Month: April 2021

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Creepy Stories That People Have Read Online

If you love creepy stories, there is no shortage of them on the internet. Whether they’re true, complete fiction, or a little bit of both, there are a ton that will raise every hair on your body at once.

These 16 stories are the creepiest of the creepy, though, so if you’re about to read through this thread, I hope you’re ready.

Let’s go.

16. Every single night.

I can’t find it but one where this kid was spending the night with his new friend. Went down into the basement to go to sleep and saw an abnormally tall native american man standing in the corner.

The “man” looked at him so he ran upstairs to sleep in his friend’s room. He woke up around 3 am to the sound of whispering coming from the floor vent(which led to the basement). His friend was awake too and said, “I hear it every night”.

15. She’s one lucky girl.

Years ago, I was on a cross country trip, solo, to a family reunion. I was supposed to make it a friends house, but there was horrible weather, it was slow moving. Then a terrible accident happened just ahead of me, and I was stuck for quite a while. All told I was five hours behind schedule.

I was exhausted, in need of a bathroom and a shower, so I pulled into a little strip motel off of a fairly back roads state road. It was obviously small and dirty, but would work in a pinch.

There was a window to the outside where check in was. The guy there eyed me up (then a college aged girl), asked me if I was traveling alone. I went to hand him my ID and credit card, but he insisted cash only. Red flags were going off at this point, but I scrounged together just enough cash and he tossed me the key.

The room was dirty, barely bigger than the bed. The first thing I did was go to the bathroom, then I flipped up the mattress: dirty, signs of bed bugs. A moment later, I spied a cockroach.

That was it, I was out. I decided I would use the parking space at least, and sleep in the back trunk hatch of my suv. I curled up, using a suitcase for a pillow and random clothes for a blanket and fell asleep for an hour.

I woke up aware of someone talking on a phone outside, and glanced out to see the guy from check in standing outside (it was now around 3 am). He finished up his call, then walked quietly over TO MY ROOM, unlocked the door, and walked in. The lights didn’t turn on, and a minute or two later later, he came back out, slamming the door behind him, and cursing, with ANOTHER GUY. I hadn’t seen guy two enter, so I still don’t know where he came from.

They angrily talked for a moment, then check in guy walked over to my suv. I covered up my head quickly with a shirt. After he tried the locked door, he peered in the backseat, but between my tinted windows, and blending into the general mess, he didn’t notice me in the hatch.

The two guys walked away to the far side if the lot. talking more, the one gesturing across the street where a diner was. While they were distracted, I climbed up to the front seat and started up the suv, they turning around in surprise as I pulled away.

I called my friends back home and told them, but didn’t want to worry my family, so I said nothing to them. When I got back home some three weeks later, we figured out the name of the hotel thanks to google maps and called the local police. They told me the place had closed down only days before I called.

14. Creepy is an understatement.

I have a creepy one from my own life; during my teenage years I would stay up extremely late playing World of Warcraft (headphones on, my back to the door).

My parents had broken up years past and my dad was working nights to pay the bills, basically. He wasn’t home this night.

It was a bit creepy being home alone, so I would always close the door to my room. Headphones on and forget about being home alone, by speaking to friends in the game.

Cut to the middle of the night, I turn off the game to go to bed where I turn to see the door to my room slightly ajar, the front door to the house wide open, as well as the back door out to the garden.

No sign of break in, but I assume someone broke in through an unlocked door, heard me speaking, checked me out from behind, and left the house in a hurry.

I always double checked the locks after this ?

13. I would never be ok.

I sat on the bed while using the phone, and when I dropped the phone I saw something under the bed.

There was someone under my bed… My eyes widened and I choked the urge to scream. The person under my bed was lying still with his back towards me and his head to his chest, so I couldn’t see his face. And he didn’t see me, trying to be rational while so many thoughts rushed through my head, I picked up the phone, said “Sorry I dropped my phone, I’m just gonna take a shower and call you back.”

The bathroom is right by my bed so I hastily walked in, quietly locked the door, turned the shower on, jumped out my window (my apartment is on the first floor) and called the police. They told me to wait nearby, but to go to across the street and see if anyone comes out the door to the apartment complex. This was during summer and it was still light out, I placed myself across the street, hiding behind a car while watching my open bathroom window and the entry door. I called my boyfriend and he came to me just before the police. I gave them my keys and they went inside. Only moments later two cops came out holding a thin and tired looking man. His eyes looked crazy, but he didn’t try to get away. The policeman that had stood beside me and comforted me while the police searched through my house (I was a mess, shivering and crying) told me that the man stood outside my bathroom door with one of my kitchen knives waiting for me to come out.

This man had somehow crept in my entry door while I was getting my mail and hid under the bed.The man that was trying to hurt me turned out to be a homeless person and was placed in a mental hospital. My boyfriend moved in with me the very next day.

12. I wish I didn’t have an attic.

One of the creepiest ones I’ve read is where someone was living in their attic. That really creeped me out for a bit. The idea that someone could be living in your place and you don’t even know.

Another one where these urban explorers were crawling through the inside concrete work of a bridge. They found evidence of someone living in there.

11. I have so many questions.

A rapist lived inside a child’s bed for 3 months whilst hiding from the police in Manchester (2007) her parents had no idea he was there. Totally true story.

10. That’s not funny.

I live in England now but for a few months I lived in Wales in a really old row of houses that were built for coal miners. The day I moved in I unpacked all my stuff (it wasn’t much, I was only there for 8 months, for work) and went to bed, absolutely cream crackered.

I was laying in bed, just drifting off to sleep when I hear a knocking sound. I sat bolt upright and started listening for the origins of the knocking. It was a gentle sound at first but got progressively louder.

After about 10 minutes of me shi**ing myself I locate the knocking (which had become a banging by now)… it was coming from the ceiling. I went down stairs to get the biggest knife I could find and apprehensive, climbed into the loft. In my loft was a bloke in his 20s!

Turns out in some of those old houses don’t have separating walls so you can move all the way along the row of houses with access to any of them if you cared for it.

This was my new work mates idea of an initiation joke. It almost ended up with one of them getting stabbed but it still makes me laugh to look back on. You better believe I put a bloody great padlock on the loft hatch the next day, just to be safe.

9. Are we sure it’s nothing?

This one always freaks me out because I sleep talk and use a sleep recording app. Sorry for the amp link, I’m doing this on my phone. There’s a bunch of other posts that do analysis on the recording.

A lady records audio while she’s sleeping. She sleep talks, asking “what are you doing?” and a voice replies “nothing.”

8. Nothing good, that’s for sure.

The Australian guy who posted about the shipping container out in the desert and when he came back later everything was torched.

I think it was used for kiddy p**n or something similar

7. Hope you’ve got a good hiding place.

One where this lady lives by herself and in the middle of the night she hears crashing in the downstairs of her house and then hears someone large running up the stairs toward her.

She grabs her cellphone and climbs into an attic in her closet.

