Scariest creature?

[Comte Arnau]

What would scare you the most if you came across one in real life?


Dragons
http://walls.free.total-wallpapers.com/free-wallpapers/1446/fire-Dragon-.jpg

Demons
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7586/demon2.gif

Ghosts / Spirits
http://i2.asntown.net/4/ghost.jpg

Giants / Cyclops
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs27/f/2009/249/9/9/Odysseus_Vs__The_Cyclops_by_ApneicMonkey.jpg

Sea monsters (Charybdis, Hydra, Kraken, Leviathan, Nessie, Scylla, Tiamat...)
http://www.arlt-lectures.com/Leviathan.jpg

Vampires
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x2vBZUXDzVk/TIO3-uL_ujI/AAAAAAAAC7c/ZCBRkhrOJQc/s1600/nosferatu-fantome-de-la-nuit-1979-3695-1548359692.jpg

Werewolves / Lycanthropes
http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/reviews/ncww03big.jpg

Witches / Old hags in general
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_cG-NPIToGw/TVV4x2uXqoI/AAAAAAAAHgw/MO0fDmMZAEU/s1600/snow-white-witch1.jpg

Zombies
http://www.evilzombie.com/wp-includes/images/976zombies.jpg

[Efim45]

Lol, old hags in general are scary. But the only real ones that exist are demons.

[Raskolnikov]

Channing Tatum/Cyclops

[Heretik]

Other... Specifically, other humans.

[Loddfafner]

If I were ever to encounter any of those creatures, I would feel far too much fascination and amazement that they really exist to feel any fear at all.

[_______]

other: giant spiders :O

[Rosenrot]

Other

The wasps of my Condominium! Freaks!!
http://imageshack.us/m/849/3361/mar2zr.jpg

http://imageshack.us/m/825/1737/mar1.jpg

[Max]

Botflies :eek:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYRQaG3b4LnC6z1K7RXN-y7lcOnQ48Lr5MOt7vkWEpnhEA3V3uFw&t=1

[Comte Arnau]

I've always wondered why so many women are afraid of insects, arachnids and rats. I mean, if there's a scientific reason for that.

[Cato]

Zombies.

[Max]

I've always wondered why so many women are afraid of insects, arachnids and rats. I mean, if there's a scientific reason for that.

It's not just females... Insects kill more humans than any other animal. I love snakes and rodents but bugs just creep out:runs:

[Comte Arnau]

It's not just females... Insects kill more humans than any other animal. I love snakes and rodents but bugs just creep out:runs:

Sure. And many women who aren't scared of them. But I'd say that, statistically, the number seems significant enough to make some research about it. More stupid researches are being done every year. :D

[Oreka Bailoak]

Dragons- some dragons are good like the movie "how to train your dragon" (or panzer dragon).
Ghosts / Spirits- not all are bad and they can't touch you.
Giants / Cyclops- they're just a tall person, not scary at all
Sea monsters- like a blue whale? not scary
Werewolves - just a hairy person, not scary
Witches- funny
Zombies- "shawn of the dead"- not scary at all


Demons- these things are only evil. Totally scary. This wasn't even close.

[REDMERF]

Out of those creatures: Zombies. They resemble reality the most, too much fantasy isn't frightening.

People fear the unknown, but it should reflect reality to be really scary. Decaying bodies are pretty close to Zombies, while the rest are just fairy tales.

[Cato]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SCkNjWEA2aw/TcMviAIxhdI/AAAAAAAAASc/OPugcaUyi-0/s1600/zombie10.jpg

Tarman the zombie from Return of the Living Dead. A semi-sentient nightmare who wanted to chomp some skulls to eat grey matter.

"BRAINS!"

"LIVE.. BRAINS!!"

"MORE... BRAINS!!!!"

[Cato]

Tarman, aghhhhh.

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[The Lawspeaker]

Ghosts freak me out. Zombies and vampires are something that I am used too. They are part of normal life as 99 percent of all those around us are zombies (face it..) and bankers, politicians and most bosses are bloodsuckers.. but ghosts, poltergeists (or demons for that matter) on the other hand....

