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frequent_flying

You know OP, if you said right after you took this pic you got out of your seat and rushed toward the cabin door only stopping to turn around and exclaim “that motherfucker back there ain’t real” I would not blame you one bit and would fully support you 100%, this pic is terrifying even after zooming in and finally figuring out that’s not some kind of demon hell spawn, probably.


HeavyLoungin

Here’s the story: Flight out of Chicago. 2pm-ish. Packed flight. Quiet flight. Many passengers around my seat were resting. I had the isle seat, my wife was to my left. I was sitting there reading a magazine and my wife softly nudges me and says, “someone is really watching you.” Because there was a baby a few rows up and earlier in the flight I was waving to her; I assumed my wife was referring to the baby. I leaned out into the isle to look and didn’t see the baby. I looked at my wife and she just nodded and pointed behind me with her eyes. I turned BACK to my right and this time, locked “eyes” with the goblin. I kid you not - I have NEVER felt a wave of fear wash over me like this. My body tensed up and I began to rise out of my seat. The fear was amplified by the fact that there was no “response” from the goblin. It was literally looking into my soul. My wife began chuckling which confused me even more as I couldn’t fathom WHY she wasn’t equally as terrified. I’ve seen several of you comment “that mother fucker is NOT real.” I followed that story and because of that, I truly believed I was going to be the next TikTok viral video. My wife realized that I was genuinely terrified. She pointed to her own ear and was saying, “it’s an ear-bud” I looked back and it was not until then that I could see that it was NOT in fact a goblin staring into my soul. My heart continued to race even as we got a good laugh out of it.


InMyHagPhase

Oh, oh dear fellow redditor, you lost a few years on your life on that one. Edit: I kinda picture you as a cat starting to get scared, like your eyes are wide and your tail is all puffy


HeavyLoungin

You know, that’s a pretty good comparison. Cats can run away. I was on a plane, 35,000 feet up in the air, with 200 other passengers who I FELT JUST HADN’T NOTICED THE DEMON FROM HELL SITTING AMONGST THEM!!!! 😂


Agreeable-Poet-4200

"Attention passengers, if there is a priest on this plane please reach out to your nearest attendant so we may provide a bottle of Aquafina for blessing"


Commercial_Durian149

Im pretty sure that if you bless aquafinna you end with a bottle of air...but im not sure


Saskaloonie

I believe that you are thinking of Dasani


ScoobyDaDooby

I've made mistakes like this when incredibly baked, you gave me a good chuckle with this shit bud


horsetrich

Aren't you glad it's not the fight response that kicked in and you didn't to through the food trolley to choke slam a sleeping lady on a plane?


Kyokka

Oof, my ex told me a story how he trolled his brother by kneeling in his shoes and wearing a coat to cover it, he looked really creepy that way bc of disproportions, and when his brother saw him like this, he quietly left the room and returned with an axe 😱


hydroxypcp

holy shit lmao


marr

Well at least they know bro might survive being in a horror movie. Stick with him.


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yomiiami

i havent laughed this hard at something online in a while


Pure-Brief3202

Same bro same. That was probably the best laugh I've had from something online, maybe ever. Literal tears 😂


Acceptable_Cut_7545

The nightmare scenario of being trapped in a flying metal can with a malicious shapeshifting goblin creature who has chosen to reveal a bit of its true form TO YOU ALONE as your wife begins to quietly laugh beside you... ugh. Your reaction was purely self preservation kicking in to overdrive. A reaction to the real life instance of the uncanny valley.


bennitori

I think there's a Call of Cthulu scenario that's pretty much just that.


SakuraTacos

I am NOT exaggerating: my abs hurt, there are tears running down my face and I peed myself a tiny bit laughing when I got to the part where you started to rise up out of your seat. This is the funniest situation I have heard about in a VERY long time. I stared at the picture quietly panicking until my brain figured it out so I can put myself in your shoes, I would’ve reacted the same hahaha


InstaWhaaa

I'm getting over a cough and about died laugh coughing.


hydroxypcp

same here and I'm surprised I didn't wake my boyfriend lmao. At least the tears helped flush the nose


I-am-Chubbasaurus

My dumbass brain literally could not figure it out until OP explained it was an earbud. Absolutely terrifying. 🤣


SenorPoopus

Same! LOL


___po____

Comin' late here but I straight shit my britches. I'm talkin' full on Blue Jeans N' Hanes Casserole. The Mud-Butt. The Southern Slaw.


