36 Photos I Found This Month That Broke My Brain In Every Way Possible

Every month, I collect photos from around the interwebs that are creepy, confusing, interesting, or simply stop me in my tracks and make me think, huh! From the perplexing to the downright fascinating, here are 36 photos that, lowkey, I feel like I reallllllllly wasn’t meant to see:

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This person took a picture during a heatwave, and it’s so distorted, I genuinely thought it was a painting at first:

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This rice pudding restaurant (????) with this cute lil’ sign letting you know if you tinkle in the loo without paying for some pudding first, you’ll be “disgraced, tortured, and savagely beaten”:

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These seemingly AI-generated menu photos took the “ham” in hamburger rather literally:

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This person tried to take a picture of their eyeball and caught something even more frightening:

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This apartment has a combination stove/oven/dishwasher, and I can’t decide if that’s genius for a small space or ungodly:

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I have never in my life seen the makings of a corn maze, and I was today years old when I learned this is how it starts:

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This dog pooping isn’t in the sample picture on the puzzle box but it sure is in it!

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This is a photo of a soldier kneeling with his helmet on his knee, I swear!!!!!

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This person’s daughter lost her tooth during surgery, and while I’m sure this was meant to be a sweet gesture, I don’t think there’s ever an instance I want to be handed a note with “while you were sleeping…” in massive text:

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Some might call this building abandoned, but it seems very much occupied if you ask me!

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The way this soap bottle distorts the backsplash pattern here is making my brain short-circuit a little bit:

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This person’s skin raises whenever it’s scratched, so they like to “draw” on it like this, and it’s the coolest thing I’ve seen all week:

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This person bought a bag of fruit snacks and — surprise! — they got a finger:

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Pretty sure this transit rider’s bag is strictly for carrying stolen souls, right?

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IDK, I’m getting ominous vibes from this singular circle cloud and its menacing shadow:

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This person’s signature is a PARROT, which is so cool it feels illegal:

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This box is full of knee and hip replacements from a crematorium:

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This person’s broken window that, for some reason, didn’t crack, but created an almost perfectly circular hole:

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I didn’t know skin-on Jell-O was an option until today!

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You might’ve heard of the iron lung before — a mechanical medical respirator used to help those with polio breathe — but I’ve never seen one close-up before, let alone a teenier one like this meant to be used on infants:

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Speaking of seeing things for the first time, I was today years old when I saw the inside of a gas pump for the first time. A lot less going on than I expected!

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This person decided to stop for a box of delicious summer peaches on the side of the road one day, and got home to learn that, naturally, almost the only text on the box was a 9/11 conspiracy theory:

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There is something so evil and sinister about making people use a bathtub sawed in half as chairs:

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Nope, this person isn’t dining with another guest. Believe it or not, that’s a bag of bread rolls:

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I don’t know what I thought was inside those little corn holders that everyone’s grandparents had, but this one from the ’70s broke and revealed it was just a nail this whole darn time, which lowkey makes me feel like everything is a big ole lie:

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This plain-text Chick-fil-A sign feels like a snapshot from another reality where things are Very Basic:

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I had to do a deep dive on this one because I was so darn fascinated — this four-ton potato has been touring the US for 12 years. WHAT??????

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Speaking of the US, there is nothing more fittingly ‘Merican than steak shaped like the continental USA. Like, at this point we could probably just change our flag to this photo:

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I personally find these bizarrely specific fortunes to be way more unsettling than your run-of-the-mill fortune. Now I’m stressed about the future bake sale I wasn’t planning!

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Is this an alien? Nope — it’s a dumpling:

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Obsessed with this dog’s beautiful flowing hair:

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I wonder how this giant lobster survives in space? How did it take over this whole planet? Hehe, it’s actually just a lobster in a bucket, but I think deep down, you knew that:

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This cake batter was definitely not mixed all the way, so one lucky party guest gets a special treat — a whole baked egg yolk!

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The person who commissioned this headstone for their deceased loved one DID NOT come to play:

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Slenderman called, he’s looking for his sisters, but they’re too busy cosplaying as mannequins, I guess:

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Finally, allow me to leave you on this note: Is this a man running away? Or a dog running forward? There’s a right answer — let me know in the comments!