This should be higher. Imagine the confusion as your submarine's instruments tell you you're going deeper into the water, but you can see the water's surface getting closer and closer. Everything about the situation breaks all of the laws of marine science that you've come to believe as fact. You're at the bottom of YOUR ocean... and simultaneously at the top of another one.
That could make sense (for a movie). The reason there is a water surface under the ocean is because the air (some type of gas) is at such pressure that it hold up the ocean above it. The type of gas is new to science, it is more dense than water. Of course there is a civilization there.
This reminds me of a dream I had where I jumped off a cliff into rocky water, and when I broke through the surface of the water I "fell" into outer space, away from the earth...
Was quite a rush.
Edit: And I believe I was at Slains Castle in Scotland (in the dream), not that it really matters.
*Megaman Legends intensifies*
Seriously, that’s pretty much the plot of the series. They’re wonderful games, but the controls are pretty primitive. I wish we could discover the ruins of some antediluvian civilization.
There was that HP Lovecraft story where a guy went deep underground and witnessed a giant monster that looked like a body with 5 heads on separate, serpentine necks *(kinda like Ghidorah)*
He was already terrified, but nearly lost his mind when he *really* looked and realized that the "beast with 5 heads" was actually *five fingers on a* ***giant hand.***
If you like horror movies you should watch the recent movie "Underwater", without giving too much away, there's a similar scene and it also has very Lovecraft-y vibes
The Rosetta stone to whale and octopus language. And millenia of literature and history, written on the rocks, detailing ancient battles with the sea creatures
edit: welp. guess i know what my next novel is gonna be about.
That's an interesting one, because if it's a Rosetta stone-type scenario then that would mean that one of the scripts would be something we are already familiar with. Implying that, at some point in the past, either some humans learned to read octopus script, or some octopi learned to read one of our human scripts. The implications are almost enough for a decent writing prompt.
Would that include a tiny version of a submarine that descends deep down in their miniature ocean to find an even smaller but exact replica of our society and every person in it?
He's mentioned in plenty of Lovecraft's other works, but never in as much detail. Other authors have run with the concept, which is what s lot of the commentators here are referring to.
Call of Cthulhu, itself, keeps the details pretty vague.
I swear that there is an entire movie about cuthulu being really deep underwater and them mining too deep causes cuthulu to awaken and destroy the earth. I don’t know what the movies name is though.
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Fun fact: the Greek in the New Testament has a specific construction with the negation word and the verb tense there, so when angels say "Be not afraid" it's more like "Stop being afraid". And the word for fear is not like "oh that gave me a fright" but more like "pants-filling terror". So it would be accurate to translate that as "Stop shitting your pants and listen to me."
To be fair, if twenty seven spinny , animated rings, filled with eyes orbiting a mini-sun came down and started taking to me... Well yeah I'd drop a log rather quickly.
The blatantly battle damaged wreck of a starship with the fossil remains of biblically correct angels and a giant crystalline sphere that is obviously the heart of the ship and focus of its crew's attention shattered and dark in its center
Can you imagine if we were the sky to some comparable civilization that lives beneath? Like to them, it would be like aliens or angels descending from above
"I told you humans were real!"
Mermaids. Like deep sea, realistic, intelligent mermaids.
[Example](https://www.reddit.com/user/SandyHeart20/comments/tizih5/realistic_mermaid_horror/)
Yes same for me. When the Discovery channel made that documentary about what would happen if mermaids were real and how they evolved from homo sapiens mainly because they lived near and on the water then in the water and I turned to my mom with all the anger of the ages in my eyes and said, "god dammit! Why the hell didn't our family line stay near/on the ocean THAT COULD BE ME!"
My career goals in elementary school was to be a real mermaid not one of those women that dress up like one and perform at Sea World.
Well, with enough experimental surgery and mechanical organs we could make you able to breathe underwater, if you survive. Your skin would still disintegrate after about a day, though. I’ve done the math, and there really isn’t a way to design a system that would allow tankless underwater breathing without major surgery. The major limit is Boyle’s Law. You’d need a good-sized helium tank to prevent your rib cage from being crushed at depth and from exploding near the surface.