She called 911 and it was apparently some guy who had escaped prison and was looking for someone to prey on.

6. Why is this so scary?

There was a guy who sold a house but didn’t tell the owners that there was a secret bunk on the property and was still living there.

He never posted again.

5. That’s one horrible twist.

The one where a man asks Reddit for advice when he finds out his wife was cheating on him with the neighbor. He takes Reddit’s advice and files for a divorce.

The kids were stabbed to death by the wife the next day.

I think he even wrote in a update how every time he visits his kids’ grave there’s always somebody from his wife’s family stalking him there.

4. That kid is never going to be the same!

Where a kid wakes up in the middle of the night due to tv static and hugs his suppose father who is sitting on couch.

Kid asks father later that morning why he was watching tv so late but father says it wasn’t him.

3. Static people are no joke.

There is one story about some kid having a sleepover in the basement of a rich kid and he saw a tall, only somewhat human shaped figure on the basement wall due to the static from the TV.

The static turned off and the kid went back to sleep, only to wake up to the friend’s mom screaming. Years later the friend’s mom said that she saw a tall, oddly shaped figure in front of her bedroom door.

That story first appeared when I was about 12 years old and it scared the sh** out of me for a whole month and made me extremely paranoid to go to bed without the whole room lit up.

2. A complete nightmare.

A week or so before my 10th birthday, I walked to the corner store with a $5 bill and picked up a jar of Ragu for my mom. On my way home, a man I’d never seen before fell in step with me and began talking.

“Hi!” he said, cheerfully. “My name is Dr. Ramsey. I’m a pediatrician. Do you know what a pediatrician is?”

I walked along silently, not replying and fervently hoping he would take that as a sign he should leave me alone. Subtleties were not his strong suit, though, because he kept right on chattering.

“Are your parents looking for a pediatrician for you? Of course, you’re almost a big girl now, you’ll be needing another kind of doctor soon, won’t you? That’s okay though. They can still bring you to me until then. What’s your name? You have beautiful hair. I was just on my way to get some suckers for the candy jar in my office. Do you like suckers?”

Thankfully, we were nearing my house, so I ran forward, up the back steps and into through the kitchen door. I didn’t know it then, but that was the beginning of a very long, very scary ordeal. It didn’t take long after that for “Dr. Ramsey” to begin showing up. At first, it seemed benign enough…at least to a kid. He would drive by nearly every day, smiling and waving. I told my mom, who said maybe it was on his way home from work. But then, the phone calls began.

My dad called me into the living room, and sat me down. He asked about the day Dr. Ramsey followed me home, and if I talked to him. He said I wasn’t in trouble, but that I needed to tell him the truth. I told him know, and he asked if I was sure…could I be forgetting something? I told him know again, and he frowned, then asked “Then how does he know your name?” I didn’t know.

It turns out, that was not all he knew. He knew my sister’s name as well. Pretty soon, neither my sister or I were allowed to answer the phone. He called several times a day; at first, neither of us knew what he was saying. Then, one night, one of my brothers told us that he was telling my parents that he was going to hurt me (and later, my sister).

Things got complicated after that. My dad had called the police, but as this was before there were any stalking laws, there was not a lot they could do. They told my parents to call back if he “tried anything”. My dad then called a friend of his from back in the day, who happened to be a cop. For the next month, my dad’s friend escorted me to and from school. Suddenly, life as I knew it came screeching to a halt. I couldn’t walk to school alone, I couldn’t play outside, I couldn’t walk to SuperAmerica (sort of like a 7-11 for those who don’t know).

When access to me was completely denied, things escalated. It was around this time he began threatening my sister as well. Then one afternoon my sister, two of my brothers, my mom and I were in the kitchen. One of my brothers saw a glimpse of someone in the garage; they’d seen him too. Dr. Ramsey came bolting out of the garage, my brothers chasing after him. They ran all the way to Cherokee Park, where he lost them in the trees. My parents called the police again, but nothing came of it. The only information they had was a description and a name that was almost certainly fake.

A couple weeks later, we woke to find our dog hanging from the side porch. She was a gorgeous saddle-back German shepherd, born the same day I was. We were all devastated. The cops said there was no evidence it was him, and ruled it accidental, but none of us believed that.

His phone calls became more informative in the meantime. He would talk about who was home, and who wasn’t. If my brother would say my dad was home, he would tell him who was really in the house. He also would talk about the house itself…about the window in the kitchen he could easily open with a knife from the outside even when it was locked, and about the french doors that connected the living room to the side porch and how the lock could be finagled from the outside if you jiggled it just right. That night, my dad put in some carpenter nails at the bottom of the french doors until he could get a new lock ordered.

My parents had to go to a company event for my dad’s work. My older brothers were at Saints West roller skating rink. My sister was on the phone with her best friend. My little brother was on the floor asleep. I was watching Devo on the Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack. It was late. Suddenly, the top of the french doors swung inward, and in the few miliseconds before the nails in the bottom caused them to snap back, I could see his silhouette. My sister whipped the phone at the television, and we ran up the stairs. About halfway up, we realized our little brother was still asleep on the living room floor. As quietly as we could, we slipped back down the stairs to get him. We all went into our bedroom and didn’t turn on the light; this way we could see outside. We watched out the window for a while, and when we didn’t find him, we crept down the hall to our brothers’ room to look. We looked down and could see someone standing at the backdoor. He knocked, loudly.

“What do you want?” my sister asked out the window. He stepped back and said “Is this the Mercy residence? I have a pizza for delivery. Can you come to the door?” She scoffed at him, declaring she was not stupid, she could see he didn’t have a pizza, and she was calling the cops. He left.

A short while later, my brothers returned home. We told them what happened and they walked around the yard, watching for him. They came back in, and things settled down. By now we’d pretty much given up calling the cops because it never helped, so we just went back in, each of us (except my youngest brother, still asleep) carrying a knife from the kitchen “just in case”. Eventually, one of my brothers went into the kitchen to get a bowl of cereal as a snack.

You know that sensation you get when you can just feel someone watching you? Yeah, he had that in spades. He kept looking around the kitchen, through the doorway into the dining room, at the windows. He didn’t see anything, but he could still feel eyes on him, so he went closer to the door to try to see better. The kitchen lights were reflecting on the windows of the door (it had 3 rows of 3 windows), so he still couldn’t see. He stepped closer, then closer again, until he was right up to the door, then cupped his hands on either side of his head so he could see. There on the other side of the window pane was Dr. Ramsey, smiling back at him. He turned to yell for my older brothers, and when he looked back again, he was gone. They went out again to look for him, but didn’t see him.

The next night we were at the table playing crazy 8’s, and my brother was restless. My sister asked him what’s wrong, and he said he always felt like any minute now there would be a ‘boom boom boom!’ on a door or window. Almost immediately after he finished his sentence, “BOOM BOOM BOOM!” on the window right behind him. In the chaos, the two eldest ran out, but he was already gone.

