File this in the "Creepy As Hell" cabinet...

[Seiryu]

I'm with Mr_TheBrain on this. If it's family or a friend, it's not that creepy. It's just sad. If it's a stranger, acquaintance, etc., then it's creepy.

[ValentineNicole]

Oh, don't get me wrong. It's sad as well, that they passed on. I don't care who it is though - my own sibling or a random man - if I find a dead body lodged behind my bookshelf, I'm creeped out. Possibly for life.

[Seiryu]

Given the circumstance, though, that she had been missing for eleven days and she happens to turn up behind a bookshelf is a surprise, but I really don't see how it'd be creepy.

[puppets]

I remember when I live in Staten Island, there was a guy found in the dumpste rnext to my house, even though i never saw the body, it creeped me out either way. *shrugs*

[Seiryu]

That goes along with what I'm saying: that guy wasn't a friend, a family member, or a neighbor. It was a stranger. Strangers deaths are a lot creepier than the above mentioned deaths. (Well...depending on how well you know those three, really.)

[puppets]

so your saying I should have been less creeped out if it was my dad or girlfriend?

[Seiryu]

Right. Because your first emotion would be shock, then probably despair/sadness/depression (or any other synonyms you want to throw in there.) Shock doesn't necessarily mean creeped out. The same goes if you found your dog dead in the road as opposed to a dead bird in the middle of the road.

[puppets]

id be shocked, and upset, but i think itd be somewhat creepy, but i agree not as creepy as a stranger.

[Seiryu]

Hmm...I bet the amount of decomposition and so forth has to do with the level of creepiness. I know if I found a loved one rotting somewhere, I'd be creeped out, but if I found a somewhat fresh corpse, then I probably wouldn't be nearly as creeped out.

[puppets]

either way, an 11 day old dead body, though not full rotted out by that time, is still prolly not a pretty site, specially one upside down probably with her faced smashed in by the time they find her, against the floor. She definitly was at least bloated by the time they found her, thats gotta be pretty unsettling in my book.

[VelvetElvis]

I work with the elderly, so death has a different sort of meaning to me. Finding a dead body would be very distressing.

[ValentineNicole]

I don't think it matters how decomposed the body is either. Finding someone - anyone - dead, in my home, would make me shreik.

[puppets]

I thought of something as creepy as finding a corpse, and thats talking of different degrees of creepiness in finding them. hah.

I spose it all falls down to how well a person can handle death.

[Young Val]

i would agree with the sad reaction either way.

i think creepy comes into play when you think about the fact that it was ELEVEN DAYS.

she was in the house for over a week, dead for most of it i'm assuming, for ELEVEN DAYS before anyone found her. imagine that you're first calling her name, then realize that she's gone. you're phoning her friends, the police, setting up search parties... all that.

and the whole time she's stuck behind a freaking bookcase in the SAME HOUSE that you're in while making all these phone calls and lying awake at night crying and worrying about her.

ELEVEN DAYS.

totally creepy.

[puppets]

Yea, I find it creepy, but I think everyone who doesn't, it's because maybe the way she died? I guess at least the way she died wasn't creepy, just kinda sad.

[Jayelle]

how is this creepy? kind of a strange way to die i grant you... but i think creepy is the wrong word to use.

pretty much sounds to me like a losing bid for the darwin awards.

WHAT?! You are so messed up.

They were looking for her body for 11 days... and she was in their HOUSE!

sorry rahl. you'd think as a writer of creepy things and horror... or whatever it is you write. you'd know that a dead body is a 1.5 on a scale of 10 on the scare-o-meter. and usually it takes a pop and scream to get it that high. who cares how long it was in there. so it would stink. a stinky body is not scary. a stinky body is just sick. *shrug*

yes, i am messed up. thank you. everyone would do very well to remember that.

uhm... there's a difference between a fictional dead body and a real dead body.

[Oliver Dale]

Brain, you're actually on to something. I write horror and have a really hard time watching horror movies. Real life freaks me out. Go figure.

Yeah, I mean it isn't the 'dead body' at all. People discover loved ones dead in their homes all the time (well, I hope not all the time). It really is the time issue, and the 'hidden in plain sight' issue. And they saw her foot before anything else. Totally creepy.

[mr_thebrain]

seeing the foot. i'd be like "WTF!" more then anything.

I sort of define creepy as that skin crawl effect. shocking/startling is something completely different. and scary is different from all of the above. creepy would be if the person was flayed or something equally messed up. shocking/startling would be finding the girl behind the bookcase. then i would be sad. scary would be if she started talking to me or something.

i don't find dead bodies to be creepy or scary. lifeless bodies are far too common to really be too offputting. perhaps this is how i view death. perhaps it has something to do with how many funerals i've had to go to in my life. i don't really fear death. i really just think of it as moving on/a new experience. *shrug* if that makes me messed up i don't wanna be normal

oh and in regards to the stranger thing... is it creepy because it's dead or because it's a stranger?

[liquifiedrainbows]

Okay, I'm sure I'm not the only who saw this article on CNN, but I had to post this anyway. You know, kind of an evil, profane "pay-it-forward" scheme.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/25/bookca ... index.html

*thinks of obsene coming out of the closet joke*
*realizes it was a bookcase*

Oh, f***.

[LilBee91]

It is a little creepy, but more depressing than anything.

Finding a stranger dead behind your bookcase would be more creepy than a family member. Then, you have to wonder why on earth a kleptomaniacal bibliophile chose your books to try to steal. *skin crawls*

[powerfulcheese04]

I agree with Ollie.

The creepy part to me is that she was in the house for 11 days. They were looking for her and she was right under their noses... and probably not dead right away.

That makes my skin crawl.

[Paul]

This just in from dig: Ohio mother accused of microwaving her baby to death
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArch ... rowave.php

now THAT is sick!

[Dr. Mobius]

Leave it to Pwebbers to debate the weirdest things.

[Oliver Dale]

This just in from dig: Ohio mother accused of microwaving her baby to death
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArch ... rowave.php

now THAT is sick!

I saw that, too. And I don't think it's creepy. It is, however, really, really, maddening.

[mr_thebrain]

apparently it's only creepy if it sits for 11 days.

cooked baby? Feh.

not cleaning the microwave for 11 days after cooking baby? creepy. gives me the willies!