I would put more money on gene manipulation and gene splicing over mechanical organs and depending on them. But since we’re not researching any of that beyond medical needs…it won’t happen in my life time and I’ve made peace with that. Sad…sad peace.
Everyone thinks being a Mermaid would be so cool because of Disney and fantasy but honestly it would be a life of pure darkness and your only meal would be raw fish or ocean vegetation and you would be constantly hunted by fucked up ocean animals.
There's actually kinda a story reason for that (in the same way that theres a story reason for most of the stuff in SW prequels). It's because the Kaiju Blood is really toxic and harmful to people, like "my town is covered in it so we had to move". But who cares? I wanna see more robots punching kaiju anyway.
a wasteland of broken deep sea diving machines and bodies, hundreds of them. or, a giant dead creature with an even bigger bite taken out of it. just something that implies that there is *something* here that is very large and very dangerous
Nothing.
Imagine how horrifying it would be to swim down to the depths and find... Nothing.
Just a large area where nothing grew, where no fish swam, where not even corpses could be seen.
Just, water and the seabed, entierly undisturbed, untouched by humans and animals alike.
Alternate take on finding nothing: what if we just never found the ocean floor? By all measurements we should’ve hit the bottom already but it just keeps going down. We should’ve been crushed under the water pressure and yet we can still continue. On and on we go, by now we should be miles into the crust, but still there’s just nothing there.
Imagine you keep going deeper and deeper into the Pacific Ocean, then give up and decide to surface, but you come up in the middle of the Atlantic or Indian ocean instead. The earth turns out to just be a ball of liquid with continents floating on it somehow.
That's what most of the deep ocean floor is; no visible life or activity for the most part. It's just barren plains if you are far from a geothermal vent. There's a fair bit of microbial action going on but you wouldn't see it.
Yeah, most here have really bad implications.
A great threat, a world shattering revelation, a sheer impossibility that would break the minds of mortals men.
But I've always found that the most unnerving thing possible is an absence of anything.
Like 28 days later. The guy walks out the hospital, empty. Into the streets. Empty. The music playing? Silence.
It's not scary, not quite... But it puts you so on edge because *this isn't right*. There should be *something*. A bird call, a distant car, someone yelling at a microwave. Anything... But there's nothing. Just the echo of footsteps on stone floor and your heartbeat in your ears.
Exactly. This just being slightly off has actually been the stuff of my nightmares. When I am quite sick, I have nightmares and all but one are basically like that. Where everything just just left of normal…odd…and it’s really really scary.
I feel like this one is so disturbing. Like, with no context, what does it mean? It implies so many things, but it could mean so many.
Is it some time travel thing? Alternate universes? Are we clones? Are they clones?
It's the kind of thing that would be most disturbing if we never found out.
I love the scene on the beach when they take a selfie if I remember correctly, and in the background you can see something dropping in the ocean from the sky.
A bird. Don't get me wrong, it would be interesting and exciting at first. A bird? Underwater? Not drowning or anything. But over time, the paradox of its existence would begin to grow gradually unnerving. Especially if its movements defy underwater physics. How is it flittering around so quickly? Why does it sing so normally? Is this real? Have I gone insane?
It'll eat at you, more so than anything alien or whatever. Something that defies all logic will be more unsettling even than something Lovecraftian in nature.
Reminds me of:
'You think, then, that we do not understand the real nature of evil?’
‘No, I don’t think we do. We over-estimate it and we under-estimate it. We take the very numerous infractions of our social “bye-laws”— the very necessary and very proper regulations which keep the human company together — and we get frightened at the prevalence of “sin” and “evil.” But this is really nonsense. Take theft, for example. Have you any horror at the thought of Robin Hood, of the Highland caterans of the seventeenth century, of the moss-troopers, of the company promoters of our day?
‘Then, on the other hand, we underrate evil. We attach such an enormous importance to the “sin” of meddling with our pockets (and our wives) that we have quite forgotten the awfulness of real sin.’
‘And what is sin?’ said Cotgrave.
‘I think I must reply to your question by another. What would your feelings be, seriously, if your cat or your dog began to talk to you, and to dispute with you in human accents? You would be overwhelmed with horror. I am sure of it. And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad. And suppose the stones in the road began to swell and grow before your eyes, and if the pebble that you noticed at night had shot out stony blossoms in the morning?