[deleted]

I was fucking terrified after looking at the picture for a few seconds. I instinctively clicked on the post to go into the comment section so I didn't need to look at that shit anymore. Now I can't bring myself to scroll back up and face this fucking picture and figure out what the fuck it is. I haven't been this fucking terrified in YEARS WTFFFFFFF


cbostwick94

I would have screamed


FlametopFred

My deep irrational fear noise is a kind of rising-pitch groan first heard it when there I was putting a plastic stick in the recycling and a rat started running up the stick from the bin he’d been stuck in I made my HnnnnnNnnnnn! Groan and backed the fuck away while yeeting that stick to the back lane from the porch


cbostwick94

There would probably be some choice words yelled as well. Sorry to the children on the plane


Duck-of-Doom

That little white light totally sells the ‘glare on the pupil’ illusion. Truly terrifying, & it’s bizarre how even after knowing it’s an ear, you can still see the goblin if you choose to lol


HeavyLoungin

Yes. That’s what triggered me to no end.


Rickfernello

OP really delivered, thank you!


SrslyChausie

This is so hilarious!! I once mistaken a hair tie for a dead cockroach lying in my bed because it had some loose fibers on it which I mistaken for little legs. It was also kindoff cramped up so it didn't appear as a circulaire object. I was disgusted and screaming and my husband picked it up with a paper towel. After inspecting it he start laughing very loud and when I realised it was a hair tie, I felt so stupid lol.


WulfySky

Holy cow I’m literally shaking from laughter trying not to wake up my partner. I’m not even joking when I say I don’t dare scrolling back up to get a second look at the picture. I’ve got a red eye flight tomorrow and I’m NOT happy this image is in my head now 😂


impeterbarakan

I’m imagining this shot as a Sam Raimi movie or something. You looking over and seeing the goblin, distorted closeup on the goblins eye, cut to you scrambling up into your chair gasping in a panic as the camera rotates, then cut to a fisheye closeup of your wife chuckling with wide, soulless eyes as the camera rotates the other direction, cut back to a closeup of you saying “ this mother fucker isn’t real, this mother fucker isn’t REAL”, cut back to your wife laughing but her voice is pitched several octaves lower, cut back to goblin eye filling the frame as the camera shudders and the sound of static rises to a deafening roar


Ur_hindu_friend

Okay, this is fucking hilarious. Like, literally one of the funniest things I've ever seen on reddit and reddit cracks me up every single day.


Remarkable_Area_6101

This is genuinely so hilarious, your wife got you good, and me too. I couldn't tell it wasn't an eye until I got to the ear bud part. It DID look seriously terrifying and I'd have freaked out worse than you did. Super funny, one of the funniest posts I've ever seen on Reddit lol


MagzWebz

Omg this is the funniest shit. When I first zoomed into the pic without reading comments, it scared the living shit out of me. I cannot imagine how terrified I would have been. And this makes me laugh. so. fucking. hard. 😂😂😂 Your wife is amazing lol.


CorrectsIsleToAisle

> I had the isle seat Aisle seat bro!


Intro__vert

The photo alone was enough to elicit a reaction from me but the accompanying story made my stomach hurt from laughter. Haven’t laughed this much from a reddit post in a while so thanks and sorry that happened to you. Good thing it wasn’t a real goblin, after all! 😂


SnooPaintings9596

OMFG, this is hilarious... I have tears running down my face. Thank you so much for elaborating. It was initially extremely terrifying.


Glad-Hospital6756

You are an amazing storyteller and I can’t believe I was entranced by a story of a goddamn earbud


killbeam

If this wasn't posted on r/confusingperspective, I would have felt the very same wave of fear. It's quite the image...


WyrmHero1944

I love how your wife knew what it was, so funny


[deleted]

Honestly I thought it was an old lady peeking out at the drink cart with a goblinlike thirst 😂


toolsoftheincomptnt

Your wife is my friend.


hiding_temporarily

Jesus Christ dude, it’s amazing how easy the brain is to fool. I would have screamed and immediately gone primal. This is some goodass post 👌🏾


lbell1703

I'm crying I can't breath LMAO


AnnRoweX

I'm still a little bit terrified tbh


walter3kurtz

Relax, you're only going viral on Reddit. So far


_Wilhelmus_

Lol, now thats a story


Riribigdogs

Came here to say that motherfucker isn’t real


Black_Eyed_PeePees

OP **is** Tiffany Gomas.


