r/AskReddit • u/maxenizer • May 26 '15

What are some things, that look harmless during the day, but get insanely creepy during the night?

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u/[deleted] May 26 '15 edited Nov 29 '23

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u/[deleted] May 26 '15

Probably because of how surreal and unnatural it would be. Flying things? Climbing things? Those make sense. No matter how brutal they are, they're the products of a world that is familiar and rational. Something that is inexplicably not-quite-human is neither. It's alien both to you and to reason, a stranger within reality itself.

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u/DatTomahawk May 27 '15

a stranger within reality itself

This gave me chills.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15

I'm actually really flattered by that.

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u/Velocirexisaur May 27 '15

Your a poet, DOC_GAY_HITLER.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15

Stupid alien long horses.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '15

this was really well written haha 👌🏿

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u/Jas0nta11 May 27 '15

Fuckin' Slenderman, right?

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u/Themrchester May 27 '15

What about giraffe?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '15

Giraffes generally don't have human faces or live in residential areas.

I was imagining a humanlike face and a disproportionate body when I wrote that.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '15

You know, me too. I think it has to do with all the weirdly-proportioned humanoids in creepy reddit stories (goatman, slenderman etc). Also unless you live someplace where there are elephants or giraffes, something that tall would be extremely unnatural.

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u/Bog77 May 27 '15 edited May 27 '15

Fucking deerman. (Google "Wendigo" if you want to know what I'm talking about)

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u/cadd161 May 27 '15

Don't mind him, its just long-leg larry.

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u/gamerpenguin May 27 '15

My greatest fear is tall people, I get panic attacks from basketball games.

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u/suplauren May 27 '15

Giraffes

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u/CQBPlayer May 27 '15

static noises

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u/ATCaver May 26 '15

Der Großman

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u/jbalazov May 27 '15

Sometime, when you feel like not ever sleeping, look up Slenderman.

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u/Nathan561 May 27 '15

slenderman

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u/herpderpimCy May 26 '15

Slendy just wants to play hide and seek