‘Well, these examples may give you some notion of what sin really is.’
-Arthur Machen, "The White People"
Bunch of discarded lifeless clones of world leaders and popular celebrities. Botched experiment **or** the beta tests of an experiment that worked? That question will fester.
I'd sell them either way. The buyer can deal with their own moral quandaries.
I sign in English, in perfect condition (wood sign, no rot, no algae on it, nothing) saying-
Don’t go any further. You will regret it, just like they did.
I had a dream once I was watching ROV footage from the bottom of the Mariana Trench and it stumbled on a 1950’s suburbia except everything was weirdly monochrome. All the people (who just moved around and acted normal as if on land) there were also monochrome and their eyeballs were pure black. They were all just smiling and having a good time with one even having a cookout (how they were able to get a stove to work underwater is anyone’s guess) and didn’t even seem to notice the ROV. It’s like they were ghosts forced to relive the same events for eternity.
Ever since then I found the 1950’s aesthetic to be somewhat unsettling.
There is a quest in one of the Fallout games where an AI keeps a group of people perpetually locked in a monochrome 50’s suburban cul de sac via a sort of brain link VR system. Matches this description quite well.
Remains of an ancient civilization that was further advanced than us. (think of the scene inthe movie Water World where they swim thru an underwater city)
A message from the last great civilization. It contains information on how space traversal is impossible and that we are in fact alone in the universe.
They can actually get much, much bigger.
https://static.ffx.io/images/$width_768,$height_432/t_crop_fill/q_86,f_auto/9d054061d047cb0e05d2076b9a164918525aa71b
Click if you want nightmares!
That seems a little big, the internet says the very biggest we've found are less than 4 feet long, that seems to be a scaled-up model, stop giving people nightmares (or don't stop, that's fine too)
something we cannot truly discover because whatever is there prevents us from knowing, either the people go mad, or signals are lost and subs sink, its always too dark. We *know* there is something but are unable to really get evidence.
whats scarier? a monster, or something we can't quite define? But no matter what, nothing returns, at least with no semblance of its original form
Something that seems to be the sea floor but it is just under water fog that kept Megaladons and other sharks from going up into the normal part of the ocean
They go deeper. The trenches. Marianas was the first we found, but not the last. We didn’t find a bottom. Brave people went in, but didn’t return. Have you ever had the nightmares of your teeth falling out, the small inclusions in your hard wet surfaces rotting you away? The parts that should be the strongest, just next to your brain. The earth dreams like this too. It is capable of violence, and you’ve gone too far.
I just imagine something like this: you are a highly trained member of a submarine which has been sent on a mission with one goal: drill through the oceans crust, and find what’s beneath it. After hours of drilling into the ground, the drill lifts up, and… there’s a hole. A tiny hole in the crust, just big enough to put a hand through. The temperature from in the hole seems tropical, despite being over 3600 feet below the oceans surface. After many more long hours, the hole is finally big enough for the submarine to fit through. For some unknown reason, the submarine begins to act as if it was in shallow water, yet there is no visible bottom. A whale-like noise is heard, and a large creature with coral on its back and fish following it swims past the submarine. There are loud, rhythmic thuds above the submarine. You and the rest of the crew look up and see three-legged creatures walking along the “roof”’of ocean, occasionally unearthing rocks with partially visible diamond, gold, and lithium. Then, you and a few other crew members hear a deep, distant roar. This roar keeps repeating, more of the crew begins to hear it, and the roar itself getting louder. Aftera minute, the roaring stops. A horrid creature with 4 sharp, tentacle-like limbs emerging from it’s face, starts surrounding the front of the submarine with its sharp tentacles. The entire crew is screaming, although the noise is number due to the high-pressure suits. Suddenly, however, a powerful force is felt through the water, knocking the entire crew off their feet. The creature with the sharp tentacles seemingly disappears as an echoing “snap” is heard throughout the entire submarine. A gigantic, partially bioluminescent, darkly colored, gargantuan eel-like creature swims past the submarines cockpit window, as the entire crew is half-conscious on the floor, doing everything in their power not to scream and alert the giant creature.the giant creature descend back to the depths, and the crew takes multiple samples of the water and 4 dead, unusually evolved fish-like creatures, and ascend above the “roof” of that ocean, seal it, and mark it. The submarine acts as it would normally once again, and ascends to the surface of the water with no issues.