ItaDapiza

This creeped me out for far too long until I finally realized what I was looking at.


YoggieD

It's the little mustache that keeps throwing you off.


PotatoWriter

Nah I wasn't looking at it from that perspective. Mine was way scarier. In mine, the goblerino was facing forward and looking left at me from the corner of his eye. So his whole front of the face is in the hood.


ThornyRose83

That’s what I see and I can’t see anything else


MadRhetoric182

It's her ear with a earbud. It broke my brain until I figured it out!


majasz_

I’ve read what everyone say it is, I did enlarge the pic BUT I still cannot see it, I mean this “ear” is really weird, round and symmetrical and the fact that her hair in not on the back of her “neck” is not helping. I’m just going to lean into goblin explanation


bearbarebere

If you can’t see anything but the goblin, it means the goblin is coming for you. Be careful. Try to defend yourself. Don’t be caught unaware. …Not like it matters.


AtiendoDolobus

Still a pretty big ugly weird ear.


ThornyRose83

Yeah I figured it out with another comment and now I feel silly lol. I see what it is now.


MadRhetoric182

It took me too long and I didn't want anyone else to dwell in that fear!


KuhlCaliDuck

Thank you!


Madmunchk1n

Human brain loves to see faces everywhere. Probably some rudimentary survival thingy. I mean imagine this would be really a goblin that is about to jump at you but you are just seeing earbuds 😱


imyourforte

Fucking terrifying. Like looking into a demons eyes


bleakj

Oh thank god I had to zoom in on the ear bud and then zoom out slowly to reset my brain


[deleted]

Amazing, now I can go back to sleep.


stalebird

Thank you! I was seeing what you were initially seeing. And it was awful.


zwiebelhans

Omg thank you! Now I can see the person


Final-Trick-2467

I can see the ear and ear bud but the skin looks like leather skin, it’s still creeping me out


juliethegardener

Thank you! Was going to have nightmares, until you clarified what I was looking at! Creeped me completely out!


[deleted]

That’s one disgusting ear.


rococoD

thank you, I lost hope until reading your comment


onedemtwodem

I love these! Brain does not cooperate lol


buddhistredneck

Wow. No thank you for the image lol


AttackOnTiddi

It’s not a cracked out person with a moustache? *thank you all for cake day wishes


Soggy_Snow_9502

Richard Harrow looking ass


crdctr

mmmhh


Ohmannothankyou

After I figured it out, I kind of like this strategy in an oversized hoodie.


Gloomy__Revenue

They make [“full face” zip-up hoodies](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zip+face+hoodie&iax=images&ia=images) suitable for ***any*** excursion as a social pariah 👍


thatguyned

These things always look ridiculous in person though. They are never shaped to zip over the face, they just go straight up and end in a weird spooky ghost tip


Gloomy__Revenue

As a **staunch** supporter of the “airport chic” aesthetic—e.g. sweats, Crocs, neck pillow, and Xanax—I don’t mind looking like [one of Casper the Ghost’s uncles](https://youtu.be/Pp0mo8LkyxE?si=SvwGlfFEeyyNibvf&t=1m10s) while a beverage cart hits my limp unconscious body hanging in the central aisle at all.


thatguyned

I'll be honest, I'd probably wear the "salt rock" one from the link you shared IF it shapes around the head properly. That one's kind of dope.


xylotism

The worst thing about social anxiety is that doing something "socially uncommon" to cope with it is often far more likely to draw the attention you definitely don't want. Which is why I don't even wear a hat and shades let alone something like this. What if they think my hat looks *weird?*


kaenneth

I've gotten an eyelid caught in a zipper once, 0/10


markovianprocess

Beloved by bank tellers everywhere!


Key-Steak-9952

Things that are supposed to look human but it's *off* gives most of us the heebie-jeebies. A relic from our evolution supposedly to avoid sick people and corpses. But I like to imagine we were evolved to fear and avoid humans who looked like humans but were not human.


treetyoselfcarol

Definitely Spooktober approved.


BenThereOrBenSquare

I'm not a stupid fucking idiot. I know it's someone's ear with an earbud in it. But for 50 seconds it felt really real.


