The abyss is the internet.

Alright that's pretty cool. So flashed face distortion is a relatively new optical illusion/observed phenomena that makes eye-aligned faces look terrifyingly distorted while you focus on a midpoint. It's been done to great effect with celebrity faces too. Seriously, after a few seconds you just start seeing monsters. Pretty cool.

If anyone needed a reason to lie silently in bed with their eyes open, consider “the heat death of the universe” or “Victorian Brits ate all the mummies” as decent insomnia fodder. The universe we live in is plagued with injustice, cruelty and gross realities, but hey, some of them are kind of cool to know. So here's some stuff to alienate your family at dinner. Here are some more freaky facts to feel weird about.

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Hearing footsteps around your house isn't a very freaky thing. Unless of course you live alone. Here are some times people experienced the heebie jeebies when there should have been no one else around to know about it. And for some more creepy encounters, here are people's creepiest “something's not right here” moments.

They say what you don't know can't hurt you, but we've all been hit in the face with enough frisbees to know that's demonstrably false. That said, what you do know can leave you with a creeping sense of existential dread and a lasting mark on your psyche. Because man, we live in a vastly unexplored and wildly unpredictable world full of flesh-eating wiener parasites and damning statistics about reading comprehension. Here are some strange science facts to ponder .

It's always good to pay attention to your own gut instinct. When a complete stranger holding a rock walks up to you in a parking lot and asks for directions, “looking like a complete jerk” and not helping them is still a better option than being hit with a rock. So here are some freaky moments when people could tell something was off. For some more close calls, here are life-ruining bullets that people dodged.

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Plants are kind of scary, man.

Alright, that only needs to be seen once.

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"Something just came up."

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Things happen, man.

Life is a series of close calls.