Last Updated on February 27, 2024
The world is full of mysterious things and occurrences. Some are bizarre simply because there’s no proper scientific explanation behind them. Yet, others completely defy all logic and human imagination. And attempting to rationalize them only leaves us more bewildered and petrified.
For instance, how do you explain the idea that dogs can detect diseases in humans? Or that ghosts probably exist and have been haunting some of the world’s most revered places?
Well, these are just some of the numerous creepy facts you’ll find in the below collection.
Creepy Human Facts
1. Humans have a natural fear for humanoids or anything that looks like humans but not quite the same.
2. Humans are bioluminescent, but the glow is often too faint to detect with the naked eye.
3. Humans have more than five senses. An example of the additional senses is the sense of proprioception, which is the spatial awareness of your body.
4. Humans do not experience reality or consciousness the same way.
5. You’re at your tallest when you wake up. This is because sleep eases spine compression, allowing your spine to increase in height by a few centimeters.
6. If you’re a female and you get murdered in your home, it was most likely perpetrated by a family member, partner, or ex-partner.
7. If you’re a male and you get murdered outside your home, it was most likely perpetrated by an acquaintance or stranger.
8. Humans shed around 3.5 kilograms of skin a year.
9. Pregnant women lose a small portion of the brain responsible for concentration and decision-making.
10. It’s normal for kids to hear voices.
Creepy Facts about the Human Body
11. When a human embryo cell begins to develop, the anus is the first organ to emerge. Which means that you were once nothing but an **asshole**.
12. Eyes have a separate immune system that operates independently from the rest of the body. And once your body discovers you have eyes, it will attack the eye immune system and cause severe blood vessel inflammation or even permanent vision loss.
13. Over 75% of people have a mild form of gum disease.
14. The heart can beat faster as a warning of impending danger.
15. An adult person’s digestive tract is approximately nine meters long.
16. The average person produces up to two liters of saliva every day.
17. The average person also produces more than one liter of mucus every day, much of which we end up swallowing.
18. The body smells differently at different ages.
19. You’re nearly as tall as your wingspan.
20. You could break a rib sneezing.
Creepy Animal Facts
21. Chimpanzees don’t normally attack to kill. Instead, they aim for the face, fingers, and genitals and will leave the opponent alive.
22. Sharks have been around for over 400 million years and have survived five major planet extinctions. That makes them older than humanity and even the legendary dinosaurs.
23. Cockroaches can live for up to nine days without their heads.
24. Ladybugs eat their own larvae to guarantee the survival of the other larvae.
25. A sting from the Japanese Hornet can result in kidney failure.
26. After scorpions shed their tails, they die of constipation. That’s because scorpions release excrement through a spot close to their stingers. Therefore, they lose the ability to defecate after shedding their tails, resulting in extreme constipation.
27. The cute golden poison dart frog contains enough poison to kill up to 20 adults.
28. Horned lizards can squirt blood from their eyes up to 2 meters. It’s one of the most bizarre defense mechanisms in the animal kingdom.
29. Pigs can eat an entire human body. Well, that’s pretty much because they’ll eat just about anything.
30. Ducks are inherently cannibalistic. And while scientists haven’t figured out all the reasons yet, the bizarre feeding behavior is associated with boredom, poor ventilation, and overcrowding.
31. Dogs like squeaky toys because the sound mimics that of captured prey.
32. Dogs and cats can detect negative energy. These pets can see ghosts too.
33. Dogs can pick up diseases like cancer and diabetes in humans before the onset of visible symptoms.
34. When male bees mate, their testicles explode. This leaves the tip of their genitals inside the queen and is a way to stop another male bee from mating with the queen.
35. As part of the initiative to clean up the Ganges River of human corpses in the 1990s, the Indian government trained snapping turtles to eat human remains.
Creepy Health Facts
36. Capgras Syndrome is a mental condition in which a person believes that the people closest to them have been replaced by impostors.
37. Cotard’s Syndrome, also known as walking corpse syndrome, is a medical condition in which the patient believes they’re dead, dying, inexistent, or missing parts of their body. People with this condition will refuse to eat, speak, or engage in human behaviors because they believe they’re actually dead.
38. Exploding Head Syndrome is a condition whereby some people wake up hearing a very loud yet painless bang in their heads.
39. Homicidal sleepwalking, also known as homicidal somnambulism or sleepwalking murder, is a medical cum legal term for committing murder while sleepwalking.
40. Situs inversus is a rare genetic condition whereby the positions of the organs in a person’s chest and abdomen are reversed or inverted. For instance, the heart may appear on the right and not the left side.
41. Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a theoretical phenomenon where the human body suddenly bursts into flames.
42. Fatal familial insomnia is a rare but severe genetic degenerative brain disorder marked by a complete lack of sleep.
43. Sleep paralysis is a terrifying condition in which you’re awake but cannot move. Sufferers often hallucinate demons.
44. Locked-In Syndrome is another terrifying condition in which a person is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state.