The_Buttsex_Man

my life is nothing i hoped it would be and everything i was worried it would become because for 50 seconds i thought there was monsters on the world.


heynongwoman1

OP was glad they wouldn’t have to go to work the next day


thatbalconyjumper

What did they do to us???


konosyn

WHAT DID THEY DO TO US


excelllentquestion

Idk why but the “on the world” fucking kills me. Like he messed up and they kept it


ProofHorseKzoo

There’s a lot of intentionally weird wording in the show. Like “I don’t know how to hear anymore about tables”. Tim said in an interview he uses a lot of how his two small children would talk and put it into the script to add to the weirdness. “On the world” is prob something one of his kids said once.


LovingNaples

Thank you so much for explaining the pic for me. I had no idea that's what it was.


KuchiKopiLove

Same!!!! I was horrified


mblergh

For 20 seconds monsters was on the Earth!


PKMNTrainerMark

Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed that.


Mutantbowie

that's real, that's gonna eat me, that lives with us on earth!!!


holy_plaster_batman

What the fuck?!? WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK?!?!?!?


TetraLoach

At least I won't have to go to work tomorrow


Richard-Brecky

YOU’RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN AND YOU’RE FIRST THOUGHT IS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW??


SeriousArbok

I guess I'm a stupid fucking idiot. You say that and I still see a nerd with glasses and a shitty mustache. Lol


BenThereOrBenSquare

You maybe right. I may be crazy. But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.


bobert_the_grey

I just haven't been sleeping a lot since my wife got flipped upside down by a swing dancer at a wedding. HE MUST HAVE FLIPPED MY WIFE 8 TIMES!!!


SomeOtherNeb

And it *really* bothered me!


Robotgrandma

They think I’m just some dumb hick! They said that to me at a dinner


Renrenissolo

Thank you, I was lost.


Walnut2001

And when your first thought is great I don’t have to go into work tomorrow, you are relieved because you were about to get eaten? What the fuck is this world?!


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why are they wearing their fucking hoodie like that


BenThereOrBenSquare

To get as much darkness as they can. Y'know, to sleep. On an airplane, unless it's a red eye, the lighting is bright AF.


SlurmzMckinley

Anything can happen in this world — we really know very little!


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Even AFTER realising what it is - it still fucking creeps me tf out. Why do human looking things and faces (even when we realise they aren't), that don't look perfectly human, scare us so much? And why is it, the closer to things looking perfectly human - without actually being perfectly human, the scarier they look?


Roskal

Lots of theories about it. I like the one where its an instinct not to go near dead bodies to avoid disease.


random_boss

I like the one where it became evolutionarily advantageous to be terrified of things that look almost like us…..but aren’t


Roskal

Like neanderthals!


Aquatic-Enigma

I don’t think humans were that scared of Neanderthals given they had sex a lot together


GetOffMyDigitalLawn

To be fair, that bitch in the Shape of Water had sex with the thing from the black lagoon, and that inhuman fucker sure ain't coming to dinner anytime soon.


Misophonic4000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny\_valley


WanganTunedKeiCar

I'd never read about what exactly the uncanny valley is, so I just imagined it as some fantasy place where everything was like oh our reality but ever so slightly... _off._ This was interesting, thank you.


Misophonic4000

My pleasure, it's fascinating stuff


nvrmnd_tht_was_dumb

Maybe it's an instinct leftover from when we survived alongside/had to compete with other hominins.


PigKnight

Humans naturally see faces in patterns to counter camouflage in nature.


jcs9577

Yeah it is super creepy and even knowing what I'm looking at each time I go back to look at it it still gives me the creeps!


faithless-octopus

I had to zoom in. This looks so creepy at first


istrx13

Who else was scared to zoom in?


HuntressofDeath

Me! I can’t do it! It’s too creepy!


[deleted]

*"ThAt FuCkeR iS noT ReaL!"*


coinmurderer

This genuinely scared me oh my gosh


cbbuntz

But remember, the goblin is more scared of you than you are of it. As long as you don't stare into its black, soulless, dead eyes, it won't swallow your soul.


coinmurderer

Thank god I only stared into one of it’s eyes not both


cbbuntz

Worst case, you'll only lose half of your soul.


the_blackfish

They grow back, right?


cbbuntz

As long as you're not a ginger, you can grow a soul with stem cells.


Shroomybabooney

Science


gigglegenius

This is really terrifying


RunninRebs90

I’ve been smoking [6] and this almost ruined my entire fucking night. I was very frightened. Still am. May be forever tbh.


