- Sleep Paralysis. Ever been in an in-between sleep and wake phase where you can't move a muscle as you hallucinate a demon spooning you and whispering threatening things in your ear? Or ever been woken up by the girl from The Grudge sitting on your chest as you dig your fingers into her eyeballs unable to wake up? Sleep paralysis is like a nightmare on steroids.
- Mosquitoes. I'm not fucking joking. Did you know the thing they have attached to their heads that greedily feeds off of your life source is called a "proboscis" and it's actually made up of six micro-needles that are specifically designed to find your blood vessels to drain you of blood? There's a scene is this Will Ferrell movie called Land of the Lost where Ferrell's character is bit by a giant mosquito and I swear to God that I almost fainted during it. Not to mention all of the gross diseases they pass on. Fuck them!
- Tight Spaces. I am claustrophobic and have every right to be after the story of John Jones, a medical student who was trapped in a popular Utah Cave. He became stuck in an underground shoot about 400 feet from the entrance of the cave and 100 feet below the surface. Jones was trapped headfirst in a vertical shaft about 18 inches wide and 10 inches high. The small space limited the rescue methods, so volunteers resorted to securing anchors in the cave's walls and tried to pull Jones out by ropes. With no hope of rescue and his heart having suffered hours upon hours of strain due to his downward position, John was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest shortly before midnight on the evening of Nov. 25, 2009. Rescuers had spent 27 hours trying to save him.
may 20 2020 ∞
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