50 Creepy, Scary, Unsettling Images That Aren't ACTUALLY Creepy, Scary, Or Unsettling When You Look Again

    Sometimes you just have to take a second look at something before you REALLY get it.

    1. Like these plants in South Africa (named Conophytum) that look like they have lips:

    green plants with pink middles that look like full lips

    2. The folds in this curtain that create the illusion of a pretty nasty face:

    A curtain in a door that looks like a face

    3. This THING that looks like something out of a sci-fi horror nightmare, that's actually just an old bag of potatoes...with REALLY wild roots:

    Roots extending

    4. And this sweet potato that looks a heck of a lot like a severed hand:

    potato shaped like a hand

    5. The way this store has its mannequins arranged that looks far more sinister than it actually is:

    mannequins hanging

    6. This Wendy's sign that had a light blowout, making it look more like a sign from hell:

    A burnt Wendy's sign

    7. This crocheted piglet that turned out a lot more like some angry pink nightmare:

    A crocheted Piglet

    8. This dog with a wig:

    A white dog with a long black wig on its head

    9. The way this cat is sitting:

    A cat sitting on a bookcase, with its legs handing off the side

    10. This chimney's silhouette that looks more like someone creeping outside the window:

    A silhouette in a door

    11. The windows in this roof that look like a creepy-ass face staring into your soul:

    A face on a roof

    12. This image taken at the exact moment a mosquito flew past the camera, thus creating a scene like something out of The Mist:

    a mosquito that looks huge, but is actually just up close

    13. This person's Starbucks cup which appears to have an evil omen inside of it:

    A face in someone's drink

    14. And this yogurt parfait that looks like should be saying, "Why so serious?":

    A face on a parfait

    15. This baby seat that makes it look like Dora the Explorer is hiding out in the car:

    A Dora the Explorer car seat

    16. This hellish-looking clown that's apparently just a shower:

    a clown shower

    17. This dog who placed its chew toy bone in JUST the right (or wrong) place to give their owner a small heart attack:

    A dog with its toy in a shoe

    18. These ants carrying a glove up a lamp post:

    A latex glove being carried by dozens of ants

    19. These upside-down dried-out aloe ferox LEAVES that just washed up like that on shore:

    dried leaves upside down with what looks like LONG LEGS like they're walking on a beach

    20. This medical android that's been tucked into a hospital bed, and provides JUST the right jump scare at this angle.

    21. This faded Barbie towel that's staring right into your soul:

    A faded towel with a face on it

    22. This pit bull wearing a lion costume, that someone happened to come across while walking through a park:

    A dog walking on a path with a lion's mane costume, from behind it looks like a real lion

    (Phew)

    front side of the dog, looking normal, with his ears sticking out from the lion costume

    23. This Thomas the Tank Engine toy just lurking in the dark:

    A Thomas the Tank Engine toy on a banister

    24. This creepy AF figure that's definitely a backpack and not a demon shadow despite the way it looks:

    Silhouette of what looks like a person, but its just a bag on a bed

    25. This image of a MASSIVE swarm of birds blocking out the sun in Rome:

    thousands of birds in the sky, blocking out the sun over a busy highway

    26. These poorly placed boots that scared the person who actually left them there:

    a pair of rubber boots standing just outside a door, and the top part covered by curtains so it looks like someone is standing outside the door

    27. This reveal of what an owl looks like without its feathers:

    a very scrawny bird with bead like eyes

    28. This unintentionally scary shadow through some water bottles:

    two shadows from some water bottles that look like small children with menacing grins

    29. This hair clip that looks like a giant spider ready to jump out at you with its eight ~legs~:

    a hairclip on the top of a bedframe

    30. These panoramic pictures of people's dogs:

    panoramic photos of dogs that make them look distorted

    31. The way the sky looks like a giant hell demon about to eat the world here:

    A giant cloud shaped like a face with the sun setting and creating a red glow

    32. This snowman just casually sitting like that on a bench:

    A snowman on a bench

    33. This comforter tossed onto a chair that now looks straight out of a horror film:

    A comforter on a chair that looks like the shape of a person sitting in the chair

    34. This pleasant image of Christmas lights that turns out to be not-so-pleasant the closer you look...like, IDK, maybe it's just a bird? STILL CREEPY:

    a picture of some trees at night and a little silhouette of what looks like a person in the branches

    35. And this shadow of what's not a spider, but may as well be:

    a shadow that looks like a spider

    36. The way these flowers make this person's shadow look sinister:

    37. This image of someone's mother and, not a demon in red, but just some laundry:

    a woman wringing out a blanket on a balcony

    38. This balloon that gave its owner a near heart attack every time they woke up:

    A balloon that looks like it has a scary face on it

    39. This coat rack that's apparently not a demon waiting to take your soul:

    40. This sunset that looks like a demonic rising in an apartment:

    A reflection of a sunset that looks like a house is on fire

    41. This ball of fluff that isn't actually a spider, even though it looks a heck of a lot like one:

    A piece of lint that looks like a bug

    42. This unfortunately placed shoe and roll of paper that are DEAD funny:

    A toilet paper roll in a shoe

    43. This pair of hip waders that scared someone's wife when they went to go in the basement:

    what appears to be a set of legs at the bottom of some stairs

    44. This random poster peeking out to look at you from behind a chair:

    a poster of a person peeking out from behind a chair

    45. These pillows and blanket tangled up like they're a creeper lying in someone else's bed:

    A silhouette of a person under some blankets and pillows but it's actually just pillows and a blanket

    46. These rubber gloves in a washing machine that look like someone opened the gate to hell:

    hands coming out of a washing machine

    47. This innocent statue of a child at the bottom of this pond that will make LOTS of people have a slight panic:

    48. This super creepy (and very large?!) mannequin that looks like it's waving from an abandoned barn:

    a giant mannequin

    49. This street lamp that looks like a nightmarish monster:

    50. Finally, this unsettlingly human-looking dog:

    closeup of someone's dog

    h/t r/creepy and r/oddlyterrifying