Halloween is time to scare and be scared. But many of the scary pictures that qualify as the World's scariest pictures go beyond scaring. Some create a chill in the mind because of the horrifying true stories that are associated with them. Others are scary because the mind fears impending death or injury. Many are just the photographers reporting the existence of such things. Others are manipulation of mind by the so called cinematographers and artists some of whom are con to create that creepy feeling. Nature contributes as well.
Perception of what is scary differs from person to person. What may have scared some people a century ago, no longer scares people anymore. An example of that would be images of French Revolution or punishments such …show more content…
It may have happened before, and it is not guaranteed that it has not happened after or will not happen. We've had many genocides after Hitler too. The scary images are reminder of what mankind can do to fellow human being, aware of the pain being inflicted, indifferent to the pain. It is hard to pinpoint which of these pictures is less scary because every pair of shoes in the heap has a story behind it.
2. Images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Unlike the Nazis, those who made those nuclear bombs did not know of the likely consequences. The umbrella that killed many under them stopped mankind on its path of destruction. But mind does wonder whether the bombs would have been used anyway as revenge for Pearl Harbor bombing. Nature and its power became all too visible with those bombs, and man had learned how to provoke nature on that fateful August day in 1945.
3. The spooky looking beech tree
This tree is live and kicking so to speak. It is there for anybody to see in one of the nursing homes of Suffolk's Stowlangtoft. It may have inspired the Scream or Harry Potter. The fact is it is a tree that reporters found and it resembles horrific things that were supposed to be fiction. Similarly, images of
Perception of what is scary differs from person to person. What may have scared some people a century ago, no longer scares people anymore. An example of that would be images of French Revolution or punishments such …show more content…
It may have happened before, and it is not guaranteed that it has not happened after or will not happen. We've had many genocides after Hitler too. The scary images are reminder of what mankind can do to fellow human being, aware of the pain being inflicted, indifferent to the pain. It is hard to pinpoint which of these pictures is less scary because every pair of shoes in the heap has a story behind it.
2. Images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Unlike the Nazis, those who made those nuclear bombs did not know of the likely consequences. The umbrella that killed many under them stopped mankind on its path of destruction. But mind does wonder whether the bombs would have been used anyway as revenge for Pearl Harbor bombing. Nature and its power became all too visible with those bombs, and man had learned how to provoke nature on that fateful August day in 1945.
3. The spooky looking beech tree
This tree is live and kicking so to speak. It is there for anybody to see in one of the nursing homes of Suffolk's Stowlangtoft. It may have inspired the Scream or Harry Potter. The fact is it is a tree that reporters found and it resembles horrific things that were supposed to be fiction. Similarly, images of