A couple of weeks later, I was at school and we were outside on the playground during recess. I was swinging upside down when I saw that now-familiar blue Ford Galaxy cruising by, moving slowly. There he was, smiling and waving. He called my name, and I ran to the teacher and told her. The school had been told all about him, and she took me inside right away and called my mom. That same day my mom had gotten a call from the school office asking her to verify that my dad was picking me up, as he’d called to say he was on his way. He wasn’t.

Not long after that, I woke up one night, thirsty. I went down to the kitchen for a drink and there, sitting alone in the dark, was my dad. On the table, a gun. He was tired of the the police waiting until Dr. Ramsey “tried something”, he was tired of his children being terrorized, he was tired of being afraid every time he left for work that something would happen to us while he was gone. I sat with him for a time, watching, before he sent me back to bed.

These events, and many more, took place over a period of around 18 months. Then, as suddenly as it began, it was over. He had vanished from our lives; the phone calls, the drive-by with the creepy waves, everything. For a long time, during and after the Dr. Ramsey days, I would have a recurring nightmare in which I would wake up to find him standing over me as I slept. It took a long time before I felt like a kid again.

I found out years later that when he was calling, Dr. Ramsey would tell my parents that he was going to rape and kill me, and later my sister…and that there was nothing they could do about it. I don’t know what happened to him when he disappeared. I don’t know if he was in a car wreck, locked in prison, in a coma…but sometimes I wonder if the wait ended for my dad when he was sitting in the darkened kitchen one night. I don’t know, and I’m not sure I want to.

1. Sometimes the details just hit you wrong.

It’s probably here somewhere, but I read this one where it was from the perspective of a kid. It was about 9 at night and someone knocks on the door of their house.

The kid’s dad goes to open the door, but notices that the security light hasn’t been tripped by someone coming up to the door, so he keeps the chain lock on and opens the door just a crack. He can see that there’s more than one person there, but they’re standing in the shadows and he can’t make out their faces. When he asks who’s there, a laughing voice of a girl asks if “Kenny” is there. Not sure of the name.

The dad says there’s no one by that name at that house, but the sound of the voice is familiar to the kid. The dad slams the door, makes sure all points of entry are locked and they go to sleep. In the morning, every house on the block has been broken into and vandalized except for theirs.

It turned out to be a group of older kids from school.

It may not seem that scary, but the thought of someone deliberately loosening the security light bulb so that you can’t see them when you open your door at night freaks me right out.

I love scary stories but I would not be ok if I read these alone after dark.

What’s the scariest story you’ve read online? If it’s not here, share it with us in the comments!

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Straight People Ask Questions About the LGBTQI+ Community

One of the most important things to do when we’re trying to be empathetic or understanding about a community that isn’t our own is to do our best to walk in their shoes. That said, generally we don’t want to spend time bothering minorities with questions that we could easily Google or figure out on our own.

When there’s an open forum, though, everything is fair game – so see what these 17 straight folks asked the LGBTQ+ community when they had the chance.

17. How to best handle a new brother after he came out as trans?

Just ask him what he would prefer. He’s still your sibling, and I’m sensing you guys have a positive relationship, so it’s okay to outright ask him how he would prefer you to talk to him. It may be as simple as just changing pronouns, without trying to “bro it up” just for his sake.

Communication is key. Make sure you guys are on the same page and you’ll be fine. If he were a coworker or friend or acquaintance, I would steer away from outright asking, but for close friends and family, sometimes it’s best to just be honest, open, and vulnerable with the people you trust.

Find out what he is looking for or feels comfortable with, and go from there.

16. It’s a nice generic term that works for everyone.

I am a healthcare provider and when going through your social history if you are married or in a long term relationship and you tell me you have a “partner” is that for my comfort or do you really prefer referring to them as your partner?

15. How can a dad handle his 13yo son’s first boyfriend?

Treat him like you would if he had a gf. If he is having relationship problems talk to him about it and offer support. See if he wants to join any local lgbt+ groups (post covid obvs).

I want to add on to this, to note that dad is going to still want to talk about safer sex practices, even though pregnancy isn’t a likely outcome. It’s still important.

14. What support did you need when you came out?

When I (m) came out as bi to my college girlfriend, I made sure to tell her that I was happy in our relationship, didn’t want to experiment while I was in a relationship with her, and that I just wanted her to know everything about me.

She cried for a week. So, don’t do that.

Spoiler alert: she came out as a lesbian five years later and is now married to a woman.

13. If a bi person ends up with a straight person is that look down upon in the community?

To your main point, bi people in straight relationships can be looked down on by the community, yeah.

That’s biphobia.

It’s fairly common, unfortunately, and comes from a place of ignorance, since someone being in a heterosexual relationship doesn’t make the person any less bi.

It’s kind of the whole idea that they like both.

12. Is there ever a big queer cookout called the LGBBQ?

LG setting up a corporate cookout for their employees called LGBBQ at the end of a good Quarter getting confused at all the random people at their cookout.

11. As a straight person, am I allowed to use the “Q” word? I grew up in the 80s and it was considered a slur, as bad as the F word, and for that reason I feel weird using it.

I’m queer and I would personally say it’s fine is that person refers to themselves as queer.

I know some older LGBTQ+ people don’t like being referred to as queer because they grew up with it as a slur, so I would just use that word if that’s how they refer themselves.

10. Seriously, what is the Q for? I’m not being sarcastic or trolling, I don’t get the distinction.

Queer is just an umbrella term.

Kind of like how “pasta” is an umbrella term for certain foods.

Back in the 80s and 90s, the Q did stand for Questioning. As with everything, the community continues to grow and embrace resulting in new interpretations and broader definitions.

9. How would you feel about straight friends going with you to something like pride?

Hells yeah you can join at pride. Pride is a place for lgbt+ people and allies alike. So long as you are being nice and respectful of everyone it’s all cool.

Seriously, I think it comes down to your reasons for going. Do you want to go to be supportive of the queer community, or do you want to go to get drunk and look at the weirdos? If you’re there to be supportive the more the merrier.

Sadly, a lot of pride celebrations have become more of a party for straight people than a celebration of queer identity.

People get f*cked up and cause trouble, or make fun of outlandish outfits, etc.

8. What’s the + for. Like literally plus anything else?

It’s just an easier way of saying etc. so that other parts aren’t left out of the community, but you don’t have to say every single letter.

7. How do you feel now that commercials and media are more representative of more races, genders, orientations, etc? Do you notice it? Does it make you feel good, bad, indifferent?

Sometimes it’s really good but depending on what the media is it can feel really fake and like they’re capitalizing off of it.

Brooklyn 99 has really good representation, but I find certain businesses going “yayy we support the gayy” really toxic.

I think it’s cool, being able to see people like myself just existing in modern day, without having it be some big deal.

6. Do some bisexuals who want to have kids tend to favor relationships with the opposite sex because it makes it just so much easier?

I am a bisexual man and would like to have kids someday.

