The most disturbing/weird things you saw IRL.

[Dr. Crawver]

Saw my girlfriend attempt to commit suicide over skype. That one still haunts my nightmares, and that level of dread and helplessness with never be forgotten.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Probably some of the roadkill I see on the street. Raccoons, dogs, cats, skunks, you name it.

I moved to north-east Georgia from DC and was pretty interested in how different roadkill is here in the south...far fewer Deer than I expected but a shit-ton of chickens. It took me a while to figure out what the feathery, white lumps were to be honest...

I haven't seen too many disturbing things luckily...back in the early/mid 2000's when I was exploring the internet for the first time there were some really messed up sites like (I think) Ogrish which featured (supposedly) actual photos of crime scenes, diseased corpses and, babies who suffered SIDs.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

My own experiences can't even compare to the nightmares that have been listed here. The best I could say are dead animals, and even those don't so much disturb as intrigue me.

But I'm expecting to see this kind of thing in the future, considering my aunt has memory loss. I don't know if it's Alzheimer's, but she'll forget things you literally said to her just a minute ago, multiple times over, and that kind of behavior is really disturbing when you see it live. And it seems to be getting worse.

 

[Saetha]

I saw a kid pissing on a railing in China once. It was a busy junction in the middle of the city and he was butt-naked.

Times are hard.

I stubbed a toe once. Bruised it really bad. Even bled a little.

*Sniff* They're hard indeed.

(To OP): Disturbing in a slowly-dying sort of way or disturbing in a passing danger sort of way?

If the second, I remember my first year in highschool theater tech, we built an eightteen-foot-high wall for the set, constructed in two parts, with the top half bolted to the bottom. Except, it wasn't bolted very well, and we didn't realize this until it was standing straight up and wobbling with every motion. So we had to lower it back down, slowly, with a team of people propping up the top half with ten foot long 4x4's. I was holding up the wall with the tech director and a few others in the class, with us all standing beneath the looming wall, listening for the sounds of cracking wood and freezing everytime we heard it. I remember at one point the splintering got so bad that the tech director told us to get out, everyone dropped their wood and scattered - except for him. Thankfully the bolting held long enough for us to get back and get the wall down. That's probably the closest brush with death I've had, setting side the various head injuries I suffered as a toddler. But I don't remember any of those.

If the first... my sister had anorexia for a few years. At her absolute worst, she dropped to about 93 pounds, looked like a diseased baby bird. Bags under her eyes, ribs and veterbrae showing, her head looked too big for her body. She's gotten loads better, but it was... unsettling, for a while there.

 

[Arkliem]

I've seen people die and injured in some pretty awful ways but the worst thing I can recall had to do with cats.

An old ranch house with wild cats everywhere. The cats weren't all that disturbing other than being feral, it was the cat graveyard in the basement of the house where the cats had been using for shelter during the winter(They appeared to have gotten through a broken basement window). Looked like several generations of dead cats in there. Matted fur lined the ground, skeletons strewn about with some that looked like they had pieces missing. The smell was an awful mix of rotted cats and cat piss, strong and made your eyes and lungs burn. The floor was a literal several inch thick carpet of cat dung and fur/bones. That awful smell and the feeling of a cat skull breaking underfoot is probably going to stick with me until I die.