Now that's where things get scary.

[Boudica]

Dragons were actually a choice?! Ah I have one tattooed on me, I love them.. I chose zombies. If bugs and spiders were on there that would have been another selection.

[Gaztelu]

What would scare you the most if you came across one in real life?

Ghosts / Spirits
http://i2.asntown.net/4/ghost.jpg



Evil spirits and ghosts are definitely the worst because they are untouchable and not of this world. Everything else requires firepower, so there's no worry in dealing with dragons, zombies, or sea monsters.

Demons, however, are a vague choice since they can appear in the form of evil spirits or monsters.

Example:

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn230/pollack08/paranormal-activity-200910130050018.jpg

Paranormal Activity

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/M-Rabbit/97b50c2e.jpg

Doom 3

[alexandra]

Jagerstaffel.

[jerney]

Ghosts/spirits have always terrified me for some reason. I can watch horror movies with zombies (love them), monsters, weird alien creatures, werewolves, vampires (I read Dracula at 9 or 10 and wasn't scared, I just wanted to become a vampire lol) and be alright, but I just can't handle supernatural stuff :confused:. Even seeing the picture of that floating girl freaks me out a bit (a lot) :o

[Groenewolf]

Other, because all the creatures in the list can be fought if they proof to have the wrong intentions. Alto with varying success. Now for something there are no combat manuals for it, except from what I read the Necronium (at that is a big if) :

http://www.page-online.nl/po/client/2/content/images/cthulhu.jpg

[Bloodeagle]

Demons as the fallen angels, cause my teeth to gnash. :eek:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wD6TMyCCeFA/TRVqvqUBjDI/AAAAAAAAAjM/uGMuRQlw1Ak/s400/Nephilim.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T5UlQql8sHM/SlXigVsuSLI/AAAAAAAABVg/mhgC4F15GU0/s400/nephilim2.jpg

Giants or what I believe to be the Naphidim, and Anakim, offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men," must have been incredible to witness and frightening as well, enough so, for god to destroy them, in a great flood.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ElQ6uj_xmu0/TDUHjUwg-eI/AAAAAAAABx8/1M86nf_G0zU/s1600/shamash-tablet-sun-worship-nephilim.jpg

http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1557450_f520.jpg

[Max]

Anyone remember this!?!?! :scared:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/clown-sewer-untouchable.jpg

http://www.delsquacho.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/pennywise.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OfOrI9LzPXA/S-IYXgLZBCI/AAAAAAAABFs/XMZ6HVuRZAw/s1600/stephenkingsitdesktopwallpaper001.jpg

[Gaztelu]

Anyone remember this!?!?! :scared:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/clown-sewer-untouchable.jpg

http://www.delsquacho.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/pennywise.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OfOrI9LzPXA/S-IYXgLZBCI/AAAAAAAABFs/XMZ6HVuRZAw/s1600/stephenkingsitdesktopwallpaper001.jpg

It was nothing too scary. At the end, it was an alien dressed up as a clown. It's nothing conventional firearms can't handle.

[Юлия]

Hmm... Baba Yaga? :D Children should be frightened, listening to stories about this old witch.

http://image009.mylivepage.ru/chunk9/270362/2020/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%D0%9 1%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%20%D0%AF%D0%B3%D0%B0.jpg

http://dreamworlds.ru/uploads/posts/2010-06/1277816016_baba_yaga.jpg

http://legendiagoth.l.e.pic.centerblog.net/0p0k4k0r.jpg

And I love Gogol's story "Viy" (in Slavic mythology Viy is a supernatural being that can kill people by looking at them). I remember how I worried about the main character much, when damned "pannochka" rose from her coffin :eek: :hides

http://www.obnovi.com/uploads/posts/2009-12/1260543842_4.jpg

http://mul.3dn.ru/12/Vij.1-04-42.353.jpg

http://videonasha.ru/uploads/screen/20047530621292501111.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lGZ0kdxvyfY/TI-7OFkKwWI/AAAAAAAAAH0/OuKjnoqJ9MQ/s1600/092d94301f7187b41dc3b6f9f4968dfa.jpeg

http://rodnovira.ucoz.ru/Bogi/viy1.jpg

By the way, I always thought, that the most terrible and scary is what you can't see. Unknown frightens more :eek:

:)

[Max]

Hmm... Baba Yaga? :D Children should be frightened, listening to stories about this old witch.

http://image009.mylivepage.ru/chunk9/270362/2020/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%D0%9 1%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%20%D0%AF%D0%B3%D0%B0.jpg

http://dreamworlds.ru/uploads/posts/2010-06/1277816016_baba_yaga.jpg

http://legendiagoth.l.e.pic.centerblog.net/0p0k4k0r.jpg




I've always felt sorry for Baba Yaga... I think she is misunderstood:icon_rolleyes:

http://imagerepository.net/images/b/a/9/baba-yaga/1-baba-yaga.jpg

[Humanophage]

I've always wondered why so many women are afraid of insects, arachnids and rats. I mean, if there's a scientific reason for that.
One plausible reason, I suppose, would be that they carry disease or poison and are associated with uncleanness. Women tend to shun both danger and filth much more than men, which leads to greater survivability among girls.


I've always felt sorry for Baba Yaga... I think she is misunderstood:icon_rolleyes:
She is generally treated as a neutral character, clearly much more benign than most hags.

[Magister Eckhart]

Believing Mohammedan.

http://danishaffairs.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/kw_mohammed.jpeg

[Matritensis]

Trolls.

[Grumpy Cat]

Going on Acadian folklore, vampires, because you don't know if someone is one. Vampires are generally believed to be very good looking and charming, who first flirt on members of the opposite sex and then when they're alone with them, bites them.

Conversely, zombies can be good to have around, because they have no free will so can be used as slaves.

[alzo zero]

I've aways had a thing for werewolves and actually I'm surprised I'm the only one here.

[Aces High]

The scariest creature is probably the fat sluglike white female whale that staggers about drunk on Britains streets on a friday and saturday night.
It can usually be spotted in pairs clad in cheap miniskirts that reveal folds of hideous fat,and can be heard approaching by the sound of cheap high heels clacking on the pavement.

You can spot one sometimes pissing down an alleyway or at feeding time in some chip shop or kebab house snaffling greasy food like a pig.

They are known to mate in the bushes in parks whilst drunk and dont breathe fire but do projectile vomit all over the place somewhat like mr creasote here below.

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[Comte Arnau]

Feel free to add any other thing you actually find scary, specially if you voted Other. I, for instance, can't sleep in a room where there are china dolls. I guess it's a child trauma, when I had to sleep for a month in granny's house, and she had a room with the bed sides full with creepy dolls that spy you while you sleep... :D

http://s1.hubimg.com/u/219400_f520.jpg

[Lahtari]

Things like dragons or cyclops aren't scary - they would find theirselves extinct or in zoos in a matter of days after appearing to haunt mankind. Werevwolves and vampires would end up chained in top secret test laboratories, and a witch would make a good subject for a parapshychology lab. The scariest things are those which are not hurt by a cruise missile.

[W. R.]

Sea monsters aren't scary as long as you are on the firm ground. But if you are in a small boat in the sea and there is one around you are pretty much ffffuuu...

Zombies are bad.