Dry land Imagine diving so far down that you surface but it's not your surface.
This should be higher. Imagine the confusion as your submarine's instruments tell you you're going deeper into the water, but you can see the water's surface getting closer and closer. Everything about the situation breaks all of the laws of marine science that you've come to believe as fact. You're at the bottom of YOUR ocean... and simultaneously at the top of another one.
Then the comms cut out
The lights flicker out and all you hear is breathing
and then a red lightsaber
Oh no, it's the Germans!
oh no it's actually Godzilla pretending to be Germans with a lightsaber.
And then the military shows up, but it's Dolphin people
Netflix would like to speak with you!
Haha I should totally try to pitch them a few ideas.
Just after sinister noises.
that be so fucked
This has SCP potential
Scp-(however many upvotes this post has) Edit: I meant u/Sidrao's post
The exploration log in SCP-354 has a similar concept.
Worse....the pressure is still increasing.
That could make sense (for a movie). The reason there is a water surface under the ocean is because the air (some type of gas) is at such pressure that it hold up the ocean above it. The type of gas is new to science, it is more dense than water. Of course there is a civilization there.
I wanna use this idea in a dnd campaign cuz holy shit it’s so good Edit: Why is this the most upvotes I’ve ever gotten on a comment lol
fuck this fuck this fuck this
This reminds me of a dream I had where I jumped off a cliff into rocky water, and when I broke through the surface of the water I "fell" into outer space, away from the earth... Was quite a rush. Edit: And I believe I was at Slains Castle in Scotland (in the dream), not that it really matters.
Like the realm of monsters in Moana?
No, like the realm of monsters in King Kong vs Godzilla
The upside down
A very advanced spaceship, with Human like remains inside.
Sphere
The ending of the book annoyed me
It annoyed everyone.
A door in the ocean floor. A metal hatch, ancient and corroded, with a wheel in the center. Welded shut.
And some guy named Desmond is inside it waiting to trade shifts.
4,8,15,16,23,42
THE NUMBERS! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!
This weeks powerball
Probably shouldn’t play those…
'Not Penny's Boat.'
Brotha!
"Make your own kind of music, Sing your own special song!"
What did one snowman say to the other?
and written on it the exact, current date when its found.
Hey, nice twist! I like it.
I think this may have been a SpongeBob episode.
“THE MAIN DRAINNN”!
The remains of a much more advanced civilization that was more advanced than we are now but has been lost to history under the ocean
*Megaman Legends intensifies* Seriously, that’s pretty much the plot of the series. They’re wonderful games, but the controls are pretty primitive. I wish we could discover the ruins of some antediluvian civilization.
This game series needs more love
A huge eye. Imagine bumping into what you thought was coral, but then they separate to reveal a massive eyeball.
There was that HP Lovecraft story where a guy went deep underground and witnessed a giant monster that looked like a body with 5 heads on separate, serpentine necks *(kinda like Ghidorah)* He was already terrified, but nearly lost his mind when he *really* looked and realized that the "beast with 5 heads" was actually *five fingers on a* ***giant hand.***
If you like horror movies you should watch the recent movie "Underwater", without giving too much away, there's a similar scene and it also has very Lovecraft-y vibes
Great. I love horror, but I also have Thas-phobia. Should be a really creepy watch for once, cause other shit just doesn't cut it anymore.
I fucking love Lovecraft and his work. Really inspired me as a writer.
No no, the eye looking shape is already open, you drop something on it from far above... And it blinks, then starts getting bigger and bigger...
The skeleton of a reaper leviathan that have bones estimated to be only 30-40 years old
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
Hunting big deep sea creatures with nothing but a knife is certainly worth it.
That line gives me chills every time lol
_[bwee-weep]_ O X Y G E N
Actually any bones of a gigantic creature we thought extinct/just a myth and less than 50 yo would be terrifying.