I’ve seriously dated both men and women, but I just happened to find “my person” in my 9o who is a gay man.

I guess I’d rather spend my life with him and adopt children than get hung up on needing biological children with a woman.

Passing down my crooked teeth gene and a family history of depression probably wouldn’t do my kids service, anyway!

5. One of my best friends and old roommate (I got a job somewhere else) is gay and told me he didn’t like a lot of toxicity some people bring the the LGBTQ+ community. Is this something anyone else has experienced?

It exists especially, sadly, where gay communities are better established. For example I’ve been accused of lying to get “into” an lgbtq friendly apartment in Toronto. I’m bi but was dating a dude at the time.

When I went for my roommate interview I was accused of lying to get the apartment. Though I’m bi, and it was advertised as an lgbtq “friendly” apartment. In my mind, that’s the same as 4/20 friendly in that I thought it meant “were cool with it,” not like you HAD to be gay (nevermind, gay ENOUGH for their standards) to live there.

Being gay in Canadian cities is pretty safe but it’s very lonely and cookie cutter. By the time I was 22 or 23 (I’m 30 now) I flat out gave up on trying to find a welcoming community.

My sexuality isn’t something I live and breathe constantly, and it was exhausting to be told you’re not gay enough when the rest of the world is disgusted you’re not straight enough.

4. What is the correct way to respond to someone who comes out to you?

I’ve always responded with “Thank you for trusting me enough to share that with me,” and it seems to be well received.

It acknowledges that it’s a big deal to say it out loud and that they’re vulnerable in that moment.

The correct way to respond is to match their energy. If they’re energetic about it, match that energy. If they’re chill about it, match that.

3. What are some things you SHOULD and SHOULD NOT say to a transitioning person to comfort them?

SHOULD

-Use their preferred name and pronouns

-Tell then that if they want to try out a name you could try and call them that so they see if they like it or not.

-If you have a way to validate them try it out (e.g. If you’re a girl with a trans girl friend you could offer her help choosing clothes, giving tips about shaving, etc. If you’re a dude and have a trans man friend invite them to some “dude activities” like hanging with the boys, working out together, etc) TIP: DON’T force them to do it, even if they’re trans they might not be yet confortable enough, or maybe they don’t want to be the stereotype of their preferred gender, maybe a trans girl still wants to dress butch or a trans man might still rock a dress or makeup.

-Treat them as you already did, we don’t want to be treated like we carry the plague or something, we’re still your friend and nothing should change besides the pronouns and name you use to refer to ourselves.

SHOULD NOT

-Out them to someone without asking first (this can be subtle, for example talking about how “when they were still a he/she” or profusely apologizing when getting the pronouns wrong) it’s sometimes dangerous and invalidating!

-Deadname/Misgender them when you’re mad at them, yeah it might be tempting to hurt someone when you’re mad, however for some of us the mental pain goes beyond a regular insult; imagine someone making fun about a very personal issue you confided to someone you though you could trust, we’ll be left thinking you don’t really support us and that you’re just “acting up”

-Never end any compliment with “for a trans person” you’re so pretty for a trans girl, you have such a great beard for a trans man, etc For you it might sound nice, however it can be felt like you’re invalidating us or make us insecure. Yes we are proud of our identity however we just want to live a regular life as our preferred gender, so there’s no need to constantly remind us!

Of course there are lots more, however as others have said, each trans folk is different so just ask them!

2. I’d like to ask the other LGBTQ+ people when they received their copy of the gay agenda and when I can expect to receive mine.

If you came out between July 2019 and now, it was delayed due to COVID.

You typically get your copy in the first Pride after you come out, but the planning meeting for last year got cancelled because of the pandemic, so there isn’t an agenda for this year

1. As a teacher, how can I be better? Is there anything I should avoid that might not be so obvious?

If a student comes out to you ask trans/nb, show them acceptance (use their name, pronouns, etc) and if you see them being harassed for being lgbt+ stand up for them.

Also don’t out them unless they are okay with it (ie if they’re only out to you and they don’t want anyone else to know be conscious of names and pronouns used around others)

Some good questions here, and better discussion.

If you’re not straight, what would you share with straight people? Tell us in the comments.

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15 Facts That Are Very Disturbing

There’s a good chance that you’re going to stumble across a few facts in your lifetime that you wish you hadn’t read.

Knowledge is power and all of that, but I mean…some things we just don’t want or need to know.

That said, you can’t “un”know things, so what do you do with the most disturbing facts you know?

You wait until the perfect question shows up on Reddit and then hit other people with them, of course!

15. Definitely horrible.

The chances of any of the super powerful people that used Jeffrey Epstein’s Island as a place to f*ck underage girls actually being punished for what they did is almost zero.

Clearly, these people are never going to face any kind of legal punishment, so I’d really appreciate if some kind of superhero assassin would just do us all a favor and take care of it.

Obviously, that’ll never happen, but a girl can dream.

14. It’s all very efficient.

Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.

13. So glad I’m not that guy.

Khaled El-Masri is a German and Lebanese citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003, and handed over to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While in CIA custody, he was flown to Afghanistan, where he was held at a black site and routinely interrogated, beaten, strip-searched, sodomized, and subjected to other cruel forms of inhumane and degrading treatment and torture.

After El-Masri held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the “Salt Pit”, the CIA finally admitted his arrest and torture were a mistake and released him. He is believed to be among an estimated 3,000 detainees whom the CIA abducted from 2001–2005.

In May 2004, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Daniel R. Coats, convinced the German interior minister, Otto Schily, not to press charges or to reveal the program.

El-Masri filed suit against the CIA for his arrest, extraordinary rendition and torture. In 2006, his suit El Masri v. Tenet, in which he was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was dismissed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, based on the U.S. government’s claiming the state secrets privilege. The ACLU said the Bush administration attempted to shield its abuses by invoking this privilege. The case was also dismissed by the Appeals Court for the Fourth Circuit, and in December 2007, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

On 13 December 2012, El-Masri won an Article 34 case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The court determined he had been tortured while held by CIA agents and ruled that Macedonia was responsible for abusing him while in the country, and knowingly transferring him to the CIA when torture was a possibility.

It awarded him compensation. Which was fuck all.
This marked the first time that CIA activities against detainees was legally declared as torture.
The European Court condemned nations for collaborating with the United States in these secret programs.

12. That will keep you up at night.

Antibiotic resistance.

In 2010 I got a MRSA infection. Spent 6 weeks in and out of hospital ending in organ failure and sepsis- nearly died. 2 months later I was back in again. 2 months after that I was back again.

On my 3rd admittance they had run out of antibiotics to give me. The doctors researched for hours to find something they could try. Dug up an old antibiotic with terrible side effects and tried it… it didn’t work. Luckily one of the ones I had previously tried and had a bad reaction to (during sepsis, so probably not the medication)- they tried again and it worked.

But being deathly ill while the doctors have no idea what to give you is a scary place to be!