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[Юлия]

I've always felt sorry for Baba Yaga... I think she is misunderstood :icon_rolleyes:

Yes, Baba Yaga is ambiguous character and she isn't considered as pure evil. Often malignancy and aggressiveness aren't her prevailing traits :thumb001: But I think her image can be various in different fairytales. Somewhere she appears grumbling and having a grudge against people, but she seems good-natured old woman, who can be easily cajoled with kind treatment and display of attention. But sometimes she is shown as more ominous: scary house, surrounded with lanterns from skulls of people, which she has eaten; evil spell, which she uses to direct force of nature against people... For example, on Ivan Bilibin's illustrations to a fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" Baba Yaga looks sinister:

http://www.bankreceptov.ru/pic/vasilisa-01.jpg


Coming back to the theme of the thread directly, I would like to mention "Langoliers: Devourers of Time" also. What do you think about them? It was the old movie based on Stephen King's novella with the same name. Scenes, when langoliers eat the earth under flying up plane, look especially frightening and impressive :shocked: :fwhat:

http://i2.listal.com/image/1356036/600full-the-langoliers-screenshot.jpg

http://s4.afisha.net/Afisha7Files/UGPhotos/080924135727/090526114003/p_f.jpg

http://media7.fast-torrent.ru/media/photologue/photos/1244019007.jpg

Don't confuse them with Gremlins! ;) The film about those amusing small animals is considered a comedy horror, but I always had real fun over them :)

http://images.wikia.com/gremlins/images/7/7b/Photo-Gremlins-1984-5.jpg

http://www.progs.kiev.ua/images/publics/24032009/upload-eee61b6996979b7e8b6994560ab206ef.png

http://hwcdn.themoviedb.org/backdrops/781/4cc301de5e73d67786001781/gremlins-original.jpg

[Black Sun Dimension]

More comical than scary.

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6443/chavez1.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/685/chavez1.jpg/)

[antonio]

The creatures that I fear the most during my early years (with difference) were vampires.

[Wanderlust]

I voted for spirits.Stories about ghosts and spirits of dead people always upset me very,very much.The scariest creature though,is a a neighbor of mine but unfortunately I can't provide photo.

[Falkata]

Probably spirits. The rest of creatures like vampires, werewolves...always seem too unreal for me even when i was a kid. I couldn´t believe that shit.

However with souls it was different and I remember those rainy nights listening stories that freaked me out specially the Santa Compaña legend



http://nesfecilla.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/santa-compana2.jpg


"The legend of the Santa Compaña extends from Galicia, through Asturias and into western Castilla y Leon, as well as northern Portugal in one version or another.

Although the appearance of the Holy Company (Santa Compaña) tradition varies in different areas, the most widespread is formed by a retinue of lost souls, dressed in hooded white robes wandering at night.

This ghostly procession forms two rows, wrapped in shrouds and barefoot. Each ghost has a candle and in passing leaves a smell of burning wax in the air. A more important spectre at the front of this ghostly company is called Estadea.

The procession is headed by a mortal carrying a large cross and a vessel of holy water, followed by the spirits with candles, sometimes invisible, but leaving the smell of burning wax in the breeze that arises in their wake .They are condemned to wander every night until they die or some other victim can be surprised (and placed at the head of the procession with the transfer of the cross).

In some versions, it is said that the mourning procession carries a coffin with a body inside, which may even be the person watching - the apparition being his astral form in the coffin.

It can appear in different places, but above all at the crossroads."

[Heretik]

Shadow people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people)

http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/images/shadow_people.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SbPVeXvgMbI/AAAAAAAAL7w/JcR3ZXbshGc/s400/shadowpeople.jpg

It's not that they are scary but I guess it would be uncomfortable to see them in the street at 3am. Sober, of course... :D

...but in the shadows something was watching and with patience awaiting the night...

[antonio]

Probably spirits. The rest of creatures like vampires, werewolves...always seem too unreal for me even when i was a kid. I couldn´t believe that shit.

However with souls it was different and I remember those rainy nights listening stories that freaked me out specially the Santa Compaña legend


The fact is that creatures like vampires or werewolves were inspired by scaring evidences.:coffee:

[alzo zero]

The fact is that creatures like vampires or werewolves were inspired by scaring evidences.:coffee:
Of course werewolves don't exist in fact most of the times they were rabid wolves but here in Lombardia people were still hunting them in the 18th century. Some say that the one that raided the area of Milan was the same beast of Gévaudan that was terrorizing Southern France a few years earlier.

