What things horrify and fascinate you at the same time?

[TitaniasAss]

I'm petrified of oceans and seas - deep waters in general. But I'm also completely obsessed with it too; I'll watch anything to do with marine life, oceans, sharks (😱) even though it scares the shit out of me. I live on the coast and love it, but jeez-oh it scares me.

What about you?

Do it! And report back (with photos)!

Not sure if it’s been mention but there is an interesting podcast that sown in here many like called How I Survived accounts from people who have (obviously) survived getting lost in deserts, attacks by bears/crocodiles

it’s educational too 😳😬

Been googling that Resivoir spill thing in Wales. That towery thing poking out of the water 😮 creepy and toe/finger curling doesn't even begin to cover it. However I can't stop looking at it.

I grew up in Blackpool and my dad was from Sheffield. When I was a kid and visiting family, we used to drive through Snake Pass to see Ladybower reservoir and look for the village.

Physical fakery both fascinates and repels me, particularly massive lips and massive arses like on that kardashian woman.

Probably cliché but space, the vastness of it and how potentially alone one would be. Any films where an astronaut loses their grip and goes hurtling off away from their craft absolutely horrifies me.
Lunar orbit - on the moon missions, the pilot would orbit the moon alone. At points he had the moon between himself and the earth. The aloneness of that is something I find really overwhelming to think about.

The Euthanasia Coaster. Absolutely horrified by it but also fascinated.

Me too. I'm listening to the audiobook on The Night Stalker just and it's crazy.

They are all mental.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider I know they really give me the willies but it's so oddly fascinating - what would happen if you went down one???

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-59966942

www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/water-company-criticises-extremely-dangerous-3523924

Along similar lines, my Dad was a submariner and had to train here - utterly horrifying

www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2020/january/09/200109-end-of-gosport-escape-tower

Sporn!

Years ago watched a thing on Netflix - think it was a 1000 ways to die. Some of them were super crazy.

I should not like true crimes stuff, well I don't. But I am obsessed, fascinated and repulsed at the same time.

I like the parts on how the detectives and police find out stuff and put it all together, that's my favourite bit.

Yes to missing people. Upsets me so much but cant stop imagining how? Why?
And also people climbing mountains like K2 and how many are still alive and climbing....seems as soon as I'm interested in the biography of one climber they get avalanched off/caught in an ice fall or just generally die. I just for the Obits now!

People who have loads of kids, 10+. Like the Radfords. How anyone can be in the newborn stage for basically 30 years of my life, is utterly beyond me!

Thought of some more!

1. 9/11 - the thought of such a perfect blue-skied morning, ending in such unpredictable horror. The awful footage of people at the top of the towers. Looking down on safety they knew was so close yet so far.


2. tsunamis - the thought of a wave that big, with the whole sea behind it, makes me feel queasy. Like the scene in deep impact when the woman and her dad are stood on the beach looking up at it


3. AIDS. I find documentaries about it to be appalling but fascinating.

As for missing people, it’s so eerie - seeing photos of people frozen in time, nobody knowing if they ever moved on from that month/year. Does anyone else ever get that weird feeling in their stomach when you think back, for example, 15 years? And that time seems like yesterday but also like centuries ago? I don’t know if I’m explaining that well lol

Another ocean one.... the fact that, in tye Pacific there is a canyon under the sea that's so deep you could invert Mt Everest and fit it in it... what lurks down there...the pressure of it, the darkness, the creepiness.

I also have this worst case nightmare scenario. That I'm transported to the top of a very very high but narrow platform. Think of those high risk insta photo selfie people. So I end up on top of this narrow pole/structure that's 1 foot square and half a mile off the ground. No way to get off except jump to my death and just the terror of it.

Like 'This Is Us'?

The Holocaust. I make a point of watching films and documentaries about it, and sob uncontrollably from beginning to end.

Just reading about this, the description of what happened is making me breathless, I have to keep pausing. 😫
Awful way to go.

Just googled the Euthanasia Coaster thinking 'that can't be what it sounds like'. Huh. Exactly what it sounds like. The Wiki wording of 'Subsequent inversions or another run of the coaster would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of more robust passengers' did make me chuckle though.

For those of you horrified by the caving, I just watched this on TikTok. ‘Backing’ through a passage full of huge spiders 🕷 vm.tiktok.com/ZMNskBtnt/

Why would anyone do that?

Bridges over motorways or fast water. Get so mesmerised and want to jump in. Fortunately haven't given in to that urge 🙈

Me too. How can something with a slightly comical name end up so horrific.

Oooh don't ! When I drive on motorways and there are people walking on the bridges or standing watching , it always makes me wonder "What if they're planning to leap" ?
Or throw something into the traffic

I often get intrusive thoughts if I’m on a bridge or a high building. Sometimes: ‘what if I run off the edge?’ Or ‘What if I suddenly throw my phone off?’ I also worry sometimes on planes about the possibility that I might suddenly open the emergency door. Obviously, I have no intention of doing so, and I gather they’re not exactly easy or quick to open anyway. These sorts of thoughts are disturbing but quite commonplace for me, and I don’t think that sort of thing is uncommon (it’s probably been discussed plenty on MN, I should think, as it sometimes crops up in RL conversations).