11. There’s nothing more disturbing as a parent.

Thousands of children are sexually abused every day by adults they are supposed to be able to trust.

10. I’m not sure this is scary…

The actual scientific cure for hiccups is anal massaging…and it works.

9. You just never know.

You might feel like the healthiest person in the world and yet still randomly die in your sleep. Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is just one example. There are tons of small obstructions and irregularities that your heart could be suffering from that go completely unnoticed by you, your friends, and your doctors.

You might be at an increased risk of just passing on when you go to bed tonight, and no one would even suspect as much until you actually died.

8. Where do they all go?

Every single year, there are thousands of people in the US alone who disappear.

Most of them show up again; usually the next day but sometimes a few days, a few weeks or even a few months later.

However, out of these thousands of people, there are roughly 150 people – every single year – who disappear and… simply never appear again. Nobody knows what has happened to those people. They might be dead, they might not be, we simply don’t know.

7. The harsh truth.

Every time unemployment goes up 1%, 40,000 people die. From “The Big Short.”

Well yeah, it’s bad enough losing your job but it’s infinitely worse when you’ve got a chronic condition and your health insurance is suddenly gone.

6. His poor mother.

Dylan Klebold, one of the killers of the Columbine massacre, attended the school’s prom three nights before the shooting. When he got home he was talking to his mom and showed her the flask he’d brought to prom, explaining that they’d only drank a little bit. He told her “I just wanted you to know you can trust me.”

It’s so chilling that he could say that and less than 72 hours later participate in the killing of 13 other people and himself.

5. I’m sorry, what?

A lone pilot was flying in Australia in 1978.

He reported to air traffic control that he was accompanied by an aircraft above him.

When asked to identify the aircraft, he replied “It isn’t an aircraft”.

His plane disappeared, and was never to be found again.

4. Swoon!

In just 1 kiss, over 80 million bacteria are exchanged

3. Is that all?

The average American consumes over 150 pounds of sugar every year.

2. I actually love this.

The Amazon Forest has a huge gap of virgin forest between Brazil and other countries, places kilometers away from the nearest cities. The Brazilian institute for native Indians (FUNAI) has got agents overlooking tribes and they take flights over the forest and always end up spotting huts, fire pits and bow-and-arrow armed men. There are plenty of unknown tribes hiding somewhere that huge forest. People never contacted by “civilization”.

The fun fact is even the Institute agents have no idea of number, types and tribes there inside. Can’t track down, account, or detect their genealogy.

Amazon forest is a complex and humid place, you can hide a family of elephants there inside and you won’t see it from the sky.

1. Eat your fruit.

When you have scurvy, all your old scars and wounds open up, due to the vitamin needed to maintain scar tissue. So for me for example, I had my jaw dislocated and my gums cut open from check to check to remove wisdom teeth.

If I got scurvy I would bleed uncontrollably from the inside of my mouth out.

What would be your most horrifying scar?

I’m…I don’t know how to feel right now but it’s not good.

We might as well continue – share your worst facts with us in the comments!

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Read About When Therapists Were the Opposite of Helpful or Kind

We all realize by now that while the majority of people in the world try their best to be kind and to do the right thing, there are bad apples out there – and they fall off the tree and land in all sorts of professions.

Even ones, it turns out, that are normally populated by people who go the extra mile to serve those who need it the most.

These 12 people signed up for mental healthcare because they needed help and a kind, understanding ear – and they got total jerks who should have their licenses revoked, honestly.

12. So much cringe.

Had to go to the hospital because I had cut myself about 4 years ago, I sat in the room where there are multiple different people and cases going on so there wasn’t any walls in between patients. And what does the head nurse do?

“We got a cutter! We got a cutter!” To the whole damn room, you could see how uncomfortable the other nurses were and even some police men looking after someone else looked upset she decided to yell it to everyone. Made me feel like complete garbage on top of how I already felt at the time.

11. Not the best parenting.

tl;dr: cheap parents ‘hired’ a therapist they knew would give them info, i got suspicious and confirmation after i told a ridiculous lie and my parents sat me down to talk about it when i had never told them anything. since it was a lie. it took YEARS to trust any adult after that. (of which i still struggle with as a 34 yo)

in high school i was pretty difficult because of some real intense shit happening in my life. i wasnt on drugs or violent or flunking out. HOWEVER, i had a super rough family home life as well as some sexual assault stuff and i withdrew because of it. my parents were very “sunday christian” meaning while at church theyre the best christians but the teachings did NOT make it home. (they still dont understand why only 1 of their 6 kids talk to them etc etc kinda thing).

anyway they gave us NO Privacy ever, always in our phones, our bags, our rooms, just in every aspect of our life if it offered them control and i knew it would be no different when they “found me a counselor and you know her”. guys, they sent me to therapy with the PASTOR’S WIFE. it became super clear she was telling them things immediately but i held out hope until i couldn’t anymore, because i didnt have proof really.

i ended up telling her i got in a fender bender but there was no damage so it was all good. well, she told my parents right when i left i guess because when i showed up home my dad demanded to see my bumpers.

they wont admit what happened to this day, but they never made me go again. so there’s that, at least. also i guess this turned out mostly about my parents but fuck them and that ‘counselor’ too.

10. I have secondhand anger.

I was having panic attacks daily and the med he gave me made my anxiety worse. Turned out I just have bad reactions to SSRIs and that was all he kept trying like a moron.

Anyway I’m in his office and he seems to be taking it personally that all the SSRIs he has put me on are giving me seriously bad side effects.

“Have you just given up then?” the f*cker asks. “Do you just want to be like this the rest of your life?”

Obviously f*cking not that is why I’m in this office trying new medications. I was so angry and yet also having a panic attack at the same time. I ended up just walking out and finding a new psychiatrist later.

9. Yikes.

That there was no point in continuing therapy because I was ‘emotionally devoid’ and was wasting her time.

It was a licensed therapist that I was referred to by my doctor after an emotional breakdown (ironic much?).

Her comment came on our third appointment, we had never ‘clicked’ and she had made judgemental comments about my parenting choices in the first session so there wasn’t any trust there.

I’ve since found a new therapist who was amazing and now, five years on I have left a toxic marriage, dropped two of the three meds I was taking and am loving a genuinely happy life. While her comment initially stalled me and left me feeling that there was no hope, I’m now genuinely happy and loving life

I’m also halfway through studies to be a counsellor myself.

8. How about neither?

“You need to find religion and also buy this self help book series that I wrote.”

7. Just drink like everyone else.

I use my creativity with art and craft as both a coping skill and as something that gives me extra purpose in life.

A psychologist told me that doing so is maladaptive.

I didn’t go back.

6. That’s not a joke.

For this it’s important to know that I live in Germany.

I saw a psychologist once who treats and diagnoses adults with Asperger’s. I was there for my second diagnostic interview, and my mother was with me to be interviewed as well. She told the doctor about my sensory issues, especially with noise, because I would occasionally scream and punch walls and throw stuff around if I was too overloaded with a sound. The psychologist just said something along the lines of “Well, 100 years ago people like this would have been treated rather differently around here, eh?” and laughed in our faces.

