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?

Me too, the thought of being eaten is utterly terrifying, can’t imagine a worse fate, but any story/news item about that and I’m there.

I'm also addicted to Mr Ballen videos on YouTube, a good mix of horrifying murders, people getting into places they shouldn't and dying horrible deaths, uncanny occurrences and the outright spooky!

I'm terrified of flying but obsessed with reading about plane crashes and in particular about sole survivors of crashes. I read the full cockpit transcript right before the end.

Psychopaths. The fact there are people out there with no conscience, no empathy. Fascinating how different brains can be but it's a terrifying thought that there are people out there with no genuine fear, empathy, regret, conscience...

Agree about cults. I watch too many documentaries about them.

This! I've made my family promise never to take the kids anywhere near the place. Visited with school and saw a dog try to jump over. Poor thing didn't make it and I've been horrified by it ever since!

Those creatures that live in the deepest coldest bodies of water , don't know if it's fresh or salt .
They have no colour to their bodies , they're a translucent white/cream.
No eyes because theres no need .
They are in total dark and cold
Like little salamanders or something .

I'm not going to Google , they creep me out .

Asteroids. They could literally hit without warning, astronomers sometimes don’t seem them until they’ve gone past us. But I love reading it for some reason. I was Googling ‘Asteroid near misses’ not long ago, I just can’t help myself 😂

Caves fascinate me .I would never be brave enough to climb through one though .Also people going missing /unsolved murders and so on . Cant watch anything too spooky though!

Abandoned buildings

Hissing? HISSING? Dear god that's given me the heebie jeebies now. Need to add pylons to my ever increasing list of things that scare the shit out of me but can't look away from.

I love watching anything about the London underground, especially the deserted stations but I hated using the tube when I lived near London. I think I overestimate how easy it would be to get lost down there plus there are the ghosties to watch out for.

Decomposed bodies.

Deep open water
Severe physical deformities
Morbid obesity
Brain surgery

Venomous spiders. I think they are fascinating. I think my morbid obsession started when I was watching neighbours years ago and sky mangel got bitten by a red back in her car seat

I'm absolutely terrified of flying, but obsessed with planes and travel and other countries - it's a major pain in the ass 🤦‍♂️😂

Potholing. Always been claustrophobic and terrified of the idea of potholing, then there was a thread a year or so back about this man, John Jones, and it makes me feel sick with fear when I think about him. Got stuck in a hole, took over 24 hours to die, they couldn't get him out, even after death. So they've sealed the cave with his body in there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuttyPuttyy_Cave

Air crash investigations

Treeman syndrome.

There was a documentary you'd like @cookiecreammmpie about a place in America called the body farm. Basically people donated their bodies and they left them in different circumstances to see how it made them decompose. All the things they learn were used by forensic pathologists. It was very interesting but still a squinting through your fingers sort of show

The customs and laws of other countries, plus the health risks posed in the country . I’ve read the Foreign Office travel advice for every country at least once. Bit obsessed but also 😮at how people live so differently around the world.
www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

Agree with ships in dry docks. Went to the SS Great Britain and you can go right down to the propellers and see the underside of the hull. I don't know why it was so disturbing - maybe seeing something that's usually hidden - but I didn't linger there for long!

Silkierabbit 💪

Lots of great stuff on this thread.
One of my creepy fascinations is lakes (so seemingly peaceful but death can come to call too easily).

The ones that used to be near me hissed when it was wet weather. It’s quite freaky to hear.

Killers fascinate me but terrify me at the same time, Fred & Rose West, Ian Brady, Peter Sutcliffe etc.

The history of the Campbell’s & MacDonalds, the massacre of Glencoe and Eilean Mundie the island burial site of the MacDonalds. I paddle boarded to the island last year and it was really eerie. Glencoe still fascinates me and I grew up here.

Mountains give me the fear, but I climb them anyway, we did the Cuillins in Skye this year, it was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.

I love watching the urban explorers on You Tube exploring old hospitals and buildings. This thread has given me so many more things to explore that terrify me 😂

I went through a phase of being fascinated/repulsed by videos of the people who jumped out of the Twin Towers on 9/11. Dead bodies on the ground.

At the same time I was looking up the debris of the Lockerbie bombing, curious about what people in this ordinary little Scottish town found strewn around their gardens etc.