What’s the most horrifying thing that exists where you live?

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What’s the most horrifying thing that exists where you live?

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  1. Ok_Mathematician6075 Avatar

    Idiot lawmakers that pit us against one another. Fuck that shit.

  2. Automatic_Teach1271 Avatar

    Water bugs. Its not much but its a big ass fucking bug I saw in my room last night

  3. TwinFrogs Avatar

    Some shitbags are spiking peoples drinks in downtown bars. Some young 20-something woman got hit with fentanyl and the EMT’s Narcan’ed her. She staggered out into the alley and legally died. Her heart stopped and she face planted on the pavement.  

    Needless to say, she won’t ever go out solo ever again. 

  4. LurksInUndies Avatar

    Idaho is like 10 miles from here

  5. Impossible_Idea_986 Avatar

    Rattlesnakes, I hate them

  6. xAsilos Avatar

    Tornadoes. Quite a few years ago, a town was nearly erased from existence, not terribly far from me.

    Seeing the absolute destruction first hand is insane.

  7. Planet_Nikk Avatar

    Wild hogs. They chased my neighbor up a tree and waited for 2 hours in hopes he’d come down

  8. angusfdf Avatar

    Every summer, the mosquitoes here unionize, develop a taste for human ankles, and somehow bypass bug spray like it’s a polite suggestion.

    Also, landlords.

  9. coffeedr1nk3rrr1 Avatar

    Dead people keep washing up on the lakes.

  10. NeveedsWorld Avatar

    Any circle k gas station after dark

  11. ratmoon25 Avatar

    Guy got shot at a grocery store because he dared to suggest some return a cart.

  12. lucious_nuts Avatar
  13. chocolateheat420 Avatar

    Crackheads looking into my shades outside my window. I live on the 9th floor 

  14. Justagirl5285 Avatar

    Moose. Surprisingly dangerous

  15. jolard Avatar

    Housing costs, both to rent and buy. Absolutely destroying our society, massively increasing economic inequality, and causing so much stress for so many while others profit massively.

  16. i_gots_da_flava Avatar

    The fentanyl crisis.

  17. ChiAnndego Avatar

    100+ years ago the slaughterhouses in chicago dumped so much of their waste into the chicago river, that there is a portion of the river that is still bubbling today because there’s piles of rotten meat remaining at the bottom.

    Edit: Even more horrible, don’t look up what happened to the fat that floated to the top of the river back in the day.

  18. Careless_Day_3506 Avatar

    I live out in the country, on a quiet dirt road surrounded by woods. My nearest neighbor is a five-minute drive away, so I’ve always thought of this place as isolated and peaceful. But recently, I’ve had a couple of unsettling experiences. Twice now, I’ve caught two different people emerging from the woods and looking into my house.

    It makes me wonder how many times this has happened without me knowing. My dog often goes into a barking frenzy at what I assume is nothing, but now I’m not so sure. I’m starting to realize I might not be as alone out here as I thought.

  19. Acceptable-Bee1492 Avatar

    There’s a legless, homeless drug addict in my town that will get out of his wheelchair and chase you on his arms. He chased us up some stairs once. He’s so fast.. its terrifying..

  20. allovia Avatar

    The decline of insect populations

  21. Hyperion1144 Avatar

    Bear. Moose. Elk. Cougar.

    Ticks with Lyme dise. disease.

    Also one of the serial killer capitals of the world.

    EDIT: Forgot the major fault lines and a built environment not prepared, at all, for a serious earthquake:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/earthquake-tsunami-threat-west-coast-underwater-fault-map-rcna156023

  22. SarcasticlySpeaking Avatar

    Summer. Phoenix, Az.

  23. PartyHearing Avatar

    The 119 degree weather days

  24. Calvinweaver1 Avatar

    i’m in maine, so…pick your favorite stephen king story

  25. RapidMunch89 Avatar

    Bad drivers-this probably is a issue everywhere with road rage/parking lot rage, you name it

  26. T-hibs_7952 Avatar

    100 degrees, high humidity, summer just started. Feels like the earth is cooking. Historically it is supposed to be 80-90 degrees. 90s were considered a “heat wave.”

