What things horrify and fascinate you at the same time?

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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?

The spillway at Pontsticill Reservoir in Wales.

just googled this thanks to a pp upthread. Just WHAAAT? Has anyone ever been sucked in? What would happen? Is there a strong flow across the resevoir to the spillway? Wiki says that the resevoir is popular for sailors but how... what if they sailed too close??

Bit freaked out now

Planes and plane crashes. I am terrified of flying (even before my crash fascination) but I am always reading and watching stuff about plane crashes. Its a good job I can't afford a holiday so won't be on one any time soon😂.

I actually started researching the Andes plane crash again last night. That whole situation is horrifying and fascinating and I'm planning to watch Alive again tonight.

i find it bizarre that humans consider themselves to be at the top of the food chain. We clearly are not.

My brother had a close friend who was working in New York for a while.
he worked in a nightclub with a paternoster lift.
He slipped and got squashed by lift against the opening. He was severely injured, but miraculously his spine wasn't severed (all the soft tissue across his middle was severed.)
he survived and is now fine and has a huge compensation package to live off.

Just read the thread and seen my plane crash obsession is very common.

Also the person who posted about Mount Everest (I can't remember who and I don't want to scroll up and look as the thread is jumping all over my screen. I haven't been able to read a full thread properly since the update). I spent hours yesterday reading about Mount Everest. It's not something I'd ever thought about before and knew nothing about it I thought you could just rock up and start climbing! But the cost, the bodies, the massive risk of dying was all new to me! That's actually what made me start reading about the Andes plane crash as up until yesterday I hadn't realised the true danger of mountains.

Why is it when someone tells you not to Google something, you immediately go off and do just that. Just googled Nutty Putty cave and really wish I hadn't, that poor man.

me too.
I now know things about Nutty Putty, welsh resevoir spillway, the Los Alfaques disaster....

Ditto. It's so disturbing, cannot imagine what him and his family went though (and his family still going through).

Don’t Google the Ant Hill Cult then! It must be the grimmest cult ever.

Reads @AuntMasha’s advice
Immediately Googles Ant Hill Cult
Vomits

Now that I’ve read more of this thread, I’m quite embarrassed to have posted claiming that a photo of a giant bat was terrifying and fascinating 😂

It really did make me feel uneasy but is obviously not as terrifying as many of the things discussed here (unless one is quite afraid of bats, which it seems I might be).

Like other posters, I have been through phases of being obsessed with serial killers, plane crashes and cults. Sometimes rollercoaster accidents too. I watch quite a lot of YouTube videos and documentaries about all of those things. Why am I so fascinated by terrible things?

Reads @AuntMasha’s advice
Immediately Googles Ant Hill Cult
Vomits

Yep, same here.
As horrific as it is - I mean it’s literally like something from an over the top torture porn horror film - I’m most haunted by the fact that these people weren’t physically held captive. One woman escaped and then went back! His ‘wives’ visited him in prison. It’s incredibly terrifying how one person can have such a psychological hold over people, that they could be put through such intense torture and yet stay put.
But then the guy’s cellmate clearly was up for taking any of his bullshit… anyone in that group could have also dealt with him as ‘simply’ as that guy did. Especially for the sake of their children. But even as a collective, they couldn’t. Crazy.

What the actual fuck did I just read (Ant Hill Kids). That's some seriously disturbing shit right there.

Well it’s been interesting OP, thanks for this interesting conversation starter but I’m leaving this thread now - one ‘horrifying but fascinating’ thing at a time is manageable, and I’m happy to discover, quite normal. But this has turned into a morbid curiosity, ‘don’t want to watch but can’t look away’ rabbit hole overload 😂

Definitely don't watch the film then. Horrifying.

Can I just say here for the record:

Toy Box Killer (David Parker Ray)

Just don't
And if you do , come back and say " 70 you were right "

Just Googled Axototls. They're the cutest things ever.,😍😍😍😍

So reading about the spillway at Pontsticill Reservoir took me down a rabbit hole to Ladybower Reservoir which has 2 of these spillways. Then I learnt that 2 villages were flooded to make it, and the ruins are underwater. Apparently last seen in 2018 during a particularly dry summer.
And originally the church spire was visible above the water but was subsequently demolished. I've been looking through pictures and properly given myself the heebie jeebies.
It's relatively local to me so I feel strangely drawn to visit, but terrified at the same time.

@Eminybob this is right up my street !!

@Eminybob someone mentioned that a couple of days ago on a thread about hosepipe bans. I think they said the ruins are now visible as there has been so little rain lately.

@waterlego I imagine the ruins will be visible again this year due to the heatwaves.

Yes, @lollipoprainbow, that’s what I meant. A poster local to that area said a couple of days ago that the ruins are currently visible.

Oh really? That's interesting. Dare I?

Same! We fly a lot but I don't enjoy it, especially the take off. I can't help imagining the engines stalling every time. I think I've seen every episode of Air Crash Investigation and Seconds From Disaster though, I'm morbidly fascinated by them. DP just shakes his head as I sit there watching the reconstructions like this 😳😳

I don't like swimming in the sea or any open water; being out of my depth and not able to see the bottom terrifies me, but I'm also a massive fan of creature feature movies. If it has sharks or crocodiles I'm all over it - The Reef, 47 Metres Down 1 & 2, The Shallows, Deep Blue Sea, Open Water, Great White, Rogue, Crawl, Black Water, and my all time favourites Jaws and Lake Placid. I'm not scared of bears though, living in Alberta and being an avid hiker in the mountains/backcountry I've seen a lot of them, usually as they hightail it in the opposite direction.