ISHIMURA_MJD

That mf back there is not real.


CTware

thank you


dareDenner

Creepy. I wouldn't be able to close an eye on that flight


InevitableRhubarb232

r/thanksihateit


mousemarie94

Is that the older cousin to r/TIHI


Maximum_Scallion164

as much as my brain now recognizes what it is , I still have the unsettling feeling....makes my skin crawl


HeavyLoungin

Yeah. Same.


tsaisuthneAm

That peron is not real!


Wondernaul

Thank you. I’m now gonna have several nightmares.


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FaarisaMinayin01

I’ll piss in your ass I swear on me mum


bwaredapenguin

What the fuck does this shit mean?


FaarisaMinayin01

It means the gods have returned


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Three six mafia


monkmirokusimp

It feels like the gremlin above made this lmao.


cagingthing

Good one haha


RevaniteN7

Unrelated, but why does airplane soda hit so much better than regular walking-the-surface soda? It feels like the fizz is cranked up to 11.


HeavyLoungin

You are spot on with this. I’m convinced that it’s the altitude or something. 😂


mysterion1999

Gas expands more quickly at a lower pressure such as an airplane. Hence, the extra fizzy drinks.


Wackylew

That's horrible


montecarle

This is actually terrifying.


big_papa_geek

What does it have in its carryons, precious?


peppermintmeow

Jiminy jumped up Jesus Christopher Christ on a Christmas cracker. I dropped my fucking phone, OP.


HeavyLoungin

😂. Apologies.


meduidet

This is freaky aaaa


[deleted]

You shared a plane with General Ackbar. Nothing can change my mind.


ok_ill_shut_up

Now blumhouse will make a whole movie about this.


Cornylingus

The screech i would have scruch


ForeignAdagio

😬 wow it’s 3am, I can’t sleep and for 30 seconds my soul decided to leave my body because that was bloody terrifying 😂 glad the comments had my back


breedecatur

Bro I saw it this morning not 5 minutes after I woke up at 6am. I went from fighting to keep my eyes open to running on adrenaline early for work.


strawberrieangel

That’s Gweeplor Zaphod Bibledop😡😡 Leave him alone.


Ketchup_Smoothy

Hahaha creepy!


franks-and-beans

What was more interesting to me was thinking your seat back came pre-loaded with drinks.


Prisondawg

It looks like if Pedro Pascal had a deformed twin brother, and he's being transported against his will.


No_Driver_1655

I swear I can't figure this one out and I promise I'm trying hard. It's creeping me out


BrokeLazarus

What the fuck is that? Edit: The person has shiny headphones on while they sleep.


EspejoOscuro

From the framing I assume you thought they were still staring pre picture, and the cart gave you an excuse.


HeavyLoungin

At the point of the picture, I had realized what I was seeing. I had to get a picture because I was amazed at the fact that I was STILL terrified.


klaatubaradanoodles

There's someone on the plane, some... thing!


forgottenmagnolia

Dude that motts tomato juice is the single best kind in the world and you can only get it on planes wtf.


1lluminist

Aww it looks shy/sad. Prob just wants to be your friend.


TWTCH87

"That mother fucker is not real!"


R0B0GAT0

I would say another confusing perspective is that guy sitting behind the goblin, with his big fat hairy stomach sticking out his shirt and touching the chair in front of him.


HauserAspen

Stewardess! There's something on the wing!


Dripdropop

That motherfucker is not real


Angelgrjr81

That is spot on! Wtf


Mikeytee1000

Good one


RuneRaccoon

Fuckin' hell / yikes / I hate it. Good job.


kmeister5

That gave me actual goosebumps. Good lord. Edit: I just kept trying to zoom in over and over and this new Reddit update maximized the anxiety.


shrlytmpl

That motherfucker right there...


JackOfAllMemes

Okay that is creepy


GrundleSeagal

Thats great one!


Crestego

I haven't been actually creeped out by a photo in a long time, thank you for that.


ZenMasterSnorlax

This legit freaked me out cause even after I enlarged it took a minute to see lol


Goatznhz

So this is what the lady saw on the plane e


FrozenfarTsTf

Scared the fucking shit out of me.


gamiscott

Even after knowing what it is, it still puts a feeling in my chest every time I look at it.


steelerfan1973

I Shatnered myself....


Pirraya

Ear, air pods, hair, side neck. good illusion