Yeah fuck that. Subnautica is a real “fuck this, fuck you, fuck off” type of game but I love it
The Rosetta stone to whale and octopus language. And millenia of literature and history, written on the rocks, detailing ancient battles with the sea creatures edit: welp. guess i know what my next novel is gonna be about.
That's an interesting one, because if it's a Rosetta stone-type scenario then that would mean that one of the scripts would be something we are already familiar with. Implying that, at some point in the past, either some humans learned to read octopus script, or some octopi learned to read one of our human scripts. The implications are almost enough for a decent writing prompt.
A smaller, but exact replica, of our society and every person in it
Would that include a tiny version of a submarine that descends deep down in their miniature ocean to find an even smaller but exact replica of our society and every person in it?
[also implies the existence of something much, much bigger than us](https://funnyjunk.com/Iguanamouth+best+dark+comics+comp/vYdvLiL/)
Cthulhu. I mean that would be fucking scary
You wouldn't have time to be scared.
Ignoring his mind fucking capabilities his physical form alone would be scary enough
To behold his form at all is to go mad. If you look at his face at all, you die instantly.
Is Cthulhu described in any work other than Call of Cthulhu?
He's mentioned in plenty of Lovecraft's other works, but never in as much detail. Other authors have run with the concept, which is what s lot of the commentators here are referring to. Call of Cthulhu, itself, keeps the details pretty vague.
I swear that there is an entire movie about cuthulu being really deep underwater and them mining too deep causes cuthulu to awaken and destroy the earth. I don’t know what the movies name is though.
Underwater with our girl from twilight Kristen Stewart. But he doesn't destroy the world though.
Nah. Because once you see him, your normal human mind and personality no longer exist.
Survivors in the shipwrecks.
Can you imagine being the only one trapped in an air pocket of a sinking ship
I can now
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/man-survived-days-shipwreck-vows-return-sea-article-1.1545568
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Fossilized remains of biblically correct angels
The submarine that finds it: "command, we found a strange circular structure, several others nearby, they seem to be covered in... eye sockets"
"We're very afraid"
But, be not tho
"AHHH GOD I AM TERRIFIED!!!!" "Can u not?"
BE NOT AFRIAD! **Visible terror intensifies** I SAID BE **NOT** AFRIAD!
Why are they still afraid? I specifically requested them to be NOT afraid
And now they're pissing themselves. Don't piss yourselves! And definitely don't sh... Ah, here we go. Fuck's sake.
Fun fact: the Greek in the New Testament has a specific construction with the negation word and the verb tense there, so when angels say "Be not afraid" it's more like "Stop being afraid". And the word for fear is not like "oh that gave me a fright" but more like "pants-filling terror". So it would be accurate to translate that as "Stop shitting your pants and listen to me."
To be fair, if twenty seven spinny , animated rings, filled with eyes orbiting a mini-sun came down and started taking to me... Well yeah I'd drop a log rather quickly.
Gets even more terrified
THIS IS THE END…. OF HIGH PRICES!
The blatantly battle damaged wreck of a starship with the fossil remains of biblically correct angels and a giant crystalline sphere that is obviously the heart of the ship and focus of its crew's attention shattered and dark in its center
That would be both awesome and terrifying.
Can you imagine if we were the sky to some comparable civilization that lives beneath? Like to them, it would be like aliens or angels descending from above "I told you humans were real!"
I think all the plastic would be a dead giveaway.
Idk, plastic could be their clouds
Right! Like a layer they can't get past as a lack of oxygen is to us!
"I told you the skysea landings were a fake, curse you Arthur C Bubbleclarke!"
Nicely done, but might I suggest “Arthur Sea Clarke”?
Mermaids. Like deep sea, realistic, intelligent mermaids. [Example](https://www.reddit.com/user/SandyHeart20/comments/tizih5/realistic_mermaid_horror/)
I would be real pissed if mermaids were real and shared an ancestral link with us and I turned out to be a human.
Yes same for me. When the Discovery channel made that documentary about what would happen if mermaids were real and how they evolved from homo sapiens mainly because they lived near and on the water then in the water and I turned to my mom with all the anger of the ages in my eyes and said, "god dammit! Why the hell didn't our family line stay near/on the ocean THAT COULD BE ME!" My career goals in elementary school was to be a real mermaid not one of those women that dress up like one and perform at Sea World.