Even if he wasn’t talking about the National Socialist euthanasia, which took place not quite 100 years ago, I still felt incredibly disgusted and angry. The entire interview with him was a disaster, but this was clearly the worst thing he did.

5. Not her problem.

Ok, this is actually my mums story but it’s relevant. 1980’s in the UK. My mum is pregnant with me and my dad is, well, not a good person. My dad called my mum when she was out asking her to come home. Mum thought he sounded odd so asked a friend to come with her.

Daddy dearest is drunk which has brought out all of his angry, violent tendencies and he fires a gun that god knows where he got it at my mum. Missed, thankfully. Police are called, a standoff happens and it’s hours before he’s finally taken down.

The psychiatrist who treats him after tells my mum who was bracing herself for a good old fashioned divorce not to leave him as he wouldn’t cope.

F*ck. That. Noise.

Unfortunately, they did succeed in guilting mum into staying but she got out a few years later and gave me the best childhood. She passed a few years ago now but damn she was awesome.

4. Lucky you?

Had a therapist tell me that my soul, long before I was born, chose my parents and subsequent childhood abuse so that I could learn from it.

By this logic, of course, the abused person is always in control and the abuser is helpless.

Argue with that logic.

Needless to say I never saw her again.

3. To. A. Child.

“You’ll never do an important job like doctor, veterinarian, firefighter, lawyer, counselor…You’ll probably end up in a Walmart for your whole life.”

I was 8 years old and still remember how mad my parents were lol.

2. No excuses.

The whole, “trauma makes you stronger, trauma teaches you something, there’s a silver lining to your trauma,” schtick makes my skin crawl. People only say that when:

They’ve never experienced serious trauma or abuse themselves,

They are trying desperately to find a reason or why that doesn’t lay blame on themselves or their abuser. It’s nobody’s fault if it was destined by God, right?

I always tell people (and myself), “Children shouldn’t have to be strong, children shouldn’t have to be resilient, children should just be safe.

Trauma is just trauma, not a f*cking learning experience.”

1. Beyond not ok.

“You’re taking up someone else’s space, and they’re probably dealing with worse” veterans mental health recovery program when I was suicidal and reaching out✌

I’m a F vet in Australia, so negative to those asking if this was through the American VA system. Though, I’m sorry to hear that the resources are just as turbulent overseas.

Veteran mental health is a complicated area, and not every vet went to war, or served overseas. It creates an internal hierarchy in the way we think about ‘who has it worse’ and how we view the way we fit into the structure of Defence.

I hope those of you who had similar experiences were able to find the support that you needed, and if you haven’t yet – please DM me – though may take me a while to respond.

And for the friends and family of vets who have been supporting and suffering with them; what you go through is also valid. You signed up with them and it’s a pain that can be hard for others to understand. That doesn’t mean it matters any more or less.

I would walk right out of these appointments. Or at the very least, refuse to go back.

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People Discuss the Creepiest Stories They’ve Ever Read Online

We’d like to believe that we’re too brave and too sensible to be frightened by something as simple as reading a story, no matter how scary it might be. It’s just words on a page, after all, right?

Well, we might be as brave as they come, but if you’re going to read something that’s creeped out a bunch of folks on the internet, you might want to at least read it while the sun’s still up.

Or make sure someone else is home. Just in case.

14. Cult stuff is always creepy.

Probably the one from that one user who went to like a summer camp which turned out to be a cult.

He managed to escape but they followed him around everywhere, he then stated in another reddit post that the story was made up but it all was really weird.

I wonder what he did after that since he never posted again after asking how u delete posts, which was a bit odd

13. Alternate universe?

A story of a dude on a road trip with his brother.

They go into a Red Robyn late at night in a town they’ve never been before and everyone recognizes them. Like they just left the diner.

When they’re obviously confused, everyone acts like the OP is just messing with them.

12. An actual nightmare.

The one where a man gets a bad splinter that gets so bad his hand starts going numb.

He pulls it out only to find its not a splinter but a parasite that had buried into his hand, and it laid eggs.

11. Purple Mommy.

Purple mommy.

When my son was first learning to talk, he would tell us about something called “purple mommy”. It could be an imaginary friend, but these details are a little bit creepy.

Here’s a few of the purple mommy details.

Purple mommy is all purple with long hair and bright all white eyes(at the time he mixed up purple with black, so he could have meant she was all black).

Purple mommy picks him up at night, and turns off the lights. We would often find my son out of his crib in the morning, which would mean him crawling over the railing and to the ground, at a time when he was barely walking. Definitely found the lights in his room off a few times too, even though he’s terrified if the dark.

Purple mommy needs a bandage because she has blood everywhere.

Purple mommy has no smile, meaning a mouth.

Purple mommy can take her head off.

Purple mommy really doesn’t like daddy.

He told us all of this stuff for maybe a year or a little more. If we ever asked where she was, he’d always point to the same spot. A corner of the room behind his open closet door. He would also wake up crying almost every night during this time.

Once, during a really rough night, my wife went to ask him whats wrong, and his answer was “purple mommy wont let me sleep.”

10. A random detail.

There was a story where a friend had invited her friend over for a sleepover. Since it was a single bed, the friend had to sleep at the bottom of the floor beside the bed. The girl woke up in the middle of the night to find her friend standing at the doorway and calling her to go out and get Tandoori chicken to eat. When she refused, the friend yanked her hand and pulled away.

They went out of the house and the friend explained she didn’t want to get tandoori chicken. She instead pulled her out of her house because she saw a person underneath her bed when she woke up in the middle of the night.

9. Probably something worse.

 A woman was driving on road between maize fields at late night. Suddenly she spotted a body lying in the middle of the road.

She wanted to check but it was scary so she just drove past the body. After some xx metres she looked at her rear mirror and saw a group of people coming out of the maize field.

It was a trap. Maybe for robbery or something worse.

8. Careful who you let in your home.

After getting our coffee we sit down.

Me: So, what’s this story you have for me? You sounded pretty shaken up.

Lisa: Well, yesterday I was taking care of D and NS and D went down for her nap. When I walked by her room to check on her, she was singing, “Blood, blood from the baby, it’s okay he wanted to play. Blood blood from our mommy, that’s okay she died today.”

Me: *wide eyes* What… the f*ck?

Lisa: I KNOW. So, I sat her down and asked her where she learned that song and she said she learned it from her imaginary friend, Rupert. She said he talks to her sometimes and they sing together, mostly at night.

Me: That’s insane.

Lisa: I know, so I asked M about it and she said that D has been saying that for a while and that Rupert has been apparently trying to get her to get up in the middle of the night, go to NS’s room and get him out of the crib to be in her room.

Me: How long has this been going on?

