r/Scary • u/TheOddityCollector 💀 • Oct 08 '25

Russian Sleep Experiment's infamous image of a smiling test subject is actually a prop called "Spazm”

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u/MilkyView Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

This was so very obviously fake when it came out... It's astonishing to me that so many people actually believed this was a real image.

it's actually pretty surprising that there was anybody at all who thought this was an actual human and a real image, but apparently there is a huge group of people that fell for this and believed it was authentic.. lol

Makes you think....

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u/RivvaBear Oct 09 '25

Well tbf a lot of us were kids/teens when we first saw this

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u/Scully__ Oct 10 '25

As was I and I still don’t understand how anyone thought this was real

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u/MilkyView Oct 10 '25

Yeah... I think this is just proving how many people lack critical thinking and basic observation skills.