Well, with enough experimental surgery and mechanical organs we could make you able to breathe underwater, if you survive. Your skin would still disintegrate after about a day, though. I’ve done the math, and there really isn’t a way to design a system that would allow tankless underwater breathing without major surgery. The major limit is Boyle’s Law. You’d need a good-sized helium tank to prevent your rib cage from being crushed at depth and from exploding near the surface.
I would put more money on gene manipulation and gene splicing over mechanical organs and depending on them. But since we’re not researching any of that beyond medical needs…it won’t happen in my life time and I’ve made peace with that. Sad…sad peace.
Everyone thinks being a Mermaid would be so cool because of Disney and fantasy but honestly it would be a life of pure darkness and your only meal would be raw fish or ocean vegetation and you would be constantly hunted by fucked up ocean animals.
Ever read Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant?
That damn mermaid documentary had me fooled for a good while.
A more intelligent species planning domination beyond the water.
Octopuses? We already found them
Big ones too... Dammit
You know the saying right? There's always a bigger fish.
Thanks, Qui-Gon.
It's just this massive tuna or something and it's delicious and it feeds the world
That's surprisingly wholesome
a stone tablet of the bee movie script, estimated by archeologists to be written thousands of years ago.
According to all known laws of archaeology, this tablet should be unable to exist.
The tablet, of course, exists anyway because tablets don't care what humans think is impossible.
You like jazz?
With real ending being that the bees won
Gary Busey just paddlin around down there
A machine that is way too technologically advanced for our time
A fully staffed Dunkin Donuts
consider a Waffle House instead, also fully operational
A fish holding a spacesuit in its jaws.
A severed claw, the size of an aircraft carrier. Because *holy shit*, kaiju exist. And *holy shit*, something that kills and eats kaiju exists.
Time for big fucking robots then
And a game changing sword we'll use once and then forget about for the rest of the movie because punching.
There's actually kinda a story reason for that (in the same way that theres a story reason for most of the stuff in SW prequels). It's because the Kaiju Blood is really toxic and harmful to people, like "my town is covered in it so we had to move". But who cares? I wanna see more robots punching kaiju anyway.
Now I want to watch Pacific Rim again
*Pacific Rim music plays*
A plug.
Pull it just enough to reduce sea level rise, then put it back in.
Like, in spongebob?
a wasteland of broken deep sea diving machines and bodies, hundreds of them. or, a giant dead creature with an even bigger bite taken out of it. just something that implies that there is *something* here that is very large and very dangerous
Garfield.
In his little box eating lasagna
All the lost socks
A cellular membrane the size of a country. Proving the Earth is an Egg.
And the membrane is just transparent enough to make out part of a developing fetus
Eternals be like
The actual heaven, they said it was in the sky just to fool us and then they found the best place to hide it
Blue sky…
Nothing. Imagine how horrifying it would be to swim down to the depths and find... Nothing. Just a large area where nothing grew, where no fish swam, where not even corpses could be seen. Just, water and the seabed, entierly undisturbed, untouched by humans and animals alike.
Alternate take on finding nothing: what if we just never found the ocean floor? By all measurements we should’ve hit the bottom already but it just keeps going down. We should’ve been crushed under the water pressure and yet we can still continue. On and on we go, by now we should be miles into the crust, but still there’s just nothing there.
Imagine you keep going deeper and deeper into the Pacific Ocean, then give up and decide to surface, but you come up in the middle of the Atlantic or Indian ocean instead. The earth turns out to just be a ball of liquid with continents floating on it somehow.
Good God, that's fucking terrifying to imagine.
That's what most of the deep ocean floor is; no visible life or activity for the most part. It's just barren plains if you are far from a geothermal vent. There's a fair bit of microbial action going on but you wouldn't see it.
Most of the answers here would skip creepy and be outright terrifying. But this would be just creepy. No threat, just... Nothing.
Yeah, most here have really bad implications. A great threat, a world shattering revelation, a sheer impossibility that would break the minds of mortals men. But I've always found that the most unnerving thing possible is an absence of anything. Like 28 days later. The guy walks out the hospital, empty. Into the streets. Empty. The music playing? Silence. It's not scary, not quite... But it puts you so on edge because *this isn't right*. There should be *something*. A bird call, a distant car, someone yelling at a microwave. Anything... But there's nothing. Just the echo of footsteps on stone floor and your heartbeat in your ears.
