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:.You must post a clear and direct question in the title. The title may contain two, short, necessary context sentences.No text is allowed in the textbox. Sure.20 years ago, when I was eight and living in San Diego, CA at the time (my dad was in the navy and we lived in military housing.), I had an experience that has since made me develop a phobia of windows with no curtains or blinds of any sort shut at night.It was roughly 2 AM (I was having a friend sleep over) and my friend and I were playing with our Barbie's in the living room.
Now, the dining room and living room are basically just one big room. And on the wall in the dining room section, there were 3, floor to ceiling windows that had no blinds or curtains whatsoever. So anyone standing outside those dining room windows could easily watch whoever may be in the living room. And I felt like someone was watching us.I turned my head to the right was greeted by a sight that I will always remember. It may not sound gruesome in description, but to an 8 year old.There stood a man, a white man. I know this because he was wearing a dark blue, short-sleeved t-shirt that had a pocket on one side of the chest. So I was able to see his bare forearms, which were also quite hairy.
He wore a black ski mask and black gloves. He had his face pressed up to the window with his hands on either side of his face to block out any glare from the street lights, watching us with such intent.I screamed my little eight year old head off and curled into a ball. My friend doing the same. Sobbing, she asked what were we to do. I said that we were going to count to 3 and run upstairs to get my dad. We began counting, but I only made it to '2' and I was hightailing it up those stairs. My friend was hot on my tail.
We burst into my dad's room in hysterics, screaming about a man staring at us through the window. He didn't hesitate to jump out of bed and race out to the backyard (where the man would be standing).
Of course by the time my dad got there, the man was gone.Years later I am retelling this account to my mom. My parents were divorced, but she lived in the area and remembers hearing about a rapist on the loose right about that time in that area. To this day I am convinced that man was that rapist. When I was in grade 5 I was home alone and it was dark outside. I was watching the movie Home Alone while laying on the sofa which was right next to a screen door window that was locked.
It was during the scene when the robbers broke into the house when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, I look over to the left and I see my neighbour Dave's face imprinted against the window. I jumped up in a startled state and started screaming until I realized it was my neighbour. I opened the back door for him and it turns out he was locked out of his house and needed his extra key he gave us. I'm pretty freaked out.That thing has been there for almost a week. The figure in the window.
It looks featureless, only skin on a humanframe, and it's pressing itself against the glass somehow. I don't know how it got there, and I don't know how to get rid of it.At first I thought it was a prank, a doll or mannequin that some jerks put there to scare me. But I realized as I walked out of my house to pull it away. It wasn't there. I shrugged it off, thinking that someone had hidden it while I was walking through my door. But I went back in and looked out that same window, and it was looking in, staring at me. I walked around my house, yelling for whoever it was to come out, but no one was there.
The thing is hairless and naked, and it didn't look like it actually had eyes, or even a face at all. But its head is turned towards me when I enter the room.
When I sit on my computer, I can feel its faceless hatred boring into my neck. But when I turn around, it's innocently turned in a different direction.Finally on Thursday, I tried to open the window, but it's stuck. I think the thing's hands are keeping it down. But I got a good look at its face. Its eyes and mouth are behind the skin, pushing outward.It stared at me, smiling.I pulled back a fist and smashed it onto the glass, determined once and for all to get rid of the glaring monster.
I know I’m strong enough. That glass should’ve cracked.But it didn’t. It shuddered under my hand, but it didn’t break. And that smile just got wider and wider and wider, until I thought its head would break in half. It raised its own hand and bashed the window with its palm.
It was mocking me. But I saw the faintest crack begin to appear where it had hit, and I backed away.No way did I want that smile in the same room as me.So I got a roll of duct tape, and I started covering the window. I couldn’t look directly at it; I nearly shit my pants just knowing it was watching me. But I couldn’t help it. I took a quick glance at that skin-covered face. A small peek.It was angry.That menacing grin was now a gaping frown full of teeth.
The skin had ripped away from its mouth and I could see down its cavernous throat. A menacing rumble started to fill the house, and that hairline crack began to spread like splintering ice. I pulled down the duct tape. The rumble stopped, the split skin healed over, and it began to smile again.Now it’s night, and the noise hasn’t started again.
