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No, I mean what REALLY gives you the creeps?

Asked by ZEPHYRA (21750points) November 21st, 2010

I don’t just mean horror movies or strange sounds. Are there other things, people or situations that give you the creeps?
Seeing the way some old men stare at little girls is one of the things that give me the creeps and sends shivers up my spine?
What about you?

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Dutchess_III's avatar

Being in the woods in Washington state at night. It’s beautiful, but it’s REALLY spooky with the fog and the dampness and the Sasquatch and what not. Seriously causes me to tuck my butt in! (Congrats on 5K, BTW!)

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lillycoyote's avatar

At the risk of stating the obvious, creepy guys creep me out. I was taking the elevator at work once and this creepy guy was the only other person in there with me. He just kept staring at me. That was creepy enough but he just exuded creepiness, he was dripping with it, like sweat. Creepiness isn’t something science has yet been able to measure and quantify, but you know it when you feel it. Yuck. I felt like I was covered with some kind of creep dandruff or creep dust that I had to literally shake off my skin and clothes when I got out of there.

Dutchess_III's avatar

@noelleptc X2!!! They have MONSTER slugs in Washington state, and they’re out there in those dark damp, creepy woods too, playing with the Sasquatch!

Neizvestnaya's avatar

The fingertips of crack & meth users.

Greenish/black stuff growing or stained onto some people’s teeth.

When I see people not wash their hands after using a public toilet.

Dogs/Cats doing the “butt scoot” across floors.

Anyone I overhear snorting back snot down their throat.

The “hop” some men do to jiggle their bellies back under their pants/belt.

The smell of a sweaty baby’s head.

My grama insisting to tap my arm everytime she talks to me.

Dutchess_III's avatar

@lillycoyote I wonder if creepy people know they are creepy….

Seelix's avatar

Spiders. Just too creepy.

@Neizvestnaya—the things you mentioned make me want to barf, but they don’t creep me out.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

@Seelix: Ok, here’s some creepy for you

“I think dogs’ little buttholes are soooo cute!”

Seelix's avatar

@Neizvestnaya – All right, that’s creepy ;)

lillycoyote's avatar

@Dutchess_III I don’t think they do or they would control it. I think the really dangerous ones, the sociopaths like Ted Bundy aren’t creepy at all.

@Neizvestnaya The smell of a baby’s head creeps you out? That’s actually one of my favorite smells in the world. It smells like a mixture of baby and cookies to me.

@UScitizen Joe creeps you out? In what way? I can imagine not liking him, not agreeing with or liking his policies but creepy? I don’t get that. But I guess creepy can be a very personal thing.

Jude's avatar

500 lbs grown men who live in their parent’s basement, pretending to be a teen girl and they friend 14 year old girls online.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

@lillycoyote: Clean baby head is totally different than sweaty unwashed baby head. Oh ick, just thinking about it made my teeth gnash.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Who doesn’t wash their baby’s head??

Neizvestnaya's avatar

@Dutchess_III: I’ll not name names but some folks I know in Oklahoma.

daytonamisticrip's avatar

Waking up with a semi realistic looking life sized doll staring me in the eyes. Not fun and very creepy.

guitargirl93's avatar

Spiders, being home alone at night, being around sketchy areas

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lillycoyote's avatar

@Dutchess_III Creepy parents don’t wash their baby’s head, that’s who.

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AmWiser's avatar

Spit on the sidewalk.
Spiders Hell! most insects.
Vomit
Road Kill

faye's avatar

Spiders, too, they just scurry or come down that silk so fast. I check ceilings wherever I go. When my dog leaps off the bed growling at 3 am. I know he senses a freaking bunny outside but I feel freaked. Which is not creepy, sorry. How about when you pick up a rock or wood off the ground and your fingers slide into slimy?

janedelila's avatar

Voices right behind my ear that call my name. I turn, look, and nobody hears it. That creeps me out bad.

Andreas's avatar

Spiders? Maybe some, but only because they might be poisonous. Around our home there are many tiny, jumping spiders about the size of a pinhead with legs that we call Maximilian or Max for short. But then I have a cracked sense of humour.

Supacase's avatar

Centipedes and millipedes give me the serious heebie-jeebies.

YARNLADY's avatar

Accidentally putting my hand through a spider web when I reach for a tool in the garage.

truecomedian's avatar

The Government

Plucky's avatar

Spiders, dolls, clowns and perverts.
And the sound of twigs cracking in the trees, in the dark, when I’m out camping (especially when camping alone).

ucme's avatar

Imagining how a morbidly obese person wipes their butt. Once it’s in there it’s stuck…....the thought that is.

I just can’t get you out of my head.
It’s more than I dare to think about.
La la la, la la la la la, la la la.

truecomedian's avatar

Male circumcision

DerangedSpaceMonkey's avatar

I once saw my (at the time) step-mother naked! She thought no one was home but unfortunately me and my eyes were!

Jude's avatar

Well, there’s this movie called the Human Centipede, see..

I haven’t seen it, but, I know what it’s about, and that’s enough for me..

Dutchess_III's avatar

@ucme OMG. Thanks a lot.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

The idea that anyone can be fucked-up in the head to hurt animals, children, each other and that you wouldnt’ be able to tell either way. Fucking clowns and those weird unmoving dolls.

Paradox's avatar

Wasps and hornets.

Deja_vu's avatar

Chewed up gum and the bottom of my shoe.

Andreas's avatar

@Deja_vu Gum on my shoe makes me furious rather than creeped out. It happened a few days ago while gardening. To fix it I walked in sand. When I got home I put the shoe in a plastic bag, sealed it tightly and placed it in the freezer for a couple of hours. The gum came off (without leaving much evidence behind) by using a nail and scraping.

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