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Some tumors have teeth, hair, and even eyes. Brain-eating amoebas. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a sickness that causes personality changes, anxiety, depression, and memory loss, usually within a few months. Many people lapse into coma.
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OP is a little physically disabled, carrying crutches and hearing aids. She decided to go to the store one day when a man approached her and began asking very weird questions that made her uncomfortable. She tried getting away from him, but he followed her into the store.
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“After a couple minutes of crouching behind the car, staring at the house, I saw movement, and my heart stopped. The man came back down the path, out into the street, and was looking around, looking for me.”
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Celebrities aren’t actually giving their kids absurd names, they’re just not publicizing their legal names. People who post on AskReddit are BuzzFeed writers looking for content.
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“I saw what looked like a human silhouette move between the trees for a split second, but it was very off. Very skinny, pale, and taller than me at 6 ft. I noped out of there and ran the almost 2 miles back to my truck and didn’t slow down until I heard the wildlife again.”
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“I heard significant footsteps coming from the back of the cottage. I thought it was my brother and I turned back, and I swear I saw a hand opening the basement door.”
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“I got set up for the night, stayed up reading comics, felt like an outdoorsman, and it had barely gotten dark when I began hearing loud, rhythmic crunching in the woods behind the backyard. Like something big was walking in circles around the undergrowth.”
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“We heard a very loud, heavy footed animal running through the woods getting closer to the water. At first I thought it was a deer, as it was almost prancing, but as it got closer and louder, we both realized that it was in fact not a deer. It was a very large, jet black canine.
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The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a U.S.–based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.
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OP’s friend, Troy, got into an argument with another friend, Todd, after he had brought over a friend, Ace, for the evening to hang out. Todd didn’t like Ace and was furious that he was there, so they ended up leaving to go for a night swim and cool off. After more confrontation, Troy and his girlfriend took off again, but the next morning, they realized that Troy had never returned.
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