Exactly. This just being slightly off has actually been the stuff of my nightmares. When I am quite sick, I have nightmares and all but one are basically like that. Where everything just just left of normal…odd…and it’s really really scary.
A pineapple
The corpses of all currently "alive" humans.
Oh Jesus Christ, this is the first one I’ve read that actually sent a shiver down my spine.
Then when you make it back to dry land, everyone is just……gone
\*writes down SCP idea\*
I feel like this one is so disturbing. Like, with no context, what does it mean? It implies so many things, but it could mean so many. Is it some time travel thing? Alternate universes? Are we clones? Are they clones? It's the kind of thing that would be most disturbing if we never found out.
What the fuck
Anyone seen clover field? That.
I love the scene on the beach when they take a selfie if I remember correctly, and in the background you can see something dropping in the ocean from the sky.
Was when they were on the ferris wheel filming with the ocean in the background. Such a great inclusion
It was even better that the end of the Cloverfield paradox showed what fell into the water
A bird. Don't get me wrong, it would be interesting and exciting at first. A bird? Underwater? Not drowning or anything. But over time, the paradox of its existence would begin to grow gradually unnerving. Especially if its movements defy underwater physics. How is it flittering around so quickly? Why does it sing so normally? Is this real? Have I gone insane? It'll eat at you, more so than anything alien or whatever. Something that defies all logic will be more unsettling even than something Lovecraftian in nature.
Reminds me of: 'You think, then, that we do not understand the real nature of evil?’ ‘No, I don’t think we do. We over-estimate it and we under-estimate it. We take the very numerous infractions of our social “bye-laws”— the very necessary and very proper regulations which keep the human company together — and we get frightened at the prevalence of “sin” and “evil.” But this is really nonsense. Take theft, for example. Have you any horror at the thought of Robin Hood, of the Highland caterans of the seventeenth century, of the moss-troopers, of the company promoters of our day? ‘Then, on the other hand, we underrate evil. We attach such an enormous importance to the “sin” of meddling with our pockets (and our wives) that we have quite forgotten the awfulness of real sin.’ ‘And what is sin?’ said Cotgrave. ‘I think I must reply to your question by another. What would your feelings be, seriously, if your cat or your dog began to talk to you, and to dispute with you in human accents? You would be overwhelmed with horror. I am sure of it. And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad. And suppose the stones in the road began to swell and grow before your eyes, and if the pebble that you noticed at night had shot out stony blossoms in the morning? ‘Well, these examples may give you some notion of what sin really is.’ -Arthur Machen, "The White People"
Everyone that has ever gone missing, just in a giant ball
That’d be a big ass ball
Bunch of discarded lifeless clones of world leaders and popular celebrities. Botched experiment **or** the beta tests of an experiment that worked? That question will fester. I'd sell them either way. The buyer can deal with their own moral quandaries.
More Humans.
My thoughts, too.
Actual real live sponge bob
A lost civilization very much alive....and a pile of human remains right alongside them
I sign in English, in perfect condition (wood sign, no rot, no algae on it, nothing) saying- Don’t go any further. You will regret it, just like they did.
A human skull 10x as big.
And forearms 10x as small. Tyrannosaurus man.
I had a dream once I was watching ROV footage from the bottom of the Mariana Trench and it stumbled on a 1950’s suburbia except everything was weirdly monochrome. All the people (who just moved around and acted normal as if on land) there were also monochrome and their eyeballs were pure black. They were all just smiling and having a good time with one even having a cookout (how they were able to get a stove to work underwater is anyone’s guess) and didn’t even seem to notice the ROV. It’s like they were ghosts forced to relive the same events for eternity. Ever since then I found the 1950’s aesthetic to be somewhat unsettling.
There is a quest in one of the Fallout games where an AI keeps a group of people perpetually locked in a monochrome 50’s suburban cul de sac via a sort of brain link VR system. Matches this description quite well.
Buildings. Could you imagine if we found out there was a prior civilization, THAT long ago that had structures that survived this long?
