In Honor of Halloween: What are some seemingly innocent things that creep you out?

Telegrams!

Those porcelain dolls that resemble Victorian children.

Hordes of children in costumes that come to my house for free candy even though the lights are off and I’m hiding behind the curtains.

heterosexuals

Greta Thunberg

Mannequins

Clowns, of course

Those faceless dolls/decorations that are made with a real pair of stuffed jeans or pants and are posed in a way so you see the back of them. Creepy frau city.

Basements. My grandmother used to tell us kids that elves had put up her Christmas tree before we had arrived and that they lived in the basement. (She was a control freak who wanted to place all of the ornaments herself.) When she died and we were cleaning out her house, no one wanted to do the basement. There were elves down there...

A murder of crows.

Those dried Applehead dolls always freaked me the fuck out.

The center of sago palms always freaks me out. It looks alien to me.

A lone doll baby on the side of the road either with her hair cut off or a limb missing, sometimes both. It's a very disturbing site.

I will oh dear myself. Site should be sight.

Cauliflower. I have no idea why.

R12 wow you're not kidding! That looks like some weird Annihilation / Predator thing.

Photos of Angelina's brood.

Those twins from Monaco too.

I agree with you, OP. Not everyone loves puppets.

Madonna

R12, that Sago Palm reminds me of the man-eating plant in 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭 (1959) - at least insofar as one could make it out, due to shitty CineMagic special effects.

Pussy.

Images of St. Sebastian. No issue with crucifix but ST.S. has always made my skin crawl. No other problems with a hawt guy being stuck.

Meg Foster

Poodles.

Nicole Kidman

A unexpected knock on your door late at night.

Dwarfs.

Taxidermy freaks me out. All of it. What psychopath first though to do that to dead animals?

I have a clear childhood memory of an ice cream truck moving at a very slow pace down the street that, for some reason, sent chills down my spine. It had nothing to do with the object, but the glide and pace at which it was moving. It's a very specific slow speed and I rarely see it, but when I do, it freaks me the fuck out. The closest I can compare it to is the way satellites move in the night sky. Perhaps it's some kind of slow-moving phobia?

I'm with you, R27. Dwarfs are very upsetting.

Children.

Massages. Masseuses.

A lightbulb hanging from a cord from the ceiling with no lamp shade,

R33 = Blanche DuBois

Mushrooms. I don't mean the kind you eat, but the ones you actually see coming out of the ground. They're so fucking nasty.

Trypophobia