5 Horrible Stories That Will Awaken Your Weirdest Fears (6 photos)

It's easier to say what people aren't afraid of than to list all their phobias. Although some argue that they're afraid of completely different things. For example, you're much more likely to die from cheeseburgers than at the hands of terrorists. But sometimes even the most absurd fears come true, and quite brutally.





200 teeth from one gum

Dentistry is undoubtedly a very good thing, socially beneficial, and right. But the image of a man with pliers and a drill picking at your mouth frightens both young children and war veterans. The mouth is a very personal space, and for many, the dentist is more terrifying than Jeepers Creepers, even if he's installing gold teeth (a highly respected procedure in certain circles).

But if 80% of humanity panics when they have a small hole drilled in their tooth, then imagine the shock of a simple Indian guy, Vam Ashik Gavai. For 18 months, the unfortunate man walked around with a swollen jaw and excruciating pain until he finally made it to the dental department at a Mumbai hospital. His father thought the pain was caused by cancer, and technically, he was right. It turned out the guy had over 200 fucking teeth stuck in his gums! It looked like he was smuggling dentures.



Gawai suffered from a rare benign dental tumor, known in scientific circles as "composite odontoma." All this "tooth fountain" in Gawai's mouth was tightly packed deep into the gums, and dentists couldn't reach its hiding place with modern dental instruments. So they turned to the most tried-and-true tools of Indian dentistry, which have treated generations of Indians—a hammer and chisel.

The six-hour operation to extract 232 teeth, which technically looked like gemstone mining, was, thankfully, a success. The removal of the mouth's tantalizing growths and tiny teeth entered the Guinness Book of World Records, as no one had ever produced such a harvest. Not even a shark with its two rows of teeth.

Besides, the doctors removed Hawaii's wisdom tooth, which already justifies all of the Indian man's misfortunes.

Damn music

Why is life designed in such a way that every pleasure comes at a price? Casual sex—a trip to the venereologist; listening to music—a song stuck in your head. Let's talk about music in more detail, because no matter what the composition—Prokofiev's "Poruchik Kizhe," Laertsky's "MSU Chemistry Department," or something by Taylor Swift—no matter its genius or beauty, after two hours of playing it nonstop in your head, it starts to irritate you. You even start to think that this song will never leave you and you'll hum it for the rest of your days, while your tearful family watches you being led away by psychiatrists, humming "The Ice Is Melting."

They say to stop a song, you have to sing it all the way through. It's nonsense, a completely useless method, and it didn't help a 60-year-old American woman either. Her world was completely turned upside down after a song got stuck in her head like a stray bullet. It seemed like no big deal, but the song wouldn't leave her. She went about her business, listened to other obsessive songs, and just when it seemed like it was over, a sound would build in the depths of her subconscious, growing louder and louder until it finally rang out.





This went on for three weeks, until finally the song disappeared. But another song took its place – no less stupid, only it was played much more frequently. Many people in such cases resort to the "Trotsky method" and smash their heads with an ice pick, but the woman, not wanting to add to the statistics of absurd deaths, sought help at Loyola University Medical Center, where doctors managed to cure the mysterious illness.

The most disgusting thing in such situations is when you can't remember what song is playing in your head. You can't tell if it's a real melody or a figment of your mind, the ghost of a composer dead within you. This is what drove the American woman crazy the most. Her husband identified it as Pharrell Williams' "Happy," but that didn't help much.

Rise of the Killer Escalator

Escalators have made a huge contribution to making you and your girlfriend fatter and more appetizing. They are your loyal friends and companions, far more interesting than boring stairs. But, as the saying goes, fear the Greeks bearing gifts. Because what you love could one day kill you. Look at those jagged edges, that monotonous conveyor belt—a veritable industrial meat grinder, sending human mince to be processed. It was no wonder you were afraid as a child that your shoelace or pant leg would get caught in the escalator's wide cracks and be twisted into a Viennese schnitzel.



The escalator is hungry; the god of lazy transport needs blood, and if necessary, he will get it, even if you are naked. The last time the escalator killer was seen was in Jingzhou, China. Its victims were a 30-year-old woman and her son. As soon as they reached the top, something terrible happened—the platform collapsed, sucking the woman under. Fortunately, she managed to push her son out of harm's way, but she was unable to save herself. The shopping mall staff were so stunned that no one thought to press the button to stop the bloody escalator. The mangled body was only found several hours later, presumably because no one wanted to crawl inside the metal demon to rescue it.



A preliminary investigation revealed that the cause of the tragedy was simple neglect of the apparatus. The old man had been running for too long and had become unsteady over time.

The most idiotic thing about this whole situation is the mall management, which didn't even try to fix or close the escalator to prevent such situations from happening again. Or maybe they themselves are serving the iron Satan.

What long hair can lead to

Just as we're now afraid of escalators, some people are afraid of growing their hair long. Not because long hair requires more attention, but because they're unsure whether the hair is attached too tightly to the scalp or whether it can get stuck in the wrong places.

Isadora Duncan died in a rather absurd way—for the sake of pathos, she was wearing a very long scarf that got tangled in a car tire. When the car started moving, the scarf wrapped around the wheel and strangled the famous dancer. What if your hair gets caught in something and causes an unpleasant outcome?



This happened last year, when an eleven-year-old girl got her hair caught in the mechanism while riding a carousel. The unfortunate child's scalp was torn from her eyelids to the back of her head. If not for 15 blood transfusions, she would likely never have survived. She also required several skin grafts and vision restoration surgeries, as she was practically blind.

And the scariest thing is that this isn't an isolated incident. Amusement rides are fond of scalping children, but the biggest killer is the go-kart. Like a good Native American, it collects the scalps of white people, sacrificing them to the god of technology.

For example, in 2012, in Indiana, a woman's curly, voluminous hair got tangled around a go-kart axle, tearing off a healthy chunk of her skin. She also suffered a severe head injury, facial paralysis, and a broken temporal bone. In 2003, a 10-year-old girl from South Africa became another victim of a bloodthirsty go-kart. Then there's the woman in Utah, whose ear was torn off, and a woman in Scotland, who was paralyzed by a broken neck. Her hair was too strong to tear off, but it got caught in the wheel, and her neck was simply dislocated.

Crazy Flying Lawnmower

Have you ever been afraid of being run over by a lawnmower? Or maybe you're afraid that one day a drone will fall on your head and kill you? In fact, these two bloody accidents could be connected, as in that incident at the American football game.



This frankly ridiculous situation occurred in 1979 at Shea Stadium in New York City. The Jets were playing the New England Patriots. To entertain the fans during halftime, the organizers allowed radio-controlled toy enthusiasts onto the field to display their collection of models. During the show, the lawnmower-shaped plane lost contact with its controls and landed in the stands, striking 20-year-old John Bowen and 25-year-old Kevin Rourke with its sharp blades. Bowen underwent emergency surgery but died a few days later. A lawsuit was filed against the owner of the plane, which was successful.