Lisa: Ever since they brought the baby home. There’s no way she could have learned that unless someone told her. Her parents don’t watch anything that would trigger that and she’s very well sheltered.

Me: *After leaning back and thinking for a while* Wait… Oh f*ck.

Lisa: What?

Me: When they brought him home, did they buy new baby monitors?

Yes. That was it. We called the family and had them check it out. The monitors didn’t record, but they could move and also have audio output. They waited until night, then stood outside the daughter’s door until they heard a man talk over the monitors and start singing to her.

Immediately, they unplugged them and called the police, but there was nothing that they could do to trace the guy. I walked them through two-step authentication on Nest units after that and Rupert hasn’t come back. F*cking sickos, man.

7. Very bad things.

The original is an Iraq vet who was with his girlfriend driving through a desert highway. They see what appears to the aftereffect of a car crash; two vehicles. Twisted metal, the road has various bits of broken plastic and steel. There are bodies around, she wants to stop to see if they can help.

He does not stops here.

The scene is quite sanitary – where’s the blood and guts? He slowly drives around the bodies and continues on a bit and halts. Nothing. Then a couple of the bodies sit up. He hits the gas and races away.

It was a set up for… bad things.

6. That will stick with you.

It was a guy on I think legal advice whose wife had gone batsh** crazy and was stalking a woman she didn’t really know. It was a friend of a friend or a coworker or something. To the point she showed up at the venue of the ladies baby shower and was telling people she lied about who the baby’s father was

He had this long bullet point list of the crazy stalker things his wife was accused of when she finally arrested for stalking and harassing this woman. And in the end his question was how much is he personally liable for financially in all this. No plans to divorce or anything. Just can the courts force Him to pay restitution for his wife’s clear insanity?

5. I would have left, too.

There was a young girl (probably a toddler) who would tell her dad there’s a man in her closet. It would happen often at night until her dad got sick of it and went to the closet.

He pulled at the handle but the door opened a bit, then shut as if someone was pulling it shut from the other side.

He told the kid to get out of their room and close the door, and he opened the closet and there was a dude in there.

4. A glitch in the Matrix.

So I guess a little context is in order. My girlfriend and I had been together about a year at the time, never had big problems, we are both pretty relaxed people. Never have had a big fight, never had trust issues, the whole shenanigan.

So one day I was out in front of my apartment building smoking a cigarette, this was before we lived together. I had seen her the night before, had a nice dinner, gone out to a bar, then gone to my place, after which she took a taxi home. So as I’m standing out in front of my apartment building, she pulls up in a taxi. I wasn’t expecting her, and was pleasantly surprised to see her. I put out my cigarette, smiled and walked up saying something like “Hey, what are you doing here?” (in a very friendly way).

She scours at me, and slaps me square across the jaw. Obviously I’m dumbfounded, and at a loss for words so I just kind of looked at her. She never said anything, just barged past me into the building.

I followed her up to my apartment, asking her what was happening the whole way, she goes into my apartment, grabs her bag and some of her stuff she left there, throws a few things at me, breaking a glass or two and knocking down a bunch of stuff on a shelf. She calls me a pig, says she knows everything, and that I’ve broken her heart. I’m trying to figure out what’s going on obviously, and she stops on her way out when I touch her sleeve, glares at me again and slaps me. She tells me something like “I hope I never see you again” and walks out. I followed her to the street and she got in her cab, and drove off. The street was pretty empty, this was maybe 8-9am, and i watch her drive off. At this point I’m just lost for words, scared and sad.

Then, as I’m watching the cab drive away, someone hugs me around my waist from behind. I turn around, and its her, in running clothes (she was wearing heels and a leather jacket before), and I went completely pale. She said “hi” in her usual happy-go-lucky tone, then noticed my look and said “what’s wrong”.

I spun around, no taxi. It had literally driven away 5 seconds earlier, no way it could’ve turned in that time, and all the lights were red. I didn’t say anything to her, just ran upstairs. Her bag was gone, things were still broken, my door still wide open. So then I told her.

We were both monumentally confused, there’s no way I could have mixed her up with someone else, and she’s an only child. We had security check the cameras, and sure enough, Me following a girl to my apartment. The angles weren’t great, and the film wasn’t great quality, but it was pretty easy to see me and my face, but hers was always hard to make out looked a hell of a lot like her, but never a clear shot.

No way it was the same girl.

Still creeps me the f*ck out, and we don’t talk about it.

3. Goatman. Love the scifi twist.

I’ve not read it in years, but I was always spooked by the one in which a group of friends are hanging out together when suddenly they all get the feeling that someone else was had also been with them… except they can’t remember who.

2. Definitely a ghost.

I was in Vegas once sometime around 1996. Our cheap a** hotel room had a gap under the door, enough to get a few fingers through. I was somewhere around second grade and had brought a Batman action figure to keep me occupied. I ended up sticking him under the door a few times for whatever reason. As I pulled it back in a hand followed like it was trying to grab it. It moved around like it was feeling for the figurine and then pulled back

I threw the door open and there was no one there. No doors opening or closing, no elevators or fire escapes near us, not a god damn sound in that hallway. I still can’t figure out how anyone could have disappeared that quick. Even if they sprinted to the room across the hall and the door had been open,

I should have heard/seen them closing the door or something…

1. What if…

It pretty much said something like : “Do you ever hear a faint static noise when you’re lying in bed in complete silence ? If you listen closely, you may start hearing whispers. But when you can hear them is when they can start noticing you too.”

The story was really short and probably better written than that, but I had to sleep with videos or music playing as I fell asleep because the more I focused on silence the more I kept convincing myself I was hearing things xD

I would so not be ok if any of these had happened to me, y’all. Yikes.

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How to Have Fun and Stay Productive While Working from Home

If you’re working from home, you will notice that there are specific challenges and advantages to having a home office and being a remote employee. But even if you go to the office every day and you work as a freelancer on the side, it’s still important to have a good environment, which allows you to have fun and stay productive at the same time while you’re working from home. In this article, we have picked top tips to help you stay productive and have fun while you’re working remotely. Play Games Getting a proper break is also important to

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This Guy Doesn’t Want to Give Any Money to His Pregnant Ex. Is He a Jerk?

I have a feeling that this story is gonna contain a whole lot of drama.

Which is good if it doesn’t involve you, I suppose…

A man in his twenties shared his story on Reddit’s “Am I the *sshole?” page because he’s having some inner turmoil about a situation involving his ex girlfriend…and some money…and a baby…

Let’s take a look.

AITA for not giving money to my pregnant ex?

“My ex (25f)and I (27M) were together about 6 months but during that time we were free to see other people.

Things weren’t working out so we broke up. Over a month after that she finds out she’s pregnant and tells me baby is mine. But I already knew she was seeing other guys so it was also possible the baby isn’t.

She got mad that I was having doubts but I said if we got a paternity test and it showed I’m the dad then yeah I’ll 100% be involved.