45. Retrograde ejaculation is a phenomenon wherein a man experiences orgasm without producing semen.
46. There are mites in your eyelashes called Demodex folliculorum. These parasites live on hair follicles and are responsible for some of eye twitching.
47. The average belly button can contain as many as 67 million different bacteria species.
48. Your phone has more germs than a public washroom.
49. More money is invested globally in viagra and botox than in studying Alzheimer’s.
50. When you’re too constipated, you can vomit poop.
51. The average person inhales approximately 45 pounds of dust in their lifetime.
52. Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.
53. There’s no such thing as death from old age. Rather, it’s death from old age diseases.
54. Foreskin is used to grow skin for skin grafts.
55. Period cramps are essentially the womb suffocating itself.
56. We develop cancerous cells every day. However, our immune systems deal with it.
57. Blood pressure rises hours before you wake up from sleep.
Creepy Historical Facts
58. Victorian British ate mummies.
59. Six nuclear weapons have disappeared without a trace since the 1950s.
60. A ship was discovered floating in the ocean in 1872, with no signs of its crew or passengers. The ship was called Mary Celeste.
61. In the 1800s, dentures were made from the real teeth of deceased people.
62. Before the invention of cups and bowls, ancient English people used hollowed-out human skulls to hold their food and drink.
63. Before the perfection of cesarean delivery, chainsaws were used to remove parts of the pelvis to allow big babies to pass through the birth canal.
64. There is an ancient book full of bizarre symbols that no one can translate. It’s called the Voynich Manuscript.
65. In 897 AD, Pope Formosus was put on trial for perjury and other crimes posthumously.
66. The mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico are believed to have been buried alive. That’s due to their dramatic facial expressions.
67. There was a vampire scare in America in the 19th century where tuberculosis-infected people were thought to be vampires and buried as such. Later exhumations revealed that some of these people were buried with their heads chopped.
68. When the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland was first built in the 1960s, it used real skeletons.
69. People once paid to drink the blood of the recently executed, believing it was healthy.
70. The bubonic plague killed around 75 million people worldwide.
71. The 1918 flu pandemic killed even more – between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide.
72. 17-year-old Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) is the only person to have survived death by electric chair. He survived the ordeal on May 3, 1946 but was eventually executed the following year.
73. A novel titled “The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility” and written 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic ship might have predicted the ship’s fate.
Creepy Death Facts
74. A human head will remain conscious for around 20 seconds after sudden and quick decapitation.
75. The sense of hearing is often the last of the senses to go out upon death.
76. The eyeballs flatten out shortly after death due to the loss of blood pressure.
77. You continue to poop for days after your death.
78. It’s possible to get an erection after death.
79. A body decomposes up to four times faster in water than on land.
80. Within three days of death, the enzymes that inhabit your digestive system will start to digest your body.
81. When you die, your body begins to release liquids and gasses. It’s what causes your corpse to swell and smell.
82. Contrary to popular belief, your hair and nails don’t continue to grow after you die. Instead, your skin retracts due to dehydration, pushing out the hair and nails.
83. The insects inhabiting a body reveal much about the time/date of death.
84. More natural deaths and less suicides occur during the holiday season.
85. Hanging is the most popular method of suicide worldwide.
86. More people die from taking selfies than from shark attacks.
87. Most people who perish in fires don’t die from the burns sustained but from insufficient oxygen and/or inhaling toxic compounds
88. Approximately 2,500 left-handed people die annually using products designed for right-handed people.
89. Alaska has the highest suicide rate of any state in the country
90. The difference between a coffin and a casket is all in the shape. Coffins are typically tapered at the bottom whereas caskets are rectangular.
Other Creepy Facts
91. Poveglia Island is reportedly the most haunted island in the world.
92. The Tower of London is allegedly haunted by lots of ghosts.
93. Loch Ness and Loch Morar are lakes in the UK believed to harbor monsters.
94. There are tunnels full of human skeletons underneath Paris.
95. There are more than 200 bodies on Mount Everest and many are oddly used as trail markers for hikers.
96. The Egyptian pyramids were constructed to prevent grave robbers from stealing valuables buried with the royals.
97. Isla de las Munecas, known in English as the Island of Dolls, is a small island located south of Mexico City that’s full of dolls hanging from buildings and trees.
98. The Exorcist is arguably the scariest horror film of all time. When the movie trailer first hit the theaters, viewers were so frightened they ran out of the room. The film’s trailer would eventually stop showing in theaters.
99. 80% of Tibetan Buddhists prefer a sky burial, in which their remains are placed atop mountains to be consumed by birds of prey.
100. The amount of iron obtained from the blood from 400 humans would be enough to forge a sword.
Wrap Up
The above-listed facts may be spooky, alright. But they’re also fun and informative. Reflecting on them deeply enough might help you cultivate a sobering outlook about life and the world at large.
We’ll start a comment thread below so you can let us know of any other random facts you think ought to have featured on the list.