylvania. Full of both horrific history and cheestastic reality TV edited to hype the paranormal angle. Evidently being on a paranormal reality TV show requires subnormal intelligence. And voiceovers from the psychic in Poltergeist? Really, ABC Family?

    Warning: Teenagers. Fortunately this bunch exploring the Downey Insane Asylum in California are merely teenage stupid and not reality show stupid (though sadly, this does extend to their editing choices). And the night vision lens does make their eyes look nicely creepy.

    A different approach, for this mini-documentary on the Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Michigan:

    Here’s another longer video:

    Seems like there’s a lot of videos on the place.

    I wonder how many places there are like this abandoned in Michigan. Probably lots.

    Finally, this abandoned church and school In Gary, Indiana is more sad than scary:

    I may have to do a separate post on abandoned theme parks…