The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in ghosts, there are some places in which none of us would want to spend a night. These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic or mysterious (or all three) that they definitely qualify as "haunted." Places like... Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around. What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s. The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. Also skulls. Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like "Life is a precious thing! Winchester Mystery House Oh, bitch...!
The 7 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Deaths Kids, like adults, love it when bad things happen to bad people. So Disney movies always make sure the villain gets what they've got coming to them in the end. And, sometimes, Disney gives them what they had coming, and then way, way more. Here are seven Disney villains who got dispatched in (sometimes literally) gut-wrenching ways sure to keep the kiddies up for many nights. #7. Ursula is a sea witch, which any marine biologist will tell you means "eight-legged obese Mermoctopus." "Oh, okay, I can see why this is going to be a problem." The evil Ursula gives her a set of legs and lungs in exchange for her voice. How She Died: Near the end of the movie, Ursala blackmails king Triton into giving her the Magical Trident, the "One Ring" of The Little Mermaid. The Prince, deciding that he's had quite enough of this shit, steers his ship through a whirling vortex of doom and freaking impales Ursula right through the gut. In Greek, for bonus weirdness. #6. Scar is King Mufasa's brother. #5. #4.
At the right moment - part 5 (16 pictures) Cool and funny photos taken at the right moment from the right angle. Previous part: At the right moment – Part 4 Via: [Perfectly Timed Photos] and [Fishki.net] 6 Creepy Animal Behaviors That Science Can't Explain Animals do a lot of strange things: dogs will go after their own butts for hours, some fish fly and if some people are to be believed, sheep have the amazing ability to attract New Zealanders and Scotsmen. But there are some things about the animal world that leave the smartest of us scratching their heads in puzzlement saying, "Fucked if I know..." One of the major things that separate humans from animals is that most lower life forms have an intense will to live. Unless they are defending their babies or food, most animals will prefer to run off than fight, because life is precious. Plus, given the fact that most don't really appear to be all that self aware, the likelihood of goth hamsters and emo pigeons seems pretty thin. Then why do some animals just up and decide to off themselves sometimes? And lets not forget Jatinga, India, where hundreds of birds from several species dive into the ground to kill themselves every year. How Long Has This Been Going On? That's a tough one.
6 Insane Dog Behaviors Explained by Evolution One reason we love dogs is they give us so, so many reasons to feel superior to them. But much of what they do is so bizarre and unfathomable that you can't help but wonder what the hell they're thinking. It turns out they have their reasons. Look, this is the elephant in the room. Dogs eat their own poop, they eat other dogs poop, mother dogs eat the pups' poop (your mom never loved you enough to do that, did she?). So What the Hell Are They Thinking? Back when dogs were wild and roaming the plains instead of riding around inside of tiny purses, predators could find a dog's den by detecting the smell of poop, specifically the kind left by defenseless, tasty puppies. Only imagine that stick is poop. Anyway, this tradition carries on even for dogs that had been living in the comfort of human homes for generations. Sniffing Each Other's Asses "Dear Cracked.com article on weird dog behavior. Just as each human has a unique face, each dog has a unique ass stank.
The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales We know what's you're thinking. "What the hell is Cracked writing articles about fairy tales for? That's kids stuff! Give us more articles about the Top 10 Transformers Characters, or Worst Dressed Thundercat!" The thing about fairy tales, though, is that they weren't always for kids. Little Red Riding Hood: Inter-Species Sex Play, Cannibalism The Version You Know Mention the words "fairy tale" to someone--if they don't think of gingerbread houses, or possibly a certain bar they know, they think of this story. She gets there, they do the back-and-forth about what big teeth he has, and he eats her. What Got Changed Most modern versions of fairy tales come from two sources: The Grimm Brothers from Germany, and Frenchman Charles Perrault, the collector of the "Mother Goose" tales. Well, the woodsman was a later addition to the tale. Wait, it gets worse. Story's over!
Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3 Every scientist dreams of a world without ethics. Whenever a scientist sees a set of twins, he or she secretly wonders what would happen if you surgically swapped their faces. They already have a chamber set up to harness the power of their screams as they gradually realize what has happened. But what if we didn't have these ethics? The Sims 3 is computer game based on these Nazi scientists that offers us a world of moral ambiguity, free to perform psychological experiments away from the leering eye of ethics. Creating the Patient The main focus of my experiment is a man known as Subject Beef. Body: I made him as fat as possible so I wouldn't have to fit him with any kind of tracking collar. Accessories: In prison, a teardrop tattoo under your eye tells people that you've killed someone. Personality: I went to six years of middle school, so I know proper scientific method requires a control group. The personality tools of The Sims 3 are very robust. Creating the Patient's Roommate 1. 2.
6 Ways They're Turning Random Crap into Alternative Energy Look, people, if we're going to solve this whole energy crisis thing, we're going to have to think outside the box. Way the hell outside. Fortunately, the alternative energy gold rush is full of researchers and companies doing just that. And what they've found out is you can get energy from pretty much any damned thing. Such as... People have been burning feces for fuel probably since some cave man first did it by (hilarious) accident. Collecting human feces these days is a different matter though, as most of us aren't willing to poop in a bucket and take it out with the recyclables. And the ones that are are just way too into it. Thankfully, we have babies. And They get Energy from this... AMEC-PLC, a company in Canada, has begun building a facility to turn billions of poopy diapers into energy through the process of pyrolysis (breaking down molecules through heat). So, What's the Problem? Well, as you can imagine, it's dirty. Bacteria Poop (and Farts) And They Get Energy from this...