  27. ZealousidealPin7825 Avatar

    Our government. Kenya. The government orders police to use actual guns and bullets on peaceful protestors. Many youth have been killed. Just search Kenya Gen Z protests

  28. thebirdbrother Avatar

    Cougars. You never wanna walk home alone.

    46yo horny women are something else, I’ll tell ya.

    Also, mountain lions.

  29. keepcalmscrollon Avatar

    Cascadia Subduction Zone

    I bet it’s pretty well known around reddit but, in a nutshell, the Oregon coast(and Northern California, and Washington), at least as far inland as Portland, will be liquified by a massive earthquake/tsunami that’s due “any time now”

    “Any time now”, in geological terms, could be decades or a couple of centuries. Or tomorrow. It is a perpetual nightmare through waking and sleeping hours, never too far from mind.

    Actually, this article makes it sound less scary. Only a 15% chance of it happening in the next 50 years.

  30. Downvotemaximillion Avatar

    Sex trafficking (Vegas)

  31. 3DNZ Avatar

    Giant squid – they wash up on shore every now and then and is a reminder of what Im potentially kayaking atop of.

  32. moinatx Avatar

    Brain-eating amoeba that lives in warm water lakes, rivers and hot springs. Rare but horrifying because you can’t see it coming.

  33. OrangeTopLeggings Avatar

    Several people in/from my local area have recently died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

  34. Weak-Sink-8644 Avatar

    Me, I live in suburbia placed nicely in a heavily forested area. Every now and then, I go out into the woods at 1-2 am and blow my Aztec death whistle

  35. Ghostgamer07J Avatar

    Probably the Tarantula Hawk Wasp. Woke up to one of those guys in my bed. Wasn’t fucking fun.

  36. SevereMiel Avatar

    In belgium : Speed pedelecs, the fast ones where the rider is 40-50 (M) overweight, black helmet, gloves, little plastic before their eyes, driving 50 km/h, on bycicle lanes integrated with side walks. they enjoy when you have to jump for them.

  37. phatbootyrudy Avatar

    Stone fish. They lurk in shallow waters in and around the beaches of Northern Australia. Absolutely prehistoric nightmare fuel.

  38. Kimihro Avatar

    The scenario involving keeping a pregnant, braindead woman on life support because pulling the plug like her family wanted would have violated asinine abortion laws. Her child was 8 weeks in the womb when this happened, and they delivered it by C-section 3 months early. Straight to NICU.

    Only after that did they allow this person to die.

  39. turbocheese_333 Avatar

    I’m in Australia, so everything

  40. Willing_Lemon2231 Avatar

    I’m in Africa.

    There are remote parts here that literally have nothing but radioactive waste from Europe.

    In order for European companies to comply with EU regulations, they just dump their waste here.

    There was a court case that the locals tried to stop it but everyone was bribed and it all just keeps happening.

    We also have limited train systems. The steel railways are stolen, put on a ship and sold to companies in Asia. The government then buys the steel back from the Asian companies. Lots of corruption and bribery.

  41. No_Pie4958 Avatar

    Having a drug addicted stepson living in my house for over twenty years because my wife won’t stop babying him we argue about getting him out here often he is threatened to beat me up a couple times he’s 43 I’m 67. He’s got to go.

  42. FreddyCosine Avatar

    My town’s got a scientology office

  43. TanoraRat Avatar

    796 babies dumped in a mass grave

    the forced institutionalisation of single pregnant woman and young mothers

    child sexual abuse

    The Catholic Church destroyed my country. This isn’t an attack on religion, but that institution is the most horrifying thing that exists in Ireland

  44. Professional_Fill989 Avatar

    the sound of something moving in the walls at 3am

  45. Confident-Respond206 Avatar

    Stray dogs that roam in packs at night

  46. CarlitoDiebeto Avatar

    sewer rats the size of cats just casually chilling at night