Ready to get creeped out? On this page you will find our collection of psychological horror facts – carefully selected and organized for our horror-loving readers!

 

Remarkable Animal Behaviors

• Pigs possess a voracious appetite and can consume an entire human body due to their indiscriminate eating habits.
• The Japanese Hornet, one of the world’s largest and most venomous hornets, can cause kidney failure with its sting.
• Male angler fish have a peculiar mating behavior where they bite the female, leading to a fusion of their bodies, resulting in sexual parasitism.
• Demodex, known as eyelash mites, reside on most adult humans, emerging at night to mate and lay eggs in hair follicles.
• Mice and rats can transmit at least 35 different diseases to humans, including salmonellosis, hantavirus, and rat-bite fever.
• Crows are exceptionally intelligent and can recognize human faces.

 

Strange Death-Related Facts

• A person’s sense of hearing is the last to diminish upon death.
• Old age itself is not a cause of death; it is diseases associated with aging that lead to mortality.
• Dead bodies can inflate like balloons around the fourth day due to the release of gases and fluids.
• Bodies decompose four times faster in water than on land.
• Within three days of death, enzymes from the digestive system initiate the digestion of the body.
• Corpse wax can develop in some cases, preserving remains for extended periods.
• Forensic scientists determine time of death by examining the species of insects found on the body.

 

Unusual Natural Occurrences

• The universe remains entirely silent due to the absence of air for sound to propagate, despite its numerous explosions and movements.
• An astronaut’s footprint on the moon can endure for millions of years.
• All the planets in the Solar System (excluding Pluto) can fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.
• In 2015, an estimated 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic entered the world’s oceans.

 

Unique Cultural Practices

• Zoroastrians practice sky burials, placing the deceased outdoors to decompose while allowing carrion birds to feed on the body.
• The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic features decorations made from human bones, housing the remains of 40,000 to 70,000 individuals.
• Purple Hearts from World War II were produced in abundance, with 495,000 unused after Japan’s surrender.
• Scaphism, an alleged ancient Persian execution method, involved victims being exposed on water in a boat, attracting flies and vermin with milk and honey.

 

Curious Biological Facts

• Situs inversus is a rare genetic condition where organs in the chest and abdomen mirror normal anatomy.
• Pine trees have been found to grow inside a man’s body, initially mistaken for a tumor.
• Foreskin is utilized to cultivate skin for skin grafts, yielding significant amounts of skin tissue.
• Men who are hanged may experience a death erection, known as rigor Erectus.

 

Bizarre Historical Anecdotes

• The Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland initially used real skeletons, later replaced with authentic-looking fakes.
• Poveglia in Italy is considered the world’s most haunted island, previously used as a quarantine site during plague outbreaks and a mental asylum.

 

Startling Health and Environmental Statistics

• Homicide archivist Thomas Hargrove estimated over 2,000 active serial killers in the United States in 2017.
• In 2019, the Earth experienced its second warmest year on record, with the five warmest years occurring since 2015.
• Over 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are discharged into US waters annually.
• Approximately 153,000 people worldwide die every day.

 

Interesting Human Quirks

• More than 7,000 people die annually due to doctors’ illegible handwriting.
• Left-handed individuals tend to have a slightly shorter lifespan, about three years less than right-handed people.
• It takes the felling of 27,000 trees daily to produce toilet paper for human use.
• Teeny tiny mites live on our eyelashes.