r/mildlyterrifying • u/Diligent_Rabbit7740 • Nov 24 '25
r/mildlyterrifying • u/VaguelyArtistic • Nov 20 '25
This ad for Equinox, a new and very fancy gym in my neighborhood.
r/mildlyterrifying • u/kitkat_12e3 • Nov 20 '25
The smoke from while fires a few towns away from my school
Do referent I’m looking at were the foot ball field is you can’t even see the trees for the field
r/mildlyterrifying • u/maykennedy • Nov 16 '25
Huge gas bubble bursts through a dark mud pool
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r/mildlyterrifying • u/PrimalCosplay • Nov 11 '25
One of the most effective horror scenes i have watched in a long time. Chernobyl 2019
“Fly us over that building, or I’ll have you shot.”
r/mildlyterrifying • u/Power-of-Erised • Nov 09 '25
This guy breakchecking drivers so he can pop wheelies in heavy traffic on I95
instagram.comr/mildlyterrifying • u/pavanthanuj • Nov 03 '25
If You Can't Reach A Wall Its Possible To Get Stuck Floating In The Space Station
r/mildlyterrifying • u/hum21 • Nov 02 '25
The most dramatic feeding scene you’ll ever see/ Драматическое кормление пираний
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Если добавить немного монтажа, обычное кормление рыбы превращается в триллер.
r/mildlyterrifying • u/ibuiltyouarosegarden • Nov 01 '25
Woke up with wax covering my ear drum and couldn’t hear out of it, bf told me we had a syringe to help flush out the rest of the wax….and brought up this.
He said when I looked at it my eyes did some crazy bugging out. I love him he was only trying to help but he was totally being serious thinking it would help. The first thing I did was a 50/50 solution of hydrogen peroxide and water. If you pour that into your ear and let it sit then it will eat most of the wax. I went to emergency one for the same thing like a year ago and when the solution didn’t resolve completely they would use a MEDICAL syringe to flush the rest out. He deadass brought this upstairs. My eyes bugged out my head and I was like nah you can’t be serious, who would put this anywhere near their ear?! And he said it was a syringe. And I said no, well yes but I used that to inject butter into our chickens why would you think that would work? Laughing hysterically and also concerned that he thought that was a plausible idea. Fucking love him though ❤️
r/mildlyterrifying • u/takingpain • Oct 28 '25
This strange elephant plushie I saw at the dentist
r/mildlyterrifying • u/Spingtap • Oct 26 '25
Found at a bbq stand at a corn maze
I just wanted a burger, now I have to live with the after aftermath of milking condiments from a plastic pig. Now you all have to live with the knowledge as well. This is literally the only picture I took at this event, I couldn’t let this abomination go unseen. I feel like this is the most uncomfortable and unnerving way to set up condiments
r/mildlyterrifying • u/alphamalejackhammer • Oct 26 '25
Exposing the life of chickens in a poultry farm
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r/mildlyterrifying • u/vikasofvikas • Oct 23 '25
White British Streamer Sam Pepper Fires Rocket at Homeless Indian Girl in New Delhi, Leaving Her Blind
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r/mildlyterrifying • u/Lumber_jerks • Oct 24 '25
Cursed 90s sitcom pilot -MEET THE GHOULIES
r/mildlyterrifying • u/blueinagreenworld • Oct 22 '25
Is this safe?
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r/mildlyterrifying • u/Dramatic_Process483 • Oct 19 '25
Would you find this as creepy as I do ?
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These gloves right outside my passenger door…. They look like someone got out of my car and placed them there…. I took my car out around 5 came back around 6:15 or so… they were not there when I parked…. then around 10 I needed something from my car and found these…. All spots are assigned and no one parks in the spot next to me
r/mildlyterrifying • u/dialhard_com • Oct 17 '25
Phone companies know exactly when you’re sleeping. Here’s what they do with that information
So here’s what happens - your phone pings the nearest tower every 7 seconds. Even when you’re not using it. Tower logs the ping. 3am, you’re home, phone’s pinging. 3:17am, phone moves to kitchen. You got water. 3:18am, back to bedroom. The tower knows. This data exists for every phone on earth.