My Ex didn’t want that and she’d rather wait until after the baby is born to get a test done so I said that’s fine, it’s her choice. But I won’t get myself involved unless I know the baby is mine.

Like I already know I could be set up for child support if I start helping out now and then later it’s revealed I’m not the father. (I live in the US and have heard this stuff happens a lot)

I’d rather not even risk it you know?

She’s about 8 months now and I have started saving up money, reading up some books, making shopping cart lists of baby clothes and furniture to buy incase I am the father so it’s not like I’m not preparing for this at all.

So right now money is tight with her since I know she’s only working part time. She doesn’t have the money for a baby bassinet or clothes because she practically lives paycheck to paycheck.

She started asking to let her borrow money for baby stuff but I’ve told her no. Far as I know she doesn’t have other family she’s close to and friends are the same as her with money.

But I already said I’ll start giving her money and helping out once I know her son is mine. Otherwise I’d rather not get involved. I’ve even told her to reach out to the other guys who could also be the dad’s but she said one is even more broke and the other she hasn’t been able to contact.

So for right now seems like I’m the only one actually able to offer financial support.

We have a couple mutual friends and I’m getting sh*t from them because they know I have the money to help out. She could be the mom of my kid so the least I could do is provide.

They say they would if they had the money, since I do have the means and this baby could be mine I should already be helping.

They have a point. The baby could be mine and I’ll be happy to help out…once I know he is in fact mine. But everyone else is seeing it as I’m being too cold and inconsiderate.

I don’t think I am but want to know what others believe…

AITA?”

Here’s how people reacted on Reddit.

This person stated the obvious: this guy doesn’t owe her any money until she can prove he’s the father.

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Another reader said that this man needs to insist on a DNA test and not give up a cent until it’s proven that he’s the father.

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This individual argued that this whole situation is very suspect and that if it’s not his kid, it’s not his responsibility.

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Finally, a person said that it seems like the woman has latched on to him because she knows he has some cash. And it’s pretty telling that she has refused to get a DNA test…

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Okay, now we want to get your opinion.

In the comments, tell us what you think about this situation.

We’d love to hear from you!

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Cool Dinosaur Facts You Might Not Know

One of the great things about science is how we’re literally always discovering new things. Not only that, scientists get a little thrill at getting to revise and update previous work, so no one is ever going to pretend like a new discovery didn’t upend everything we believed yesterday.

Which means there are always new and cool dinosaur facts floating to the surface, and even if you’re not a kid anymore, there’s no reason not to love these 16 fun tidbits of information.

16. It’s tough to picture.

T-rex didn’t have exposed teeth. It had full lip cover. they can be absolutely sure about this because the tooth enamel wouldnt survive constant exposure.

Most artists assumed a T-rex jaw would look like a crocodile jaw, but never considered that the croc’s teeth are protected by the water

15. That seems like an easy thing to fix.

Here’s a fun movie trivia fact from a famous dinosaur movie:

Do you remember in Jurassic Park the mosquito stuck in the amber where they supposedly got the DNA from?

Well, that is an elephant mosquito, the only mosquito that doesn’t suck blood, so it couldn’t possibly contain any dinosaur DNA.

14. Bless his heart.

My son somehow thinks its a travesty that they don’t exist anymore and will sit up at night and be upset he can’t know all the answers to his dinosaur questions.

13. They’ve seen a lot of sh%t.

That Sharks where around before Dinosaurs and Trees.

12. Just for starters.

Iguanodon, the most abundant dinosaur of them all, lived on 5 continents.

T. rex had a bite force of 6 tons.

Stegosaurus would flush blood through its plates, most likely to intimidate predators or attract mates.

The leg bones of large sauropods like argentinosaurus or seismosaurus could be 20 feet tall and weigh as much as a ton.

11. They’re running out of names.

There’s a dinosaur that was discovered in Australia near a Qantas airport, so they named it Qantassaurus.

10. I would have liked to have seen that.

Some herbivores didn’t join the adult herd until juveniles and were big enough. Before that, some lived in the forest/jungle in baby herds. For safety.

9. Only the birds survived.

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research.

They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201.3 million years ago; their dominance continued through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

The fossil record demonstrates that birds are modern feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier theropods during the Late Jurassic epoch. As such, birds were the only dinosaur lineage to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event approximately 66 million years ago.

Dinosaurs can therefore be divided into avian dinosaurs, or birds; and non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds.

8. And we probably never will.

We don’t actually know how they looked like when they were alive, we just think they look like what they’re perceived as.

Same with sounds. We just made up what we think they would have sounded like and everyone went with it.

7. It’s hard to imagine.

Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus were evidently never on the planet together…separated by millions of years ¯_(ツ)_/¯ fake news museums will have you believe otherwise with their standard fight scenes…

6. Poor Newman.

Dilophosaurus (the one with the neck fans that pop out and rattles) doesn’t look like it does in Jurassic Park. They’re bigger (10ft tall), they don’t spit acid/venom, and don’t have neck umbrellas.

That’s actually part of the plot in the novel. The scientists were surprised by both of those things the the first ones were cloned, as neither thing showed up in the fossil record. (How much of this stuff was intentionally added by the InGen scientists for a “wow” factor is up for debate.) That section of the novel was always one of my favorites, as it always made me wonder what else we assume about fossils when so much of the original animal is missing.

Crichton knew there was no evidence of the hoods or venom when he wrote the book, and thought the idea of something so defining to the fictional species being something the fossil record couldn’t indicate was interesting.

5. Now it’s canon.

When the T-Rex attacks the kids in the Jeep, the glass was supposed to break. Instead, the entire pane fell on the kids as a thousand pound animatronic pushed it down on them. Their screams of terror in that scene are real.

4. Well I’m off to Google.

Ooh, my time to shine! My username is of an ancient now extinct animal, though not technically a dinosaur. Kubanochoerus used to be this humungous unicorn pig, like a half ton boar with a big old horn in the middle of its forehead.

Pretty bada$s of you ask me.

3. Just lick it.

When you are looking for dinosaur bones you can tell the difference between a fossil and a rock by touching your tongue to it. If it “sticks” a bit and kinda sucks back it is porous and probably bone.

2. It was a long wait.

I hope I’m regurgitating this fact correctly, but It took the triceratops longer to evolve to have horns than the amount of time they’ve been extinct.

1. A goofball dinosaur.

Therizinosaurus was a large, bipedal herbivore that occupied an ecological niche akin to that of the giant ground sloths of the Pleistocene: using its meter-long claws to pull down tree branches. It looked goofy as hell, like an eight-meter long turkey, especially since it was likely to have had at least some feathery integument.

The real kicker? It was a cousin of T. rex. Yes, that guy. One of the most terrifying carnivores ever to walk the earth had a vegetarian Edward Scissorhands for a cousin. And, yes, it likely used those scythe-like claws for defense, too.

These are all going straight into my brain and never leaving. It’s where they belong!

If you’ve got a favorite dino fact and it’s not on this list, share it with us in the comments.

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