50 Creepy, Scary, Unsettling Images That Aren't ACTUALLY Creepy, Scary, Or Unsettling When You Look Again

1.Like these plants in South Africa (named Conophytum) that look like they have lips:

green plants with pink middles that look like full lips

2.The folds in this curtain that create the illusion of a pretty nasty face:

A curtain in a door that looks like a face
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3.This THING that looks like something out of a sci-fi horror nightmare, that's actually just an old bag of potatoes...with REALLY wild roots:

Roots extending
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4.And this sweet potato that looks a heck of a lot like a severed hand:

potato shaped like a hand
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5.The way this store has its mannequins arranged that looks far more sinister than it actually is:

mannequins hanging
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6.This Wendy's sign that had a light blowout, making it look more like a sign from hell:

A burnt Wendy's sign
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7.This crocheted piglet that turned out a lot more like some angry pink nightmare:

A crocheted Piglet
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8.This dog with a wig:

A white dog with a long black wig on its head
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9.The way this cat is sitting:

A cat sitting on a bookcase, with its legs handing off the side
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10.This chimney's silhouette that looks more like someone creeping outside the window:

A silhouette in a door

11.The windows in this roof that look like a creepy-ass face staring into your soul:

A face on a roof
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12.This image taken at the exact moment a mosquito flew past the camera, thus creating a scene like something out of The Mist:

a mosquito that looks huge, but is actually just up close
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13.This person's Starbucks cup which appears to have an evil omen inside of it:

A face in someone's drink
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14.And this yogurt parfait that looks like should be saying, "Why so serious?":

A face on a parfait
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15.This baby seat that makes it look like Dora the Explorer is hiding out in the car:

A Dora the Explorer car seat

16.This hellish-looking clown that's apparently just a shower:

a clown shower

17.This dog who placed its chew toy bone in JUST the right (or wrong) place to give their owner a small heart attack:

A dog with its toy in a shoe

18.These ants carrying a glove up a lamp post:

A latex glove being carried by dozens of ants
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19.These upside-down dried-out aloe ferox LEAVES that just washed up like that on shore:

dried leaves upside down with what looks like LONG LEGS like they're walking on a beach
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20.This medical android that's been tucked into a hospital bed, and provides JUST the right jump scare at this angle.

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21.This faded Barbie towel that's staring right into your soul:

A faded towel with a face on it
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22.This pit bull wearing a lion costume, that someone happened to come across while walking through a park:

A dog walking on a path with a lion's mane costume, from behind it looks like a real lion
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(Phew)

front side of the dog, looking normal, with his ears sticking out from the lion costume
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23.This Thomas the Tank Engine toy just lurking in the dark:

A Thomas the Tank Engine toy on a banister
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24.This creepy AF figure that's definitely a backpack and not a demon shadow despite the way it looks:

Silhouette of what looks like a person, but its just a bag on a bed
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25.This image of a MASSIVE swarm of birds blocking out the sun in Rome:

thousands of birds in the sky, blocking out the sun over a busy highway
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26.These poorly placed boots that scared the person who actually left them there:

a pair of rubber boots standing just outside a door, and the top part covered by curtains so it looks like someone is standing outside the door
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27.This reveal of what an owl looks like without its feathers:

a very scrawny bird with bead like eyes
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28.This unintentionally scary shadow through some water bottles:

two shadows from some water bottles that look like small children with menacing grins
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29.This hair clip that looks like a giant spider ready to jump out at you with its eight ~legs~:

a hairclip on the top of a bedframe
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30.These panoramic pictures of people's dogs:

panoramic photos of dogs that make them look distorted
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31.The way the sky looks like a giant hell demon about to eat the world here:

A giant cloud shaped like a face with the sun setting and creating a red glow
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32.This snowman just casually sitting like that on a bench:

A snowman on a bench

"Delivering pizzas at 2 a.m., and this just scared the shit out of me."

—u/ChaBoy336

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33.This comforter tossed onto a chair that now looks straight out of a horror film:

A comforter on a chair that looks like the shape of a person sitting in the chair
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34.This pleasant image of Christmas lights that turns out to be not-so-pleasant the closer you look...like, IDK, maybe it's just a bird? STILL CREEPY:

a picture of some trees at night and a little silhouette of what looks like a person in the branches
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35.And this shadow of what's not a spider, but may as well be:

a shadow that looks like a spider
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36.The way these flowers make this person's shadow look sinister:

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parag_behera / Via reddit.com

37.This image of someone's mother and, not a demon in red, but just some laundry:

a woman wringing out a blanket on a balcony

38.This balloon that gave its owner a near heart attack every time they woke up:

A balloon that looks like it has a scary face on it

39.This coat rack that's apparently not a demon waiting to take your soul:

What looks like a dark silhouette in a room
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40.This sunset that looks like a demonic rising in an apartment:

A reflection of a sunset that looks like a house is on fire
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41.This ball of fluff that isn't actually a spider, even though it looks a heck of a lot like one:

A piece of lint that looks like a bug

42.This unfortunately placed shoe and roll of paper that are DEAD funny:

A toilet paper roll in a shoe
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43.This pair of hip waders that scared someone's wife when they went to go in the basement:

what appears to be a set of legs at the bottom of some stairs

44.This random poster peeking out to look at you from behind a chair:

a poster of a person peeking out from behind a chair

45.These pillows and blanket tangled up like they're a creeper lying in someone else's bed:

A silhouette of a person under some blankets and pillows but it's actually just pillows and a blanket

46.These rubber gloves in a washing machine that look like someone opened the gate to hell:

hands coming out of a washing machine
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47.This innocent statue of a child at the bottom of this pond that will make LOTS of people have a slight panic:

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wersh / Via reddit.com

48.This super creepy (and very large?!) mannequin that looks like it's waving from an abandoned barn:

a giant mannequin
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49.This street lamp that looks like a nightmarish monster:

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zconnan93 / Via reddit.com

50.Finally, this unsettlingly human-looking dog:

closeup of someone's dog

h/t r/creepy and r/oddlyterrifying