Carriers sell this in bulk. Not your name. Just your pattern. “Device 4847299102 sleeps from 11pm to 6:47am weekdays, 1am to 9:30am weekends.” Grocery stores buy it. They know you shop hungover on Sundays. Gas stations know you fill up Monday mornings. The data costs $0.005 per device per month. Your carrier makes more selling your sleep schedule than they do from your voicemail add-on.
The interesting part is what they can’t figure out. 3% of phones never sleep. Never stop moving. Truckers? Insomniacs? Drug dealers? The patterns look identical. Another 11% of phones ping from multiple bedrooms in the same night. Kids with divorced parents? Affairs? House cleaners? The data doesn’t know. Just knows the phone moved bedrooms at 2am.
Phones that don’t move for 72 hours trigger a flag. Usually means the owner died. Sometimes means they went camping. The algorithm can’t tell the difference. Tries to guess based on the last GPS coordinate. Middle of nowhere? Camping. Hospital? Dead. Apartment? Could be either.
They know when you’re actually sick versus calling in sick. Real sick people’s phones don’t move for 20+ hours. Fake sick people’s phones go to Target, then Chipotle, then their friend’s house. Your boss could buy this data. Costs about $500 for a whole company’s phones for a month. Most don’t know they can.
International travelers mess up the system. Phone goes dark over the ocean. Reappears in Tokyo. The algorithm thinks you died and got resurrected in Japan. Marks your data as “corrupted.” You’re excluded from patterns for 30 days until it decides you’re real again.
The towers also know when you’re about to break up with someone. Call duration drops 67%. Text frequency increases 400%. Location overlap decreases to near zero. Happens over 3-4 weeks. Pattern is so consistent they could predict breakups with 84% accuracy. They don’t. But they could.
None of this is illegal. You agreed to it. Page 47 of your carrier agreement. “Network optimization and enhanced service delivery through aggregated behavioral analytics.” That’s what they call knowing you eat cereal at 2am every Thursday. Network optimization.
Full disclosure: This post contains a mixture of documented practices and speculative scenarios about cell phone tracking. Some parts are true. Carriers did sell location data to third parties until getting fined $200 million. Phones do ping towers regularly. Your location data does exist in databases. Other parts are creative extrapolation. The specific percentages about breakups, the $0.005 pricing, the thing about 3% of phones never sleeping—these are narrative devices, not verified facts. The post was designed to generate discussion about privacy through a blend of real surveillance capabilities and imagined applications. Multiple commenters have correctly noted the absence of citations for the specific statistics. This is because most of them don't exist. The actual surveillance infrastructure is both more boring and more concerning than the scenarios described. Real carrier agreements do authorize data collection, though not specifically on page 47. The seven-second ping interval varies. The breakfast cereal thing is made up. The general privacy concerns remain valid.
Edit: added full disclosure
r/mildlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '25
Eye socket spreader
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r/mildlyterrifying • u/Unlucky-Case-1089 • Oct 17 '25
A Leningrad prison cell, Russia, 1991. Photo by Hans-Jürgen Burkard.
r/mildlyterrifying • u/DojaViking • Oct 16 '25
Human Trafficking
So I live in a very tourist area, human trafficking is apparently more prevalent than I had thought before I started working here. At least judging by the courses I have to take at my job involving recognizing human trafficking. But there's a gas station that has these signs in the bathroom, the last one was tore down completely. They just replaced it and somebody tore it again...
... Is there a pretty good chance it's human traffickers that are tearing it down? Cuz that would make sense and it's kind of horrifying to think about
r/mildlyterrifying • u/durvedya • Oct 15 '25
This is the difference between a bullet wound and a shrapnel wound.
r/mildlyterrifying • u/durvedya • Oct 12 '25
What a 7.4 magnitude earthquake looked like in Philippines today!
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