English author Neil Gaiman has said that life is always going to be stranger than fiction because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. Well, if these words needed any proof, there’s a TikTok trend that vividly illustrates their essence.
Throughout the video, a haunting, robotic-sounding voice sings “Well you don’t know me, but I know you. And I’ve got a message,” from Laurie Anderson’s song ‘O Superman.’
The clip has since amassed 6.2 million views and inspired other people to share their own eerie experiences using the tune as well.
She’s my great great grandmother who died in 1923 during childbirth. I’m around her age, 100 years later. Her name is Jessie.
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The cashier thought we were crazy when we were trying to tell her why we were freaking out lmao what are the odds.
While the exact definition of what each of us considers eerie differs, the underlying cause is more or less the same."[Creepy is] about the uncertainty of threat. You’re feeling uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about here, but the signals are not clear enough to warrant your doing some sort of desperate, life-saving kind of thing,” Frank McAndrew, professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, United States,explained.
While the exact definition of what each of us considers eerie differs, the underlying cause is more or less the same.
“[Creepy is] about the uncertainty of threat. You’re feeling uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about here, but the signals are not clear enough to warrant your doing some sort of desperate, life-saving kind of thing,” Frank McAndrew, professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, United States,explained.
Even the way our bodies respond to the triggers is similar.In 2012, researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that when subjects felt creeped out, they felt colder and believed that thetemperature in the room had actually dropped.Chilling, indeed!
Even the way our bodies respond to the triggers is similar.
In 2012, researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that when subjects felt creeped out, they felt colder and believed that thetemperature in the room had actually dropped.
Chilling, indeed!
That physical response further heightens our senses.“You don’t know how to act but you’re really concerned about getting more information,” McAndrew said.“It kind of takes your attention and focuses it like a laser on this particular stimulus, whatever it is.”
That physical response further heightens our senses.
“You don’t know how to act but you’re really concerned about getting more information,” McAndrew said.
“It kind of takes your attention and focuses it like a laser on this particular stimulus, whatever it is.”
As we can see from the pictures, it can be a lot of things, situations, places and, of course, people.“We’re predisposed to see willful agents that mean us harm in situations that are ambiguous, but this was an adaptive thing to do,” McAndrew said.Our ancestors saw saber-toothed tigers in every shadow and a slithering snake in the motion of the swaying grass because it was better to be safe than sorry.
As we can see from the pictures, it can be a lot of things, situations, places and, of course, people.
“We’re predisposed to see willful agents that mean us harm in situations that are ambiguous, but this was an adaptive thing to do,” McAndrew said.
Our ancestors saw saber-toothed tigers in every shadow and a slithering snake in the motion of the swaying grass because it was better to be safe than sorry.
McAndrew pointed out that truly creepy things and situations are not attractive. At all.“We don’t enjoy real creepy situations, and we will avoid them like the plague,” he said. “Like if there’s a person who creeps you out, you’ll cross the street to get away.”What we do enjoy is playacting, in the same way we enjoy the thrill of watching a horror movie.
McAndrew pointed out that truly creepy things and situations are not attractive. At all.
“We don’t enjoy real creepy situations, and we will avoid them like the plague,” he said. “Like if there’s a person who creeps you out, you’ll cross the street to get away.”
What we do enjoy is playacting, in the same way we enjoy the thrill of watching a horror movie.
McAndrew and other psychologists, anthropologists, and even author Stephen King agree that horror films are a safe place for us to explore our fears and rehearse what we would do if, say, zombies tore apart our town.Maybe these TikToks are too?
McAndrew and other psychologists, anthropologists, and even author Stephen King agree that horror films are a safe place for us to explore our fears and rehearse what we would do if, say, zombies tore apart our town.
Maybe these TikToks are too?
This house is back in my family after over 100 years.
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