Amusing Things That Are Normal at 3PM but Terrifying at 3AM
What is it about the night that transforms the seemingly mundane into the stuff of nightmares? It can't just be about the dark. It feels deeper and more primal than that. There's no doubt that the sound of an ice cream truck is pleasant, warm and nostalgic at 3PM, but completely sinister at 3AM. One twisted soul encouraged the redditors of r/AskReddit to list a bunch of different things that feel normal during the day, but terrifying at night. We've collected all of our favorites for your amusement.
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"My kids used to have a book that, when opened, played nursery rhymes." said u/LaceAndLavatera, "It turns out that when the battery is running low the book does two things. 1- It plays the tune even while closed. 2- It plays the tune really slow and in a lower pitch. You can see where this is going right? Middle of the night me and my husband are woken by 'twiiiiinkle twiiiiiiiiiiiinkle liiiitle staaaaar' being croaked at us from under our toddler's bed."
"My mother once told me that when I was a baby, she woke up during a thunderstorm to one of my toys going 'Let's play a game!'" said u/Strange-Brief6643. -
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"My dog doesn't bark very often (we had her for 4 years before we heard her bark) so this would scare the shit out of me 100%" said u/Thor4269.
u/Lobi-Wan shared their own terrifying experience: "This happened with my last dog. I was sleeping with the door open and she was sleeping at the end of the bed. I felt her move in the middle of the night and it woke me up so I looked down to see her slowly standing up and looking out the bedroom door. She jumped off the bed and started going insane and barking. She was frantically stepping across the threshold of the room and then backing up into the room. It was like she was trying to get something/someone to back off but it kept spooking her back into the room. I couldn't see out the door from my angle so I had no idea what she was barking at. She didn't even acknowledge me as I was yelling at her to stop, which is weird because she was generally good at listening and also NEVER barked. Then she all of a sudden stopped barking, jumped back up on the bed and went to sleep. I have no idea what the hell she was barking at. We were the only 2 living things in the house and the cameras around the outside of the house didn't pick anything up the entire night." -
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"Especialy flying a kite." added u/Furthur_slimeking.
"I once saw a little kids birthday party at a park super late at night, like almost midnight. I didn't understand wtf and for some reason the Nope level was really high, like my brain said this is some creepy shit they are gonna eat you for the birthday cake so I just kept on moving." shared u/SpiffAZ. -
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"I must now buy an icecream van to drive around at 3 am" said u/KaiserHohenzollernV.
"Just buy the sound projector. Even creepier. Ice cream van sound, no ice cream van in sight..." replied u/storyofohno. -
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"That's also terrifying at 3pm." said u/OlduvaiMan.
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"For me it's terrible any time." said u/King_Glorius.
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u/alltherobots shared their cautionary tale about the dangers of not putting clothes away: "The day I finished my SCUBA certification, I got home absolutely exhausted and hung my wetsuit in the shower. Ordered some hot wings, put on a scary movie, The Descent. You know, the one with the streamline smooth humanoids that eat people in the dark. Crawl into bed and pass out. At like 3am I get up to take a piss. I don't bother turning on the light. Halfway through the process, I look over to see a smooth human silhouette looming over me. Great, now there's piss on the ceiling."
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"My Mom called me at 2:42am the other night. I woke up to her call and dreaded the worst as I answered. She couldn't remember her password to get into her Facebook." said u/MinionofThanos.
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"Okay Google, exorcise my house" replied u/RedTheWolf.
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"One night (right around new year), I thought I heard something in our driveway. I looked (it was snowy and very quiet, right around 2am) and it was no car but two people sitting underneath our mailbox, waste-high in the snow. Just sitting there, not moving or talking. It was SO freaky! The snow was going pretty strong and we are well in suburbia…it felt like the intro of a horror flick." said u/BGkitten.
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"Look, if given the choice of digging a hole at 3pm, when it's 90 degrees F outside and I'm going to get sunburned despite wearing a hat and 70spf, or digging a hole at 3am, I'll just go with creeping out the neighbors instead." said u/OdangoAtamaOodles.
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"There's nothing more precious than a child's laughter, unless it's 3 in the morning and you don't have kids" said u/daenaofthewoods.
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"It's wasn't 3am, but still somewhat late as both my dad and I were in bed, when we got alerts for a special presidential address for when SEAL Team 6 killed Bin Laden. I remember knocking on his door and whisper yelling 'Dad, Daaad, we need to go turn on the TV.' It was just us living there, idk why I was whisper yelling lol I was thinking that maybe someone was assassinated or we were about to be bombed, expecting something terrible." said u/LifeisaCatbox.
"At 3PM it's 'Oh boy, a car chase! Better get some popcorn.' At 3AM it's 'Oh no, what's Putin doing now.'" said u/ThrowawayCIquestion. -
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"This was the first thing that came to mind. If the highway is backed up at 3:00 AM, something is gravely wrong." u/Hot_Shot04 agreed.
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"That's the same sound used in Silent Hill when the fog world transforms into the Otherworld. I actually never knew it was for tornados until long after I played the games so honestly it would have frightened me at any time of day." said u/WeAreinPain.
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