March 22, 2006 by Vurdlak with 598 Comments
Something is terribly wrong with this picture. Stare carefully at the picture to figure it out. Most people usually spot the problem within a minute.
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OMG i’m 30 yrs old and that just scared the crap out of me, I ran, I’ve never been so frightened, I triped over the coffee table and Just kept going till I was in the corner of the room, my cat was in the other room and came running all freaked out like he could sense my fear.
It scared the crap out of me XD
Fail, was sitting relaxed back 3 meters away from the screen, headset on the floor and right clicked to zoom in to see better and just saw an one second grey image appear suddenly.. Didn’t even blink :D
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
HAHAHAHA I WAS READING THE COMMENTS AND IT WENT OFF…..DAD NEARLY SHIT A BRICK OUTHOUSE TO SHIT IN!!!!
dis is wicked weird man
The scream without the video is still scary! While typing this response, it scared me 2 or 3 times forcing me to correct typos
Lame. Old. Done. Trite. Hackneyed. LAME.
I still dont know whats wrong with the picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :/
holly crap that scared the hell out of meeh i almost had a heart attack . lol !!
HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ME N MY FRIEND LOU LOU WAS JUST SITTING TRYING 2 FIGURE OUT WATS WRONG WIF THE PICTURE UNTILL WE HEARD SCREAMIIG I OR WE GOT A HEART ATTACK OMG DIS WAS OUR SECOND TIME N WE STILL CANT HANDLE IT
… Well that was boring.
OOOOOOOMMMMMMMGGGG! ive seen those type of pic/videos and every single time they scare me so bad. I was watchin it in class and everyone made fun of me when i screamed. lol its scary but kinda gay
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ALMOST GOT A HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUt i still don’t know what the picture was. But I jumped
haha!! got this one before
The guy Beside me took a screenshot when the face came up. I GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARES JK :)
It dint scared me first time, did that second xD
:O (-_-) scared me half to death
All I can figure is the radiator heater appears not to be installed up to code?? Hard to say, when studying the picture it keeps blinking off to a face, I think the picture is defective.
Well, I wasn’t scared.. But then again, i was totally expecting that, and had the volume turned almost all the way off…
OMFG! DUDE..FREAKY AS H***!!!!!!!
@HJR
thats what’s supposed to happen. if u turn up ur volume, it’ll scream. its a prank. -.-
haha i had my sound down…didnt figure it out until i read some comets
@scarelet HJR’s comment was meant to be a witty retort, I’m sure. He was making it seem as if he was seriously studying the image for a flaw and the “blinking to an image of a face” was merely a glitch with the picture.
I was a bit startled, but a childhood of horror movies and being subjected to scream tactics far too often has made these things less effective. I’m surprised I jumped at all…
TL;DR – Witty retort. Lame trick.
Listen up, whoever put this on here.
This was an abusive thing to do. My daughter and I thought we were engaging in a genuine intellectual exercise (puzzles are good for developing our brain power), and then were frightened out of our wits by the screaming face on the screen.
It is one thing to visit a site where one knows in advance that they are about to get a jolt; after all, many people enjoy being given a fright. However, this was uninvited and unwelcome, and we are very uncomfortable and offended at being betrayed in this way.
The headline is deceptive in its description; it says “OPTICAL ILLUSION” – and we want to express our disappointment and anger at being frightened against our will.
Just wait until the day when you actually incite a serious heart or brain reaction in an unsuspecting viewer; I hope your website and its advertising sponsors get sued into oblivion.
This is disgusting.
Now I see that my comment is “awaiting moderaation”. Oh gee, do you suppose my post will be found to be offensive? Just like WE were offended by this garbage?
Once again, disgusting.
12.30pm at night, all lights switched off, screen on full brightness, just randomly browsing around the net for crazy illusions. Zoomed in and out several times to see anything unusual, Volume was almost full.
This literally killed me. After a minute I couldn’t stop laughing.
what an old joke.
but then again, this post was from 2006 :U
Thanks to this vid, I realise I’ve really slow reaction. Screamed only a few seconds after that THING appeared.
Oh god my heart, i was even leaning towards the fricking monitor haha
OMG!!! WTF DAT SH!T SCARED THE f@CK OUT OF ME. I WAS LIKE DAMN
HAHAHA
I was reading the comments and it went twice, scrolled back up and there was nothing.
I cant sleep now!! this is rediclous!
Just turn the volume down and DON’T click the picture!!!
wooooooooooooooooooow!!!!! THIS IS TERRIBLE!
OMG, there are videos and pictures like that everywhere! I used to get so freaked out that I’d click the x and shut of my computer, but now I don’t… I think I’ve made some improvement…
oh my god first time i ran from the dam screen 11 years old and im not going on it again.
that was so freekin funni not scary @ all loln
Hmm.. I liked that, because I was ready for it. Turned the volume down and waited for a creepy face. And when it finally appeared, I laughed ;) Thanks, man.
And to mrs Tzogas: Did you read this?
“Really Scary Optical Illusion
April 7, 2006
This is the scariest Optical Illusion I’ve seen… just to warn you if you don’t like beeing scared or think that something scary may be detrimental to your health or provoke seizures, I advise you not to open this illusion. Also children, please ask your parents to preview this before they allow you to looking at it…You’ve been warned ;)”
if you can not see the scaryness in the picture look hard.
a grey figure apears.
take caution because you can get a fright and possibly paralised.
people have lost thir babies looking at that mage
it is just a movie
lol fail, turned my volume down after 10 seconds of looking at the picture, anyone who’s been on the internet for more than a month should not get fooled by this
It actually surprised me for for a miserable fraction of a second. This site is for optical illusions, troll. Once you intended to be a jerk, you could have thought of doing it better.
This is a blatant abuse.
Is this stupid crap still going around? This was never funny when it came out and let me think, still not funny. It is plain stupid.
The internet is either losing interesting ideas or losing interesting people.
If you have to resort to this kind of stupid, annoying, crap, then I don’t know.
God Bless you all.
Hey, that’s such an insult! That’s just very stupid ya know!
ARGH! I FEEL SO STUPID!!!
i was at a coffee shop too and my computer was loud.. how embarrasing
I got my mum 2 watch it first and she started laughing ad then shes like this face just pops out lookig wierd for like half a second.
Im just like that is the sh***iest illusion eva.
It not even a blimmin illusion.
im 12 and that didnt even scare me a little !!!!
that scare me! i was staring at it wondering if any thing was going to happen. then i forgot i put the volume on mute -.- i turn it on and then i heard a scream it gave me a heart attcak XP
I’m really angry at myself for falling for this, I’ve seen a million of these before xD Surprised me and I jumped, but not that scary.