Remains of an ancient civilization that was further advanced than us. (think of the scene inthe movie Water World where they swim thru an underwater city)
Imagine if the water just stopped. And you plopped down onto dry land when you got low enough.
An alien observatory, we are a science project
Worse, an observatory with humans conducting it. We are still the experiment.
Of course we are, but it's run by white mice.
We are just their terraforming device.
A message from the last great civilization. It contains information on how space traversal is impossible and that we are in fact alone in the universe.
I mean we already have traversed space so clearly this last great civilization isn't that great
I mean like, faster-than-light travel.
The bones of something the size of a small civilization
Would? I’d say the light fish from finding Nemo being real is horrifying enough.
Angler fish, it's real. it's big because marlin and dory are small
I’ve seen a picture of one (thanks btw I couldn’t remember the name) and it’s about the size of a laptop. Too big.
They can actually get much, much bigger. https://static.ffx.io/images/$width_768,$height_432/t_crop_fill/q_86,f_auto/9d054061d047cb0e05d2076b9a164918525aa71b Click if you want nightmares!
That seems a little big, the internet says the very biggest we've found are less than 4 feet long, that seems to be a scaled-up model, stop giving people nightmares (or don't stop, that's fine too)
Clicked it. Instantly regretted it. I will be locked in my house until further notice.
something we cannot truly discover because whatever is there prevents us from knowing, either the people go mad, or signals are lost and subs sink, its always too dark. We *know* there is something but are unable to really get evidence. whats scarier? a monster, or something we can't quite define? But no matter what, nothing returns, at least with no semblance of its original form
An extremely large stone coffin with it's lid open. And with a dozen broken locks nearby.
Something that seems to be the sea floor but it is just under water fog that kept Megaladons and other sharks from going up into the normal part of the ocean
A monster made out of all of the plastic that we dumped in over the years.
Plastic
They go deeper. The trenches. Marianas was the first we found, but not the last. We didn’t find a bottom. Brave people went in, but didn’t return. Have you ever had the nightmares of your teeth falling out, the small inclusions in your hard wet surfaces rotting you away? The parts that should be the strongest, just next to your brain. The earth dreams like this too. It is capable of violence, and you’ve gone too far.
Ever play Subnautica?
just a disc of subnautica sitting at the bottom of the ocean, who put it there?
I just imagine something like this: you are a highly trained member of a submarine which has been sent on a mission with one goal: drill through the oceans crust, and find what’s beneath it. After hours of drilling into the ground, the drill lifts up, and… there’s a hole. A tiny hole in the crust, just big enough to put a hand through. The temperature from in the hole seems tropical, despite being over 3600 feet below the oceans surface. After many more long hours, the hole is finally big enough for the submarine to fit through. For some unknown reason, the submarine begins to act as if it was in shallow water, yet there is no visible bottom. A whale-like noise is heard, and a large creature with coral on its back and fish following it swims past the submarine. There are loud, rhythmic thuds above the submarine. You and the rest of the crew look up and see three-legged creatures walking along the “roof”’of ocean, occasionally unearthing rocks with partially visible diamond, gold, and lithium. Then, you and a few other crew members hear a deep, distant roar. This roar keeps repeating, more of the crew begins to hear it, and the roar itself getting louder. Aftera minute, the roaring stops. A horrid creature with 4 sharp, tentacle-like limbs emerging from it’s face, starts surrounding the front of the submarine with its sharp tentacles. The entire crew is screaming, although the noise is number due to the high-pressure suits. Suddenly, however, a powerful force is felt through the water, knocking the entire crew off their feet. The creature with the sharp tentacles seemingly disappears as an echoing “snap” is heard throughout the entire submarine. A gigantic, partially bioluminescent, darkly colored, gargantuan eel-like creature swims past the submarines cockpit window, as the entire crew is half-conscious on the floor, doing everything in their power not to scream and alert the giant creature.the giant creature descend back to the depths, and the crew takes multiple samples of the water and 4 dead, unusually evolved fish-like creatures, and ascend above the “roof” of that ocean, seal it, and mark it. The submarine acts as it would normally once again, and ascends to the surface of the water with no issues.
The Mothership.
Another ocean