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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*
"I knew you were searching for him. I didn't want to interfere until you found him. Just in case you think you were really smart, young man, we intercepted four street thugs and two known sex offenders who were after you."
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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.)
(Dresden's battle cry going against fairies in book 4.)I don't believe in fairies!
so your saying I should have been less creeped out if it was my dad or girlfriend?
"I knew you were searching for him. I didn't want to interfere until you found him. Just in case you think you were really smart, young man, we intercepted four street thugs and two known sex offenders who were after you."
Sister Carlotta
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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.
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id be shocked, and upset, but i think itd be somewhat creepy, but i agree not as creepy as a stranger.
"I knew you were searching for him. I didn't want to interfere until you found him. Just in case you think you were really smart, young man, we intercepted four street thugs and two known sex offenders who were after you."
Sister Carlotta
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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.
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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.
"I knew you were searching for him. I didn't want to interfere until you found him. Just in case you think you were really smart, young man, we intercepted four street thugs and two known sex offenders who were after you."
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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.
I spose it all falls down to how well a person can handle death.
"I knew you were searching for him. I didn't want to interfere until you found him. Just in case you think you were really smart, young man, we intercepted four street thugs and two known sex offenders who were after you."
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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.
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.
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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.
"I knew you were searching for him. I didn't want to interfere until you found him. Just in case you think you were really smart, young man, we intercepted four street thugs and two known sex offenders who were after you."
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uhm... there's a difference between a fictional dead body and a real dead body.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*WHAT?! You are so messed up.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.
They were looking for her body for 11 days... and she was in their HOUSE!
yes, i am messed up. thank you. everyone would do very well to remember that.
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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.
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.
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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?
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?
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Re: File this in the "Creepy As Hell" cabinet...
*thinks of obsene coming out of the closet joke*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
*realizes it was a bookcase*
Oh, f***.
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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*
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*
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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!
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArch ... rowave.php
now THAT is sick!
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I saw that, too. And I don't think it's creepy. It is, however, really, really, maddening.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!
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