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?

[tsmainsqueeze]

Potholing , want to watch but usually have to switch off YouTube videos.
Victorian /gothic-ish macabre ideas about death ie photographs of the dead.
Psychopaths ,sense of evil - the current thread on here totally fascinates me.
People that go missing,in my top 10 of things to worry about it happening to someone of mine, but so strangely fascinating - not entertaining , my heart goes out to anyone missing and their families.
Great heights and deepest ,darkest ,stillest water and whats in it , pike especially.
The fact that we will all die, but i totally believe there is more beyond and whatever it is fascinates me.
The body farm in America.
Serial killers , British ones more so and the fact that there is /are some yet to be discovered .

[BellaLab]

@Daleksatemyshed

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

I watched that too. There was talk a few years ago of establishing one in the UK for forensic scientists, I’m not sure if it was allowed to go ahead though. Body farms are fascinating.

[RhubarbFairy]

@NooNakedJacuzziness

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!

I live not too far from here and we visited regularly for a year as your tickets are valid for a year after entry. It was fascinating to be 'under water'.

[RhubarbFairy]

@BellaLab

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 😂

Look up Corsham, Wiltshire. There's a whole town under the town.

We used to live in Corsham and within a five minute walk from my front door we could be stood on top of one of the air vents. I wish they did tours down there, I love places like that that are stuck in time.

I went to an open day at a campus of UWE that's an old 'mental hospital' (to use the name it had then). Even walking round on a sunny day when it was busy, some of the corridors were eerie. You could feel the sorrow in the walls. And that was when I knew nothing about the building. I looked it up when I got home because of the oppressive feeling we got - my friend felt it too.

[Curlyshabtree]

North Korea! Lived in S Korea for a bit and got to visit the DMZ. Perfect example of horrifying and fascinating!

[Sunbun19]

How tiny earth is when I think about space, and how enormous that is

[EmmaH2022]

Rhubarb there must be lots of towns beneath towns though?

Londoners might occasionally be seen prostrating themselves on the grille in order to see this

www.london-walking-tours.co.uk/secret-london/little-compton-street.htm

[Sittingallthetime]

Yes to abandoned buildings, holes and cults.

Also mould, and the black slimey stuff that blocks plugholes.

[Sagealicious]

Some train stations. There's something creepy about them. There's a station in Sydney called Wynyard and although I haven't been there in years every time I had to catch a train to/from there I always got a creepy and eerie feeling. Same with walking through certain areas of Sydney's Central Station.

Sydney Harbour Bridge. When I look at it I often think there are dead bodies in those pillars (never knew how true that story was) Also, when you stand under it you realise what a massive structure it is. Wouldn't want to be anywhere near it if it ever collapsed.

Submarines. No just no. Felt so sorry for the Russian crew of the Kursk submarine disaster.

Small enclosed spaces. Fascinated that people have endured and survived such small spaces but at the same time I start to feel a little panicky just thinking about it.

Scuba diving/free diving. I'm fine with snorkeling but other than that forget it.

Air raid sirens. Never heard one in real life of course, only heard them on documentaries but there's something very creepy about them, then again that's probably the whole idea.

Snakes. Absolutely horrify me though, they definitely don't fascinate me. Still remember when I was about 10 years old and I was playing in the backyard and my dad ran out of the house with an axe screaming at me to keep very still. He ran just passed me and started chopping into a red bellied black snake that had raised itself ready to attack. I had heard and seen nothing but luckily my dad had looked out the window at the right time. I didn't play in the backyard for a long time after that. Can you blame me?! 😂

[Oioicaptain]

Shipwrecks and submerged objects. I just find them as creepy as hell, but I still find myself looking at pictures of them, despite them making me squirm.

[Oioicaptain]

Also I am claustrophobic but watch caving videos. It's like watching a horror film.

[Beachbabe1]

True crime murders! My favourite thing to watch! But obviously horrifies me!!

[Chesneyhawkes1]

Shark films or anything to do with sharks, also to a lesser extent alligator/croc films

The I Survived tv programmes where people get attacked by animals or stories like that

Air crash investigation- always watch it more before we fly anywhere much to DH's dismay

Serial killer documentaries.

Threads on Reddit about missing people

[Diamondsareforever123]

People who vote Tory. They terrify me because they are so selfish and fascinate me because they're so thick.

[Chesneyhawkes1]

@loopycurtains have you seen the film The Descent? Thinks there is Descent 2 as well

[DangerouslyBored]

Plane crashes. Fascinating. Cannot begin to imagine how it must feel, crashing down to earth knowing my fate.

[Daleksatemyshed]

@BellaLab , I'd like them to start it here, I'm seriously unfussed about being buried. I love a good forensic pathologist book/tv show so if I could help out I'd be happy to oblige.🤣

[JennyForeigner]

The Universe. That we are on a tiny planet just spinning alone in this unfathomably massive silent space and whaaaaat

[HerRoyalHappiness]

The missing 411.
Big foot
Skin walkers.
Tales of large cats in the UK

[RhubarbFairy]

@EmmaH2022

Rhubarb there must be lots of towns beneath towns though?

Londoners might occasionally be seen prostrating themselves on the grille in order to see this

www.london-walking-tours.co.uk/secret-london/little-compton-street.htm

It's not an old town that's been built over, it's a bunker the size of a town that was built in the late 1950s, designed to house the Government in case of conflict with the Soviet Union.

It's known as the Burlington Bunker locally, but it's actually a War Bunker.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Government_War_Headquarters

[Afonavon]

Childbirth. After a horrendous delivery I obsessively watched OBEM like some kind of homemade exposure therapy.

Rollercoasters. I am scared to death after being made to go on a very rickety one aged 4. I am however completely obsessed watching youtube videos of people on rollercoasters.

Sporners and ear wax cleaning videos. Fascinating, but make me feel queasy in equal amounts.

[BiscuitLover3678]

@HerRoyalHappiness

The missing 411.
Big foot
Skin walkers.
Tales of large cats in the UK

What are the 411 and the skin thing?

[BiscuitLover3678]

Aeroplanes

[PlanetNormal]

Ghislaine Maxwell. She had every gift & privilege that anyone could possibly wish for : wealth, social & professional connections, brains, beauty and the best education money could buy. Yet she still ended up in an American prison as a convicted sex trafficker. There are so many questions I would love to have the opportunity to ask her.

[NooNakedJacuzziness]

Another one localish to me - the Clifton Suspension Bridge. I'm fine walking over it but if you see it from even a slight distance the road/walkway looks so THIN, like it couldn't bear too much weight before just going snap (obviously it's a very clever design and wouldn't!). I've walked underneath it a few times and it's very creepy looking up at it too. You feel very safe when you're actually on it though, just a weird perspective thing.