There are no sounds, no rumble, no crackling glass. Everything’s quiet now.But I can feel its claws gripping the back of my chair. I can hear its skin stretching as it smiles.It’s watching me type.
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What is Creepiness?Following casual conversation with colleagues about the psychology underlying creepiness, I decided to explore what's been studied about the phenomenon. Given how frequently creepiness is discussed in everyday life, I was amazed that no one had yet studied it in a scientific way. The little bit of research that was at all relevant focused on how we respond to things such as weird nonverbal behaviors, and being socially excluded. These studies did not use the word creepiness, but their results implied that our “creepiness detector” may in fact be a defense against some sort of threat. Creepiness may be related to the “agency-detection” mechanisms proposed by evolutionary psychologists. These mechanisms evolved to protect us from harm at the hands of predators and enemies. If you are walking down a dark city street and hear the sound of something moving in a dark alley, you will respond with a heightened level of arousal and sharply focused and behave as if there is a willful “agent” present who is about to do you harm. If it turns out to be just a gust of wind or a stray cat, you lost little by over-reacting, but if you failed to activate the alarm response and a true threat was present, the cost of your miscalculation could be high. Source: Shutterstock.com/Shutterstock Creepiness May be a Response to an Uncertainty about ThreatWhat, then, does our creepiness detector warn us about?It cannot just be a clear warning of physical or social harm. A mugger who points a gun in your face and demands money is terrifying. A rival who threatens to destroy your reputation by revealing secret information about you fills you with dread.
Most of us would not use the word “creepy” to refer to either of these situations, yet in both cases there is no ambiguity about the presence of threat. For example, it would be considered rude, and strange, to run away in the middle of a conversation with someone is sending out a creepy vibe but is actually harmless; it could be perilous to ignore your and engage with that individual if he is dangerous. This ambivalence may leave you frozen in place, wallowing in creepiness. Yet this reaction could still be adaptive if it helps you maintain vigilance during such periods of uncertainty and manage the balance between self-preservation and social obligation. We have presented our results at several conferences and they have been published in. I plan to extend my research from creepy people to creepy places: We become uneasy, for example, in environments that are dark and/or offer a lot of hiding places for potential predators and also lack clear, unobstructed views of the landscape. These environmental qualities have been called “ prospect” and ' refuge” by British geographer Jay Appleton. Fear of and a pervasive sense of unease are experienced in environments with less than optimal combinations of prospect and refuge. In creepy places as with creepy people, I expect to find that it is not the clear presence of danger that creeps us out, but rather the uncertainty of whether danger is present or not.
I was interested in this article because it reminded me of a incident at an old job of mine where I was the 'creepy' one. Our company was pretty diverse but there were really no 'white' workers. We had this one guy from CT, who was great at his job btw and myself. Though I am not white, they categorized me as so. He was actually the top rep in our group and I was the second.
People always felt weird about him, always saying he was creepy and something wasn't right about him. He was quiet, never was one for conversation. He always said hi and bye but that was it. People were always talking about him. I did not know why because I was just like him and I didn't see anything 'creepy'.
A lot of people thought he suffered from Asperger's syndrome, I defended him and said no, he just comes to work to work not to socialize. Nobody was treating him well and I was wondering what do they expect from him? He had a rough time. He ended up leaving not so long afterwards, which in my view was a mistake because he was the best at the job. After he left, I took over the top slot in the group and I also became the 'creepy' one.
All the sudden I was getting these looks, people went out their way to avoid me and I was also fired not long afterwards.What made us creepy?. I want to offer an alternative explanation to yours for why we feel creepy. This is not built upon any research but simply from reflecting on my own personal experience with creepiness. I believe that this idea is a good rival to your idea that needs to be tested which I leave to you to dismiss, adopt as a better explanation or a parallel one to yours, as I’m a physicist and not a psychologist.My alternative explanation is that feeling creepy is to do with old conditioning. Even as an adult now, still dark, quiet and abandoned places give me the creep because as a child I was conditioned to believe that those were the places where djinns dwell and appear in different guises to take advantage of one or even kill and eat him.