The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time If you're ever diagnosed with crippling insanity, you can always get a job designing corporate mascots. For instance: Orville Redenbacher used a reanimated corpse as their spokesperson. Yummy Mummy has one too, and both of them are perfect examples of what happens after you die when you're killed by Snuggle Bear. My point is, most mascots are crazy, and here are the food industry's eight craziest. Please note that I did not include the Grape Nuts character Volto From Mars on this list because this is a "craziest" list, not a "best" list. Kool-Aid Man -- Kool-Aid Kool-Aid Man represents the laziest of all mascot designs -- he's just a face and limbs grafted onto the product he's selling. The idea of a drink running through walls is so insane that it may have started as a way for suffocating stuntmen to signal "Help, I need help!" Wilford Brimley -- Quaker Oats Wilford Brimley was way too tough for breakfast commercials. Bigg Mixx -- Kellogg's Bigg Mixx Peter Wheat -- Peter Wheat Bread
7 Shockingly Dark Origins of Lovable Children's Characters Sometimes it's the people closest to us that we know the least. We've all had that moment when we first found out that our best friend prefers The Monkees to The Beatles, that our significant other believes wrestling is real, or that our favorite uncle once killed a homeless man in Kentucky over a bottle of Night Train. Well, fictional characters are like that too: With just a little bit of digging, you can uncover all sorts of messed up crap that'll ruin all the things you used to love. So let's get started on doing that! #7. The ninja turtles have seen more incarnations than some Hindu gods. Including a young Sam Rockwell But before that, they were: Cold-blooded killing machines. In the very first issue of the comic series, Splinter reveals why he's been training the turtles for 13 years: to kill Shredder. Turtle Power, motherfucker! #6. "I don't know what that is." Casper, the Friendly Living Child. Casper kind of sucks at being a ghost. "Go ahead and ride Waffles into the street, Billy!
The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You If animals could talk, they would spend most of their time calling us dicks and telling us to get off their land. The traits we think of as "cute" are often simply tricks animals have developed to get tourists to throw them food. Here are six animals that you'll probably want to steer clear of, no matter how adorable they look on that wall calendars. Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) How cute! Now have a look at this: Hippos are practically the very definition of Disney-cute. For chrissake look at them. OH SHIT! There's this word, "territorial," that nature takes pretty seriously. The next time you settle in for a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos, take a moment to to reflect on the small fact that hippopotamuses kill more humans per year than any other animal in the entire continent of Africa. Perhaps you've seen this pic: That is not in fact a man and a hippo doing a live reenactment of a cartoon they saw. The man who toyed with crocodiles, was scared shitless of hippos. How cute! OH SHIT!
6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of As anyone who's ever encountered babies in the wild can tell you, they're shiftless little balls of deception and greed. Those of us who stand up to walk, and sit down to poop may not be Mother Theresa, but it turns out we had a long way to go from our babbling drooling selves. Yes, unless you're a borderline sociopath today, you were probably at your worst before you ever uttered a word. It's science! It seems crazy that a barely functioning human infant could be cunning enough to lie to get out of trouble, but it's true. Oh shut up, you piece of shit. Perhaps even more surprising is that, when they know they've done something wrong, the little bastards will distract their parents to avoid getting caught. Why Did I Do That?! Lying is considered an important part of a child's development. According to science, lying isn't something that happens when a normal baby get's corrupted by TV--it is normal human behavior. Pictured: You, if your parents were flightless birds. Survival.
15 Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children Toys are carefully planned investments that companies spend countless hours developing in the hopes that children will use them to foster memories that they'll cherish for a lifetime. But sometimes, they just end up looking like dongs. Punisher Shape Shifters Crotch Rocket Wait, seriously? The video is also disturbing. Man, this is not a good start. To be fair, this was part of a "Shape Shifter" line of toys--basically a Punisher transformer--and we're catching him in mid-transformation (we're assuming Frank Castle's transforming capabilities aren't canon). OK, that's just...that's just horrible. So, for the second time we have to ask if the people designing products for children are just amazingly naive, or if they're a bunch of giggling stoners seeing what they can get past the marketing team. The Fr-ooze Pop was marketed to kids in Singapore using a voice that repeatedly says, "lick it, suck it." If so, then what's our excuse for... Ah, that doesn't look too bad. "I'm Mr. I'm Mr.
6 Things That Are Secretly Turning You Into A Bad Person Most of us go through life doing our best to be morally sound, or at least well-meaning. We may fall short every once in a while, but our parents taught us right from wrong, and it's going to take a lot to make us lose sight of that. Well, unless you run into one of the many seemingly inconsequential things that can turn you into the human embodiment of evil. It turns out none of us are safe, thanks to stuff like ... Your Own Facial Expressions Everyone knows that happiness makes you smile, anger makes you frown and louder-than-expected farts make you raise one eyebrow and point at the guy next to you. Botox has been making women look sexier since the 1980s, assuming you're sexually attracted to smooth skin and people with awesome poker faces. She's just a surprised as you are. Well, according to a recent study, injecting Botox into your face not only makes you look like you have no emotions, it actually inhibits your ability to feel them at all. Incentivized? No, but you are an asshole.