what's the creepiest thing you've read/seen on reddit?

1. That's easy: [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/creepyPMs/comments/8gjknp/your_garden_variety_delusional_cubicle_neighbors/) post on r/creepypms. [Here](https://web.archive.org/web/20180503192203/https://imgur.com/gallery/WLRrALF) is the web archive of the Imgur album.
   — Ostridge93


2. Probably when someone PM'd me a picture of the house I lived in when I was 4. That one kinda fucked me up for a while.
   — Cold_War_Hero


3. There was a post that said a person's great-grandfather's wife disappeared suddenly, no trace at all. When he died, the family found a fake wall and broke it down, finding the missing great-grandma. Not super creepy, but implications. It made me wonder how many mysteries and disappearances can be solved by similar situations/circumstances etc.
   — SoulofThesteppe






4. Someone commented my name and address. Talked to the mods, changed emails, deleted and made a new reddit account. Canceled all my cards and got them renewed. On the bright side, all my cards expire in the same week.
   — EJX-a


5. Saw a comment from a guy who lived in an old house, he said it had been in the family years. He said he now lived alone there, and almost every night about 1am he'd hear some scratching noises inside the walls. Apparently he never really thought much of it and assumed it was animals. Anyway, people were commenting saying he should video and take a look inside the walls, so he agreed to. After that he never posted again and the last comment on his profile was him saying he'd take a look inside that night. Probably just a coincidence and not as creepy as some here but I thought it was strange nonetheless.
   — -TheSheepdog-


6. u/carlh (Carl Herold) was a friendly and well known Redditor who ran a bunch of free programming lessons. He even had his own subreddit r/carlhprogramming which had thousands of subscribers and frequently livestreamed his programming classes. Then one day it came out he'd been arrested [for the rape and torture of his 9 year old son with other men and for making child pornography](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/alabama-man-raped-videotaped-sonin-interstate-child-porn-ring-prosecutors-article-1.1549914). He later hung himself while in prison awaiting trial. Just goes to show that you really don't know people. Threads like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming/comments/e1o19/carlhprogramming_update/?st=JIRM9NDO&sh=22f71806) become super creepy with hindsight.
   — LadyEmry






7. I stayed up all night on (I think it was on r/awakened) trying to convince a user in this thread to not cut off his penis. I half thought he was trolling but a couple replies and links later I was pretty certain he was serious. He thought it'd bring him closer to god and we talked for a long while. I hoped I had made some difference in the end but unfortunately a few months later I heard about a redditor that cut off his penis and killed himself... Sadly I'm pretty certain that he's one I was up all night talking to... Just found the link if anyone is interested: [https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/comments/6x8iyi/how\_to\_proceed\_when\_you\_only\_seem\_to\_fail/dmfqzq6](https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/comments/6x8iyi/how_to_proceed_when_you_only_seem_to_fail/dmfqzq6)
   — TheZenPenguin


8. A while back I was poking around some subreddits I found in links within links and came across the sad saga of a user by the name of u/darylprat. And ho boy what a rabbit hole that turned out to be To keep a long story short, this guy was *obssessed* with this girl who worked at IGN. I really cannot emphasise it enough just how absolutely enraptured this guy was with her. He commented without fail on nearly every single thing she posted across numerous platforms in an ill fated effort to try and get closer to her. Naturally this freaked her out and she eventually blocked him. But he couldn’t accept this so he turned to reddit to see if there was a way he could get in contact with her again. Of course everyone could see the dude was being a giant creeper and told him thusly. But either he completely ignored them or just couldn’t comprehend that he was in the wrong, so he kept trying *again and again* to see if there was a way to get in contact with her because she was everything to him. And again and again people kept telling him to knock it off. Towards the end he seemed to get more and more depressed, saying that she was the only reason for him to live and that if he couldn’t talk to her anymore, he’d have no reason to live. And then finally after getting in a big argument he seemed to imply that he’d had enough and didn’t want to live anymore. And that was the end of it. What really stuck with me was just how obsessed this guy was. I knew people could get seriously obsessed with things, but I never imagined it would be this all encompassing. Or how it was so strong it seemingly blocked out all those people telling him otherwise. It’s kinda sad honestly
   — SkyGuardianOfTheSky


9. A lady that was raped by her parents for years and allows them to watch her children unsupervised. She’s like 100% ok with the whole messed up situation. If you read through the comments she tells the whole story: [crazy](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8s00wk/comment/e0vf0is?st=JIRMNMPP&sh=369e4032)
   — Itsjustmaggs






10. There was an ask reddit about cannibalism that was obviously not trolling that got deleted very quickly, about 2 min after posting. Something about murdering and consuming a consenting friend.
    — sjohns19