And now, even though I no longer believe in the possibility of being harmed by them or even in their existence, yet I still get the creep from such places! I believe that people feel creepy towards some people and places because of old childhood conditioning to fear such people and places which has lost its rational raison d'etre in adulthood but are still able to spark that old fear. That is why one may feel undecided about whether a person or a place constitutes danger or not; on one hand the same signs triggered the old childhood fear and yet their rational thinking and adulthood beliefs tell them that it was OK to be with such a person or in such a place.So, those people who feel creepy about someone or someplace might have had in their childhood a bad and/or fearful encounter or were conditioned by adults to believe so which they have since resolved cognitively but not emotionally in their unconscious and it thus still triggers the same old feeling. The added advantage of my view is that it explains simply and easily why people become fearful again from being reminded of people and places that made them fearful as children.Aside: I recently posed to my children who are adults now the following paradoxical question; is it possible that I am afraid of djinns even though I don’t believe in them? They all thought it was not possible because what I asked them sounded illogical.
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But they understood the rationale when I explained to them the kind of upbringing I had as a child. As a bonus for posing this question I felt being appreciated as they felt grateful to me for not making them afraid of djinns when they were children. My 17 years old son has a friend his age. They tell me of their different reactions when they go exploring old and abandoned places at night.
My son does not believe that djinns will appear to him in such a place because we have not brought him up to believe in such beings and does not feel creepy or afraid to explore such places. By contrast, his friend believes in djinns because he was brought up to believe in them and is very much afraid of them and would not venture to go to where he would expect to find them. These places are old desert dwellings which do not harbor any type of criminals or strange people who may intend to harm them. Both of them feel safe in this regard. As for me who no longer believe in djinns I will still feel creepy because of what I had been made to believe about them as a child. I think that only conditioning can explain what is happening here. This does not deny that we are also genetically programmed to feel creepy about some dangerous looking places.
It is possible that we have here a case of ‘either/or’ and ‘and’. Yes, I believe this is a good question Frank; why cultures have developed tales and legends to frighten children about specific types of places? My ancestors lived in small communities surrounded by vast expanses of desert where sometimes one may come across old and abandoned dwellings.
Communities had to move constantly to follow the rain and where water collected and stayed long enough for some desert plants to grow. The desert is mostly active by night when all sorts of wild animals, lizards and insects are active in their search for food. I think it would be safer for humans not wander in open spaces or be in abandoned dwellings as they could be easily stung by scorpions, bitten by snakes or attacked by wolves, wild dogs and wild desert cats. So, perhaps it made sense to frighten children from going out at night or being in old and abandoned houses. My mother creeps me out.
I'm a female. I let her move in with me and she's become so enmeshed with me I'm creeped out by her. She can't see a boundary between us, everything is about 'we did this' and 'we did that' even if I was miles away or was not involved in whatever activity she is speaking of. She seems to see me as her significant other and it creeps me out as bad if not worse then when a scary dude stalks me. She won't find her own friends. She tries to eat off my place. It's bugging me to death.
Who knew you could be creeped out by family, especially your mom. I've noticed that there are categories of creepy things, and one category is to combine something that is typically considered to be very cute and appealing with something odd or threatening or disgusting.So, for example, in the film 'The Shining' the little boy encounters two little twin girls who invite him to play. Right now the creepy school shooters of florida and other places are getting tons of love letters from teen and adult women.There are articles saying men who've been to prison are more attractive than men who haven't.
And there are men out there who are known for cycling through women via physical abuse, and routinely pick up 'yet another' after one relationship falls through.Creepy tells us when someone's dangerous? Apparently many women's creep sensors of 'he's dangerous' aren't working.Listening to your gut/intuition is actually proven to be nothing more than a coin-flip.
Its long been touted, even popularized by media, as 'listen to your gut because human intuition is important'. The first and second star trek series repeatedly used this myth.
That was something of an eye opener for me, knowing the true efficacy of 'gut instinct'.Creepy means people who behave outside normalized, even stereotyped, behavior. It doesn't mean anything about danger. Many people believe anyone who has a Psychology Degree as whatever they say as the word of God. After all Healers are held in high admiration.
If I had a Psychology Degree I'd take it very seriously. My first motivation would be to improve the Human Condition. I believe with the advent of the Internet Psychological Associations must be pro active to set stands & guidelines & or have disclaimers for the Public Good.Everyone remember Family Feud? Well Survey says: I'm Right.If you want to hear more send 25 cents & self addressed envelope.
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