[Falkata]

The fact is that creatures like vampires or werewolves were inspired by scaring evidences.:coffee:

Galicia is the only Iberian place were wolves are still somehow common so when I´m in the forest or mountain I fear more the real ones rather than some cheap mestizo :D

[Heretik]

Werewolves and vampires came from Slavic folk tales. All fear the Slavs! :ranger:

[antonio]

Galicia is the only Iberian place were wolves are still somehow common so when I´m in the forest or mountain I fear more the real ones rather than some cheap mestizo :D

I fear even more individual pitbulls and rottwailers in the wrong hands at the very civilization: wolves just can arm a man in groups, but people breed dogs of races specifically designed to maximize the bite damage, and that's not fair. :mad:

[antonio]

Werewolves and vampires came from Slavic folk tales. All fear the Slavs! :ranger:

In fact, there was memory of even the name of a famous Croatian vampire...probably just to scaring us with so detailed record. :(

[alzo zero]

wolves just can arm a man in groups...
Yeah but it's a rule with many exceptions.

[Heretik]

In fact, there was memory of even the name of a famous Croatian vampire...probably just to scaring us with so detailed record. :(

Yes indeed, his name was (no, not Robert Paulson) Jure Grando (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Grando).

Štrigun/Štrigon mentioned in the article actually means "warlock" but whatever. :D

[alzo zero]

Obvioulsy an Istro-Italian... LOL his priest's name was Giorgio...

[Heretik]

Or his surname was italicized? Imagine that!

[alzo zero]

Yeah we all know that's what usually happens in Italian-cleansed Croatia. ;)

[Heretik]

Yes, Italians were ethnically cleansed in the 17th century by the evil Croats. http://th134.photobucket.com/albums/q81/luiscanifru/emoticons/th_facepalm.gif

[antonio]

Yes indeed, his name was (no, not Robert Paulson) Jure Grando (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Grando).

Štrigun/Štrigon mentioned in the article actually means "warlock" but whatever. :D

I always wonder if Evan Dando (just remember he was in a 90' band) had a Croatian surname. :D

[Heretik]

Doesn't sound Croatian to me. :dunno:

[antonio]

And Slovenian?

[Heretik]

Neither. :dunno:

[antonio]

I presume it was one of these non-standard South Slavic surnames I use to know by football national teams.

[Heretik]

http://www.hibbitt.org.uk/facts/facts_dando.html

[alzo zero]

Dando sounds Venetian and it would make sense for an Istrian.

[Heretik]

STFU cryptoslav. :ranger:

[Don]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_H2qteb1U_k4/TQZ9S3cfqwI/AAAAAAAADGE/Ouu39wau1Ws/s1600/La_Habitacion_Del_Nino.rmvb_001008440.jpg

[Stefan]

I think demons are the most frightening because of the idea that they can possess you and how it would feel to be trapped inside your own body with something so inhuman and evil. "Human" spirits and ghosts don't bother me as much, but they're probably more frightening overall than the others on the list. I would also like to add aliens(non-earth kind ;)) as crazy as it sounds. After reading some stories of abductions, regardless of whether they're true or not, I'd definitely not want something similar to that to happen to me. And it is something that is explainable and could be a likely possibility with current science; that makes it even more frightening. While demons and spirits are supernatural(not able to be explained by the current laws of nature), aliens would be perfectly natural and that situation explainable - making it something more likely and threatening to me. The unexplainable is more easily ignored. :P

[Dombra]

Demons since they are pure evulz. Both ghosts and spirits are supposed to be good willing

[wvwvw]

Vampires

http://i40.tinypic.com/vi379z.jpg

[wvwvw]

http://i41.tinypic.com/souzuo.jpg

[MissProvocateur]

Other: My mother. Unless she counts as a Demon.

[Comte Arnau]

Interesting how nobody voted for dragons or witches so far.

Tonight you're going to meet the ugliest old hag ever and you won't be able to escape her dragon kiss... :evil


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